Roman M. sends word of this new photo taken by the tourista journalists on the “Clitanic”.
For those of you that can’t make out the writing, here is the cartoon.
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When the set of playing cards with the photographs and quips of the 52 Clitanic tourists is available it will be difficult to choose a favorite. Currently I am leaning towards milkshake boy but I am just wondering who will be anointed to be on the Joker Cards. -Paul
Perhaps the actual picture of the ship stuck in ice will become as iconic as the Polar Bear on an ice flow.
OK, I know it will never happen. But it should.
Great cartoon.
Josh on the Guardian … that would be like splashing holy water on a vampire.
AlexS says:
January 3, 2014 at 10:55 am
“Not sure I agree with Photoshop mockery.
There are plenty of authentic reasons to mock them, after all.”
Yeah, i don’t think this adds anything.
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Niether do I
Josh’s cartoon is excellent on its own – why on earth would anyone need to fabricate where it was published?
Come ON GUYS!
It is NOT the role of true sceptics to fabricate ANYTHING!
This is a bad idea!!!!!
Very disappointing.
I don’t understand what the objection is against mild ridicule of either the Guardian or its environmental reporters who were playing “Antarctic explorer” on the ice.
The original caption on the picture read (somewhat grandiosely) “Alok and Laurence Topham unfurl the Guardian’s Antarctica flag. Photograph: Laurence Topham for the Guardian”. I thought that the somewhat bland flag would be better replaced by Josh’ wonderful cartoon which had already appeared earlier on WUWT. It appears to me that it was a distinct improvement on the original photo. 😉
As far as “fabrication” goes, that’s a stretch! Who is claiming that the photo represents reality?
Yes, manipulating images is what the warmist side does in Soviet style.
For me photographies are something almost sacred.
Well done Roman, you gave me a real laugh-out-loud moment!
The Berlin Wall came down because of a media mistake.
Maybe the same thing will happen with the Warmista meme.
Both the Berlin Wall and the Warmista meme have a lot in common-from throttling independent thought to independent travel:
In both, self-pious masters imposed controls on individual freedoms, and for the same purpose .
Hence, it is time to mock to the max!
After all, we’re dealing with “Climate Scientits” here.
Don’t forget they are the enemy of all mankind–especially the most vulnerable and least capable among us.
Doug, UK: Oh please, just get a life, why don’t you. This isn’t “fabrication” – no one’s trying to pass it off as reality. It’s a visual joke, nothing more, nothing less.
“As far as “fabrication” goes, that’s a stretch! Who is claiming that the photo represents reality?”
The photo itself. Do you think one year form now, two, five years all this information is attached it?
Maybe could change @loztopham in the tweet caption to @lotzospam –
I suspect they’ll be eating a lot of that if they don’t get out of that ice soon.
(SPAM, what torture to a Vegan….)
….though years ago we often wondered how much meat was actually in there…:)
They do a good job of self-mockery, ’tis true, I saw a young “researcher” being interviewed on TV, I think it was on the Whether Channel (whether they state the truth or not , usually not).
The young lady said she would sit tight (this was before the rescue) and have some gin and tonic and “study”. True dat. I’m glad they had the staples they needed, while the Antarctic station probably just needed food or oil or what not.
I wonder what her curriculum entailed. I’m sure beer pong 101 is a 4-credit course, since it entails a lab.
What I find really offensive is, these people planned an expedition where they would be walking on the shoulders of giants. Following in the footsteps of Shackleton and Mawson, you would expect some respect and awe for what their predecessors endured. Instead, we got whinges about the lack of milkshakes and blog posts about partying. As a previous poster said, these people disgust me.
Actually there was some question in another thread about whether the Penguins had been
Photoshopped in…so the photo may be somewhat of a, er, moving target in any case…
I think it’s a stretch to call the tweeted pic serious photography when presented as pompously
as it was (OK, it was the Grauniad in the cathedral of CAGW, but still…).
It says they’re greeted by a group of Adélie Penguins, but it appears that all but one
are ignoring them (perhaps that’s Adélie?).
“Independent, foundation-funded”, visibly not a contradiction can deter hilarious editor Douglas Fisher in propaganding:
http://www.straight.com/news/559976/media-climate-coverage-soared-2013-spurred-energy-issues-and-weather
Given the Clitanic disaster (almost) avoided, 2014 is gearing up to be quite a year…
Who pays?
Rescue cost….. $400,000 hit for ice rescue revealed…..
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/policy/hit-for-ice-rescue-revealed/story-fn59nm2j-1226794662899
D. B. Cooper says:
January 3, 2014 at 11:15 am
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NoTricksZone reports on an article in Le Monde:
http://notrickszone.com/2014/01/03/french-le-monde-follows-revkin-blasts-turneys-antarctic-joy-ride-for-disrupting-real-antarctic-science/
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Seems like the Turkey has seriously p***ed off some real scientists and should be glad for any minute his arrival at Casey Station is delayed
@ur momisugly DirkH
See Richard Lawson….
The Photoshop treatment is excellent! The original shows that the flag was simply an “infommercial” for the BBC. I give it two thumbs up.
Some people just don’t get satire.
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If this was presented or could be seen as a genuine photo then I’d say it was wrong to deceive. But that’s not the case here. It’s a joke. And a good one. About the only way to improve on Josh’s original!
People and organisations that do ridiculous things deserve ridicule.
This world has become mired in asinine “political correctness” to the detriment of free speech – let me begin by ridiculing that!
Jaime Jessop @Balinteractive
Could the Queen not rush through a knighthood for Chris Turney for services to global warming scepticism? #spiritofmawson
7:39 AM – 2 Jan 2014
http://joannenova.com.au/2014/01/australian-taxpayers-will-pay-400000-cost-for-climate-scientists-ship-stuck-in-ice-total-cost-millions/
cnxtim says: “People and organisations that do ridiculous things deserve ridicule.
This world has become mired in asinine “political correctness” to the detriment of free speech – let me begin by ridiculing that!”
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I’ll second that!
I would have liked to see all the penguins hooked up to ropes, Turnkey shouting ” on the count of three….pull”
So let’s mock the Guardian for what they have done.
This is what the Guardian reported about the ship stranding, in a story headlined Five Basic Antarctica Facts For Climate Change Sceptics.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/02/antarctic-ship-stranding-delights-climate-change-sceptics?commentpage=1
(don’t bother commenting there. One of the Guardians community standards is that you have to be a full throated global warming warbler in echo chamber mode to avoid comment deletion – similar to wikipedia and/or climate progress standards)
Most of the points are along the line of teaching grandma to suck eggs.
Only one sticks out in my mind.
They assert that Antarctica is melting away at the rate of 100bn tonnes of ice a year, which is unmitigated horse manure, and worse, link to the cover page of the IPCC AR5 (the whole damned thing in other words) to support this assertion.
To them their pleasure cruise being stuck fast in record sea ice on a route that 83 years ago was open ice free water is due to global warming!
See, according to them the ice is melt water run off from the continent’s interior.
Fertile ground for a good round of mocking, I think.
For instance, Camp Casey, where the wayward band is being rescued to is the home for scientists studying Law Dome. Law Dome has an extensive history, which includes the original sites (S2) being buried by 15 meters of ice between 1957 and 1996.
History of Wilkes Station, S2 Trip
Is 15 meters of ice a lot? I’m handicapped by being American. It just seems to me that if you have to sink a mine shaft to get to the front door of what was once a suface structure, maybe that’s a sign the ice hasn’t been melting.