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
@ur momisugly Evelina Galli (8:46pm today) — love the cute shivering-chin emoticon you created. KEEP WARM, over there (I’m in the U.S.A.). And keep on posting!
…and then, there’s this!
http://deadspin.com/sign-of-man-having-sex-with-cow-features-in-cbs-chicago-1466253791
The naming of storms is an American fashion that was pickud up in Scandinavia some years ago. The recent storm was duly reported here in Norway, with huge pictures of the handful of houses that got their roofs blown off (no persons killed, thankfully) and even a frontpage picture series of a SINGLE TREE being felled by the wind.
Nevertheless, this storm was something new. For years, our MSM have consistently called every unusual weather event “extreme weather”. Not so this time, I did not see the word used once! Just the traditional word “uvær” (literally “unweather”), meaning bad weather. And “climate change” was not blamed for the storm either.
One might hope that the media is waking up from the CAGW delusion, though it is something they will never admit. But it shows in examples like this. Another thing is that our media have dutifully continued to write alarmist stories and loyal utterings of woe at the right times (like during the recent COP-meeting), but these stories disappear very fast from their websites, usually after one day, whereas any story about a B-celebrity lingers on. It seems clear that the editors know this is not newsworthy any more, Officially though, their ranks are closed, but as examples of heretic articles multiply in foreign media, their precious bubble becomes even more fragile.
Slightly off topic: For the best parody of global warming disaster I’ve seen, check out the South Park episode “Two days before the day after tomorrow” (“We did’nt listen! We did’nt listen!”) from their ninth season. It’s hilarious, and was made as long ago as in 2005!
Alan Robertson says:
December 7, 2013 at 4:42 pm
”Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?”
Maurice Strong,
Founder of the UN Environmental Program
What is Maurice Strong advising the Chinese government to do?
I think that “worst in 60 years” meme that was in the BBC and newspaper coverage is the most unremarked aspect. We all KNOW there is a 60 year cycle in the weather. We all just ignore it as a point of logical reasoning when saying or mentioning weather and other phenomena!
I mean … even if such a cloud formation were possible in northern Europe, one look at the water in the canal or harbour tells you something is wrong …. its dead flat.
This is like when unscrupulous religious groups fake miracles and then call it proof of their claims, or more ominously, when religious fanatics decide that someone’s bad crops or sick chickens are the fault of some local witch/sinner (usually someone not liked by the fanatics) and then burn that person at the stake.
Enviro/climate groups have gotten away with faking claims and data for decades now. Most enviro groups are more parasitic than the worst religious groups, and vastly more expensive to the tax payer.
In all fairness: This violent weather situation has been extensively covered by the national MSM, and none of them (to my knowledge) have fallen into the temptation of linking to (C)AGW, ‘climate change’ etc.!
BTW: The most extensive damage has been caused by water: At first the wind came from a SW-ly direction, pressing lots of water from the North Sea into the Kattegat, the Straits and the Baltic Sea. Quite a bit of the water found its way into the narrow fiords NW of Copenhagen, causing the water to rise to almost 2 meters from normal. This flooding has caused heavy damage to several homes in the affected areas, where many residents have been evacuated and some are only now returning to their extensively damaged homes.
Floodings occur regularly in other regions of the country – but (to my knowledge) it’s the first time (‘ever’) that storm flooding has been seen on the island of Zealand.
StephenP says:
December 8, 2013 at 1:36 am
Alan Robertson says:
December 7, 2013 at 4:42 pm
”Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?”
Maurice Strong,
Founder of the UN Environmental Program
What is Maurice Strong advising the Chinese government to do?
Try and get the US into some sort of treaty that will impoverish them and enrich us (China).
Anybody knows what’s wrong with Marcel Crok’s page ‘De Staat van het Klimaat’ ? I can’t get in.
A small correction to Hans Henrik Hansen.
DMI has a report about higher winds: http://www.dmi.dk/nyheder/arkiv/nyheder-2013/12/klimamodeller-varsler-flere-storme-i-fremtiden/
It could be a coincidence, but they only show a small increase in the max windspeed during summer, when the interesting part would be fall, where the worst storms happens.
hunter says:
December 8, 2013 at 4:14 am
“Enviro/climate groups have gotten away with faking claims and data for decades now. Most enviro groups are more parasitic than the worst religious groups, and vastly more expensive to the tax payer.”
They and their cohort is the ruling class now, and their political religion has a certain dumbing down / unifying force on the millions of dumbed down slaves.
Their civilization will likely collapse through their inability of thinking rationally.
I made the picture in photoshop. it spread like a storm once i postet it on my wall on facebook.
LOl palle this is so funny i’m laughing my ass off, as it even says in your facebook update you made that in photoshop xP
9gag put in there logo after i made the pic. here is a link to my fb account. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152124501019739&set=a.121112059738.122781.772989738&type=1&theater¬if_t=like
Some awfully smooth water ahead of the storm in the so called Katrina picture.
If you like your fake images, you can keep your fake images.
Let’s all join hands and hope it does not cool. I wonder whether the Grote Mandrenke hit Denmark? I see it did, we must act now.
Ohhhh Denmark. We must act now!
Ohhh Denmark. What are we going to do with you?
Here are a few more examples of the Great storms of the Little Ice Age. Brrrr!
Since when did we start naming winter storms? I’ve noticed that The Weather Channel is also naming winter storms. Wonder if we can start naming areas of fair weather.
Janice Moore says:
December 7, 2013 at 10:05 pm
Just for fun 🙂
Must agree with “CodeTech”, TinEye is a great tool for pictures, plugins Available for Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer & Opera – with this plugin installed, right click any picture in your browser window and chose “do a search on TinEye”
If you follow the link TinEye will detect your browser for easy install of the plugin
http://www.tineye.com/
FYI, link to data for Wind Turbine output, Denmark West (insert date):
http://www2.emd.dk/el/