Josh provides this updated cartoon which was originally intended to be a Friday Funny last week. The reason for this cartoon about the Union of Concerned Scientists will become clear in a couple of days.
Josh
For those of you who don’t know who Kenji is, he is a distinguished member of the Union of Concerned Scientists, see: Friday Funny – The newest member of the Union of Concerned Scientists
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As we recall, a year or two back either AW himself or some confrere enrolled his devoted canine companion (DCC in warmists’ pseudo-scholarly parlance) as a paid-up Member in Good Standing of the UCS. Accepting dog-o set their famed clock back a bit… mayhap Josh’s Chicken Little briefcase holds another such DCC pedigree,
Deja Vu. Knowledge. Sequestering another persons ability to gain knowledge. Americans of similar utopic outlook voyaged to the new USSR about 1930’s to see with their own eyes what panacea really looked like, up close and personal. Excepting a rare few all of these pilgrims returning with swollen and cracked lips – to not speak openly as it hurt so very much. That utopia took another 60 years to show the truth.
Separtion of church and Science – does not have 60 years of dillydallying. The State owns science, so claim their experts. How is it that only a government may qualify persons of Knowledge?
Anthony,
A monday morning riddle about what the cartoon means?
Well, the original version of it w/o Kenji was posted at Bishop Hill blog in Jan 18 and below the cartoon there was a hat-tip to Joe D’aleo.
My stab at the riddle => Is there some legal action that Joe D’aleo is in a position to know about that involves GISS via UCS action?
Tease!
John
Something tells me that this is going to involve Bill Nye in a chicken suit.
The real question is: who would audiences pay more to see? Michael Mann at $10K a pop or Kenji doing stupid climatologist tricks?
Chicken Little is much maligbed. when she nsaid the sky is falling she was right.She neglectd to add that the sky also rises. The sun heats the earth’s surface, which though conduction heats the air,which then rises, cools, then falls back to earth. So give the little chichen a break, she may have only a bird’s brain, but she has been right all along. It has been those who saw her as a dumb cluck who were wrong,and I include myself here, So we all need rethink our attitude towards this little hen and recognize that she was right and we were not.
Private and public institutes of higher learning all say the same thing. If you have no formal education degree, you have no say in scientific discussion (the broken record of AGW proponents). It is surely by now written in stone. Thou must be decreed to be degreed before thou shalt declare thyself to be learned.
Not so fast says I. The “University of [name] and Son” did pretty well in the old days of family business. But alas I can’t imagine anyone ever again erecting a white marble statue surrounded by a white pillared gleaming enclosure of a person who had no formal education. The common belief is that he or she would not have sense enough to know when to eat. However even a brief stroll through history must lead one to the realization that this conclusion is unsupportable. My own cohort is still peppered with successful business men and women who never finished high school. Must we be forced to smash the stone? No forcing necessary. Many are willingly picking up the sledgehammer (even dogs) taking great chunks out of the AGW scientifically degreed onclave. Thanks to blogs like this one.
Josh wrote to me with the cartoon and was concerned about the sizes of the two characters not being accurate in scale. I replied: Chicken Little’s size has been increased through GISS adjustments, you have the scale just right.
Gone, gone to the dogs.
Infallibility in the Roman Church refers only to Doctrine. Global Warming is not doctrine so is only a matter of individual opinion as it is with other churches. Many clergy do have a scientific education so it’s the exception rather than the rule when they pronounce on Climate Change.They have to know history. unlike many journalists. Education is the main thing and there is a widespread lack of basic education now. The media are narrow shallow and polluted. and a source of misinformation.
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Pamela Gray,
I point out that there is a very low threshold for anyone to know what academics know and to do what they do. All one needs to equal them is a normal human being’s natural capacity for reason and a library card. You do not even need to own a computer with an internet connection; the library has them. But I do recommend having your own equivalent to a BB or iPhone.
It seems to me that academia has erected artificial gatekeepers to compensate for their vulnerability from that low threshold of entry to their knowledge and skills. They are unless gatekeepers because one does not need to enter academia to possess and go beyond their academic content.
Ivory Towers are no better means to knowledge than my public library. Actually, I argue one of the best means to knowledge is a table at Starbucks with free WiFi some good background music softly playing while one sips a triple venti cappuccino.
John
John, to carry your comment further: Academia, for the most part (but not all) seems to exist to give credentials to sooth potential employers.