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
Source:
Revisions (and additions)
There once was a compound in flight
that was semitransparent to light
it got all the blame
(though the proof was quite lame)
“why should I give a damn ’bout their plight”
At one time I was using my Stihl
in an effort to stave off the chill
the tree looked at me,
whilst it said, eerily,
“I can widen my grain width at will”
OK. New.
There once was a man named Al Gore
who had to settle a score
has was made quite mad
by a hanging chad
And decided to make up a lore.
The internet that he created
was from the beginning, fated
to spread the warning
of global warming
thus he snared the masses he baited.
Maybe another noble poetry form could be posted on markers in the Arctic and Antarctic
for “vacationing” scientists (or was that scientific vacationers?) to help them on their way:
Missing heat
Models fail
No poles are bare
Warmists wail
Burma shave
Watts crew: Nice haiku
and great limericks that rhyme.
A very happy time.
C O 2 goes up
but temperatures are flat.
Climate models fail.
Climate will change
in a reasonable range.
Humans will adapt.
We once had a VP named Gore,
Who thought carbon was evil for sure,
– He hopped on a stage,
– And in a great rage,
A curse against C O 2 swore.
We now have a Skeptic named Watts,
Who counters Alarmist robots,
– He has a website,
– That’s viewed day and night,
And helps us connect all the dots.
Tightly handcuffed to C O 2,
Climate Models don’t have a clue,
– Set them free,
– Let them be,
Truthful and useful to me and you.
Ira
RoHa says:
January 20, 2014 at 5:19 pm
Agreed. Haiku don’t work very well in English.
Curiously, save for a very few exceptions that end in ‘n’, all Japanese words end with a vowel sound: ah ee oo eh oh
Obviously, it would be very easy for the Japanese to compose rhymes if they so desired, and apparently there are rhyming forms in Japanese, and then there is Japanese Pop.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_poetry
I would recommend study or enjoyment of haiku in their native Japanese;
this is one of the most famous, by Basho
古池や
蛙飛び込む
水の音
Furu ike ya
Kawazu tobikomu
Mizu no oto
Oh, the ancient pond
The frog takes a flying leap
The sound of water
Finally, this little ditty that I intended to post on the ‘econo flush’ threat, but I read, instead:
There’s more than just
Numbers 1 and 2
What gets flushed
Down the loo too
thread, not threat, but then again….
There once was a man named Turney
Who planned an antarctic journey
He thought it was warm
Yet ice is the norm
He now needs a good attorney
Eugene WR Gallun
I prefer pentameter, well I prefer the heroic couplet but that’s hard. Haiku is really easy if you have nothing useful to say.
Oh Mann et al. release your data now.
You say the change is real, so show us how.
Science depends on verifications,
so release it now and show the nations
you are not a fraud but a scientist,
and found a trend that reality missed.
I can claim I can turn lead into gold;
without proof I would never be so bold.
Well, you tell us we should accept your truth:
when questioned you call names and act uncouth.
But..
You’re just a fraud and not a scientist;
the record shows you throw out smoke and mist.
Your theory denies observable fact
so you and your buddies have made a pact;
to tell the lefties what they want to hear
and sell us all on a climate of fear
fear untruth fear fear
polar bears drown fictitious
liar liar pants on fire
Impressive Resumé.
With all that you’ll know the value of feed forward & feedbacks.
DaveE.