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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error in the image text.
“alarmism is a cult that has HAS taken in many people”
Ha ha ha…would love to get that printed on canvas and hang it on one of my walls.
Josh left out the Dr. Evil Pinkie-to-the mouth gag? No Mini-Mann?
One thing I noticed with Brodner’s work was the fact that he has twelve portrayals of skeptics, which could be simply a coincidence, but I suspect it is a biblical reference. Given the quasi-religious nature of the Climatist cabal, perhaps that was a bit of psychological projection on his part.
Far too kind to Lewandowsky, he looks a lot more like a slimeball on the video I saw than in the caricature. Just sayin’. There’s no reason to judge from appearances, he may be a really nice, decent guy in real life…. or maybe not, like I said, can’t judge from appearances.
Better to judge people by their actions, errr … well, doesn’t get any better does it?
Eric Worrall says:
June 10, 2013 at 2:46 am
Is it just me, or did Josh make Trenberth look a bit like Watts? Just saying! 🙂
http://eric.worrall.name/WUWT/watts.gif
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Could it be Basil Fawlty? Faulty logic, faulty science, faulty conclusions, etc.?
(Trenberth’s face is longer, like John Cleese, but he’s nowhere near as funny….).
Mannuel, Mannuel…..
Anthony,you seem to have a burr under your saddle about smoking. Smoking is a reference to Mad Men (P.S. It’s not “MAD MEN”). It is, after all, a parody and reference to that TV series where nearly everyone smokes and drinks.
REPLY: I do have a burr, it’s personal – see this: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/06/07/friday-funny-we-live-in-interesting-times/
Anthony
I read that as “Al Cartoon Billionaire Gore” and was flashed back to Futurama, which while I disagree with his BS he spreads everywhere else, think is a fantastic role for him: comedy punchline.
30 Rock attests to this as well, but yeah, gotta love fretting over “multi-million dollar” schemes, while ignoring multi-billion dollar government investments in promoting lies.
Hmm
Something of an American-centric view of climate change in both Josh’s AND the original cartoon.
Britain has been the world leader in climate change madness since the 1980’s, is actually signed up to Kyoto (which America isn’t) and has its own legally binding Climate change act-which America doesn’t.
Our mad heroes need to be celebrated as well;
Phil Jones. Julia Slingo. George Monbiot/The Guardian. The entire British parliament who voted with 6 abstentions to the climate change act, with special reference to David (husky) Cameron and Tim Yeo.
tonyb
Brodner and Cook, cartoonists for the alarmist brigade. Josh and Fenbeagle cartoonists for the realists. That is just as unfair as pitting piltdown Mann against McIntyre. You have to feel really sorry for them when this is all the damp powder that is left in their pistols. (Or do you?)
Ivor Ward
Further to Basil Fawlty, in “Communication Problems” there’s Mannuel and Mrs. Richards is looking for C.K. Watt…
Sorry, it shouldn’t have put the video in…..don’t know what happened here…
The red text block refers to |This cartoon parodies the article in “This American Life” ….| That’s wrong. This American Life is a National Public Radio program with Ira Glass (to be precise, NPR doesn’t produce it, “This American Life is produced by WBEZ Chicago and distributed by Public Radio International.”), and referenced by Brodner for a show titled “495: Hot In My Backyard” at http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/495/hot-in-my-backyard
Brodner’s cartoon was done in hopes of getting it published at THE AMERICAN PROSPECT. The cartoon exists at Brodner’s blog and various skeptical site who ar having fun with it, I don’t see it at http://prospect.org/ yet.
I like the thumbs and fingers.
Ric. Many thanks. I will update my post, maybe Anthony can do the same here.
” Athelstan. says:
June 10, 2013 at 12:36 am
On how far the CO2 scam has gone
“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 this is a bit strong, certainly in America. Polls show that the majority are not buying carbon alarmism despite the trillions spent on the extravaganza, the 97% of the MSM on board with the end-of-the-world cult, 100% of the universities and public schools and 97% of the journals and institutions vilifying The Building Block of Life. I’m in awe of the resilience of this “I’m from Missouri” folk. For our global readers:
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/from+Missouri
“I glanced at a graph, and didn’t understand where all the increased water vapor was going to come from”. From the ocean I believe …..
(heh-heh)
“Is it just me, or did Josh make Trenberth look a bit like Watts?”
This is actually the root of the entire climate debate. They are paternal twins separated at age 5 in a nasty divorce case. Kevin has always blamed the weather. They have been arguing ever since. Soon to be a Lifetime movie.
Cook and sidekick Dana must be disappointed not to make it for their 97% work.
REPLY: Likely, they weren’t included because in hindsight we didn’t view them as “men”. Mad perhaps. – Anthony
My comment there was deleted too and even though it was a bit cheeky it was not baseless.
John Droz a very civil and gentle counterpoint and that was deleted anyway.
The man there is a closeminded bigot.
For some reason my comment wasn’t deleted, even though I stated Bastardi was a good forecaster, but Hansen wasn’t. It is likely because I ended with some noncommittal sugar:
“I expect you’ll get a lot of hits on your site now. Congratulations on stirring things up.”
After ten years of getting the mud slung at them, I think Skeptics have every right to sling some back. It is good fun, and likely healthy, as long as it doesn’t go over the top and get vicious (and involve videos of blowing people up, as Alarmist “humor” has done.)
However after a while mud-slinging gets old, and once steam has been blown off it is likely better to smooth the ruffled feathers and get back to the Truth. Get back to the scientific facts, the actual history of past weather events that were worse, and the mistakes in their arithmetic. Not only is it the civilized path to greater understanding, but you personally learn more and more about this wonderful world we live in.
All the same, I’m a bit disappointed I didn’t get deleted (yet.)
And here I thought it was a photograph–Oh, wait! It IS a cartoon with my reading glasses.
…and so is their “climate science”.
Well said tonyb!! They should all be shown up for the ignorant arrogant fools they are. Even the EU is slowly coming round to shale gas, the need for cheap energy to get economies moving again, to promote evil wicked “growth” & even more evil still, “wealth”!!!!
Why do they only have three fingers on each hand?
How come I never make the list?
I note with interest:
“Mad Men of Climate Change Denial” shows a group of men, none of whom denies that climate is changing
while
“Mad Men of Climate Change Alarmism” shows a group of men who actually are alarmists regarding climate change.
Further, interesting is the lack of Mad Women in either portrayal. I guess the ladies just aren’t mad enough?
I do congratulate Anthony Watts on being in the same room with that group of esteemed individuals. Nice. If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.
Gary says:
June 10, 2013 at 6:25 am
Why do they only have three fingers on each hand?
Whoa!
No wonder they are mad!
LOL