Guest Post by Ira Glickstein.
Oceanographer Gregory Johnson, Lead Author of the IPCC AR5 chapter on marine measurements, has summarized the entire 2,200 pages in 19 nicely illustrated haiku. Haiku is an artful Japanese writing form with a 5-7-5 cadence.
Here is one example that stood out for me.
But IPCC Climate Models seem to get worse over time, see my recent posting.
To his credit, Johnson does acknowledge the “pause” and even attributes some of it to the Sun (low Sunspot cycles?). But also to volcanos, and, of course, all that heat hiding in the oceans.
I did a search on “WUWT haiku” and found this much better example from Willis Eschenbach’s the Moon is a Cold Mistress:
O beautiful full moon!
Circling the pond all night
even to the end
Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694
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Speaking of Haikus, this was posted on The Weather Channel recently. – Anthony
Academics shriek
‘all that happens proves my faith
press all say ‘amen’
More grant money sates
angry academic gods
lapping at the trough
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Temp rise is only past due if temp rise is expected. If temp rise is not expected, then the climate is doing just fine.
[Right, which is why the haiku that claims climate models are getting better is a “no clue haiku”. The IPCC models predict temp rise HANDCUFFED to CO2 rise. CO2 rise continues but temps are level, which proves climate models are getting worse. Ira]
Climate models fail
Climatologists predict
More man made warming
We are always right
Models are always correct
Must hide the decline
Models diverge more
Reality must be wrong
See we are correct
It is really cold
This just proves global warming
Send us more money
One could as easily say the earth is at the top of a plateau and temperatures are about to fall.
Possibly limericks would be more fit for the IPPC and the fifth report. Has anybody a good one?
And then there is from the lovely Gary Snyder. This from The Back Country:
Scrap brass
dumpt off the fantail
falling six miles
Is this like the one arm fisherman holding up his one good hand and saying ‘I caught a fish this long’
I especially like the “selective heat sequestration” property of the ocean. Amazing that it just seems to ‘know’ to sequester now and knew not not to sequester 20 years ago. It’s so.. so.. cute!
Ah now where’s Kim when you need her?
Nature cares little
For the thoughts of professors
Seeking its own course
Model oracle
Godot punctuality
Cold tears of a clown
Recent non warming
not predicted by models.
It’s a travesty.
The first time I saw this, it seemed very profound. Since then, others have said similar things. I don’t know if this is the first occurrence, but it is short:
“John Silver says:
December 30, 2013 at 9:13 am
It’s not a pause, it’s a peak.”
doesn’t that give you a chill? If he’s right, it will, someday…
Haikus must be the most abused of all art forms. They look like what was left on the cutting table when someone tried to assemble a proper poem. Now, most conventional poems don’t make any sense either, but at least they rhyme.
Here is my Haiku, obtained from one of several on-line Haiku generators:
fires sicken, nectars
oozing, brightly, grassy souls
wailing, squealing eels
As good as any I have seen.
Climate politics
make the people cold and wet
talk all hot and dry
heats gone hiding
who can tell
haiku may hide it
down the well
[The mods are refraining from line counting, spelling, ryhmning, rythymning, tyming, thyming, or syllabication correction on this thread. …]
Nothing new below
Drought, flood, summer heat or cold
Ice cuts through BS
Winter vortex chills,
“Just weather,” experts declaim
Drought, though, is climate
Australia was hot at Christmas
climate change it was
a turkey
PS – Johnson cheated, he didn’t use Kigos – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kigo
a new fallacy to contend with
appeal to haiku
they’ll stop at nothing to convince us of whats NOT happening with the models is actually happening eventually, sorta, soon, probably, because the poem said so
Roses are red
Violets are blue
weather is happening
oh and climate change too
J. Herbst says:
January 20, 2014 at 2:36 pm
Possibly limericks would be more fit for the IPPC and the fifth report. Has anybody a good one?
There once was a lady from Regina … I’ll stop there …
Bent stick, herring red.
Numbers “rise”, everyone “fries”:
Fish for their wallets!
climate never was
the reason behind the chains
that tried to bind you
Johnson goes haiku
Global warming may wacku
But felt nothing…thacku