Today’s Friday Funny from Josh is a double feature with the SkS kidz and the Royal Society, who seem to be acting like the kids when they demanded a secret meeting with The GWPF. Shhhh.
Josh writes:
This isn’t a cartoon about this story which Nigel Lawson never talked about in the Spectator.
Glad that’s settled.
For this cartoon he quips:
In a bid to outdo the 10:10 campaign the SkS kidz have launched a Hiroshima app. What a great idea!
H/t Watts up with that. And there is a related video by Bob Tisdale here.
Josh
I know that this is funny, but unfortunately it has so much truth in it, that it is frightening.
What I find hilarious is that John Cook is a cartoonist by trade, and he has yet to be able to launch a cartoon of his own with any effective satire. I guess he’s too busy being scary.
Let’s hope Lord Lawson spills the beans gently, wouldn’t want to upset the Royal Society too much, their Presidents are genius’, “Heavier than air flying machines are IMPOSSIBLE!”. Lord Kelvin, 1895! He was right, wasn’t he?
The science was “settled” in 1895. Or at least 97% settled. TG for the 3% that didn’t listen. Then the greenies could get to their conferences.
Excellent Josh. Maybe a hole cut on both sides of each bag so they can stick their fingers in their ears and go ‘La la la la la we’re not listening’. Here’s their ‘take’ on climate change:
http://royalsociety.org/uploadedFiles/Royal_Society_Content/News_and_Issues/Science_Issues/Climate_change/climate_facts_and_fictions.pdf
Funny how liars and fools don’t like being outed. The RS members are a disgrace to themselves and their hallowed institution, which may never recover.
“Heavier than air flying machines are IMPOSSIBLE!”. Lord Kelvin, 1895! He was right, wasn’t he?”
Well at the time pretty much, The compression based IC engine was new and wasn’t being designed for lightness, The Wrights had to get their 12 HP job custom built. Also, as the Wrights discovered through experiment and redesign. Just about every bit of the science concerning aerodynamics was wrong. From the best work on aerofoils (Llillienthal) to the Smeaton number for air. Not just close with a larger than expected error band, but significantly and “guaranteed to end up a twisted corpse in mangled wreckage” wrong.
Just goes to show, there is no such thing as settled science, it’s always one repeatable experiment away from unsettled.
Reminds me of the promotional potential England footballers found when they missed vital penalties for England’s soccer team.
The Royal Society is unwittingly encouraging the idea that climate change science is not even a hoax, just an empty shell.
As for SkS they’re just doing what they do best, i.e. feed their propaganda with corpses, in this case the abused memory of 400,000 dead and survivors in Hiroshima.
Maybe a hole cut on both sides of each bag … .” (Gee Jam at 9:46am) — lol, good one.
However…. I think it’s perfect the way it is; pretty soon, they will think it is nighttime and fall asleep zzzzzz. There. All quiet now. Aaah.
Thanks for the link to the junk science document of the
RoyalSecret Society:“It has become fashionable… .” LOL — It has become fashionable, apparently, to wear a brown paper bag over your heads! Bwah, ha, ha, ha, haaaaaaaaaaaaa!
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Re second cartoon: Out on limb, someone else’s (Lise Meisner and Albert Einstein, to name two) real science utterly destroying their credibility, lol.
GREAT JOB, JOSH! (as usual) — on both (LOVE the bold colors, and the little shoe that fell off… poor widdo kid…, Mama will be soooo mad at him).
btw: are “biscuits” what Americans call “cookies”? If not, lol, good for you, you stolid, stiff-upper lip, British — “We don’t eat cookies with our tea! Unlike the US, WE eat biscuits! Cookies are for sissies! And we don’t put any sweetener in our tea and we drink it out of a hollowed out boulder, not some sissy tea cup.”)
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@ur momisugly Son of Mulder — lol, thanks for sharing that. Hilarious.
Don’t knock Lord Kelvin.
He was a genius.
Even a genius can be wrong sometimes.
Mere clever people are too cautious to be wrong.
Idiots are rarely right.
But Lord Kelvin was a genius who should be ranked high amongst the legends of science.
(sshhh — top secret video from the most recent meeting of the S.S.)
Is that Nuke-kid-celli on the right – out on a limb?
I’d make some snark about the Star Chamber if they thought the sun had anything to do with it.
Having just read through a 13 page article with comments from Steve Mc and Anthony about Sceptics being civil to the likes of Way & Cowtan I was a bit skeptical about this at first. However, I do make an exception where the SKidzS are concerned. They deserve everything they get. Thanks Josh and Anthony. Made my weekend.( ‘;-P)=
“Above all else, the Devil cannot stand to be mocked.” – C.S. Lewis
So someone at the Royal Society said, “I know, let’s have that meeting in secret.” And the rest said. “Ooh, yes, lets!” Did not one of them step back and think what message that would send to the world? Are they nothing but fools and cretins?
Josh – you portrayed them most accurately and gave us a good giggle in this house with both cartoons. The first one most definitely should be spread far and wide.
Alan the Brit You mention Lord Kelvin. Don’t forget that Isaac Newton, in 1717, stated that it was impossible to make a marine chronometer.
Re M Courtney says: November 29, 2013 at 11:22 am
I concur. One of the founders of thermodynamics shouldn’t be judged by hindsight about what he said late in life. William Thomson, Lord Kelvin’s life, accomplishments, and a few missteps are covered in this biography:
“Degrees Kelvin: A Tale of Genius, Invention, and Tragedy by David Lindley”
http://www.amazon.com/Degrees-Kelvin-Genius-Invention-Tragedy/dp/0309096189
Nice vid, Janice. “The Royal Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things.” It’s clear the Royal Society is not on top of actual climate science, any more than the self-outed ⚡kidz⚡.
Thanks, Mr. Kafkazar. Say, how DID you make that cool lightening bolt symbol? Leave it to an engineer to figure out something cool.
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Leave it to a…., well, let’s just say people in my line of work try extra hard not to do this …. to misspell “lightning. grrr
“they demanded a secret meeting with The GWPF.”
Odd way to put it. The meeting was very publicly requested by Lord Lawson. And held, AFAICS, in accordance with his request.
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M Courtney says:
November 29, 2013 at 11:22 am
Don’t knock Lord Kelvin.
He was a genius.
Even a genius can be wrong sometimes.
Mere clever people are too cautious to be wrong.
Idiots are rarely right.
But Lord Kelvin was a genius who should be ranked high amongst the legends of science.
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Yes even a genius can make many wrong calls.
From: http://zapatopi.net/kelvin/quotes/
“I can state flatly that heavier than air flying machines are impossible.” [Note: this quote is widely circulated, especially among self-help gurus, motivational speakers, and the like, but a newspaper archive search and Google book search shows no hits published during Kelvin’s lifetime.]
However he did say:
“The air-ship, on the plan of those built by Santos-Dumont, is a delusion and a snare. A gas balloon, paddled around by oars, is an old idea, and can never be of any practical use. Some day, no doubt, some one will invent a flying machine that one will be able to navigate without having to have a balloon attachment. But the day is a long way off when we shall see human beings soaring around like birds.” [TLWT, vol. 2, p. 1168]
“There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now, All that remains is more and more precise measurement.”
“X-rays will prove to be a hoax.”
“We know that light is propagated like sound through pressure and motion.”
[Is there any matter not subject to the law of gravitation?] “I think that I may say with absolute decision that there is. We are all convinced… that ether is matter.” [BL]
“Radio has no future.”
“Wireless [telegraphy] is all very well but I’d rather send a message by a boy on a pony!” [Quoted in My Father, Marconi by Degna Marconi]
Writing to Niagara Falls Power Company: “Trust you will avoid the gigantic mistake of alternating current.”
“During the thirty-five years which have passed since I gave this wide-ranged estimate [of 20-400 million years] experimental investigation has supplied much of the knowledge then wanting regarding the thermal properties of rocks to form a closer estimate of the time which has passed since the consolidation of the earth, we have now good reason for judging that it was more than 20,000,000 and less than 40,000,000 years ago, and probably much nearer 20 than 40.” [AEAFL]
“It seems as if we may also be forced to conclude that the supposed connection between magnetic storms and sunspots is unreal, and that the seeming agreement between the periods has been mere coincidence.”
“It would, I think, be exceedingly rash to assume as probable anything more than twenty million years of the sun’s light in the past history of the earth, or to reckon on more than five or six million years of sunlight for time to come.”
What will the population think about AGW in 100 years time?