A knob that goes to eleven. Recycled from some old rocker’s sound board.
noaaprogrammer
September 3, 2013 12:48 pm
One more item is needed in the cartoon: As a contrast to the befuddled warmists pondering the large, outdated mainframes, the cartoon needs to include Anthony, sitting in the foreground, typing away on his laptop, updating his blog!
Pamela Gray
September 3, 2013 12:50 pm
Tom, that is FUNNY!!!! The vaporous mechanism. In a nut shell. Lines one (CO2 folks) and two (solar folks), please read.
John West
September 3, 2013 12:55 pm
I especially like that the sun has multiple components.
Well done!
manfredkintop
September 3, 2013 12:56 pm
“Well, it’s one louder, isn’t it? It’s not ten”
D Matteson
September 3, 2013 1:17 pm
The CO2 knob reminds me of the heater control knob on an early 1950’s VW.
You could turn it all the way on but still get very little heat.
Maybe it needs a PR knob? Its gauge should be red-lined. 😎
Lewis P Buckingham
September 3, 2013 1:37 pm
Anthony Watts says:
September 3, 2013 at 11:36 am
Using the mark one eyeball it goes to thirteen if the dial goes all the way round.
Jeff
September 3, 2013 1:40 pm
Who’s the scientist on the right?
Follow the Money
September 3, 2013 1:42 pm
I think some of our US govt. “climate scientists” are behind the “evidence” of the mysteriously very under-evidenced chem “attack.” They implicitly sound like this cartoon above. No security agency is lending its name to the “evidence.” The “evidence” is based on gut feelings, and a viewing of videos on youtube. It’s “meta-anaylsis!” Meta-analysis for war! Oh, and maybe some detections of chemicals from chemical fertilizers and food nitrites.
I think it’s really about something personal…maybe the govt. doesn’t want another loss from the Syr. rebels after we failed to save our MB allies in Egypt. Or Team America just can’t figure out when the next info dump on Benghazi is coming out…maybe they thought it was going to come out last week, and when it didn’t…delay. But the science behind their presentations is such a joke. It is so bad, an insecure CNN is overheating its calls for war. “We are beyond the facts that there was a chemical attack.” That sounds just like the “the science is settled” b.s. line in climate science.
D Matteson
September 3, 2013 1:56 pm
“Who’s the scientist on the right?”
I think it’s Roy Spencer.
clipe
September 3, 2013 2:32 pm
Va Pour = Will Pour.
The scientist to the right is peering at the sunny side.
John F. Hultquist
September 3, 2013 2:49 pm
Josh is perceptive and talented. Thanks.
—- D Matteson says:
September 3, 2013 at 1:17 pm
“The CO2 knob reminds me of the heater control knob on an early 1950′s VW.
You could turn it all the way on but still get very little heat.”
You got heat ? !
Peter
September 3, 2013 2:57 pm
The ‘face” of Earth Climate machine is a big “Face”. The gauges at top are the eyes and the water vapor dial is a giant mouth ready to gobble those naive little climate scientists up!
jackmorrow
September 3, 2013 3:12 pm
On my ’74 TR 6 when I turned the heater on, all the radiator fluid would leak out around the heater control valve. LOL Too bad the money to support the AGW folks doesn’t” leak out” when we expose them.
John West @ur momisugly September 3, 2013 at 12:55 pm
“I especially like that the sun has multiple components.”
Those are vertical sliders, set progressively lower, like an audio-fade. ‘Down, down, down’.
“Love the “Spinal Tap” reference Josh !!”
Could someone explain that to me please?
CRS, DrPH
September 3, 2013 4:44 pm
I see that they still haven’t found the “Sun Control” yet!
NothernEye
September 3, 2013 5:21 pm
Excellent! A highlight of grad school at Stanford was the annual Xmas bash, where the students wreaked anonymous revenge on their advisors. One year, for a petrology prof a bit-too-fond of models, the students built a “datas” machine that was all levers and dials and knobs, and produced endless rolls of narrow paper filled with numbers…….. Thanks Josh for the memories!
Owen in GA
September 3, 2013 6:01 pm
markstoval says:
September 3, 2013 at 4:28 pm
“Love the “Spinal Tap” reference Josh !!”
Could someone explain that to me please?
Look up “This is Spinal Tap” on IMDB, a cult classic mockumentary about the lives of a made up rock band called Spinal Tap. More would be saying too much.
Niff
September 3, 2013 6:24 pm
Josh,
The layers of satire, innuendo, and crushing reality are divinely inspired. Coming from an atheist I think I have had a conversion.
Priceless clarity.
A knob that goes to eleven. Recycled from some old rocker’s sound board.
One more item is needed in the cartoon: As a contrast to the befuddled warmists pondering the large, outdated mainframes, the cartoon needs to include Anthony, sitting in the foreground, typing away on his laptop, updating his blog!
Tom, that is FUNNY!!!! The vaporous mechanism. In a nut shell. Lines one (CO2 folks) and two (solar folks), please read.
I especially like that the sun has multiple components.
Well done!
“Well, it’s one louder, isn’t it? It’s not ten”
The CO2 knob reminds me of the heater control knob on an early 1950’s VW.
You could turn it all the way on but still get very little heat.
Maybe it needs a PR knob? Its gauge should be red-lined. 😎
Anthony Watts says:
September 3, 2013 at 11:36 am
Using the mark one eyeball it goes to thirteen if the dial goes all the way round.
Who’s the scientist on the right?
I think some of our US govt. “climate scientists” are behind the “evidence” of the mysteriously very under-evidenced chem “attack.” They implicitly sound like this cartoon above. No security agency is lending its name to the “evidence.” The “evidence” is based on gut feelings, and a viewing of videos on youtube. It’s “meta-anaylsis!” Meta-analysis for war! Oh, and maybe some detections of chemicals from chemical fertilizers and food nitrites.
I think it’s really about something personal…maybe the govt. doesn’t want another loss from the Syr. rebels after we failed to save our MB allies in Egypt. Or Team America just can’t figure out when the next info dump on Benghazi is coming out…maybe they thought it was going to come out last week, and when it didn’t…delay. But the science behind their presentations is such a joke. It is so bad, an insecure CNN is overheating its calls for war. “We are beyond the facts that there was a chemical attack.” That sounds just like the “the science is settled” b.s. line in climate science.
“Who’s the scientist on the right?”
I think it’s Roy Spencer.
Va Pour = Will Pour.
The scientist to the right is peering at the sunny side.
Josh is perceptive and talented. Thanks.
—-
D Matteson says:
September 3, 2013 at 1:17 pm
“The CO2 knob reminds me of the heater control knob on an early 1950′s VW.
You could turn it all the way on but still get very little heat.”
You got heat ? !
The ‘face” of Earth Climate machine is a big “Face”. The gauges at top are the eyes and the water vapor dial is a giant mouth ready to gobble those naive little climate scientists up!
On my ’74 TR 6 when I turned the heater on, all the radiator fluid would leak out around the heater control valve. LOL Too bad the money to support the AGW folks doesn’t” leak out” when we expose them.
The top dial reading should be “unprecedented”.
Jimmy Haigh says:
September 3, 2013 at 11:25 am
Apparently, neither are some building designers…
http://www.cityam.com/article/1378168692/exclusive-few-solutions-beam-hits-70-c
I want the t-shirt.
John West @ur momisugly September 3, 2013 at 12:55 pm
“I especially like that the sun has multiple components.”
Those are vertical sliders, set progressively lower, like an audio-fade. ‘Down, down, down’.
“Love the “Spinal Tap” reference Josh !!”
Could someone explain that to me please?
I see that they still haven’t found the “Sun Control” yet!
Excellent! A highlight of grad school at Stanford was the annual Xmas bash, where the students wreaked anonymous revenge on their advisors. One year, for a petrology prof a bit-too-fond of models, the students built a “datas” machine that was all levers and dials and knobs, and produced endless rolls of narrow paper filled with numbers…….. Thanks Josh for the memories!
Look up “This is Spinal Tap” on IMDB, a cult classic mockumentary about the lives of a made up rock band called Spinal Tap. More would be saying too much.
Josh,
The layers of satire, innuendo, and crushing reality are divinely inspired. Coming from an atheist I think I have had a conversion.
Priceless clarity.
Josh, my friend, you are good, very good.