This bit of humor is courtesy of Dr. Roy Spencer, who made it a lead in for his recent blog post:
A climate modeler increasing his model’s sensitivity.
![Science-Experiments[1]](http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/science-experiments1.jpg?quality=83)
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A.D. Everard says:
September 18, 2013 at 2:55 pm replying to
D.J. Hawkins says:
September 18, 2013 at 2:37 pm
The header and intro caused my mind to conjure the following:
“Two climate modelers walked into a bar…”
…And asked a third one, “What’s cooking?”…
But their models kept going up the sidewalk, looking for a thermostat stuck up a peer-reviewed side alley.
Stephen Richards says:
September 18, 2013 at 12:55 pm
That and they’re both puppets.
No they are both Muppets and Muppets is a derogatory discription in England, I think.
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As a “Septic”, I laughed my a** off the first time I heard that used in conversation.
The only one I think is better is “Numpty”. I can still remeber braying with laughter at that one.
Tom R.
remember. Doh!!
“Two Climate Scientists walk into a bar…”
… I’m not surprised, they can’t see what’s in front of them.
D.J. Hawkins said on September 18, 2013 at 2:37 pm:
Two climate modelers walk into a bar. They immediately spot a fabulously buxom blonde tottering along on very high heels.
“That looks very unstable.”
“Indeed, she’s very near a tipping point. We need to investigate, for the sake of humanity.”
“Agreed. Oh the humanity, if she falls head over heels with that short skirt.”
They approach her. “Excuse me, we’re quite experienced with models, and would like you to help us with some research. We were wondering if we helped you increase your atmospheric ethanol emissions, if that would lead to a warmer mutual climate.”
She looks them over with narrowed eyes. “Both of you? What were you planning?”
“Dear lady, it’ll be purely honorable. We are scientists! We need to investigate if you are near a tipping point that will lead to something unprecedented.”
She hit them with an incredulous glance. “Uh-huh. What’s next, you want to know what you’ll have to pay me?”
The modelers were shocked. “Oh no dear, you’ll be paying us!”
“WHAT?”
“You and everyone else here. That’s how it works with scientific research. Pay more later and we’ll let you see what we’ve done. Oh, and as scientists we like to record everything. Ask nicely and we’ll let you look at the raw stuff.”
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Two battered climate modelers who had previously walked into a bar, woke up in a dumpster, awakened by the loud clanging racket as the garbage truck hooked on to empty it.
As the dumpster rose in the air, a fabulously buxom blonde on very high heels called out “Hey boys, go research this tipping point!”
I think kadaka got the prize for the Hump Day hilarity.
Now if only I was a a fabulously buxom blonde in a college town…..
pretty funny, given the worst in a thousand years mantra in the MSM:
13 Sept: Colorado State Uni: Colorado Climate Center compiling final data on the Great September Storm of 2013
“As is typical of Colorado storms, some parts of the state were hard hit and others were untouched. Still, this storm is ranking in the top ten extreme flooding events since Colorado statehood,” said Nolan Doesken, State Climatologist at CSU. “It isn’t yet as extreme or widespread as the June 1965 floods or as dramatic as the 1935 floods but it ranks right up there among some of the worst.”
Among the worst, according to Climate Center data, occurred in May 1904, October 1911, June 1921, May 1935, September 1938, May 1955, June 1965, May 1969, October 1970, July 1976, July 1981, and, of course, the Spring Creek Flood of July 1997 that ravaged Fort Collins and the CSU campus.
.”Every flood event in Colorado has its own unique characteristics,” said Doesken. “But the topography of the Colorado Front Range makes this area particularly vulnerable when the necessary meteorological conditions come together as they did this week.”…
http://www.news.colostate.edu/Release/6991
17 Sept: Time Mag: The Science Behind Colorado’s Thousand-Year Flood
http://science.time.com/2013/09/17/the-science-behind-colorados-thousand-year-flood/
Salon: Colorado flooding: Yes, it’s climate change http://www.salon.com/2013/09/18/colorado_flooding_yes_its_climate_change/
Two climate modelers walk into a bar. The bartender asks the first modeler, “What will you have?” The modeler replies, “Anything that’s not carbonated”.
The other modeler looks confused, “Why no carbonation?” The first modeler explains, “It’s too warm in here already”.
kadaka (KD Knoebel) says:
September 18, 2013 at 4:05 pm
Kadaka,
Ha! An entirely enjoyable parable!
MtK
Roy Spencer says:
September 18, 2013 at 4:19 pm
I once saw a man order milk from a bar stool, but . . .
Not being of the CAGW persuasion, I’ll have a beer.
Two climate modelers walked into a bar.
They’d heard they were tipping pints in there.
Two climate modelers and a rabbi walk into a bar. The climate modelers start talking.
The rabbi says “for this, they went to college?”.
I told you so!!! I told you all so. Over a year ago I predicted on the august pages of this blog that global warming would collapse. It has. I’m better at predicting then the IPCC. Not hard to do.
In his epic novel “The Big Gun”, C. F. Forester, of Horatio Hornblower fame, wrote of a ragtag band of Spanish gorillas who dragged a giant cannon half-way across Spain to the siege of Avila. It was later made into a wonderful movie starring Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren, and Cary Grant. The cannon breeched the walls of Avila and the ragtag rebels sacked the city and slaughtered the French garrison. The book and the movie are nearly perfect analogies for the climate fight.
In real life a ragtag bunch of skeptics have dragged a giant cannon half-way across the earth. The cannon is called “Truth” We have it positioned to fire on the Berlin Wall of global warming. Unlike the novel and movie we do not need a British Navel Captain to sight the cannon. The giant wall of hypocrisy, hubris, greed, and just plain lying is so large even a neophyte gunner like me can hit it.
The wall will be breeched, indeed it is tumbling as we speak When it is down the ragtag skeptics will charge into the very citadel of global warming and sack and raze even their temples. Standing on the sidelines are the vast majority of the public. When they see the contents of those temples, the ill gotten gold and the false idols of CO2, they will join the skeptics and be enraged. Enraged, perhaps, to the point they will sack and pillage the real temples of global warming: East Anglica University, Penn State University, and Stanford University.
kadaka (KD Knoebel)
September 18, 2013 at 4:05 pm
says:
Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
@OldWeirdHarold
The rabbi then said: “They should have become doctors… real ones, with stethoscopes.”
Mark and two Cats
September 18, 2013 at 1:13 pm
says:
‘I glanced at the page and misread the headline “Hump Day Hilarity” as “Hump Day Hillary”.
The juxtaposition of Hump and Hillary made me shudder…’
You had to say that, didn’t you? Aside from the fact that I may have unerotic nightmares tonight, you’ve quite possibly left me forever impotent.
There are some twisted senses of humor here.
Very funny.
Love this blog.
Kadaka …..that was hillaryous. Spelling is right.
Mark and two Cats says: September 18, 2013 at 1:13 pm “I glanced at the page and misread the headline “Hump Day Hilarity” as “Hump Day Hillary”.
In Australia, a former Prime Minister, Gough, liked to regard himself as “Fabius Maximus”.
Someone wrote to the papers suggesting that the then American First lady might become “Hillarious Clintonus.”
Nice Job Dr. Spencer!
Humor counts, and I will be using some from the one you posted for sure! Just want to link a modler and a climatologist in there somehow 🙂
Mark and 2 Cats, that was a painful thought you put into my head earlier……. Ouch!
An Aussie guy walked into a bar with a crocodile on a string.
He said to the barman, “Do you serve climate modellers?”
“Yep, we do,”
Then I’ll have a Fosters and me mate here will have a climate modeller.”
(An old joke, slightly adapted).
Some observations:
I always felt sorry for Beaker and his constant state of fear. In every episode, the experiment of Professor Bunsen Honeydew either burned or blew him up. It may be good to be the Professor, but it is never good to be the professor’s Timmy. (Points for those that can catch that reference!)
@ur momisugly Russ: As a child, the doctor recommended that my mother give me ipecac; I was sick to my stomach for two days. As and adult, the IPCC recommendations have made me sick to my stomach for a decade.
Along with Gail Combs, I vote that Kadaka gets the best joke prize!
There is a guy that comes into the local water hole that has the exact same vocal quality of the voice actor of the camel in the Gieco ad. His attitude and actions after three beers are also very close to that of the camel in the advert. It must be due to all the Co2 effervescing from the beers.
@ur momisugly Mark and two cats and Tom J: My parody of Dr Seuse’s “Green Eggs and Ham” with the words “Hump” and “Hillary” would not only get me banned from here, but would probably also put me on No Fly lists and top o’ the list for NSA monitoring! (That is actually a joke. I’ve been told I am clever, but not witty and witty but not that clever. It kinda depends on how much Co2 I have released from long neck brown bottles.)
Two climate modelers walk into a bar …they run up a 2.5 billion dollar
Tab and charge it on their government credit card. Of course they stiff
The fab blond waitress…(rumor is her name is Gail.) They were never
Seen again…
A climate scientist walks into the bar with a model hanging on his arm.
… hmm
… uh, shoot, I thought that’d be easy to work with.
Point of story…TIP