James Delingpole, and other prominent British skeptics, have been immortalised on an art installation “wall of infamy”.
According to James;
I am one of several climate change sceptics to have been celebrated and immortalised in an exciting new, prizewinning art installation at Anglia Ruskin, one of Britain’s largest universities. (h/t Liam Deacon)
It comprises a faux-stone slab (made out of plywood) engraved with my own name and that of five other British climate sceptics – Christopher Booker, Nigel Lawson, Christopher Monckton, Melanie Phillips, Owen Paterson – beneath the legend “Lest We Forget Those Who Denied.” The sculpture has been described as an “oil painting with a difference” because a continuous stream of engine oil drools symbolically over the “deniers’” names, like tragic sea otters after an Exxon spill.
I must say I’m a little jealous of my friend James. Where is my art installation wall of infamy? I mean, how many of these climate articles do I have to write?
Given the amount of publicity this political stunt has generated for the artist who created it, hopefully there will be some copycat attempts before too long. Please make sure you get the spelling of my name correct – that is “Worrall” with an “A”.
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I think that David Rose deserves also to be on it (given that it seems to be reserved for UK sceptics). I hope he’s not too disappointed.
He’s an obvious omission. Something off about that.
Perhaps the failed hatchet job by Dana at the Guardian was noticed. A former Guardian editor endorsed Rose as being an honest journalist when he worked at the Guardian.
It was actually quite hilarious.
hmmm… I feel left out.
Nuff said
I laid a broken hockey stick in the snow in my driveway, and spelled out Michael Mann above it and Nobel Laureate below it in a warm yellow fluid. I had to drink several beer and wait between writing sessions. (I misspelled Laureate… but I was tipsy)
My art was better.
“Mixturated media”
What about the little guys, the small fry, the forgotten man? We were skeptical too. No monument to our resistance?
I guess we have to try harder next time.
willybamboo
Good one — Eugene WR Gallun
Cannon-fodder, Willy, Cannon-fodder.
Theirs is not to wonder why …
Hey, great idea! How about a “wall of shame” listing the biggest Climate Liars like Gore, Mann, Pachauri, Holdren, Hansen, etc. etc. We could even vote on potential candidates. Fun!
Carved out of a slab of coal, mounted in a mock fireplace with simulated open fire effect? I like it!
No, on a block of ice. And it won’t melt (it is still quite cold here in upstate NY but at least the icebergs here finally melted away about a week and a half ago!).
This is to the artist, your gonna need a bigger board?
The artist should be ashamed… to be caught using “oil” paint. Sheesh!
The amount of self back patting the elite know it alls do might have something to do with the self esteem generation. Maybe that’s why they call themselves progressives. They are the only ones calling themselves that.
If the sceptic position is so ridiculous, why try so very hard to belittle and shame others with a different opinion? I think it goes “Me thinks thou doth protest too much”
” Lest we forget” is the first line of a poem commemorating those who gave their lives in the two world wars.
Presumably this artist feels that the people mentioned on his plywood plaque are doing their best to overcome evil forces as the allies did in both of these wars?
Why plywood as well? This requires consumption of CO2 to cut the wood into thin sheets and then glue them together, he would have been better off cutting the end off a tree trunk, ideally like this:
http://americaloveshorsepower.com/v8-powered-chain-saw-cuts-through-hardwood-in-2-4-seconds/
andrewm…, your remembrance is correct and affirms our hero’s deeds. With the conflation of WW II and current climate contention the “artist” knowingly seeks to elevate Alarmism to the status of heroism and impugn disagreement by aligning it with Nazi genocide.
May I suggest that another “artist”* take an ax to the display.
*Only a performance “artist” with the proper credentials, of course.
I’m in college and I’m liberal. Therefore I know everything about a scientific issue without actually looking at any of the science. Now pour me more champagne and pass the kale chips
Champagne gives off CO2. No chips for you!
Aren’t the bubbles created by dirt not CO2?
‘a continuous stream of engine oil drools symbolically over the “deniers’” names, ‘
So they bought some oil , and therefore giving ‘evil oil companies money to further their evil capitalists profits ‘ and then they decided to use it wastefully, there by making the ‘coming oil crisis worse’ and afterwards they are going to throw it away , there by added to the ‘toxic waste mountain that is killing our planet ‘
I see that as a badge of honor. Be proud that they think so much of you to be included on that list.
Absolutely right. Lest we forget 5 people who did their bit to stem the tide of the Green barbarian horde.
Look, you may have your problems in the UK, but we have a Green Governor running amuck in California who seems to be getting all the press, making outrageous demands and wants to take us back to the life before the barbarians marched. We need at least 5 people locally who can pushback his agenda and will be forever gratefully inscribed on a pressboard tablet complete with lingering formaldehyde odor.
That crappy piece of art will be worth good money in about 30 years..I wonder how much they want for that? if nobody buys it they should put it up at the Smithsonian in rememberence so this unethical breach of science that created this scam will never happen again.
Couldn’t the artist have used something renewable rather than a precious petroleum? Perhaps baby seal oil?
I’m a little miffed, too. With the name “Spencer” I should have been accorded “honorary British sceptic” status or something.
Spencer was a proper painter. IMO
Soon it will have to be renamed “Wall of Heroes”
Congratulations!
In what other discipline would members of a marginalized minority (3%: 100%-97%=3%) receive recognition like this?
James Delingpole: English columnist and novelist
Christopher Booker: journalist and author
Nigel Lawson: British Conservative politician and journalist
Christopher Monckton: British Conservative politician and journalist
Melanie Phillips: British journalist, author and public commentator
Owen Paterson: British Conservative Party politician
Not a single scientist amongst them. Speaks volumes, doesn’t it?
oooops Lord Chris my start a fight with ya on dat.
a list of scientists would be way to long to fit on a small piece of plywood..
In that case, please list a few British scientists who have refuted AGW.
Well, I’ll start the ball rolling with 3; David Bellamy, Philip Stott, Paul Reiter. I’m sure we could come up with more without even trying!
Yup! I would second Bellamy too. And if you do disagree, this happens.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2266188/David-Bellamy-The-BBC-froze-I-dont-believe-global-warming.html
Max Sargent, oh my.
I’ll set my Dad on you.
@MCourtney
A paper published 16 years ago which has only been cited three times. And the author holds a diploma in philosophy.
How is this helping your case? 🙂
Well, three things in its favour:
1) The author has spent a lifetime in research and has many papers published – so its existence refutes your implication that there are no British scientists who have refuted AGW.
2) It has been published and that means it scales the lofty heights of peer review. Inconvenient data shouldn’t be rejected just because it is embarrassing to your case.
3) Obviously, the paper is sound as you didn’t dispute it’s arguments or content. Discussing the author and its publicity say nothing about it’s correctness. Therefore, I conclude you cannot fault what it actually says.
It seems you’ve put your foot in it by assuming that no-one has ever disagreed with your opinion in the published literature. But you should have checked.
Yes, because the hotheads can’t deny the data presented by the skeptical scientists.
The old lawyer saying is — if the facts are on your side, pound on the facts — if the law is on your side pound on the law — if neither the facts or the law is on your side pound on the table.
The hotheads have their own version — since neither the data nor the laws of nature are on their side the hotheads pound on the skeptics.
Eugene WR Gallun
Gore: Politician
Pachoury: Engineer/novelist (Disgraced former head of the IPCC)
Ban Ki Moon: Politician
Gaurnout: Economist (The “architect” of the Australian “price on carbon”)
Hannam: (Sydney Morning Hearld, Australia, writer on the environment, in particular climate change)
Rudd: Politician (Australia. Who said “…climate change was the greatest moral challenge of our time…”)
Wong: Politician (Australia. Former environment minister)
Brown: Politician (Australia. Former Greens leader)
Milne: Politician (Australia. Current greens leader)
De Caprio: Actor
Blanchett: Actress
All seem to know AGW is proven but not a single scientist amoungst them.
David Whitehosue was BBC Science Correspondent 1988–1998, Science Editor BBC News Online 1998–2006 and the 2004 European Internet Journalist of the Year. He has a doctorate in astrophysics and is the author of The Sun: A Biography (John Wiley, 2005).] His website is http://www.davidwhitehouse.com
See “Has global warming stopped?”, http://www.newstatesman.com/scitech/2007/12/global-warming-temperature
I always feel these people should use a fairer system to select those on the list – which is another way of saying I’m miffed as I don’t get on them.
Tall Bloke still holds a place of honour.
He got a dawn raid by the police.
Frankly, I’m glad I’m a nobody.
Lest we forget the good fight that those original few have put up, indeed.
I know it could give copyright issues a bit of a grope but could say Josh or someone put together a mockup poster that could be downloaded, customised with the names of the purchaser and their besties that could be hung on the walls of homes and offices as a sign of solidarity with the named ‘few’ ( in the sense of the Battle of Britain or the Agincourt / Henry V ‘few’ – we few we band of brothers/sisters’ etc).
A sort of Je Suis le Few type giving the ‘bird’ to these CAGW morons.
As an Australian writing a few days after the centenary of ANZAC DAY, ‘Lest We Forget’ has particular resonance ( as for the Kiwi’s and Brits too).
(Apologies to French skeptics for the ‘we few’, and ‘the bird’ references – collateral damage, no pain intended)
The plaque form is pretty generic, I doubt it’s copyrightable.
We’re all heroes at heart.
http://i.capsspot.com/s/25/6/1126528.gif
Max Photon — nearly choked to death laughing. Eugene WR Gallun
The instantaneous release of GHGs! How villainous. It keeps the alarmists jumping too!
Well, the ‘A’ on his chest and cape certainly is appropriate…
This act of public shaming, disguised as art, actually won the university’s 2015 Sustainability Art Prize. The amount of £250 and a certificate was presented to Ian Wolter by the head of Anglia Ruskin’s art department. It just goes to show that the left doesn’t really hate shaming, bullying, or name calling. They just want to have a monopoly on it.
What in the world is “Sustainability Art”? Apart, that is, from visual propaganda.
Actually, how can it possibly be ‘Sustainable’ if it uses oil? Somebody screwed up in their enthusiasm, methinks.
‘Sustainability Art’ is a program using other people’s money to sustain would-be artists who will never make a dime in the real marketplace because their work totally sucks.
I thought welfare had that covered. 😉
It’s unrelated to sustainability and entirely about politics. The pump is (evidently) powered by a utility line. There’s not a thing about it that’s sustainable per se. Propaganda only; little or no art. It won a prize for being PC. Meh.
In a few years this “art” will be worth as much as any other political memorabilia. Like unopened cans of Billy Beer.
Oh no, no, no, Dawtgtomis. My unopened can of Billy Beer will no doubt be worth far more.
There was certainly never any value in opening a can of Billy Beer.
Actually will it last as long as “a few years”? I doubt it unless someone comes along with an oil change every other year.