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.
That’s a great model.
OssQss (7:54pm) — (high five) –> Dude! Yeah. #(:))
I think the last one fit the best, but, actually, all but the happy peanut butter “dude” work great. Cool post.
Pretty sure it’s not “the dumbest”… but definitely up there.
At least it’s only $10k.
Somehow I managed to hit “Post” before pointing out some of the other ridiculous climate-porn projects on Kickstarter:
First one: a book about how there won’t be snow in 75 years:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/127394593/deep-the-story-of-skiing-and-the-future-of-snow?ref=live
That’s it, appeal to the skiers.
Next one: another book, this one is even financed. And it uses the particularly nasty tactic of indoctrinating children.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/326721047/the-cartoon-introduction-to-climate-change?ref=live
Yes, a subject that “enrages some”… so let’s make a cartoon book, throw it at kids, and destroy the critical thinking skills of a whole new generation.
At least one more: a project to document climate change in Peru. That’s right, nothing says “GLOBAL” warming like one small area in one small country in one region of the world.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/johnnysullivan/a-melting-horizon-capturing-climate-change-in-peru?ref=live
I had a few projects that I tried promoting on Kickstarter some years ago. None of them got anything. Apparently you need to throw in a bleeding-heart angle to get anywhere. Hey, if you don’t help finance my business, THE PLANET WILL MELT AND YOU WILL DIE A HORRIBLE DEATH. Yeah, that sounds legit…
CodeTech: “Apparently you need to throw in a bleeding-heart angle to get anywhere.”
First law of salesmanship: Reason don’t sell. Emotions do.
Second law of salesmanship: Make room for them to make excuses for their own emotions.
Codetech!
Where have you been? I hope you have just been happily busy. Everything okay up there?
Well, down here, in Washington State (just two doors down the hall from Hell), I’ve been wondering.
I hope you’ll look in on Nov. 5th — I found a vid to post to wish you a happy birthday!
(in case you don’t see my greeting that day, well, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, early!)
Janice
#(:))
P.S.
THE TRUMPETER SWANS ARE BACK! They flew in just at sunset this past Sunday. I was out on the evening ramble with my German Shepherd and, as I stood gazing at the molten gold-edged cloud-obscured sunset, I heard them. Then, about 5 minutes later, they had circled around my little corner of Skagit Valley and I saw them, white against mauve-and-blue gray clouds, heading north toward the big field where they would spend the night. There were just eight. Just one family. More are on the way, though. Well, just had to share that with someone (Johanna of Canberra, Australia does, too, I know) who I know likes birds. Any new arrivals at your pond?
… frightening. Plays well with Halloween …
Obviously 12 months of 28 days and February 29days, making 13. The new month to be called Goreblimey and to be located between July and August in the Northern Hemisphere and between February and March in the Southern Hemisphere so it will always be warm somewhere.
I’m sure Pirelli is panicking now – after all nothing is hotter than climate models!
“In leaps and bounds Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory scientist Jason Smerdon advances understanding of Earth’s climate, using climate models, statistics and natural records of past climate, known as climate proxies.”
LOL!
First, models can’t advance your understanding because to build a decent model you already have to understand the phenomena.
Second, statistics have to be used properly and on actual data not model output or proxies.
And thirdly, climate proxies are NOT records of past climate, hence why they are called proxies. They are records of something that someone believes mirrors the climate. But again if the process that made the natural record (i.e. tree growth, glacier formation, etc.) isn’t fully understood already then the proxy won’t be a valid record of past climate.
It was so cold the climate scientist nearly put his hand in his own pocket.
I guess Al Gore did NOT invest in PetroBakken. It was just a satirical new story that keeps getting quoted.
Bob Tisdale says:
October 29, 2013 at 1:31 pm
How about pictures of models with outfits sized based on climate models, sort of barely (!!!) able to keep them from falling off for being too large?
And don’t forget important dates like Holidays will be “projected”; not “predicted”. Or perhaps the historical dates can be “adjusted”? Then there’s the “moving goalpost” mandatory enrollment date for Obamacare.
So many things to parody, so little time.
Resourceguy says:
October 29, 2013 at 2:11 pm
“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 ”
Hiltzik! He had the only LAT blog at one time and wrote a piece about the town of Costa Mesa checking out the immigration status of suspects its Police caught who had allegedly committed major crimes. He was against this procedure and touted illegal immigration by referring to ~”what the Social Security Trustees said” about the wonders of illegal immigration in relation to the future economic status or solvency of SS in a Table he linked to. I went to the link and found that the SS Trustees specifically said they weren’t saying anything at all about the future economic status of SS, so that Hiltzik was lying.
Meanwhile Paterrico had caught Hiltzik sock puppeting himself at the LAT blog, mainly by dissing Paterrico, and there was a big blog war, but only on Hiltzig’s sock puppeting because I couldn’t get anyone at all at Paterrico’s to take any interest at all in Hiltzig’s direct lying. Hiltzig got removed from the LAT blog on the basis of his sock puppeting. But I did get through to Matt Welch who was at the LAT at the time and had temporarily taken over Hiltzik’s blog to damage control by fielding complaints about Hiltzik.
But here is Hiltzik back again writing business[!] columns at the LAT, which I had noted as ironic at the time of his sock puppeting. Hiltzik was also intentionally misrepresenting Blog Popularity Numbers in order to diss someone – I don’t remember who. And now he’s talking about “how Science lost its way”, which is kind of like he lost his way and what anybody at the LAT did about it, which was apparently nothing!
As long as we’re talking about models and global warming, here’s proof.
Bob Tisdale says:
October 29, 2013 at 1:31 pm
” Hmmm. That gives me an idea, too! My 12 favorite model-data comparisons showing how poorly climate models really perform.”
How about some really “Hot” models to help explain why the Climate Scientists are so addicted to their Warming Models and never seem to be able to get outside to see the light of day or check the weather or the surface stations, except for that one time when it was too cold in Boulder? or something.
How about a calendar of FAILED CAGW predictions?
(Arctic ice gone by [pick your year]… Stratospheric hot spot… Alaska canary in the coal mine.. more hurricanes, more tornadoes, Manhattan underwater…)
12 months may not be enough…
“Hmmm. That gives me an idea, too! My 12 favorite model-data comparisons showing how poorly climate models really perform.”
Bob, that is one, I would buy!
Hmm.. more psychological projection from the human induced ‘climate’ changers?
Makes you a bit skeptical. Is that meant to be a fire extinguisher, or flame thrower?
My guess is the “hottie” on the cover is
http://iri.columbia.edu/contact/staff-directory/katia-fernandes/
I think I am going to vomit.
@Bill Illis says:
October 29, 2013 at 5:30 pm
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.
All this really means is that instead of -80dF it is -77dF
“Fixing California: The Green Gentry’s Class Warfare”
http://www.joelkotkin.com/content/00825-fixing-california-green-gentry%E2%80%99s-class-warfare
Here’s an idea that fits with their agenda.
A picture of a well known character or environment with each calendar month that goes with the holiday’s/theme of that month and allows them to feature some of their AGW hero’s and villains.
For instance:
December=Santa Claus at an ice free North Pole
January=Father TIme/baby choking outside of a power plant(emitting “touched up/black steam)
February=Cupid shooting an arrow thru the head of Anthony Watts
March=Extreme winds blowing Dr. Roy Spencer’s house down
April=Easter Bunny drowning in a flood
May=Tornado picking up Dr. Tim Ball
June=Intense sunshine burning a hole in the head of Leif Svalgaard
July=Heat wave and Dr. Richard Lindzen sweating
August=Michael Mann with his hockey stick graph
September=Cat. 6 hurricane from the Al Gore imaginary book of weather
October= Witches, Goblins, Ghosts and Monsters attacking Bob Tisdale
November=James Hansen with a bunch of turkeys
The AGW archery marksman via Cupid completely missed the mark on our Anthony, hitting him in the wrong place(head). Everybody knows that Cupid shoots arrows through your HEART.
December=Santa Claus at an ice free North Pole
January=Father TIme/baby choking outside of a power plant(emitting “touched up/black steam)
February=Cupid shooting an arrow thru the HEART of Anthony Watts
March=Extreme winds blowing Dr. Roy Spencer’s house down
April=Easter Bunny drowning in a flood
May=Tornado picking up Dr. Tim Ball
June=Intense sunshine burning a hole in the head of Leif Svalgaard
July=Heat wave and Dr. Richard Lindzen sweating
August=Michael Mann with his hockey stick graph
September=Cat. 6 hurricane from the Al Gore imaginary book of weather
October= Witches, Goblins, Ghosts and Monsters attacking Bob Tisdale
November=James Hansen with a bunch of turkeys