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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“Photos in the calendar shatter stereotypes of scientists”
I’m guessing the Photoshopped photos are going to reinforce my stereotypes of climate scientists – particularly the stereotype of the climate scientist that Photoshops photos. Maybe they will have a Photoshoped photo of a climate scientist not Photoshopping a photo?
“This year won’t be any different for Josh and I” should read: ‘Josh and me’ Just because you add Josh’s name shouldn’t change “for me” to “for I”.
I hope that it fails.
Mark and two Cats says:
October 29, 2013 at 1:29 pm
Does the calendar feature a nekkid picture of algore greased up for a massage?
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Please. I just ate.
13 months?
No wonder the annual average temperature has risen, the Team have made the average year 395 days long
Or Is MAN MADE CO2 causing the rise in months too?
Or perhaps 13 months the GISS / HADCRUT adjusted length of year these days?
Dressing in Superman outfits, sending dispatches from the front lines of Climate Wars, Stories of storms that our grandchildren may have, which cant compare to what has actually happened ( (my father, a meteorologist loves to tell his grandkids about the hurricanes of his life in Rhode Island,1938,1944,1954,1960 which outdo any of the storms I have seen up the east coast as far as intensity north of Hatteras. You dont need storms of my grandchildren when my kids can hear about storms of their grandfather) And now this..Alot of these people are into being worshipped, and this is just the latest example of what is becoming a weirder cult each day.
I can only hope that it is flashy and apparently widely-distributed…
The four seasons on this calendar will be summer, toasty, baking and inferno.
Too bad they’ve forgotten how to do their father’s science. If they did things the old way, e.g. test hypotheses against real data as opposed to garbage in garbage out modeling, perhaps we wouldn’t be having this discussion.
“Does the calendar feature a nekkid picture of algore greased up for a massage?”
Gawd, I hope not.
Reg Nelson says:
October 29, 2013 at 3:38 pm
According to Santer, the calendar needs to be at least 17 months.
Yeah, well Santa is always trying to lengthen the year – and his holidays……??
Even beyond the unbelievable hypocrisy of Al Gore investing $200 million (I mean $200 million) in fracking oil company PetroBakken,
How about the GISS temperature anomaly in September. It is very high +0.78C but all of the warming came from the region …
… you guessed it, Antarctica !!!
Despite there being an all-time record sea ice extent, they even have 66S (the main concentration of sea ice latitude) as being +3.0C. I mean a completely contrary to known physical laws.
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/tmp/gistemp/NMAPS/tmp_GHCN_GISS_ERSST_1200km_Anom09_2013_2013_1951_1980_POL/nmaps_zonal.gif
Craig at 3:53 pm totally gets what “reality” is becoming these days-an iteration of an iteration of an iteration. Kurzwellian!
Was that a CO2 fire extinguisher in the picture? Would it not reignite the ashes if used? Where was the peer review on the picture?
Brunette bimbo wearing a tight knee length bright red dress that can’t be easy to walk in, let alone on uneven ground before considering the high heels and the smokiness. Somehow, I doubt that the grass fire was just extinguished before they stuffed a fire extinguisher into her hands and had her totter out. Probably the AGU’s barby-q choking on their super secret climate sauce.
Still, she looks to be enjoying herself immensely. Kinda makes one wonder why… Perhaps she won the coin toss and gets her picture took while her co-worker who lost the toss has to accompany a climate clown to the AGU dinner. A serious coin flip loss if it turns out to be Manniacal.
Incongruous pictures are definitively a negative when trying to influence buyers. Other magazines may get away with idiots performing dumb stunts, but either their models distract in other ways or their target audience loves the dumb and dumber simulated activity.
Be sure to check the dates. Most likely they will shorten the early months and lengthen the later months.
This seems so strangely appropriate for Halloween. At the risk of encouraging undue evilness, I propose we submit ideas for a calendar of our own. My suggestions for models include Super Mandia, D.B.Stealy’s Inflatable Love “Mann”-equin, and perhaps this illustration of Dr. Norgaard: http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=127443
Or not.
“20,000 of them”, They clearly get excited by big numbers.
Which is also likely the cause of their confusion.
The two organisers;
Rebecca Fowler
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/rebecca-fowler/13/441/460
Francesco Fiondella
http://www.linkedin.com/in/fiondella
I’m sure the calendar will feature Michael Mann in a speedo. As sexy as AGW can get.
I just cannot comment via text input.
So, here ya go >
A boycott sure would be very timely right now for those who still consider themselves actual scientists, with a grain of honor left, to just say…
NO!
Too far this time.
Someone is surely taking the mickey ?!
“calendar-related education and outreach activities.’
What, teach people how to use a calender????
“calendar-related education and outreach activities.”
What the hell does that even mean?
Maybe they were inspired by the Ethiopian calendar, 12 months of 30 days plus a 13th of just 5 days?