There’s so much desperation to tie extreme weather to climate change these days, that some people have taken to photoshopping faked images to make the point. In case you didn’t catch that, it’s a double entendre. Observe.
Sadly, even the Danes have picked up the Weather Channel’s silly naming of non tropical and winter storms. It even has a Wikipedia page. This photo of winter storm “Bodil” is circulating today on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media as it approaches Denmark:
One look at the mesocyclone in that locale told me it was bogus, not only is it meteorologically unlikely, the light is all wrong. It’s comically bad. But the hilarity has to do with the fact that the image is doubly bogus. It has been photoshopped twice. Once to put the storm over the city, and a second time to take out the logo identifying it as a gag image produced by a satire website.
Here’s the “gag” image:
Source: http://9gag.com/gag/a5dXzNG
Note the 9GAG logo (above my drawn red arrow) has been removed and is now in the wild as shown above in Twitter. Yes, that’s right, they faked the fake.
Here is the original mesocyclone, from Montana, USA
Source: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/570972058977542637/
The picture from Denmark that mesocyclone was added to is of Nyhavn canal, in Copenhagen, a touristy spot. It also has its own Wikipedia page.
While I couldn’t find the exact night photo used to make the fake, this one its very close, taken just a few steps up from the original vantage point:
Update: The original Copenhagen scene has been located, h/t to ArtRubicon and Helge K
This fake of “Bodil” now join the ranks of other faked weather events, such as this laughable faked photo supposedly from Hurricane Sandy:
![fake_ny_storm[1]](http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/fake_ny_storm1.jpg?quality=83)
About.com Urban Legends has this explanation:
It was created by combining a fairly standard image of New York Harbor with a 2004 photo of a supercell thunderstorm taken by professional storm chaser Mike Hollingshead.
And this faked one from Hurricane Katrina:
![090911_blog_hurricane_approach[1]](http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/090911_blog_hurricane_approach1.jpg?quality=83)
So, if you see somebody pushing any of these faked photos as proof of (take your pick: global warming, climate disruption, Al Gore is near, Bigfoot, Chemtrails, weather control, or increasing extreme weather) set them straight.
UPDATE2: I forgot to add a link to this example of photoshopping from a couple years back, where Al Gore had to add hurricanes to his book cover. He couldn’t even get the hemispheric rotation right, likely because he’s never heard of the Coriolis Force.
Not finding any, Gore airbrushes in hurricanes for his new book
Pogo said:
Sweet Old Bob says:
December 7, 2013 at 4:59 pm
My dear fellow Bob, nobody is immune from the human condition. I don’t know anyone who is not from time to time his or her own worst enemy.
Next time you’re searching for the source of a doctored image, use TinEye – it found the original from the edited in under a second. In fact, that is a very useful site, especially if you’re looking to track a meme or copyright violation.
Here fake this lot warmies-
http://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/snow-falling-in-australia-in-summer-that-is-all/story-e6frflp0-1226775945701
Dontcha just love ‘That is all.’ mocking the bedwetters and their methods?
I’ll simply try again. If there is something here that is against blog policy, please let me know why instead of moderating things away with a less than vague explanation.
As I said before, I see there is someone on twitter who posted a fotoshopped picture of a storm over København. OK, picture, copenhagen, photoshopped, sure.
Did you already find “somebody pushing any of these faked photos as proof of (take your pick: global warming, climate disruption, Al Gore is near, Bigfoot, weather control, or increasing extreme weather)”?
[Reply: there is nothing in your replies tonight that violates site policy. ~ mod.]
Sisi says:
December 7, 2013 at 6:26 pm
“Did you already find “somebody pushing any of these faked photos as proof of (take your pick: global warming, climate disruption, Al Gore is near, Bigfoot, weather control, or increasing extreme weather)”?”
Sisi, you must be new to the game. Professional government Munich RE warmists like Rahmstorff love to use faked photos:
http://www.ccrc.unsw.edu.au/Copenhagen/Copenhagen_Diagnosis_LOW.pdf
… there’s a beautiful specimen of Ursus Bogus in his natural fake habitat on page 31.
We can only hope that we survive our own ‘cross-examination’ (that examination of conscience thing) when and if conducted … some, perhaps, not so much …
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@mod
“[Reply: there is nothing in your replies tonight that violates site policy. ~ mod.]”
Then explain:
“[it’s satire, get over yourself – mod]”
“[snip – religion and way off topic -mod]”
“[snip – previously moderated, repeating it doesn’t make it better -mod]”
I saw this also:
[all of it, all moderation decisions are final -mod]
Am I to conclude that there was some rogue moderator snipping my comments, and now another moderator has taken over that has not the authority to come back on decisions the previous moderator made?
I am still waiting for an explanation of the site police violation that explains the moderation of my comments in the first place.
[Reply: there are several different WUWT moderators. (I italicize “~mod“.)
My suggestion: just move on. ~ mod.]
Sisi says:
December 7, 2013 at 6:26 pm
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Now I see what you were doing to trip the trigger… no use playing innocent.
Maybe you didn’t know that the holiday season is the perfect time to mint a new word or phrase- like it’s a gift to the world.
Bogosity, gotta love it.
Alan Robertson says:
December 7, 2013 at 6:50 pm
“Maybe you didn’t know that the holiday season is the perfect time to mint a new word or phrase- like it’s a gift to the world.
Bogosity, gotta love it.”
Not that new.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bogosity
Great observational skills Anthony!
Science is in most need of scientists with observational skills.
At 2PM August 27, 2011 I was on board one of the last flights out of Hartford CT to points West.
The rain had already started and as we gained altitude I could see an enormous white wall to the South, Hurricane Irene. It was a breath taking view at 20,000 ft. Something so huge and powerful was hard to take into account. It was 7 days later before I heard from my wife in Southern Vermont, luckily after 6 inches of rain in a few hours, our place was OK, but the rest of the valleys in the area, well forget it. They are still recovering and we see abandoned flood damaged homes and bridges every time we drive into town.
The point being that the power of Nature can be awesome, but there are some who will use this (and any other major event) to advance their own agenda. There are still some around here who point to that event and conflate it with Global Warming, including our esteemed Senator Bernie Sanders.
Sometimes Senator, weather does trump geography…
Thanks, Alan Robertson, for the affirmation (5:14pm today). Much appreciated!
Re: “bogosity,” Dirk is likely correct (he’s a highly reliable witness on WUWT, I’ve discovered), but, like you, I had never heard of that word before today… .
Regardless of the manipulation, that is one impressive photo of a storm cell. Awesome! GK
Re: Bogosity
Defined as The degree to which something is bogus. Bogosity is measured with a bogometer; in a seminar, when a speaker says something bogus, a listener might raise his hand and say “My bogometer just triggered”. More extremely, “You just pinned my bogometer” means you just said or did something so outrageously bogus that it is off the scale, pinning the bogometer needle at the highest possible reading (one might also say “You just redlined my bogometer”). The agreed-upon unit of bogosity is the microLenat.
Also distantly related to Bogarsity, which is the tendency to hang onto something too long.
Legalize mesocyclone NOW!!!
@ur momisugly Randy (re: 4:28pm today) — Stay safe and KEEP WARM down there.
Janice
(See, your comment WAS read! — by lots of us; just too lazy to bother most of the time…)
It’s cold, though 🙂 ))))))))))
The bogosity of Winter Storm Bodil?
Reminds me of something 😉
I hope this works from my phone’s split screen …..
There are so many truly wonderful extremes occurring in the world of weather that it is silly to doctor photos. On my own blog I named this storm, as I name all storms and even high pressure systems, but it is only to keep them straight, (and also to have some fun.)
One really cool thing about this particular storm was that it didn’t even exist 36 hours before it went crashing into Norway. It went from being a 1010 mb ripple on a warm front extending off a Labrador low clear across the Atlantic to a 960 mb gale in the Baltic. Now it is weakening over Russia, but its backside is still delivering Siberian air backwards and bringing very cold conditions to areas behind the storm. (In the east of the USA a northwest wind is coldest, and an east wind can change snow to rain by bringing Atlantic warmth, however in Europe the Atlantic warmth is on the west winds, and it is the east winds that can be most cold.)
These storms are as beautiful to watch as a single cloud is, on a summer’s day. We have all sorts of gadgets and gizmos that allow us to watch them in a way our grandfathers couldn’t imagine. Why on earth would anyone want to alter such an image, when it is so beautiful to begin with?
It seems to me extremely ironic that the people altering the images are the same people who whine most loudly that man should not alter nature. Talk about hypocrisy!
THEY DO ANYTHING TO SAVE THE DOCTRINE:
IT’S “FREAK WEATHER” NOW DEFINING CLIMATE CHANGE
AND IT DOES NOT MATTER IF IT”S HOT OR COLD.
http://www.daiystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/354006/Climate-change-warning-Killer-winter-storms-for-next-THIRTY-years
yirgach says:
December 7, 2013 at 7:48 pm
“Also distantly related to Bogarsity, which is the tendency to hang onto something too long.”
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You get the thread’s Gold Star next to your name.
I beg to differ as in these progressive times observations are NOT required.
Overall what we need is to readdress this science idea and add more vitality, flair and imagination into this staid and tired, forever backward looking, sorry old subject. It needs revamping for the 21st century or killing off altogether, as in it’s present form it is not fit for purpose.
What is required is more adventurous computer programmers with a good eye for result fitting.
We need more imaginative and eloquent persons to join the team to rebuff quaint old-fashioned ideas of what science is about.
We need brighter people to parse the language unendingly, and more imaginative people who at the drop of a hat, can and will, voice hyper-emotional, derationalized, streams of conscious of how children and grand-children will die in pain, hunger and want. And how most photogenic species will soon be extinct because of modern man’s wickedness. To recite the mantra of this dying world, and the guilt of the elders in getting us there.
/extreme/sarc/off
🙂
Sorry, forget all of the above that I wrote.
We have enough of those idiots parading themselves as climate scientists already.
LOL When I read the article, the image didn’t load for me. So I was wondering what it is all about… seeing the image now, it looks like a bad CG jelly fish 🙂
@ur momisugly OssQss. Okay. I watched it. lol, thanks for sharing. Godzilla would definitely register high on the bogosity scale with kids today. Godzilla, all that hard work and ingenuity and you know what the main thing I remember about watching those movies on TV as a kid? The lack of sync between the people’s mouths and the soundtrack. We kids used to have fun with that all the time, making our mouth move, then, vocalizing the words.
Okay, here’s a video for you (yup, Godzilla is taking over the thread…. bwah, ha, ha, ha, haaaa!)
A Tribute to the Herculean Efforts of the Actor in that First Costume:
“Oh, no, there goes Tokyo! Go, go, Godzilla!” — Blue Oyster Cult
{Warning: May not be suitable for those born before 1950.}
Remember when we thought that song was sooo cool? lol.
Now, nature is exposing the folly of the speculations of the Cult of Climatology.
CO2 UP. WARMING — STOPPED.