Concept and wording by Anthony, art and prose tweaking by Josh of CartoonsByJosh.com (be sure to visit his tip jar)
As sung to the tune of The Twelve Days of Christmas by EveryMann, Climate Scientist, with backup vocals by the SkS Singers
On the first day of Climategate, my true cause gave to me:
A Hockey stick from a Yamal tree.
On the second day of Climategate, my true cause gave to me:
Two lawsuits pending, and A Hockey stick from a Yamal tree.
On the third day of Climategate, my true cause gave to me:
Three Henchmen, Two lawsuits pending, and A Hockey stick from a Yamal tree.
On the fourth day of Climategate, my true cause gave to me:
Four cursing profs, Three Henchmen, Two lawsuits pending, and A Hockey stick from a Yamal tree.

On the fifth day of Climategate, my true cause gave to me:
Five oooold tree rings…, Four cursing profs, Three Henchmen, Two lawsuits pending, and A Hockey stick from a Yamal tree.

On the sixth day of Climategate, my true cause gave to me:
Six geeks explaining…Five oooold tree rings…, Four cursing profs, Three Henchmen, Two lawsuits pending, and A Hockey stick from a Yamal tree.

On the seventh day of Climategate, my true cause gave to me:
Seven trolls-a-trolling, Six geeks explaining…Five oooold tree rings…, Four cursing profs, Three Henchmen, Two lawsuits pending, and A Hockey stick from a Yamal tree.

On the eighth day of Climategate, my true cause gave to me:
Eight grants a-milking, Seven trolls-a-trolling, Six geeks explaining…Five oooold tree rings…, Four cursing profs, Three Henchmen, Two lawsuits pending, and A Hockey stick from a Yamal tree.

On the ninth day of Climategate, my true cause gave to me:
Nine models dancing, Eight grants a-milking, Seven trolls-a-trolling, Six geeks explaining…Five oooold tree rings…, Four cursing profs, Three Henchmen, Two lawsuits pending, and A Hockey stick from a Yamal tree.

On the tenth day of Climategate, my true cause gave to me:
Ten Lord O’ Moncktons, Nine models dancing, Eight grants a-milking, Seven trolls-a-trolling, Six geeks explaining…Five oooold tree rings…, Four cursing profs, Three Henchmen, Two lawsuits pending, and A Hockey stick from a Yamal tree.

On the Eleventh day of Climategate, my true cause gave to me:
Eleven Twits-a-tweeting, Ten Lord O’ Moncktons, Nine models dancing, Eight grants a-milking, Seven trolls-a-trolling, Six geeks explaining…Five oooold tree rings…, Four cursing profs, Three Henchmen, Two lawsuits pending, and A Hockey stick from a Yamal tree.

On the Twelfth day of Climategate, my true cause gave to me:
Twelve polar panics, Eleven Twits-a-tweeting, Ten Lord O’ Moncktons, Nine models dancing, Eight grants a-milking, Seven trolls-a-trolling, Six geeks explaining…Five oooold tree rings…, Four cursing profs, Three Henchmen, Two lawsuits pending,

……..and A Hockey stick from a Yamal tree.
Merry Christmas everyone! (no matter what side of the issue you live in) and Congratulations for surviving the Mayan Apocalypse!
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Good end to the year.
Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn newydd dda.
Merry Xmas and happy new year to all from a wet and windy Wales.
Thank you, Anthony and Josh – excellent!
And, in case any of you would like a few more climate carols to sing this Christmas, I offer the following:
WARM CHRISTMAS
I’m dreaming of a warm Christmas,
Just like the ones I used to know,
Until strong declining in our Sun’s shining
Brought on a time of ice and snow,
I’m dreaming of a warm Christmas
With every thought that I can form.
May you keep from cold, snow and storm!
And may all your Christmases be warm.
O COME, ALL YE FAITHFUL
O come, all ye faithful,
Greenies, leftists, journos,
O come, all believers in agendas green.
See droughts and storming?
Preach “That’s Global Warming!”
O come hide the decline,
O come hide the decline,
O come hide the decline,
God! It’s cold.
DECK THE HALLS
Deck the halls with lots of lolly,
Falalala la, lala la la.
‘Tis the season of green folly,
Falalala la, lala la la,
We’ve just got a fat new grant,
Lies to tell and fear to plant,
So we’re feeling rather jolly,
Falalala la for Climate Change!
HARK! THE WARMIST CHORUS SINGS
Hark! The warmist chorus sings,
Praise to Michael Mann’s tree-rings.
So they say, these demonstrate
Warming at alarming rate.
CO2 they say’s the problem,
6 degrees and more per double’em.
So we must shut down the West,
And give trillions to the Rest.
Hark! The warmist chorus sings,
“We will tax you till it stings!”
But Reality intrudes;
Slowly, slowly, babes and dudes
Come to know the warmist meme
Ain’t as truthful as may seem.
Honesty is re-asserted,
Science is no more perverted,
Human progress is resumed,
Gone’s the thinking “we’re all doomed.”
Hark! We human beings say,
We can find a better way.
Merry Christmas to all,
Neil
No one does Polar Bears better than Josh. Minimalist perfection. Thanks for the fun.
I’m with UK Sceptic. Merry Christmas Anthony, and all your excellent helpers. A Happy New Year to you, and your families. Best wishes, and many, many thanks.
Here’s the video clip from the M4GW
http://youtu.be/JmPSUMBrJoI
Holiday Happiness to the families of Anthony and the WUWT moderators.
Likewise to the families of many contributors and commenters.
And also seasons greeting to the families of all castastrophic climate protagonists and their antagonists alike.
John
What a talented lot you all are!
Thank you Anthony and Josh, may 2013 see the end of ‘Alarmism’.
Καλο Χριστουψεννα, Happy Christmas everyone.
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Jeff Alberts says:
December 21, 2012 at 8:32 pm
Congratulations for surviving the Mayan Apocalypse!
I’m sure I won’t survive waiting for that apology from the History Channel.
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I wonder if all the Mayan True Believers are out of a job now? Somehow I fear they’ll just move seamlessly on the the next fictional apocalypse. Meanwhile any real apocalypse stands in clear view all around Wash DC, apparently unnoticed.
Merry Christmas and a happy & prosperous new year to all
I know Elmer reads here, so here’s hoping for a new M4GW video. 😉
DaveE.
So yah boo sucks to the Mayan apocalypse – I always thought it was a load of cr……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Very witty Anthony!
I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Healthy, Happy and Prosperous 2013.
PS We haven’t got any more apocalyptic dates in the near future have we?I don’t think I could stand a re-run of yesterdays stupidity of some people!
Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year and lots more sense to come.
Best wishes from the UK
George Warburton
Fantastic. I got them all but the three henchmen.
REPLY: Henchmen tend to be nameless, working behind the scenes as a means to an end, so don’t feel bad that you don’t recognize them. Essentially they are a metaphor for people who do some unsavory things in support of the cause. Peter Gleick is a good example of someone who created a “nameless” identity and worked behind the scenes. I had thought about “Six Gleicks explaining”, but one of him is enough. – Anthony
Good job Anthony and Josh, I like the illustrated approach on this one.
Brilliant Josh
And a Happy Christmas from Fen Beagle…..’We See Things’…
http://fenbeagleblog.wordpress.com/2012/12/22/we-see-things/
andrewmharding says: December 22, 2012 at 7:03 am: PS We haven’t got any more apocalyptic dates in the near future have we?I don’t think I could stand a re-run of yesterdays stupidity of some people!
Oh there’s plenty of them to come. The next being 23/8/2013, as predicted by good old Rasputin and News of The World.
You can be alerted by e-mail to the next apocalypse near you:
http://www.rowdydow.co.uk/eotw/
(Who would say, but such an essential service nowadays.)
Great minds at work (and play).
Merry Christmas 🙂
“Winter Wonderland”
Hockey sticks, are a snappin’.
They don’t tell what’s been happenin’
We’re not buyin’ the fright
They’re desperate tonight
Erasin’ the winter wonderland!
Gone away are old records
Here to stay are new records
Change the old logs
String ‘em along
Erasin’ the winter wonderland!
In the graphing Hansen built a strawman
He said,”As long as CO2 abounds,
More heat until we’re fri-ed!”
But we know that Michael Mann is just a clown!
They say we’ll perspire
As the CO2 keeps going higher
But we’re unafraid
See through plots that they’ve laid
Erasin’ the winter wonderland!
“Eight grants a-milking”
LOLZ!
Merry Christmas and a Happy Chrimbo!
Berry Good!
I wrote my own little Christmas song. Here goes:
LOTS OF SNOW
IPCC news are frightful
But it’s just a load of sh*t full
Just a tiny thing they don’t know:
Lots of snow! Lots of snow! Lots of snow!
No signs of their scandals stopping
So we bought some corn for popping
Credibility is way down low
Lots of snow! Lots of snow! Lots of snow!
When they finally p*ss us off
As their hockey sticks are broken
We all get the final laugh
When our dear old Sun has spoken
Their “science” is slowly dying
So, it’s time for their good-bying
Antarctica steadily grows
And lots of snow! Lots of snow! Lots of snow!
–Ahrvid
Ahrvid Engholm says:
December 22, 2012 at 10:41 am
I wrote my own little Christmas song. Here goes: ….
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It’s fun to write and read such things as you Anthony have done.
I don’t think I’ve actually said it yet but:
“Merry Christmas to all! Keep dispelling the fright!”
Merry Christmas, Anthony and Josh! 😀
Repent regardless, deniers, or your global warming will cause genocide of the Mayan Christmas, and malfunction of Santa’s globespanning asteroid.
david elder says:
December 22, 2012 at 12:36 pm
Repent regardless, deniers, or your global warming will cause genocide of the Mayan Christmas, and malfunction of Santa’s globespanning asteroid.
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Hmmm…When did “Santa” enter the scene? All those reindeer covering all those miles must release bunches and bunches of CO2. Did he deliver the first “hockey stick”? Maybe they are the cause of CAGW! (Maybe we should rename it “CRGW”? “CSGW”? If he was pulled by bovines then we could call it what it is, “BSGW”!)