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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J. Herbst says:@ur momisugly 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?
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Rob aka Flatlander says: @ur momisugly January 20, 2014 at 3:46 pm
There once was a lady from Regina … I’ll stop there …
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The limerick packs versus anatomical
In a form that is most economical
But the good ones I’ve seen so seldom are clean
But the clean ones so seldom are comical ~ Dr. Asimov
There once was a fellow named Mann
Who came up with a clever plan
Mikes Nature trick
was to invent the Hockey Stick
Then sue whoever he can
Roses are red
Violets are blue
With one extra line
This ain’t haiku
I just don’t understand how the land can warm more than the sea. To be sure the land is more violent in its temperature changes, but as someone who lives under the influence of a sea breeze, if it gets too hot the sea will regulate the land. Too clever for me!
The climate scientists need to take a class on information entrophy.
They are clueless when it comes to things like degrees of freedom.
Sir step away from your coefficients.
Predictions fail. Must
add more auxiliary
hypotheses.
Model twisting in
Wind. Not that that matters much.
It’s still well funded.
See Jack
See Jack run
Run Jack, run.
See Spot.
See Spot run.
Run Spot, run.
Why does Jack run?
Why does Spot run?
See Gregory Johnson.
See Gregory Johnson paint.
Paint Gregory Johnson, paint.
See our money.
See our money burn.
Burn money, burn.
See Gregory Johnson describe the mechanism behind gravity.
See Gregory Johnson paint.
See Gregory Johnson reconcile Quantum physics with Relativity theory.
See Gregory Johnson paint.
See Gregory Johnson explain consciousness, sentience, the smile response, separation anxiety, stranger anxiety, aggressor identification, cultural identification, political and social structures, history and his knowledge of such to leave our children a better world.
See Gregory Johnson blather.
Blather Gregory Johnson, blather.
See Gregory Johnson paint and blather.
See Gregory Johnson bloviate.
See Gregory Johnson paint, blather, and bloviate.
See our lifestyles.
See Gregory Johnson paint over our lifestyles.
See people swoon over Gregory Johnson’s talent.
Gregory Johnson has no talent.
See Jack run.
Run Jack, run.
There was a poor doctor called Mann
whose hockey stick graph had some fans
Until M and M saw
that the graph had a flaw
Mann should put the graph in the can.
I’m not a fan of attempted haiku in English.
First, in English syllables are less well defined than Japanese on. (Com – for – tab – le = four syllables, maybe? But when pronounced “comf-tble”, is it two or three?)
Second, English does not have a standard stock of season words.
(For more on the structure of haiku:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku )
In English it seem to me that haiku are produced by those who wish to seem fashionable and those who are too lazy to master metre, rhyme, etc.
Puke. I just looked at them all. Sad, depressing nonsense. Mostly lies. I feel sad for Gregory Johnson because his view of the world is so depressing (and not tied to reality).
At the ocean’s depths
the missing heat rests
mocking my models
Noble cause pursued
Only to find one’s life spent
Chasing a phantom
There once was CRU named Hadley,
whose scientists behaved quite badly.
They meddled and meddled
until their science was settled.
And we’ve all had to pay for it, sadly.
The 16 year pause is alarming
The Antarctic ice must be harming
…All weather’s the same
…Climate change is to blame
‘Cause everything proves global warming.
Stand on the shore
Eyes on the horizon
Wait for sloshing
If these pathetic examples are haiku, then I’m William Shakespeare and I watch porcine aerobatics out my library window every morning after breakfast. RoHa, you’re being far too polite. These amateurish attempts have nothing to do with haiku. [I reject the absurd notion that the ability to count to seventeen is any sign of haiku artistry.]
No warming sixteen.
The public is bamboozled.
Skeptics shall save us.
jorgekafkazar says: @ur momisugly January 20, 2014 at 5:51 pm
If these pathetic examples are haiku, then I’m William Shakespeare ..
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Your the 17th Earl of Oxford?
Actually most are satire.
There once was a wish on a planet
that life would stay simple like granite
so plan it they did
and the coldness they hid
til their toes did fall off, godamnit
There once was a fellow named Mike
who invented a termperature spike.
The greenies all swooned
now the earth won’t be ruined,
just the people from whom we’ll all taik.
(OK, OK, it’s a stretch….but the poetic models say….)
Goodness, even had an unintended typo there….sorry…
There once was a fellow named Mike
who invented a temperature spike.
The greenies all swooned
now the earth won’t be ruined,
just the people from whom we’ll all taik.
(OK, OK, it’s a stretch….but the poetic models say….)
Perhaps more Lowku than Haiku?
(Might be appropriate considering what solar and wind are doing to the environment…and our wallets…)
There once was a molecule in flight
that was semitransparent to light
It got all the blame
though the proof was quite lame
“why should I give a darn ’bout their plight”
At one time I was using my Stihl
in an effort to combat the chill
the tree looked at me
whilst it said, earily
“I can widen my grain pattern at will”
Something I wrote in 1965 at the Aspen School of Contemporary Art:
world tomato
red and ripe
soon will rot
bacteria
Still don’t know what the hell I meant…
Here’s another from that summer:
The Dead Pony
my pony is dead and it’s funny
a pony is dead if never born
my pony was never born
I never had a pony
I never wanted one