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‘Twas the week before Christmas, when all through the news,
There were reports of record cold, so many were confused.
Told global warming is why we should care,
And that the point of no return would soon be here.
The children were bombarded with tales of dread,
While visions of climate disasters were stuck in each little head.
And mamma in her Prius, and I on my bike,
To save the planet, got rid of the cars that we like.
When suddenly in the data there arose such a clatter,
The earth was not warming, what could be the matter?
The warming stopped, as quick as a flash,
Leaving proponents in sack-cloth, bathing in ash.
For far too common was new-fallen snow,
More than forecasted, temperatures 0 or below.
And, what to my wondering eye there appears,
But an uptick in sea ice, and even more polar bears.
With a little old driver, called the PDO,
I knew in a moment it had to be so.
Howling like beagles fearing the shame,
AGW pushers called skeptics many a name!
“Now, Denier! now, madman! now neanderthal, you’re lying!
You’re an idiot! you’re stupid, know nothing, we’re frying!
To the top of the chart! breaking through the temperature wall!
The warmings out of control, it’s frying us all!”
As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
This is the worst drought ever, global warming is why.
So up to the IPCC the climate pushers flew,
With a gravy train of grants, and politics too.
Make economies pay, we need no proof,
Just keep saying temperatures are going through the roof.
With the media complicit, my head was turning around,
To see the global temperature level off and then come down.
The warming had stopped, in their mouth was their foot,
Exposing the scam, and making off with the loot.
Readjusting temperatures, from many years back,
Peddling disinformation to the media pack.
At conferences they would drink and make merry!
While the deceit grew in a way, that made it quite scary!
For the tide it had turned, there was cold that would show,
You can’t say it’s warmer, if there’s too much snow.
The cold that was showing led to chattering of teeth,
As the cycle came full circle, not unlike a wreath.
The face of global warming had become a subject smelly,
Their position as “solid,” as a bowlful of jelly!
Hockey sticks broken, sea ice on the increase,
I laughed when I heard their excuses not cease.
Events we all knew were something ahead,
Were twisted into worst ever, something to dread.
How dare mother nature destroy AGW’s life’s work,
These deniers are as nasty as a Miley Cyrus Twerk.
But the data is there and everyone knows,
The temperatures leveled off while CO2 rose!
So when in the wire, you hear the cold wind whistle,
The AGW agenda is ready for dismissal.
So let me exclaim, as this fades out of sight,
“Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!”
Apologies to Clement Clark Moore
Thanks Joe! It was fun to read.
Merry Christmas! Be happy!
Thanks Joe, it was fun. Have a Merry Christmas!
I am really getting cross.
They promised me snow, ice and polar bear free winters.
They promised me no more expensive fossil fuel bills.
I wouldn’t need a jumper or a coat.
I could grow oranges in my garden.
No need for expensive flights to the med to sun myself in summer. The back yard would be fine.
Please send me some names and addresses so I can foward my heating bills to these con merchants. The bill for my UV bed, citrus fruits, new coat, jumper and bear manicures (he’s cute).
I mean a mass bill forwarding to the deceivers should provide a strong basis for forward legal action. Surely the buck should stop with the IPCC? Perhaps we could all send e-copies of our bills together and e-invoices together.?
Demand compensation or threaten to send in our bears!
You’re a much better meteorologist than you are a poet Joe. However I still loved it.
It’s definitely a laugh, but as my English teacher used to say, “you have to work on your scansion.” She also used to insist that there is only so “license” a poet can take before being “relegated.” Not sure what she meant by the last but it kept a lot of kids from trying to publish anything in the school literary rag.
Sustainability writ large.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/12/18/kingston-crane-still-standing-but-may-yet-collapse-citys-politicians-were-warned-about-tinderbox-building/
treehugger responds before the fire is out or cause is determined.
http://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/construction-fires-are-not-indictment-wood-construction.html
Merry Christmas.
Joe, can I share on Facebook? My university friends will just LOVE it!
How terribly strange that both Joe and Mike Mann are associated with Penn State (as am I). The difference is that that Joe was educated there; Mann just landed there after apparently failing to secure tenure elsewhere.
Joe Bastardi says:
December 18, 2013 at 2:00 pm
“You know I get hit so many times, I dont care anymore what people say. But I am amazed, that here I pulled off something where I had to go over countless lines ( only left 2 in, the wild hurricane line and the ending) and I see people going after this like Its supposed to be anything beyond what it is. a little fun around the holidays.”
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I thought it was pretty good.
Not over the top, obviously well thought out.
I liked:
“So when in the wire, you hear the cold wind whistle,..”
Among other parts.
Good king Mikey Mann looked out
From his office window
Silly eejit leant too far
And landed on a cinder
Brightly Shone his ass that night
Though the frost was cruel
When a modeller came in sight
Playing with his tool
Snow at 12.14 18th Dec.
Jerusalem 30 degrees North. Houston, Texas, 29.5 degrees North.
Loved it joe! Happy Christmas to all (except you al gore)
Joe, you have real gift – a good laugh, really – I needed that. Thanks for being here. When can we expect to see this masterpiece performed by you and the Bastardi Dancers?
There is hope for the young ones after all: http://joannenova.com.au/2013/12/two-high-school-students-take-on-teacher-over-climate-and-win-standing-ovation/
Robin – the warmists’ posture won’t last long. They don’t a have a clue. SC 24 is currently kicking their collective arses.
Note the reddit link above.
It is happening here.
Joe,
Try posting this in reddit but check here first http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c81_1387321157
A thought – humor like this is fantastic in a debate, more so than most people realize. We are dealing with a reality that science (or more specifically, the scientific method) does not matter, facts don’t matter, logic doesn’t matter, rational (or even humanist) appeals do not matter. CAGW has become a religion under the guise of science, and is unfortunately (consciously or not) being used as a tool to control and indoctrinate. In this realm, effective debate of the kind that can change minds becomes political and religious in nature, and unfortunately for us scientific types, not necessarily centered on facts.
This is where humor becomes a useful tool. As a famous example, recall the 1984 debate between presidential candidates Walter Mondale and Ronald Reagan. At the time, there was a serious question regarding Reagan being too old to be able to serve in a second presidential term. That entire issue was ended by Reagan in the debate by his whimsical reply to the question regarding his age: “I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperience.” After the crowd finished roaring with laughter, including those on the opposing side, the issue was forever put to rest. But nowhere in this was the issue ever answered; instead, he used human psychology and humor to end the debate.
I would vastly prefer to stay purely scientific with the CAGW issue, especially in a case like this where the facts are so overwhelmingly against it (e.g., Where’s the model-predicted tropical tropospheric heat signature? Why have predictions failed? Why are data being altered? Why didn’t the earth have a runaway greenhouse from water vapor feedback when the earth was actually warmer in the past? …). But once the debate is political/religious, one cannot “win over” a believer with facts. But humor can win here.
Thanks for the laugh Joe. I have forwarded this on to many people.
I am unable to prove that this is not a photo of Nathan Allen:
Seconded!
Here are a couple of long comments I made that consist of funny short quotations from WUWTers:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/03/09/open-thread-weekend-17/#comment-1243960
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/05/12/open-thread-sunday-2/#comment-1303738.
(I submitted them as Stories, but I was told to post them as comments. I still think they’d (together) make a good thread on their own.)
Nice work Joe. A funny read after a long day pulling the wagon
Thanks Joe, that was wonderful and Merry Christmas to you and yours.
I love it…great stuff Joe. A Happy Christmas and New Year to you!
Funny Funny Thanks Joe and David
Blue Sky says:
December 18, 2013 at 1:34 pm
. . . And Joe I know you think your being clever, but your not.
FYI, Blue Sky, “your” ≠ “you’re.”
Merry Christmas, Joe. Let us hope the Warmists all get the dreaded coal in their stockings.
/Mr Lynn
This may be OT but I just saw that
Reddit has banned climate skeptics!
@ur momisugly David G — Thanks for letting us know (not OT, imo). If that is true, that is a good thing. “Banned? Why in the world… ,” will only result in: more readers of science truth!