This has been the most strange and unsettling week ever. Wiretaps, using the tax code as a political tool against your opponent, Huffington Post goes over to the dark side, and we witnessed the collapse of climate models ability to predict the future.
The Chinese must be laughing at our folly.
“May you live in interesting times“, often referred to as the Chinese curse, is reputed to be the English translation of an ancient Chinese proverb and curse, although it may have originated among the English themselves. It is reported that it was the first of three curses of increasing severity, the other two being:
“May you come to the attention of those in authority” (sometimes rendered “May the government be aware of you”). This is sometimes quoted as “May you come to the attention of powerful people.” (Alternately, “important people”.) Source
The icing on the cake this week is a portrayal as being one of the “Mad Men”, but given what’s been going on, one has to wonder, who really are the mad men? You just have to laugh though.
For those unfamiliar, this is a parody of the TV series Mad Men, which I have only a passing familiarity with. Apparently its about Madison avenue, sex, power, and smoke filled back rooms in the 60’s.
Unfortunately there’s no large version of the poster, because I’d surely like to print it and frame it for the sheer hilarity of it. It’s like somebody did a Vulcan mind meld with Mike Mann, and this was the image that came out. Of course, I want to frame the poster, rather than burn it like some that inhabit Mann-world do.
(Update: In comments, Michael Palmer says at June 7, 2013 at 10:48 am: here is a reconstructed mostly hi-res version of the picture. My thanks to him – Anthony)
Just a couple of notes for the artist, Steve Brodner, who didn’t bother to do his homework (all he had to do was check my “about page“), but instead allowed himself to get caught up in the Mannian fantasy vortex. For example, recall how Mike Mann reacted with full on conspiracy theory when I sent him a free calendar for Christmas.
I’ve met some, but not all of these people. As far as I know, none of them smoke. I asked Joe Bastardi yesterday whether he smoked or not (given his bodybuilding I highly doubted it) and he replied “only when I’m on fire!”.
For the record, both of my parents died of smoking related illnesses while I was young, and my severe hearing loss is connected to ear infections (and treatment by an ototoxic
drug) due to growing up in a smoke filled household. Smoking adversely affected my life, and made life choices for me that I didn’t plan. To portray me as embracing smoking is particularly unkind and most certainly inaccurate. But, that’s what happens when you live in The Mad Mad Mad World of Climatism.
While the cartoon is funny, the smoking portrayal does bother me a bit about this cartoon, because it is personal, and the artist of course is just another low information sap who works with popular memes. But, that smoking meme all part of the ongoing comparative smear to tobacco company tactics that Mann and Co. like to push, because after their own failure of the alarmist public relations strategy, all they have left now is denigration. Maybe they need to watch that “Mad Men” show for tips.
Oh, and also for the record I’ve also never gotten any money from big oil, small oil, Olive Oyl, Kochtopus, or the American Petroleum Institute, nor am I on the payroll (nor have I ever been) of any such organization. What you see is what you get, some advertising on the blog and the donation button on the right sidebar.
Finally, I don’t “deny” climate change. Most certainly the climate has changed over the last century. My view is that while CO2 has an effect, it isn’t as bad as being portrayed and it certainly isn’t living up to the expectations of the climate models. Like many eco-causes, it is over-hyped to get emotional churning which panders to the gullible.
Yes, we live in interesting times.
UPDATE: I’ve asked Steve Brodner on his blog (where he talks about the artwork) for a full sized copy. We’ll see how he reacts. I’d really like to get one. – Anthony
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Thanks, Anthony.
My best wishes for all included in the poster, and for those obviously missing from it!
Here is a timely link to the question at hand.
http://pjmedia.com/blog/who-are-the-real-climate-deniers/?singlepage=true
PhD Ecological Climatology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, December 1979
Nice work there by ‘go home’ !! That was funny.
To be funny a cartoon needs to have some element of truth.
This one has no element of truth and is just smear.
My favorite cartoonist is Ramirez.
Here is one of his Gems with significant element of truth.
http://www.investors.com/editorial-cartoons/michael-ramirez/657827-obama-bo-the-dog-white-house-porch-
Hi Patrick Dolan, good to hear from you again! Sean Penn is a terrific choice.
I left off the following climatologists because Go Home said above my post:
“Already have mann, gore, trenberth, hansen, gleick.”
@Janice Moore
We aren’t wasting on on Sean Penn
Go Home, that is WONDERFUL work! Way — to — go, Go!
Liked the hockey stick on the wall with the old hat, heh, heh.
LOL, yes, I think you got Bore’s head big enough.
I think John Cook is really a woman …. in a creepy way ….. perfect!
Thanks so much for sharing and for lifting my spirits today!
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Re: D’oh!bama, (Mark above mentioned that) I left him out because he is just an empty-headed puppet; he has never really DONE anything. Others write his “words just words” speeches, program his teleprompter, do all the socialist dirty work. Others hid his grade reports, “passed” him through school, digitally altered the digital facsimile of his paper certificate of live birth, and on and on. All he does on his own is smoke, l – i – e, and bow to Saudi royalty.
(Rick above… ) [%|}
@ur momisugly P@ur momisugly
Enjoyed (just now read it) your refreshingly candid post. You have a fine, strong, character to be able to write about yourself like that. Not many people do. Thus, I’m sure you’ll make it with that STOP smoking effort… I’ll bet your next cigarette will never happen. Go, Patrick, go! (come next September … a year! — do not let all that effort to resist go to waste! (another way I motivate myself))
[well, one suggestion, life DOES, indeed, come along and kick one in the teeth sometimes…. sorry about your heartrending experience, life can be so hard……. SO, have a strategy ready for that time. I have to have strategies to avoid eating too many carbohydrates!]
“I pretend, sometimes, … ” — me, too. It works! I tell myself, “Okay, you don’t want to practice singing, but just do it for 15 minutes (or 10 if 15 sounds too long); it ALWAYS turns into a much longer practice session — and I am fairly certain of that when I say it, but it still works (because I know I will honor my 15-minute limit if I really can’t stand to continue)!
Well, enough already — I tend to talk way too much OT on this site.
Take care.
YOU CAN DO IT!
Hi, Anthony,
That’s good — bad publicity is, still, publicity. That jerk doesn’t deserve ANY. Nor does Alec Baldwin — glad he wasn’t included either.
Say, how do you feel about Ms. “Richard Windsor” taking your chair? Heh, heh — YOU are much better looking. #[:)]
Your loyal fan,
Janice
Yeah, A-th-y, you and all the Science Giants on WUWT are, as stated above, a CLASS ACT.
I think the following much better represents you than the warmist cartoon above:
A little comedy, a little wit, some excellent singing, with warmth and fun and honesty, sometimes a little corny, but always classy.
Only four for this video, but, they are a representative sample.
Yes, Joe Bastardi, you can be Dean Martin.
(the band is all the science giants, the audience is all of us non-science fans)
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=The+Rat+Pack&view=detail&mid=C9290A360ABA293155ABC9290A360ABA293155AB&first=0&FORM=NVPFVR
APPLAUSE! APPLAUSE! APPLAUSE!
Correct. In my Notes From Skull Island I list nearly 20 things that we climate contrarians (“skeptic” is too mild a term) would be doing differently, including more ads, if we were in fact well organized and well funded:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/12/16/notes-from-skull-island-why-skeptics-arent-well-funded-and-well-organized/
For the past 16 years it’s been warming very slowly. (For the past 30 years, per the satellites.)
Anyway, contrarians don’t dispute that there has been a warming trend since 1950 partly due to our CO2 emissions. That’s not what the debate is about. It’s about:
How much that rise will continue under business-as-usual;
How bad the consequences of a rise would be;
Whether it would be wise to wait and see if the rise continues before mitigating;
Whether adaptation would be a wiser policy than mitigation;
Whether the developing world can or will significantly mitigate;
Whether mitigation in the developed world alone or as a trail-blazer would make a dime’s worth of difference,
Whether “renewable” energy is an affordable or workable option;
Whether the voting public in the developed world will continue to accept paying more, directly or indirectly, for renewable energy once the costs start to really bite.
Etc.
Correct. The planet is 11% greener thanks to CO2.
Where do they get this “fossil fuel funded” bollocks? It is trotted out like a well known truth. Maybe you should sue for libel?
Apparently, Broder’s blog post has been moved. The link you provided above (http://stevebrodner.com/2013/05/30/the-mad-men-of-climate-denial/) now returns “nothing found”. The blog posting is live (at least for now) at http://stevebrodner.com/2013/06/08/the-mad-men-of-climate-denial/.
No trace of Anthony’s request for a copy of the picture remains.
@ur momisugly Stephen Rasey says: June 7, 2013 at 9:34 pm
I am also a huge Arthur C. Clarke fan, but missed that book. I will now run out and grab it (hard copy – not kindle). But I marvel at his prophetic vision. 1989, the jihad had not commenced. Yet he knew it was coming.
Patrick Dolan,
This book has a greater than 90% success rate in helping smokers to permanently quit the habit.
You can get the book, used, for a few dollars plus shipping.
Is it worth it?
You decide…
@dbstealey:
I’m 9 months plus beyond my last cigarette, and not likely to bother with ’em again. Last time I stopped, it was 20 years (give or take a few weeks) between cigarettes…
But I’m a fool for the written word, and always looking to learn a new trick…might be useful to know so I can turn someone else on to it. What works for one person isn’t necessarily going to work for anyone else (much less everyone else…). Always room for another tool in my bag of tricks, Thanks!
@Janice Moore says:
June 8, 2013 at 12:38 & 1:36 pm
Good to be back…after a fashion, sorta, kinda! Was Stunt Gaffer and Factotum-in-Chief at a wedding this weekend….and now I’m back in the ‘real’ world.
Re singing (or any kind of practice): it was Jimi Hendrix who said that it’s when you most don’t wanna that you most have to practice… Oh, so true.
“That was the news, this is the weather, more at 11!”
In retrospect, good choice, no actors—especially not the twits mentioned previously, both of whom I’d like to say I’m boycotting (and I am…), but then, I never watch TV or movies anyway (being addicted to the printed word), so they’ll never get a dime from me,ever. Still, I shoulda thunk of that myself.
To the Highlanders among us, Slainte!
“Scots! Wha’ hae w’ Wallace bled,
Scots wham Bruce ha’ often led,
Welcome to yer gory bed,
Or to Victory!”
(I have to say, not being one who knows anything about what’s on TV these days, that when I saw the “12 Men” thing, the FIRST thing I thought of was the 12 Men of Tain… Ah,j Glenlivet, a fine Speyside Malt! I know it well…but alas—though me Irish forebears are likely turnin’ ‘neath the sod t’ hear me utter these words—my favorite’s an Islay Malt, Lagavulin…though I’ll not speak poorly of Tyrconnail or Bushmills…)
7;->
Be well, Janice!