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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Come on
No Nantucket?
Peterson, line 2 of proof ” pony is dead if neverborn” / refuted vs buffy the vampire slayer et al.
There once was a ship from Nantucket
Which got stuck in the ice like a bucket.
When they called in distress
And the copters were blessed
And the science that they gathered did suck it
Rev 1:
There once was a ship from Nantucket
Which got stuck in the ice like a bucket.
When they called in distress
And the copter was blessed
But the science they gathered did suck it
There was a Mann from Penn State
Whose hockey stick did not hesitate
To misrepresent the past
Through an incompetent cast
The temperature record they did inflate
Late to the party
But that doesn’t matter much
Flat Seventeen Years
There once was a clan from Nantucket
for whom noone was worth carrying their bucket
as they pushed their decree
to perhaps fight one degree
they thought, now those damn injuns can suck it.
Won’t you excuse me?
I took your grants and then lied
But for a good cause.
sorry same words, gimme 5
Warming and funding
A quantum entanglement
Up as one — and down!
There was a sad clan from Nantucket
for whom skiing and flying had no luck it
was said in the air
also said on the chair
if you can’t see where you’re going don’t tuck it.
(ohh, I am sooo sorry)
A guy named Keith got a call
“We need hockey sticks quite tall!”
Keith then replied
“I will give it a try
using a magic tree from Yamal”
Consider Al Gore
Bloviating CO2
Watt is up with that.
[GREAT, I like all the haiku (and limericks) but this one especially nails it for me. Thanks. Ira]
Hi, clueless.
People with guilty conscience
embrace all kinds of atonement,
including green religion.
CO2 goes up,
Warmists intone haikus; yet
Temperatures are flat.
Row, pole, pull your boat
Carefully up the stream.
Warily, charily, quite contrarily:
Life is not a dream.
Just a parody that came to me a few days ago. I know–send it back. It was fun, though. I’m not a poet, professional or otherwise, but I did teach English for the last four years of my career, including English haiku, limericks, quatrains, sonnets, and other poetic forms. I appreciate the efforts of contributors here to catch the spirit of poetry while exposing or explaining something about the current situation–something most poetry was never meant to do. At least haiku in Japan were meant to comment on nature, which the ones in this thread do also, at least tangentially.
Waiting for the storm,
We hear the weathermen say,
“This one’s a doozy.”
Can we explain it
As just more global warming?
Sure; but we’ll be wrong.
We can only hope
Electric power stays on.
If not, ’twill be cold.
KIM, KIM, KIM where are you. Help !!!
The truly sad thing is not the haikus but the comments after the article on the original website – amongst other comments are teachers frothing at the mouth to use it in their classes…smh…
Scientists don’t know
where all the heat has gone to.
No one hears their scream….
It’s not CO2
It isn’t galactic rays
But money warms all
Charlie Johnson (@ur momisuglySemperBanU) says: @ur momisugly January 20, 2014 at 9:53 pm
I really like that limerick, but the haiku leave me cold
Data does not fit
So we leave out the bad points.
Now all is perfect.
From Hubby.
The Tempest heat
To Mann sells her belief
Nemesis just smiles
As she holds a hockey stick
RoHa says:
January 20, 2014 at 5:19 pm
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While I tend to agree that most attempts at haiku in English are lame, I have seen some wonderful ones. A month or so ago, one was posted as a comment here at WUWT. It even had a season word and a proper haiku last line. I should have bookmarked it.