Funny, as usual, but maybe Josh could do a cartoon about cockroaches. The cockroaches are all working on their climate models and warming projections, but then, someone turns on the ceiling light….
LexingtonGreen
January 8, 2013 4:11 pm
Golden!!
Otter
January 8, 2013 4:37 pm
Where’s the Red Ranger?
rogerknights
January 8, 2013 4:41 pm
Going around in circles = spin cycle.
“IPCC AR5 leak #2” cries out for a short-and-snappy synonym. I suggest a thread inviting nominations.
Delingpole has suggested “Donnagate.” WUWT has suggested “Santa leak.” Both are fairly obscure, especially the second, because it didn’t become known until well after Xmas.
I suggest “Curtaingate“–because the curtain has been pulled back on the innards of the IPCC process. This term could be applied to both leaks, since they have occurred so closely together. The suffixes #1 & #2 could be used as needed for specificity.
This term also comes with the connotation (from the Wizard of Oz) that what’s behind the curtain is pretty unimpressive–e.g., a naughty naked emperor.
It also has a faint connotation of “curtains”–i.e., finis.
Cheered me up, along with all the UK MO embarrassments 🙂
Love the cockroach analogy. Both issues remind me of an environment-related role-playing / conflict analysis exercise I was involved in many years ago. Classic weazel-words response from the MO, expecting the same from IPCC.
rogerknights
January 8, 2013 5:05 pm
PS to my suggestion of “Curtaingate”: Or maybe TotoGate—it’s “cuter” and also more neutral, and hence more likely to be adopted by both sides, the way “climategate” has been.
JimDX
January 8, 2013 5:12 pm
Nice job Josh 🙂 got a chuckle after a hard day…
rogerknights
January 8, 2013 5:43 pm
PPS: Here’s a cartoon idea for Josh:
Donna is Dorothy, gazing with a shocked expression at a naughty naked emperor who Toto’s curtain-pulling has revealed.
The emperor could be Patchy in a Satan Suit grinning wickedly as he looks at a teleprompter that reads, “Buy my indulgences or things will get warmer for you, ha-ha-ha.”
Or it could delicately suggest a circle-jerk of some sort (lower half concealed, but visible to Dorothy).
Or . . .
TomR,Worc,MA
January 8, 2013 5:56 pm
Heh Heh, as pointed out on the other thread ….. they DO look like the cybermen from Dr. Who.
rogerknights
January 8, 2013 6:40 pm
PPPS: The “circle” I suggested above is too extreme–better would be a circle of back-scratching pal reviewers, funders, alarmist NGOs, academic grant-receivers, etc.
GaryM
January 8, 2013 6:50 pm
With apologies to Billy Preston:
Sung to the tune of Will It Go Round In Circles
We’ve got a graph, it inflates reality
We’rea gonna show it to our friends
We’ve got a graph, it inflates reality
We’rea gonna show it to our friends
We all talk round in circles
Make our grants soar high like a bird up in the sky
We all talk round in circles
Make our grants soar high like a bird up in the sky
We’ve got a story, ain’t got no morals
Let us bad guys win every once in a while
We’ve got a story, ain’t got no morals
Let us bad guys win every once in a while
{Chorus}
We’ve got a graph, it ain’t got no sense, no
We’re gonna turn Tijlander upside down
We’ve got a graph, it ain’t got no sense
We’re gonna turn Tijlander upside down
{Chorus}
“DraftyGate”? “TransparentGate”?
(Nothing quite “clicks” yet. We need more input.)
DaveG
January 8, 2013 8:21 pm
Flashgate +
The Met Office has admitted that global warming has stalled.
Officials say that by 2017, temperatures will not have risen significantly for nearly 20 years.
They concede that previous forecasts were inaccurate – and have come under fire for attempting to ‘bury bad news’ by publishing the revised data on Christmas Eve.
Ben D.
January 8, 2013 8:45 pm
stAR5gate
F. Ross
January 8, 2013 9:47 pm
“Berrygate” or “Raspberrygate”
– thanks to Donna Laframboise of course
Michael in Sydney
January 8, 2013 10:47 pm
Circle jerk if you ask me
grumpyoldmanuk
January 8, 2013 11:17 pm
I’m not too sure about the cockroach idea. Cockroaches have survived many cataclysms in their time on earth, and I have more than a suspicion that the Warm Side will come up with more peer-reviewed, “evidence”, unfortunately submitted too late to go through the full procedure, to give fuel to their fantasy. I wouldn’t suggest for a moment that some papers have been deliberately held back to avoid debunking by cloud review after a leak. That would be a ridiculous conspiracy theory and totally out of keeping with known Warmist good scientific practice.
It ain’t over till it’s over.
rogerknights
January 8, 2013 11:22 pm
“Flashgate” is good (referring to the flash drives)–It’s short and memorable. But it doesn’t subsume the earlier leak of the SOD, which would be desirable. Ipsygate?! This has an overtone of “oopsy” and an allusion to IPCC. It’s neutral and descriptive, like “climategate,” so it can be accepted by both sides and by the press. It can easily append the cabooses -1 & -2, like Climategate. I think this is the best so far, even though it’s not very “clever.”
🙂 🙂 🙂 Heeheehee, I love it.
Funny, as usual, but maybe Josh could do a cartoon about cockroaches. The cockroaches are all working on their climate models and warming projections, but then, someone turns on the ceiling light….
Golden!!
Where’s the Red Ranger?
Going around in circles = spin cycle.
“IPCC AR5 leak #2” cries out for a short-and-snappy synonym. I suggest a thread inviting nominations.
Delingpole has suggested “Donnagate.” WUWT has suggested “Santa leak.” Both are fairly obscure, especially the second, because it didn’t become known until well after Xmas.
I suggest “Curtaingate“–because the curtain has been pulled back on the innards of the IPCC process. This term could be applied to both leaks, since they have occurred so closely together. The suffixes #1 & #2 could be used as needed for specificity.
This term also comes with the connotation (from the Wizard of Oz) that what’s behind the curtain is pretty unimpressive–e.g., a naughty naked emperor.
It also has a faint connotation of “curtains”–i.e., finis.
Cheered me up, along with all the UK MO embarrassments 🙂
Love the cockroach analogy. Both issues remind me of an environment-related role-playing / conflict analysis exercise I was involved in many years ago. Classic weazel-words response from the MO, expecting the same from IPCC.
PS to my suggestion of “Curtaingate”: Or maybe TotoGate—it’s “cuter” and also more neutral, and hence more likely to be adopted by both sides, the way “climategate” has been.
Nice job Josh 🙂 got a chuckle after a hard day…
PPS: Here’s a cartoon idea for Josh:
Donna is Dorothy, gazing with a shocked expression at a naughty naked emperor who Toto’s curtain-pulling has revealed.
The emperor could be Patchy in a Satan Suit grinning wickedly as he looks at a teleprompter that reads, “Buy my indulgences or things will get warmer for you, ha-ha-ha.”
Or it could delicately suggest a circle-jerk of some sort (lower half concealed, but visible to Dorothy).
Or . . .
Heh Heh, as pointed out on the other thread ….. they DO look like the cybermen from Dr. Who.
PPPS: The “circle” I suggested above is too extreme–better would be a circle of back-scratching pal reviewers, funders, alarmist NGOs, academic grant-receivers, etc.
With apologies to Billy Preston:
Sung to the tune of Will It Go Round In Circles
We’ve got a graph, it inflates reality
We’rea gonna show it to our friends
We’ve got a graph, it inflates reality
We’rea gonna show it to our friends
We all talk round in circles
Make our grants soar high like a bird up in the sky
We all talk round in circles
Make our grants soar high like a bird up in the sky
We’ve got a story, ain’t got no morals
Let us bad guys win every once in a while
We’ve got a story, ain’t got no morals
Let us bad guys win every once in a while
{Chorus}
We’ve got a graph, it ain’t got no sense, no
We’re gonna turn Tijlander upside down
We’ve got a graph, it ain’t got no sense
We’re gonna turn Tijlander upside down
{Chorus}
NANDgate. (One for the computer science folks.)
How about “IPeCgate”?
“PirateGate”? “ArrgGate”?
Flashgate
“DraftyGate”? “TransparentGate”?
(Nothing quite “clicks” yet. We need more input.)
Flashgate +
The Met Office has admitted that global warming has stalled.
Officials say that by 2017, temperatures will not have risen significantly for nearly 20 years.
They concede that previous forecasts were inaccurate – and have come under fire for attempting to ‘bury bad news’ by publishing the revised data on Christmas Eve.
stAR5gate
“Berrygate” or “Raspberrygate”
– thanks to Donna Laframboise of course
Circle jerk if you ask me
I’m not too sure about the cockroach idea. Cockroaches have survived many cataclysms in their time on earth, and I have more than a suspicion that the Warm Side will come up with more peer-reviewed, “evidence”, unfortunately submitted too late to go through the full procedure, to give fuel to their fantasy. I wouldn’t suggest for a moment that some papers have been deliberately held back to avoid debunking by cloud review after a leak. That would be a ridiculous conspiracy theory and totally out of keeping with known Warmist good scientific practice.
It ain’t over till it’s over.
“Flashgate” is good (referring to the flash drives)–It’s short and memorable. But it doesn’t subsume the earlier leak of the SOD, which would be desirable.
Ipsygate?! This has an overtone of “oopsy” and an allusion to IPCC. It’s neutral and descriptive, like “climategate,” so it can be accepted by both sides and by the press. It can easily append the cabooses -1 & -2, like Climategate. I think this is the best so far, even though it’s not very “clever.”
AR5Gate?
What about ‘Greygate’?
TheHorseHasBoltedShutTheGate
Too wordy?