This picture looks a lot like some murals we’ve seen in the past to deify “heros of some revolution”. Compare the photos below.
Jo Nova writes:
A friend at Curtin University, Western Australia reports that a new mysterious and imposing mural appeared on the facade. It is as if passers-by can look through the bricks and see a Saint-of-Science himself working.
The words on the plaque (which must be something like 5m wide) read “Inside our walls Professor Richard Warrick is continuing the climate change research that led to a Nobel Peace Prize. “
Now compare that mural to some others seen through history:
Makes you wonder “what were they thinking?” at Curtin University?
Jo Nova has the story here.
Socialist Realism municipal art from behind the Iron Curtin.
Looks like he’s a few bricks short of a full load….
Groucho Marxism, obviously.
Not quite the same, as this mural is on the building where he works and not plastered all over the town. Still I take your point, it does have an eerie semblance to totalitarianism.
That’s one sick puppy, From the Uni that gave us the student ‘get a pass for cash’ scam.
Actually this made me think of the California Railway Museum in Sacramento, which (if I remember correctly) appears to have a steam locomotive crashing through the brickwork…well worth a visit if you’re in town (plus you can see that coal helped to make America great….).
Just think how much fun one could have with a paintball gun!!!!
(oil based paint, natch)
There’s also the Jim Hansen, divine light photo.
“wws says:
February 20, 2014 at 9:15 am
Just think how much fun one could have with a paintball gun!!!!
(oil based paint, natch)”
Great idea…maybe green paint, in memory of all the money dumped for models, computing power, data twisting, grid-filling, etc.
Maybe the missing bricks represent missing data? (Or shows how “stable” the models are?)
Inside our walls Professor Richard Warrick, depending upon what he’s had for lunch, will release, hopefully discreetly, puffs of methane gas from time to time (just like every other Nobel Prize winner).
Inside our walls Professor Richard Warrick will occasionally (just like every other Nobel Prize winner), in the form of a belch, release excess gas from the upper GI tract.
Inside our walls Professor Richard Warrick will sit upon a porcelain throne, pants pulled down, and engage in a [] movement (just like every other Nobel Prize winner).
Inside our walls Professor Richard Warrick, unless he’s a complete psychopath, will have occasional moments of doubt about what he’s doing or about to do (just like every other Nobel Prize winner).
Inside our walls Professor Richard Warrick (just like every other Nobel Prize winner) will consider that maybe his tax rates are too high and seek a way to reduce them.
Inside our walls Professor Richard Warrick (just like many other Nobel Prize winners) will experience a clogged nose and may, if no one’s looking, deftly insert an index finger into a nostril in a procedure in which to clean it out.
I think the foregoing descriptions are irrefutable and therefore should illustrate that Professor Richard Warrick (and other Nobel Prize winners) are, indeed, just like the rest of us and thus, in no way resemble a god. So, please let us all grow up and recognize that fact.
Aren’t they ashamed the scientific work has brought so far exactly zero scientific nobel prizes?
Maybe Curtin needs a curtain.
(Sorry.)
Were I close enough, I’d join Tom J in flicking a booger at it.
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I suppose that saying “Inside our walls Professor Richard Warrick is continuing the climate change research that led to climategate, increased energy costs, energy poverty and lowered living standards, as well as blights on landscapes and even increased pollution” doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.
His Holiness Cardinal Curtain of the Sacred Alarmist Climate Change Faith (Al Gore is the Pope). How soon will it be before he is sainted?
Looking at various websites regarding Professor Richard Warrick, it appears that he is afflicted with a mannian penchant for overstatement and exaggeration with regard to his association with the Nobel Peace prize.
e.g., http://ceebi.curtin.edu.au/research/research_staff_directory.cfm/Richard.Warrick
“Along with other long-standing major contributors, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)”
I BELIEVE OH GREAT ONE!
oh no what has happened to me ,
“I’ve always thought New Year’s Day was an especially American tradition, full of the optimism and hope we’re famous for in our daily lives – an energy and confidence we call the American spirit.”
– Ronald Reagan, Radio Address to the Nation on New Year’s Day January 1, 1983
People alive in 1983 KNOW how bad things really were:
– Unemployment at 10% (dropped to 5 by 87)
– Fed discount rate at 10% (dropped to 5 also)
– Inflation at 5% coming down from 10%. (to 2-3%)
– Relations with the Soviet Union poor after the “ash heap of history” speech (ash heap)
From a guy confident he was right, optimism everyone, optimism.
Yet another person claiming the Nobel Peace Prize, shared with Al Gore (he was awarded it) and thousands of others at the IPCC! With all due respect, he did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, nor any other Nobel Prize, AFAIK.
Trying to detour from the issue of the blog to the late RWR is a praticularly creative bit of trolling. GTH.
A minor earthquake was recorded today at the entrance of Bristol Channel. How long will it take for eco-fascists to blame drillers for shale gas?
Busybodies, in environmental guise or any other, are always on the prowl, scenting the chance for a power grab to line their pockets with extortion.
Casablanca is a movie with memorable dialogue that shows how arbitrary power is exerted. I saw it in 1943 and many times after.
Rick listens to the music, As time goes by, and tells the pianist: Play it again Sam; Play it again. It harks back to June 1940, in Paris, and the collapse of France into the Vichy regime.
Rick is a sleazy racketeer who runs a gambling den in the haven of Casablanca, under the Vichy regime. Captain Renault is the corrupt boss of Casablanca police. He raids Rick’s cafe.
Renault: You are under arrest.
Rick: For what reason, under what law?
Renault: I am shocked. Shocked at the gambling that is going on in this place.
A smart croupier grabs a wad of banknotes from the till, and places it in Renault’s palm.
Croupier: Captain, your winnings.
Renault: Er… Thank you.
Case closed.
In the final scene Rick shoots the Nazi agent and Renault witnesses it. Renault looks the other way, calls policemen and orders: A murder has occurred. Arrest the usual suspects.
I can just see the Moustache Pen, nutsy arm band, and white pointed hood drooping from the back pocket.
“Makes you wonder “what were they thinking?” at Curtin University?”
No, I see it just fine. They are offering up political adulation to a modern political “saint” just as the socialists/totalitarian “saints” that you posted below. I find this university’s action to an honest “in your face” admission of just what “climate science” is at the present time.
The artwork could be enhanced greatly using an evil CO₂ propelled paintball gun.
As for winning the the Nobel Prize, well, no one could put it better than P. Howard in the The 14-Carat Roadster.
Repeat: “those who are always finding fault don’t like to face facts“
Is that Nobel, anything like Dr. Mann’s Nobel?