By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley
Commenters on my recent posting about using graphics as effectively as the Forces of Darkness do, but to use them to tell the truth, said they would like a smarter version of the 99.5% no-consensus pie-chart in that posting.
My large and able staff have burned the midnight o. The hi-res image below is the result. Attach it to every email. Send it to every news medium. Mail it to the White House. Make buttons out of it and wear them. Time to send the F. of D. sniveling into their noisome lairs.
Ø Legates, D.R., Soon, W. W-H., Briggs, W.M., and Monckton of Brenchley, C.W., (2013), Climate Consensus and ‘Misinformation’: A Rejoinder to Agnotology, Scientific Consensus, and the Teaching and Learning of Climate Change, Sci. & Educ., DOI:10.1007/s11191-013-9647-9.
Love it!
It needs to go to the talking heads who sit there with a blank look when they hear the 97% bit.
Hi. The “9”s in 99 aren’t very clearly 9s, at least with my eyes…
(Better, more articulated font needed)
I predict a catastrophic rise in double-takes. Fun! A button would be nice, for those with the wherewithal.
Agreed that the 9’s need to be reformatted, it takes a second or third glance to realize what the numbers are.
Nice idea and effort but TMI. Better…
Less is significantly more.
No problem. Nothing other than “9”.
Ditto on the Love it and 9’s comments!
First thing that came to my mind is a word search of the phrase “Most global warming since 1950 was man made” Sure what are the odds of that exact phrase coming up. Just a critique.
So validity in science IS determined by a vote.
Just as democracy is determined by salary.
He who controls the vocabulary controls the argument.
Anything you have to read over again to figure out what it’s saying is pointless as a notice or advertisement. So is using a negative. What did those papers say? That some ‘global warming’ was ‘manmade’? Did they even mention ‘global warming’?
/Mr Lynn
May I suggest, Your Lordship, that you send a copy of this to all the members of the APS panel now deciding whether to change that learned society’s statement on CAGW. They, art least, are in a position to move the debate in the right direction.
Low information readers are not going to “get” it. Consult a professional ad writer. Great premise, poor precis.
Seems a little bit weak, using a negative statement to make a point. I’d rather see a more positive statement to the effect that x% of papers demonstrate that natural cycles are the dominant forces for climate change.
Even if x is <50 it doesn't matter – it destroys the "consensus" lie.
Change the 9’s
Lord Monckton is a brilliant geezer but not gifted in industrial communication.
It is extremely unclear what the message of this graphic is – and I’m not just talking about to the hoi polloi.
The message is:
A) 0.5% is a mighty small piece of pie
B) That’s the proportion of ‘scientists’ who think that man did it all.
I think it’s a pretty good idea for the skeptics to have a logo though – we need an anti-panda.
The 9’s look like 8’s and the sentence makes no sense at all until one realizes that it is a pie graph with the segments being referenced, and this is not easily apparent.
Good idea, poor design. Start over!
Nope! not gona work.
9’s is 8t’s.
Till I was told it was a pie chart I didna know.
Please plainer for prats like me.
Like 0.5% cost 3trillion.
I read it 3 times and it wasn’t grammatical. I didn’t see it as a pie chart until davidmhoffer explained it. Clever chap David. I think it needs to be clearer if you want to engage simple people like me.
Perhaps something along this line (with apologies in advance to anyone who really knows what they’re doing graphic wise)…
http://imageshack.com/a/img541/9083/ojm7.jpg
Can’t figure out the meme being refuted?
Try: https://www.google.com/search?q=global+warming+since+1950+was+man+made
Lots of hits.
Reverse and spoof the message
97% of Climate Scientists believe the moon is made of green cheese
[img=http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/originals/a5/52/e2/a552e21791c65d9dc28a09ed63972c2f.jpg]http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/originals/a5/52/e2/a552e21791c65d9dc28a09ed63972c2f.jpg[/img]
I hope this image works!
Mann’s hockey stick was the biggest reason pols
believed agw. A picture tells a 1,000 words and our politicians can’t read.