The latest IPCC synthesis report is out, and the demands made in it remind me and many other people of the very famous National Lampoon cover of the 1970’s, seen at left or above depending on how your browser views WUWT.
From Wikipedia: Cheeseface was the name of the dog who featured on the famous Death Issue of the National Lampoon magazine, released January 1973. The cover, photographed by Ronald G. Harris, showed a dog with a gun pointed to his head, and the caption “If You Don’t Buy This Magazine, We’ll Kill This Dog”. The cover was voted #7 in the Top 40 Magazine Covers of the Last 40 Years by the American Society of Magazine Editors.
Josh decided to have a go and sends this cartoon of the IPCC ransom note:
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Fantastic, Josh! Nice to see the advance SPM of ARs 6, 7, 8… 32, 33… 57, 58…
(Yes, I see there are no graphs in the SPM, but they were just a visual nuisance cluttering up the reports. Now they get right to the heart of the matter.)
We”l know the Great Delusion is close to its end when it becomes a common butt for television comedians.
Take heart, Martin! They already are…
Jay Leno (2013)
LOL, Global Warming is soooo over.
And “Climate Change,” which never really got off the ground, finally ran out of steam last summer.
After a big machine like that one has been turned off, it will still make noise for awhile…. pocketa….pocketa….. po…cke………..ta………. before it ……… stops….. (lots of little bicycle-pedaling stooges, recalled to active duty, are sweating away, madly pedaling to keep the thing powered up, but, the power-to-flywheel ratio is dwindling by the minute)
AN-TH-ONY! TRUTH HAS WON!!
Way — to– go!
tick-tick-tick-tick-tick…….
… just a matter of time ….
@ur momisugly Windmill and solar panel investors — Boo! It’s going to be Halloween all year for you, heh, heh.
Sell before it’s tooooooo late… .
You have about 24 hours until your “backers” (a.k.a. the U.S. taxpayers)
shut — you — down.
Bwah, ha, ha, ha, haaaaaaaaaaa!
(y)
Some media outlets are already suggesting the “higher intelligence” at the UN will soon call it a victory, give the IPCC et al. the obligatory coffee + donut and hardy handshake for a job well done and send everybody out the door.
I’ve got trillions for them – from an email pal who was a prince in Zimbabwe. JUst have them send me the IPCCs bank account number.
Here ya go, Tadchem:
8675309
They aren’t very careful with things… . 😉
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Thanks!
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R-E-M-I-N-D-S me of these cats.
Here’s my cartoon idea:
Left panel: Patchy in a red-and-black Satan suit (he’s got the beard and Mephistoclean (sp?) look already), pointing a pitchfork to the viewer with one arm, with a fiery pit in the background, and saying, “Things will get HOT for YOU . . . Unless . . . (pointing to the right panel)
Right panel: A box with a slot in the top marked “Pay your indulgences here.”
PS: Josh–or-someone–please do it! It’s free, and it’s really good.
Yes, dear Roger Knights, it is a good one. And be sure that “Mephistopheles” is fat and his stomach is bulging out between the top of his trousers and his too-small red crew-neck pullover polyester knit sweater and a Hi-t-1er moustache….. his face bearing a strange resemblance to the hockey stick boy, heh… and the tag showing on front of the neck of his sweater …. and …. aaaaaa, I’d better quit, lololol
“The Synthesis Report” Does anybody eles think this has to be one of the stupidest names ever for a report on climate. It sounds more like the title of a low-budget science-fiction movie, ot a psuedo report put out by hucksters selling vitamins and supplements. It’s just low-budget, cheesy marketing. Any printed synthesis reports should be immediately recycled into something useful due to the cheesy title alone.
Actually, it’s brilliant. If you rearrange the letters in “The Synthesis Report…”, they spell out “…Presents Shit Theory.”
Heh.
Nope. It is YOU who are brilliant. Nice brain work, Mr. Kafkazar. [It] WOULD be an engineer who did such a fine re-build. Engineers are SO cool (esp. my brothers).
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Woah! Amazing! Did you work on that for a while, or did it just jump out at you? Either way . . . AMAZING!
LOL +10
Sure wish I could edit my own post for just 30 seconds …. aaarggh … while I WOULD like to have an engineer’s thinking abilities…. the word is “It” {WOULD be an engineer}. grrr
THANK YOU, DEAR MODERATOR for the fix (you must be an engineer!)!
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Hi, “Mod” (smile)
I don’t believe I ever saw the “If You Don’t Buy This Magazine, We’ll Kill This Dog” cover, but it sure cuts to the chase 🙂
Josh,
Please tell us the ‘rest of the story’. Like, tell us what was the piece of paper that the IPCC ransom note was pasted on? Was it pasted on the back of the cover of Aesop’s Fables or on the back of the cover of Oreskes’ ‘Merchants of Doubt’?
John
Maybe it was on the fly leaf of Michael Crichton’s “State of Fear”?
Power Grab on November 3, 2014 at 5:57 pm
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Power Grab,
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. . . endless . . . possibilities . . .
John
I didn’t realise that the truth could be so funny: This is absolutely hilarious, and just so true.
John Whitman
November 3, 2014 at 1:54 pm
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earwig42,
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. . . there are limitless possibilities for suggestions about what piece of paper the IPCC ransom note was pasted on . . .
John
& this joke inspired by Josh’s cartoon . . .
A lady walks into a bar. She shows the bartender the ‘synthesis report’ ransom note and she says, “What can I get for that?”
The bartender strokes his chin then says, “Hmmm, probably 10-15 with time off for good behavior. Before you go, have a cocktail on the house, they don’t serve them in the joint.”
John
{was also posted at BH’s}
National Lampoon 1973, I bought that issue as soon as I saw it on the rack; well, after I stopped laughing I did.
Ah, back in the days of R. Crumb and a truly off the wall National Lampoon.
I wonder if I still have that issue…
I am waiting. If CO2 is so dangerous, why won’t the Warmists put of CO2 absorbers to remove all CO2 from there bodies. Along with a carbon free diet, it would eliminate a lot of global warming nonsense.
Anybody ever noticed that “mirthiness” is not a word? The noun is “mirth” 😉
Hmmm… I was unaware that English is a dead language. Thanks for increasing our mental bandwidth.
Josh’s ransom note should be on the cover of next years calendar
Or the front page of the NYTimes.
I am pleased to say that I actually (still) own a copy of that National Lampoon (along with a large pile of the rest). I subscribed for several years back in my teens. There were some classics in there back in the day that P. J. O’Rourke was a leading gonzo journalist on staff. Son’o’God comics (featuring Satan Himself), the Gentleman’s Bathroom Companion…
And yes, that cover is such a great metaphor. I still use it myself, threatening to shoot my dog if a student doesn’t get a problem right for example. Students look at me blankly, or shocked. We live in humorless times.
Two other cartoons that Josh could use for inspiration involving dogs (and cats):
http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/236x/22/22/79/222279ceaa98f293e76e1565459f800a.jpg
I could see this either way, with the IPCC being the man telling the rest of us that we’re not saving the planet or the GCM modellers being Ginger — “You call that modelling the planet? Bad dog!”
or
http://s823.photobucket.com/user/fwoppy/media/gary-larson-what-we-say-to-dogs-what-dogs-hear.jpg.html
What we say to the IPCC: “OK, there is no risk of a catastrophe, you are not getting our MONEY. We need our MONEY ourselves, because we work hard for our MONEY and need it to feed and clothe ourselves and give MONEY to the truly destitute so they can buy energy and clean water and food”. What they hear: “Blah blah blah MONEY. Blah blah MONEY blah MONEY blah blah blah MONEY blah blah blah.”
Only the IPCC-cat is worse…
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John Kerry as the parrot (forget the canary) in the government grant-seekers brothel might be food for thought.
Depending on the weather, it will prove that the ransom worked and more is needed or did not work and more is needed. Not. Playing. That. Game.
Josh’s ransom note cartoon brings to mind the really wonderful short story ‘Ransom of Red Chief’ by O. Henry. In the story a rich family’s son is kidnapped for ransom, but the kid is so much trouble to the kidnappers that they finally agree to pay the family to take the kid back.
An idea from that short story; maybe skeptical citizenry can make so much trouble for the IPCC by showing they are totally fabricating alarm. We make the IPCC, out of despair, volunteer to pay the skeptical citizenry trillions back and take all the fossil fuel restrictions back and use fossil fuel in a pure free market setting. Hey, dreams have uses . . . . right?
Personal Note – National Lampoon Magazine wasn’t in my comedy/satire diet In the ’70s, I was still picking up Mad Magazines in bookstores, a habit of mine from the ’60’s. My remembrances of National Lampoon only stated with the 1978 movie ‘Animal House’. I still watch it once in a while when it comes across on cable.
John