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
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.