Readers may recall that I and some other climate skeptics were portrayed in a parody of AMC’s “MAD MEN” last week by activist artist Steve Brodner, who apparently can’t handle comments about his artwork on his blog, since he didn’t allow my comment asking for a full sized poster, nor comments from others that we know were submitted.
Josh and I immediately started on a rebuttal parody, one that is also in a “smoke filled back room”, but the smoke isn’t tobacco smoke. We think our parody is also better researched than Mr. Brodner’s who seems to have only popular memes without references, and also failed to note that none of the people in that parody of his smoke cigarettes. Though, I do drink coffee.
Enjoy this new version:
Be sure to leave a tip for Josh, as he worked over the weekend to finish this up.
References to names:
Al Carbon Billionaire Gore: Al Gore could become world’s first carbon billionaire – UK Telegraph, Nov 3, 2009
Gavin Real Climate Disappoints Schmidt: One could even ask whether the effort that we have put into RealClimate has been in vain. The legend of the Titanic – RealClimate, 3 May 2012
James Death Train Hansen: Coal-fired power stations are death factories. Close them “The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains.” – UK Guardian, 14 February 2009
Mikey One Tree Hockey Stick Mann: Climategate reveals ‘the most influential tree in the world’ –UK Telegraph, 05 Dec 2009
Stephan It’s a conspiracy Lewandowsky: 10 conspiracy theorists makes a moon landing paper for Stephan Lewandowsky JoNova, September 6th, 2012
Peter The Thief Gleick: Breaking, Gleick Confesses, WUWT, Feb 20, 2012
Eric The Red Antarctic Steig: O’Donnell et al 2010 Refutes Steig et al 2009, ClimateAudit, Dec 2, 2010
Scott Super Mandia: Climate Craziness of the Week: Supermandia, WUWT, October 31, 2011
Kevin It’s a travesty there’s no wamin’ Trenberth: The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t. Climategate Emails, Wed, 14 Oct 2009
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UPDATE: Plans are afoot for a poster, and one of our regular commenters “Go_home” has created his/her own version of a parody:
UPDATE2: Josh’s original post has been updated to correct a typo in the red box, and to also update Steve Brodner’s Blog URL to his artwork since he keeps changing it. – Anthony
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I’m sure skeptics laugh more, while alarmists only laugh on their way to the bank.
Brodner’s is an art piece that shows him in awe of those portrayed. Josh’s is parody with zero respect for the bunch of losers, even paternalistic wrt Mann, portrayed as a big brain-challenged boy.
Expect them to get angry.
Cook, Mann, Lew – Caption competition
http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/06/10/caption-competition-cook-mann-and-lewandowsky/
Coffee mug of winners choice on Wednesday evening.
That’s pretty funny that he didn’t allow your post asking for a poster. I would have thought that a narcissistic character would be flattered, but I guess the flatterer was not the right kind, eh?
Yup, Climate Change is Settled Science, all right. But I doubt that it is in your face in the way that “Steve” intends.
Since, Al did not get rich creating the Internet, he created Global Warming …
I want a POSTER!
😉
Don’t feel too bad about their not posting your comments, they would not post mine, nor does the Evolutionist Jerry Coyne …. something about how you cannot challenge his genius ….
Ghost
So I guess the motley CRU over at East Anglia didn’t make the cut. Or was that just an act of mercy?
I have the original as a rotating desktop image on my Mac. I’ll have to include Josh’s excellent improvement in the rotation, as well. If you’re taking flak, you’re over the target.
I didn’t expect the death throes of climate alarmism to come with New-Yorker-magazine-style cartoons, but it’s a sign of high-level defeat and desperation.
Congrats, Anthony. James Taylor complained to me that they should have made his smoke a cigar to be accurate.
Off topic question: can someone point me to an illustration of the role of water vapor in the IPCC’s models? I glanced at a graph, and didn’t understand where all the increased water vapor was going to come from.
rock, paper scissors !
In Brodner’s parody, which seems to have it’s roots in Stalinist cartoon art of the 1940’s, there is a farcical attempt at a sublimal message tying in scepticism with tobacco use. Lewandowsky must have been consulted on the psychology of that. Any statistical information I’ve seen shows that Big Carbon subsidises Alarmist, “research” to a far greater extent than scepticism, but the lies about sceptic funding just keep coming. I’ll hit Josh’s tip box next, but can we have a full-size poster from Josh, please?
When you look at and size up the Alarmist mad-hatters, it has to be said their main protagonists, wouldn’t discomfort much or anybody. In fact, it is a wonder that this bunch of chinless dorks managed to propel the scam [MM CO2 emissions=runaway warming] as far as it got.
Indeed, it lends gravity to the received idea that and in the wrong hands – sow a seed and with a massive propaganda assault……can be powerful ‘medication’ for the masses – and that the herd mentality is still a default set deep in the human psyche.
I think the motto – title for “Al and the boys” should simply read: “those damned liars”.
Is the line ‘don’t smoke cigarettes’ a diplomatic reference to the occasional use of smoking materials other than cigarettes………………… such as cigars?
For completeness, maybe “Charles Piltdown Man Dawson” should have been included 😉
Nice work all the same.
The Doobie Brothers?
Your forgot to put a tobacco shredder under Al Gores arm pit.
Seems he has eliminated the page.
http://stevebrodner.com/2013/05/30/the-mad-men-of-climate-denial/
My commentary was also “at moderation for ever”.
Ahhhh.
You forgot….
No, its changed:
http://stevebrodner.com/2013/06/08/the-mad-men-of-climate-denial/
A few day back I left comments on his page and they were still under moderation until yesterday evening. As plazaeme has noted he has eliminated the page from that specific url. He must have got a lot of blowback. I sent him a tonne of quotes from climate scientists saying there was a temp standstill, contrary to his assertion. I also sent him Al Gore’s tobacco involvement.
Here is the page’s Google cached version.
One of his related pages is still up and you can post comments. I doubt he will publish them.
http://stevebrodner.com/2013/05/30/the-mad-men-of-climate-denial/mad-men-3/
Is it just me, or did Josh make Trenberth look a bit like Watts? Just saying! 🙂
http://eric.worrall.name/WUWT/watts.gif
Hahahahahahaha! It’s so funny cos it’s so true!
It’s back
http://stevebrodner.com/2013/06/08/the-mad-men-of-climate-denial/
Here is one of Steve’s comments.
In another comment he accuses us of having our heads in the sand. Mote, eye and all that.
There may be a typo in the top left red square text. “has has”.