WUWT readers may remember when Ursus Bogus made an appearance in Science magazine, and the hilarity that ensued from it.
The embarrassment for Science was that it was a Photoshop job. There’s also the penguin version of the stock art. Science subsequently admitted:
The image associated with this article was selected by the editors. We did not realize that it was not an original photograph but a collage, and it was a mistake to have used it.
Well, some enterprising company has taken that hilarity, and turned it into something you can annoy/entertain your warmist friends with at your next party….
From the blog entry at WellDoneStuff:
Chill your drink while also reminding yourself that global warming is killing off polar bears as these arctic ice cube molds melts away. The molds are easy to make, just add water, freeze them, then watch them melt to nothing – just like their real life counter parts!
Available at Amazon.com here
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Wow – what fun! You can even try placing the frozen ice bears in club soda to see if the excess CO2 has a deleterious effect on the poor critters…
next years Christmas presents ?
Pass the sick bag.Anyone else cant stand those Coca Cola save a Polar Bear adverts everywhere
“then watch them melt to nothing – just like their real life counter parts!”
Geez, I never realised that penguins and polars melted.
Just shows how much I know !
Imagine, they get hungry, dive into the water to get some food and melt to death !!! Poor dears.
I’m sure major news outlets will soon be picking up the storey. They could call on Bill Nye to explain how the new (weird weather) inverted Coriolis effect has caused the water to be warm enough to melt penguins and polar bears.
I want one! 🙂 How long until one of you enterprising skeptics produces them for online purchase?
If you think that this is bad, read the op-ed piece in the NYTimes Sunday Review by their Washington DC bureau chief no less.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/sunday-review/its-not-easy-being-green.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Damn…
Why didn’t I think of that?
your Amazon link needs editing
REPLY: Fixed, thanks, -A
…and observe as the water level in your glass doesn’t rise:)
How divorced from lived-in reality are these people that they could not immediately recognise a self-evidently photoshopped image? What kind of ivory tower are they huddled away in? Does that guy never look at this new thing they call the internet? What feckin planet are they on?
Reblogged this on This Got My Attention and commented:
Questionable science is at least an opportunity for humorists.
Do they make one of seal pups you can dye red??
Of course there exist far worse examples in the media coverage of the Middle East. There was the celebrated case of the Reuters photographer whose image of three plumes of smoke over Beirut was instasntly recognised as one plume of smoke replicated (along with background buildings) using the simple clone tool, by every amateiur photographer who saw it. Not before it was published around the world as factual by the blind idiots kniown as picture editors. The snapper was fired and Reuters deleted NINE THOUSAND other fake images of his fromtheir archives.
I have faked images such that you wouldn’t believe the person in the street shot was photographed elsewhere in a studio. But we aren’t talking about such subtlety here. We are talking about the utterly obvious and very obviously fake.
Worse than the dumbass failure to spot obvious and simple photoshop is the failure to notice set up shots staged with the same models in different locations. The classic being “green helmet guy” who appeared in numerous scenes of supposed mayhem inflicted by terrible Zionists on innocent civilians in Lebanon, in various guises, but usually wearing the same green helmet. The same series of fake reportage also sickeningly featured the recurrent use of a particular dead child who had been removed from an ambulance and used as a prop in various shots in different positions, being “recovered” from several piles of rubble repeatedly.
No point even starting on to thetopic of how a couple of demolished buildings in Jeneen were photographed creatively from various angles to give the impressionof an entire district having been flattened.
Photography is a creative process.
After over a century of photography in the mass media, folk still dont get it.
And here is the perfect appetizer to go with those drinks fromThink Geek
No self-respecting CAGW skeptic should have any warmist friends – acquaintances maybe, but friends, no! Now relatives are a different story, you’re stuck with them.
Polar bear floating on a single-malt sea…
Just a note regards the penguin on an iceberg in the Atlantic: Emperor penguins live in the Antarctic, stupid. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_penguin
I want one! Shame they won’t ship to Australia. 🙁
And some more refreshment from Think Geek after your’re done with the appetizer(s):
Keurig K-cup™ 5-Star Meals
Mike Jowsey, until some hydrographic organization or something renamed all waters surrounding Antarctica the Southern Ocean, one of the oceans bordering Antarctica was the Atlantic, South Atlantic to be a little more precise.
Only put ice in it if it is “barrel strength”, Eric H.
I wonder who the “we” is that is throwing the editors under the bus.
Yes but you have to cater for the Bill Nye demographic in the market. There are people out there with money to spend on novelty ice cube makers who are deeply concerned that Antarctica might sink under the sea just like Atlantis did. Continents that start with the letter A are known to be unstable and to do that from time to time.
Tim Clark says:
February 11, 2013 at 1:04 pm
Do they make one of seal pups you can dye red??
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If they have a mold of a seal we could make ice from the warmist’s red koolaid.
cn
We could sell swizzle sticks shaped like clubs and as you beat the seal ice you vodka turns red.
cn