God help us. These “artistes” write:
The scientific community can meet us in December when we bring the calendar to the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. This is the world’s largest gathering of Earth and space scientists: 20,000 of them converge in San Francisco to discuss their research (think science fair for adults).
Have a look at what they are pitching along with “please send money”:
Last year Josh and I published a calendar using only on demand printing services (like COSTCO) and Josh’s talents. We didn’t have to sucker in the clueless to “fund” the project. We just did it. They justify their pitch with:
What’s Inside
The 12×9 calendar features 13 months of renowned climate scientists and their research, along with information like their favorite dataset, chart or climate phenomenon. The calendar also includes dates of weather and climate events that live in infamy, dates of key scientific meetings and more. Participating researchers work at Columbia University’s International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
Why kick start the Climate Models calendar?
We’ve had a photo shoot and designed the calendar, and even received a grant from the New York City chapter of the Awesome Foundation. Now we need to raise funds to print it. That’s where you come in. We believe in the power of this calendar to increase scientific literacy and want to distribute as many as possible. Meeting our funding goal will enable us to do this by covering the cost of printing our first run of calendars.
Any money raised above and beyond our goal will be used for calendar-related education and outreach activities.
You can read more about it here.
This year won’t be any different for Josh and I, though maybe this year when Michael Mann gets his free copy he won’t try to create conspiracy theory about it.
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chucakrama: “Needs to be pictures of a bunch of plus size models”
Wouldn’t that be a Global Cooling calendar from the 70s? I’d rather think a Global Warming calendar would have skin-ups of the Swedish Bikini team in sunny Stockholm.
OMG That woman on their calendar is using a CO2 fire extinguisher!
Looks like AGU is delving even deeper into climasturbation.
Auch. Why don’t they feature 13 more hot models inside, one for each month of the year, like the lady on cover with a fire extinguisher? It would be a much smoother sell, besides climate scientists are not hot at all, just ugly.
As for 13 months in a year… well, it is a fact heat makes things extend, is it not? The science is settled, next year should not be an exception.
Yes, it’s time to re-post this link to the recent LA Times story on how science lost its way.—
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20131027,0,1228881.column#axzz2j7KJsAIj
Meanwhile: Al Gore is said to have invested $200 million in a Canadian fracking company, PetroBakken
http://www.canadabuster.com/al-gore-is-said-to-have-invested-200-million-in-a-canadian-fracking-company-petrobakken/
In an interview with Canada’s BNN news channel, however, Gore offered a robust defense of his actions.
“First of all, if I didn’t invest in this company somebody else would,” he explained to anchor Bill McAvoy. “Do you think Mother Nature cares about the shareholding structure of companies that cause pollution?
“A kilogram of CO2 is a kilogram of CO2. It doesn’t matter who owns the company that made it. This investment doesn’t put a single extra molecule of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere.”
If this is true, he will receive the Nobel Hypocrisy Prize.
At least it documents the fraudsters for prosperity. This too shall pass.–
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulhudson/posts/Real-risk-of-a-Maunder-minimum-Little-Ice-Age-says-leading-scientist
See? This is why coal has to be regulated out of the market. Makes fracking much more profitable.
Perhaps it is 13 smoothed months
OTOH, being on DEC 9, 10, 11, 12, & 13 they are certainly cutting it close to not being able to call it a fall meeting. 8 days later begins winter
We could do a hockey stick satire calendar, heh.
Sample captions:
“At first, it was just a dream.”
“The dream became ‘reality.'”
“You, too can be a scientist — with this genuine hockey stick!”
“It’s easy! Even a kid can do it.”
“Women with low IQ’s will adore you.”
“Don’t let the cold get you down — break out the stick!”
“Buy yours before November 38th and we’ll throw in an Al Gore coaster —
— Yes! We are cereal! Act now! Before the planet explodes!
Quantities limited ……”
In addition to buying these crappy calendars, it appears AGU attendees will also be treated to swirlies
Fun times.
To make it less confusing, the calendar doesn’t show the actual days in a month, only the anomaly. If you turn to the February page, it’s a big giant -3 (minus two in leap years).
The calendar is going to show the number of days in a month increasing with increasing CO2.
Reg Nelson at 2:39 — LOL.
Does it have a picture of Gleick behind bars?
@Phil Jourdan, lol, I see that you (at 1:39pm) and I were thinking alike. Typos are FUN!
“We believe in the power of this calendar to increase scientific literacy”
I know where they can start …
“favorite dataset, chart or climate phenomenon”
My favorite climate phenomenon is snow.
Which month will they give to Richard Lindzen?
They also didn’t say it would be thirteen consecutive months… They could be cherry-picked out of a 30 year period… And where did they find 13 renowned climate scientists? I could easily come up with 13 beclowned climate scientists, or 13 powned scientists, but 13 renowned climate scientists? I dunno…. Notice I wrote all that without mentioning Michael Mann’s name once!. Oh, drat…
According to Santer, the calendar needs to be at least 17 months.
“for Josh and I”?
Please correct that to “for Josh and me”.
“The calendar also includes dates of weather and climate events that live in infamy”
Will this include the dates of Gleick’s exploits?
“‘We believe in the power of this calendar… .'” (quoted by Wonko at 3:05 — lol)
Their language betrays them, yet again… .
I think Bob Tisdale could be on to something….perhaps could be combined with Josh and ANthony? How about each month showing one of the fail models and predictions, blown up to large scale (to exaggerate the failure as per IPCC graphs, etc) and featuring a cartoon in an appropriate corner………Would be a great way to get the FAILURES across to the public??