This ranks right up there with Heartland’s blunderous Unabomber billboard.
From their Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/iHeartClimateScientists
Are they irony impaired, since Jason is fictitious?
I wonder, do climate scientists really want Jason as a spokesperson for zealots to show their love? Inquiring minds want to know.
Lot of competition for the Friday funny have you seen this graph?
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/12/03/3014701/scientists-warming-disastrous-350/
This may be unrelated but I just saw Henry Winkler on a tricycle.
Does the hockey mask mean they’ve finally given up on the hockey stock?
When your science fails you, resort to fiction!
Makes perfect sense to me. CAGW is indeed very frightening, much more so than Jason, because many policy-makers who recognize Jason as a fictional creation, have great difficulty applying the same logic to CAGW, and that failure is leading to considerable harm to economies, landscapes and highly vulnerable people in both developed and developing nations worldwide. Jason can only hurt people one at a time. Bad policy is a weapon of mass destruction. Not recognizing much of the dogma of global warming as an unproven, and in many cases disproven theory is creating huge damage.
Friday the 13th is a superstition that persists in the minds of old wives and in their tales.
Jason is a fictional character confected to frighten those who want a quick fright and dont mind paying for it.
Is there a learned prof from australia out there who can study the ideation behind this ?
Friends in Yellowknife (Arctic Canada) have been in bed the last couple of days trying to stay alive – with the windchill factor temp is 48˚ below, without WF it’s minus 40˚. Nobody remembers this esp so early in the winter.
“Are they irony impaired, since Jason is fictitious?”
It’s worse than that, Anthony. Jason is a fictional character who was invented to make money for his creators. That poster absolutely reeks of irony.
Sam the First, someone has a short memory.
This is perfectly normal weather for this time of year. Calgary has already seen -30, and we’re far south of Yellowknife, but on December 12-13, 2009 we saw -40.
To be honest, if you’re in Yellowknife and a mere -40 with a slight breeze is horrifically cold to you, you probably should move south.
Still, it beats Greenpeace’s Grunge Santa. Why hasn’t anyone done a parody of that ad? There’s Santa, afraid and in the dark, not because of ice melt but because NRDC, Greenpeace, and the Sierra Club have cut off his power. The Greenies insist his workshop run off solar power even tho’ it’s night at the North Pole for half the year. He’s written letters to all the heads of the Green movement, but gotten no reply so now he must put something in their stockings that they fear the most, a lump of COAL. Now that would be funny.
So now we know who to vote for ….
…. the politicians who promise to reduce Earth’s temperature the most.
We can only hope that it follows the premise of “Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan”.
Major scenes to filmed outside Tom’s Restaurant.
So the loveable climate scientists will hack you to death if you do not give them more money.
Perhaps they are trying to frighten to older children, seeing as how nothing else is working.
Good lord, how long ago were the Friday the 13th movies? How many people under the age of 30 even know who Jason was?
@Tim Maguire- Have you forgotten “Freddy versus Jason”???
I wish I had.
Nightmares was Freddy’s gig, not Jason’s
Take nitpick aside, Jason is ther perfect spokesfigure for CAGW – the Hockey Mask fits with the Hockey stick and both the mask wearer and the stick are works of fiction.
Sam the first at 10.36
-48C not too big a deal here for a couple of days,, when it goes below -50C and stays then the dance of the fuel trucks begins.
The air is dead calm,very clear, every house has a shaft of heat rising straight from its chimney , very few vehicles about except the fuel trucks.
And of course the eco-ntz are getting zero power from their alternate energy schemes, cause it is dark and still.
M&2Cs;
The detail of that report shows it is about 3,000,000,000X rarer than CO2, so 7,000X more potent still means it’s about 400,000X less important. And since CO2 is already climatologically trivial, it’s asymtotically equivalent to zero in significance.
pokerguy says:
December 13, 2013 at 8:49 am
“Well Anthony, that seems the point they’re making. “Jason’s” fictitious. CAGW’s all too real.”
No, they are both fictitious, but at least Jason shows up in movies. CAGW isn’t showing up anywhere at all!
Unfortunately for the Alarmists, the response by most will be this: http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/garyvarvel/2013/10/08/112727
Don’t really like to defend them, but I think that’s their point – Jason is fictitious, but to them global warming is “the real-life nightmare.” Ooh, I’m really scared now. Let the bed-wetting commence.
Brian H said:
December 13, 2013 at 11:32 am
M&2Cs;
The detail of that report shows it is about 3,000,000,000X rarer than CO2, so 7,000X more potent still means it’s about 400,000X less important. And since CO2 is already climatologically trivial, it’s asymtotically [sic] equivalent to zero in significance.
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Why are you bringing up facts?
Do what the warmunists want you to do and PANIC!!!!!!
WE’RE DOOOOOOOOMED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
for the sardonically impaired: /SARC
I wish our overlords would forget about AGW (or at least put it on the multidecadal back burner) and concentrate on the real horror show:
Add a goatee, or a van dyke, make the eyes just a tad beadier, and who do you think that looks like?
Just sayin’
In defense of Heartland, I never thought their Unabomber billboard was all that blunderous – their point was simply that if a nutcase was so easily hooked into CAGW, then normal folks ought to re-examine the topic with a little more critical thinking.
The message from iHeartClimateScientists gets lost because many people worry about superstitious bad luck incidents happening on this date, not lurking psychopathic murderers.