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
“…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.
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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
Actually, I’m quite heartened by the paragraph BEFORE the ‘boxed’ one with the typo…
‘Negotiators working on a deal to fight climate change have agreed on just a single paragraph of text,casting a shadow over the prospects for a strong outcome from Lima…’
Seems the Lima talks are heading the same way as Copenhagen, etc…
They’ll have to do something drastic.
Lima was to set the stage for Paris, wasn’t it this spring, wasn’t it?
COP 21 : The international climate conference will be held at the Le Bourget site from 30 November to 11 December 2015.
Do you think it possible entire articles are typos?
Typo aside, the entire paragraph is horribly written. Grade 8 level writing. Says something.
‘Tis the season… ‘It’s beeeehind yooooou!’
Hmmm…How on earth did “fight climate change” become “find climate change”? I believe the word was originally meant to be “fund”, since funding is what the fighting in Peru is all about. But when their typo was pointed out to them by WUWT, they decided to change it to “fight” instead of fund, to hide the money-grubbing aspect.
I is adjacent to U on the keyboard. That would be a typo with a logical explanation.
Maybe they should adopt the policy of passing the bill before reading it. Works for US Congress, unfortunately.
They should check EBAY. There are probably several for sale there.
“God reads the Guardian, but the proof readers don’t.”
It’s just like a surgeon says; “It’s gotta come out sooner or later.”
It doesn’t matter if they do find it – the BBC have the answer:
http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2014/12/12/if-yogas-the-answer-what-was-the-question/#comments
lol. brilliant.
You do realise that if that is meant to be “fund”, it reads just as badly!
“Honey, I shrunk the climate change.”
“Climate change”
What in the holy tuba is that supposed to mean.
It is a complete misnomer. Is the idea that since even complete imbeciles know that the climate as well as weather changes that everyone will jump on the climate change bandwagon? Is that the idea? This is Orwellian.
Instead of “Climate Change”, it should be called, as chicken little put it, “The sky is falling”.
…The name was given to it by the satirical magazine Private Eye…
There is a little more to this story. “Grauniad” was actually how the paper once misspelt it’s own name on the page heading in an issue. Alas, it was not the front page – that would, I think, have been noticed pretty early, but it WAS a page heading…
We did not find it from our boat.
We could not prove a smaller goat.
Nor melting glaciers, Himalayan,
Even if we all go vegan.
Our warnings now seem like a scam.
We can not find it, Mann-I-Am!
Apologies to Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel), who would probably not agree.
Well, Alan Watt A-Man!
Well done!
Alan Watt, Climate Denialist Level 7,
Excellent! Perfect for a cartoon.
John
You, sir, are hereby and forthwith promoted to Climate Denialist Level 6, with Oak Leaf Clusters.
You have the Climate Denialist rankings inverted. After level 7 comes level 8. See here for the inspiration.
To boiledly go where no English language has gone before.
Poor mites.
And currently only 7 hours until the Limatics officially conclude their orgy of failure. The stupid in pursuit of the unthinkable.
Jesus. The anthropogenic climate change wasn’t strong enough a foe, according to Grauniad we now ought to fight any climate change, whether anthpopogenic or not.
In fact this means that Man is supposed to take control of the climate, so that it never change, never, nowhere on Earth…
Actually not illogical, since there’s no way to distinguish anthropogenic climate change from any other climate change, but, still, Methink they had better not correct the typo.
That’s got to be a plot from a James Bond movie, right?
“Live and let die” Yes, sounds like a good COP.
The real significance is that these talks are a collosal flop, as given in the report that only one paragraph of text has so far been agreed on.The talks end at noon today. There will be a last minute scramble for some meaningless, face-saving text to be agreed on and presented to the world. Global warmers have nothing left but puddles of stale urine.
AGW is a twitching corpse.
As I understand it, that one para revolves around the location, menu choices, etc of the next jolly. And so it goes. At least perpetual motion has been invented, though the GHG generation appears to be soaring. Leave only massive carbon footprints, delegates!
No typo, just the Grauniad’s most accurate article EVER on Climate Change.
Marshall Islands president Christopher Loeak:
“Paris won’t be another Copenhagen [the 2009 climate summit that floppped] – the world has changed too much. The world’s two biggest emitters – China and the US – are now on the same page and understand the need to act. There is a deal to be done and everyone is getting on board.”
Yes, the gravy train heading to Paris is boarding now, so All Aboard! The only stragglers appear to be those who are supposed to be paying for it, and haggling over who will pay and how much.
I spend too much time reading the snarky comments like those above. Enjoyed them all. 🙂
Why is it that only skeptics seem to have a sense of humor?
“The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.”
Mark Twain
Actually, the gullibles do have a sense of humor. It lies deep within their lizard brain where it becomes perceptible only on rare occasions when it sees the opportunity for a wonderfully true typo and creates it so quickly the conscious mind is unaware of it. Slip happens.
It also manifests when Photoshop and old NAZI photos converge…
As if the Lima photo caption above wasn’t funny enough, “we have seen the laggards throwing in language of all kinds into the negotiating document” – I actually read it first time as “…seen the ‘BLAGGARDS’ throwing in..”
Obviously, we can create our own internal Freudian slips. Pretty accurate, too.
Finding climate change should be easy. Examine one of the many climate history projects, GISP2 for example.
“We do not consider this a failure at all. Instead, it is a mark of progress, especially progress in the process,”
Another way of saying, “Our lack of progress has been a great success.” Which, in a way, is perfectly true.
MISSING (since 1996):
Global Warming aka Climate Change (may have other aliases as well).
Known to take on various appearances.
Fond of hockey.
May be found at the bottom of the ocean, but could be anywhere.
Reward for finding: saving the planet plus free trip to Al Gore’s mansion.
Please help. Warmists, those in the Climate Industry, and those depending on the money from it are counting on you.
Bruce Cobb,
That ‘Missing Science’ report on missing Global Warming Theory is priceless.
Thanks. It made my Friday happier.
John
The Gruniad is not really a serious paper and “Private eye” magazine found this out decades ago (before the pause incidentally, but in the midst of the Ice Age scare, remember that).
It is a comfort blanket for the feeble minded watermelons and self hating middle class types.
When they find “Climate Change” they will adjust it, magnify it and say their is no denying it.
The Guardian Friday 12 December 2014:
“….. whale poo helps reverse the effects of climate change.”
No…kidding?
FUNDING of their Global Climate Change Business is their most important product. pg
Global warning use to be lots. Hope they can fun it again.
It is not just in the urban dictionary. Type in the following url, and see what you get.
http://www.grauniad.co.uk
Ralph
Suzanne Goldenberg,
Your use of the word ‘find’ was accurate and honestly reported. Thank you in that regard.
But it does not appear to me that you were even close to being accurate and honest in reporting the Lima conference’s intention is to provide a global agreement that is a ‘clear blueprint’. Obscure bureaucratic fuzzy speak is more likely the Lima conference’s intention instead; fuzzy speak which reasonable people cannot understand enough to clearly oppose thus suits the purpose of creeping increases in controls on fossil fuels by obscure political processes. Clear blueprints are unlikely to have been the intention of the Lima conference because clear blueprints that can be understood by reasonable independently critical people will be easily stopped by such reasonable people.
John
Hey, they created it the first time…
…have they lost the recipe or something ?
The caption from the Grauniad picture above quotes that heavy-weight of international diplomacy, the Foreign Minister of the Marshall Islands. Tony de Brum’s other famous line is “De plane, de plane, izzz here!””
joelobryan,
Feynman (author of the well known Cargo Cult Science lecture) would be laughing is ass off at your comment if he were still alive. Well done.
Meanwhile you have delighted Cargo Cult worshippers with the false hope that there is an imminent arrival of their long awaited cargo on ‘de plane’.
John
editorial correction; “laughing
ishis ass off ”John
Warms the cockles of me heart, it does….
Re-assuring to know that some things never change : The Grauniad’s proof-reading still operates at the same level of competence as its fact-checking.
Peru is blaming Greenpeace for destroying one of the Nazca lines
http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/12/travel/greenpeace-nazca-lines-damage/index.html
Vandalism
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/141212100744-01-greenpeace-1212-horizontal-gallery.jpg
The loss of ‘climate change,’ is not only unprecedented, it’s also catastrophic too and it’s a travesty that we can’t account for it. But I guess it’s pause for thought? Lots of pause in fact!
Let’s Play Hide and Seek – You Don’t Care a Bit…
Surely that’s the role of the IPCC
Lost in space.
I have been watching the 2010 movie Animals United that takes place during COP 192, and apparently only half a dozen people show up. By the way, that movie has got to be the worst animated movie in the history of the world.
I’m sure our best minds are working on it, they’ll find it, even if they have to probe the depths of the oceans.
Its just gotta be somewhere.
It can run, but it can’t hide.
Yes indeed. They have “top men” working on it right now:
Perhaps a sequel is needed: “Raiders Of The Lost Climate”.
Great Caesar’s ghost, Clark!
Aren’t they still looking for the AWOL “hot-spot” in the tropical mid-troposphere? Kinda suggests the likelihood of finding ‘climate change’ by next year is not promising.
This is an opportunity for Hollywood warmists. Never mind “Find Nemo”, go for “Find Climate Change”
John Whitman December 12, 2014 at 11:24 am quoted:
{bold emphasis mine – JW}
“Reporter Suzanne Goldenberg (of the Guardian) in Lima said,
“The talks – scheduled to end at noon local time on Friday after 10 full days – are intended to provide a clear blueprint for a global agreement to find climate change by the end of next year.””
I am puzzled. Is a ‘clear blueprint’ a blue piece of paper with no white marks – or is it a white sheet of paper with no blue marks – totally clear? It is not clear to me.
Perhaps Mrs Goldenberg has been confused by reminiscences of “The Hunting of the Snark” –
“The Bell Mann himself they all praised to the skies—
Such a carriage, such ease and such grace!
Such solemnity, too! One could see he was wise,
The moment one looked in his face!
He had bought a large map representing the sea,
Without the least vestige of land:
And the crew were much pleased when they found it to be
A map they could all understand.
“What’s the good of Mercator’s North Poles and Equators,
Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines?”
So the Bell Mann would cry: and the crew would reply
“They are merely conventional signs!
“Other maps are such shapes, with their islands and capes!
But we’ve got our brave Captain to thank:”
(So the crew would protest) “that he’s bought us the best—
A perfect and absolute blank!””
With apologies to Professor Dodgson.
Dudley Horscroft,
I loved your reference to Lewis Carroll’s (Dodgson’s) poem.
Clear blueprint, indeed food for thought.
: )
John
They changed it to: for a global agreement to fight climate change by the end of next year.
but no mention in the article a change was made, very unethical,1984 style of journalism.
I wonder if putting “Climate Change” on a billion or so milk cartons is part of the blueprint?
How about “Guardashian?”
“Grauniad” also manages, with not much strain, to evoke Alexander Pope’s satirical masterpiece, “The Dunciad”, written in the 18th century to parody Grub Street scribblers of little talent. Says Wiki:
“The poem celebrates the goddess Dulness and the progress of her chosen agents as they bring decay, imbecility, and tastelessness to the Kingdom of Great Britain.”
The “-ad” suffix here means a work of an epic nature.. which, goes a long way, in the case of Ms. Goldenberg, towards explaining her epic search for climate, or climate change, or even her own hat, “by the end of the year.”
Point 6: Unstated but the moat important.
WE ALL GET TO GO TO PARIS NEXT YEAR.
The offshoot of this article: Polar bears are going to have to learn how to dog paddle for a month each summer
If you try to point out to the Guardian that the change is occurring all the time and within a lower than usual noise figure and is conforming to the long term (thousand year) pattern you will be banned from commenting.What is more the changes are regional and quite significant while the global average change is quite tiny. Both are however clearly cyclic to any trained in signal analysis rather than climate studies self glorified as climate science
Delicious. Eat your heart out, John Cleese and the Pythons.
`On a point of accuracy, the typographical errors in the UK MSM have, in fact, been on the increase in the past 10 years, despite introduction of digital technologies. This is due to the cost-cutting era removing sub-editors and the assumptions that junior, relatively untrained staff, are capable of editing their own typing correctly.
You can see clearly where cut and paste/deleitions have taken place when half a sentence runs into a different half sentence. This is a daily occurrence at all the main MSM ‘broadsheets’ and shows that human error is not covered up satisfactorily by WP ‘semi-human computer programmes’.
Nancy Pelosi: “we have to find Climate Change to see what’s in it”
Oh where, oh where did my climate change go, oh where, oh where can it be
With it’s funds cut short and it’s peers exposed, oh where, oh where can it be
Yes, for decades now the Guardian has been known as the Grauniad. But these days with its ever more leftwing slant, eg save Islam from the wicked west, it has be come known as the Groaniad.
Even more worrying is the tilt now being seen in the Telegraph. Yes, it is trying to out groan the Groan, as it were.
Ask Buckaroo Bonzai. Climate change is probably in the 8th dimension.