People send me stuff. The name “Grauniad” as defined by Urban Dictionary says:
The Grauniad is a nickname for the UK national newspaper, the Guardian, because of a now ill-founded reputation for typos. The name was given to it by the satirical magazine Private Eye. The Guardian newspaper earned its reputation for lots of misprints in the days of hot-metal printing when it was published in Manchester (it was originally called the Manchester Guardian), and the editions that appeared in London were very early editions brought down by train, before all the errors had been spotted.
And so it goes today. Lost in Lima, will they ever find it?
Yes, if you find it somewhere in the midst of “the pause”, please point it out.
h/t to Howard Goodall and also the scientist-as-troll known as “and then there’s physics”, writing:
Hey, is that a simple Gruniad typo I see, or one of the most revealing Freudian slip of all time 😉
@theresphysics
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“…to find climate change by the end of next year.”
OMG!
Climate change is lost!
Wherever can it be?
Al Gore – “I put it somewhere, but can’t remember where.”
Pachauri – “We must act now anyway, because it will be really bad when we find it.”
Pelosi – “We need to vote to prevent it, then we can look for it.”
We have less than a year to find Climate change. If we fail to do so, our children will never have the opportunity to see climate change.
So this is how Karma works, eh?
Al Gore – Perhaps you should check the lock box.
Maybe Tipper got it in the big breakup.
First one must invent, then prevent. But what kind of typo is this, what would have been the correct text? “Fund” climate change perhaps, not find? Though it seems a bit blasphemeous.
But then you are suggesting the absurd, namely that climate change needs funding or it will not happen. Hmmm… but cutting the funding would be a good place to start.
Schnozzle – “Let’s celebrate I’m feeling great I’m the guy who found the lost change.
Oceans ate it.
I think some wag in editorial did this.
What makes people think it’s a typo? 😉
I agree. It isn’t a typo. Climate change isn’t a collective noun phrase indicating a series of variations in planetary climate, rather it is an anthropomorphism, a God to be worshiped. It has a name, a birth date, a personality, a body and spirit. So the attribution that it can be lost is extant from the mindset of the writer.
So weird…
Here is a sports headline from the Guardian in January of this year. You Americans will have to look for yourselves what the word ‘wanking’ means.
http://www.thescore.ie/guardian-typo-ranking-commentators-1252337-Jan2014/
http://c2.thejournal.ie/media/2014/01/wanking.png
What makes people think it’s a typo? 😉
Obviously supposed to be Fund but so far there has been no FUN and since they are getting close to FIN
Freudian slip or honest moment? You could be correct. I mean even the type setters and proof readers must know by now that global warming stopped 13-18 years ago (depending on which data set you look at).
I would be just such a person were I stuck putting this drivel out day after freaking day. I’d lose it or get mischievous.
C’mon guys & gals – that’s no typo, that’s reality.
It’s more lost than we thought.
The most surprising thing about this rag is that they actually use words, and presumably, people who follow it can actually read..The world is indeed amazing
No it is not a typo, it is necessity, something has to be done before the Arctic ice vanishes.
the Guardian, Monday 17 September 2012
Arctic expert predicts final collapse of sea ice within four years
“This collapse, I predicted would occur in 2015-16 at which time the summer Arctic (August to September) would become ice-free. The final collapse towards that state is now happening and will probably be complete by those dates”.
link: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/sep/17/arctic-collapse-sea-ice
I wonder how many academics have been so wrong in their prognostications on the future effects of so-called Global Warming and the catastrophe that is going to have on this wonderful world of ours. Just because they have a title they always seem to be listened to by such shallow thinking of rags like The Guardian. You would have thought that the editorial staff at these papers would have learned their lesson by now.
Remember that countdown on this page? I can’t remember what it was about but the time obviously expired without the event happening. How about a new countdown for this eccentric prediction?
It was Peter Wadhams. He has now changed his prediction to 2020, and thought no one would notice. A devious character indeed.
Damn, I was so looking forward to kayaking to the North Pole next summer.
“[Q] WORONCZUK: And, Peter, what’s your take? Do you think that we’ve already passed the point of no return in terms of controlling polar ice cap melting?”
Whereas before, we were fully in control of those pesky ice caps. Oh, things were so much better run back in the days of my youth. The government controlled everything. People forget how good we had it.
Gone are the days when the climate was at our mercy. Now we are at the mercy of the climate! The next thing you know they will be putting high fructose corn syrup and MSG into the food supply.
I wish we hadn’t passed that point of no return.
/sarc
William Connolley – “It is not lost, it is right here on this Wikipedia page I just edited.”
Dr. Mann – “If you take a hockey stick thusly and hit it against a tree like this, you’ll find the resultant tree rings show that climate change is, uh, wait, disregard that last 50 plus years, the climate doesn’t change that way. Now, look right here where the plotted data takes a sharp turn, uh, where was I? Now I’m lost.”
SkS website – “We have it right here. We always do. Why, we change what people say about climate all the time. Oh, wait, you said “climate change”. Never mind.”
Nancy Pelosi — “We’ll have to find it to know what it is.”
And it’s a travesty that we can’t find it!
I think they meant to say “fund”. Climate Change is broke, and needs some new sharpies to make a new sign.
Personally, I always thought “andthentheresphysics” was a tyro.
“Damn. I’m stuffed without it. I left it next to the car keys. It was there this morning. . . . . Honey, have you seen the climate change anywhere?”
Cue: Josh
“Honey, have you seen the climate change anywhere?””
Honey.. I shrunk the climate change. !
😉
“Yes, if you find it somewhere in the midst of “the pause”, please point it out.”
epa is in the middle of “thE PAuse”
Do they have a typo every few days ?
Here is one more from the article published on 10th December 2014:
“An El Niño is officially declared if the temperature of the western tropical Pacific rises 0.5C above the long-term average.”
link:
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/dec/10/first-el-nino-in-five-years-declared-by-japans-weather-bureau
They haven’t looked very far, it is all in the (adjusted) data.
I’ve spotted another typo.
As crucial UN climate summit in Peru enters final hours, negotiators have made little progress on d
raft text.There, sorted.
+
A quote from the late great Kenneth Wolstenholme in July 1966 on soccer but relevant to this
“Some people are on the pitch….they think it’s all over……. It is now !”
Apologies to our German friends but you had the reverse happen in South Africa in 2010.
They seek it here, they seek it there
Those warmists seek it everywhere
Is it in heaven or is it in hell?
That dammed elusive warming.
Now it rhymes.
Little progress is code for “We’ll Gruber it in the late night hours and pronounce it good, no matter how out of touch it may be.”
With apologies to xkcd.com Higgs-boson. We thought you had already found climate change. Yeah, but we lost it. It was very small
‘Seek, and…’
…ye shall find.’ I have found ‘Climate Change!’
Jimbo, this list is completely brilliant and should be slipped into every copy of the latest IPCC edition under “plus ca change….”). On a related topic (“Model it and it will come” fails), did you know that deaths from malaria are declining? Remember how we were supposed to be swamped with a tidal wave of Anopheles epidemics due to soaring temperatures? Well, malaria globally has decreased over the last decade, NOT increased (World Malaria Report 2014). However, the beautiful irony doesn’t stop there. Africans have ignored the murderous Green edicts and implemented the widespread use of insecticide-soaked netting for sleeping, which is credited with a large part of the gains in survival.
http://lifescientist.com.au/content/health-medical/news/malaria-on-the-decline-968143162?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=als_1412_2&utm_content=als_1412_2+CID_9bd06581d4c9d8e8add6012dda857616&utm_source=Campaign%20Monitor&utm_term=more
Interesting that there were a great many American climate refugees in the dust bowl days. I wonder why they are not called that now.
The more things change the more they stay the same. 😎
Jimbo, may I please act like a real Climate Scientist and use YOUR efforts to find these Southern Hemisphere news blurbs to compose a Letter to the Editor? We don’t get Australian news in Rockford, Illinois.
Freak and ye shall fund.
It’s hiding in the deep Oceans..
That just made my day.
As good a laugh about the two Irish nuns at the traffic light.
Kurt in Switzerland
That paragraph is inane even with the typo corrected.
To FUND climate change?
Maybe, to FEND climate change.
But they are probably talking about their own pay checks, yes.
To FEND OFF climate change might have made sense…
To FANNED climate change?
I believe if they input the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42 they may find it again.
Shucks, they corrected the error.
Now reading “fight” instead of “find” — either the editors of the Gnauriad have no sense of humor or they read WUWT.
Meanwhile, the whole Lima thing is turning into a pledge-a-thon gone awry.
The U.S. Congress just decided not to support Barack’s $3B pledge.
The Greenpeace photo op in Nazca was definitely an omen.
Kurt in Switzerland