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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All of them good men, shall be remembered. You too, James Delingpole.
The artist? I don’t think so.
Thanks, Eric.
I’ve already forgotten the artists name.
Objection! When/where was the competition published? What were the application criteria and deadline? And who where in the selection panel?
Having lived in the UK, regularly confessing my CAGW/CACC/CACD thought-crime in public and annually celebrating Earth day with peak energy consumption, I should be at least considered.
Jakko i’m building a nice paper mache one as we speak. Patience now, art takes time. I will allow skeptic Englishmen as well as yanks on this list. Hell I’ll even throw in couple Germans and Danes. I’m growing an unkempt beard and working on my passive aggressiveness as well as my understanding of pre-worn jeans with holes that cost $300. You can see my in SoHo at my wine social community fund raiser. My masterpiece will be on display for all to behold.
Try Atlantis Art in Whitechapel, Charlie. There is more action than in Soho.
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Someone should take Ian’s nose and rub it in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”
(See, this is exactly the point I was getting at in a recent controversial post of mine.)
Max nobody is protesting the freedom to make any kind of artwork that anybody wants to create or purchase.
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Find yourself missing the point a lot? or not so much.
Good point, Max. I suggest rubbing also the Article 12 with the same token:
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
I’m with you on that Max! By the way since I don’t have the computer skills to do it why don’t you post Goya’s depictions of the pedants at school just to show that nonsense being taught in school is nothing new.
It is a wonderful thing , the “Law of Unintended Consequences” .
This artist’s “creation” led to comments that made me check what T shirts , etc are available from WUWT should I want to make a contrary statement to that of the artist.
That led me to the comments on that page , and in one of them I come across a weather data set that I had not seen mentioned before :
https://weatherspark.com/#!climate;ws=28752;ctum=0;cth=500;ctmy=15;ctsy=1949;ctey=2010
it has very interesting historical data ( based on airport stations) which showed for cities in Europe a decline in annual mean temp from 2006-2010, but a warming , or status in North America . Putting in Manchester gave me a record throughout the year , for past decades, of max and min temperatures .
A very interesting website , but why have I not seen it mentioned before (in last 12 months ) . Did I just miss references to it , or is it in some way not “respectable” to either side in the AGW debate ?
Who runs it?
Assuming it is kosher , it showed the lack of obvious warming in my neighbourhood , which is probably not the result that this artist was striving for.
Idea for Josh:
Show the next logical step in the pogress of the climate concerned:
The assigning of prominent bright patches to be shown on the clothes of skeptics
Maybe a talented sceptic could create a ‘Wall of Inhumanity’ with green slime instead of oil?
/sarc
“Lest We Forget…”. How ironic! I confidently predict it will be the alarmists who want to forget their ridiculous predictions.
Most of them have been doing a pretty good job of ignoring their past predictions.
Was it paint using oil paints or watercolors. Inquiring minds wish to know.
organic oil made from hemp, soy,and granola
The ants will have fun harvesting it. Also the rats. Especially the rats, they will eat the wood, too. If it is the sort of ants we have in Arizona, they would not only eat the board but carry it off, too.
So let’s see, we’ve got pride, envy, and maybe 1/2 of gluttony.
If I could get 7/2.5 on the Kentucky Derby, I’d be a happy deadly sinner.
A lesson I learned when the POTUS said, in a State of the Union Address, that he was going to put me out of work: “Judge a man by the reputation of his enemies.” — Arabian Proverb.
I salute the Anglia Six!
Someone, please, create a similar plaque naming the warming alarmists and keep it in a safe place. When the world looks back decades from now, let the historians know who stood for what.
Wow, I hope to make it on one of these engravings/walls some day too. I’ll probably have to wait for my first check from Big Oil (TM). I have been assured that check is on the way, so many people seem convinced it’s a matter of time. 😉
And surely they should launch their attack upon the actual evidence:
The temperature record from UAH and RSS over the last two decades showing zero warming.
The surprising total absence of N American hurricane landfalls over several years.
The physical expansion of the area of Antartic sea ice.
Etc etc.
They could at least bother to make mention of that one ultimate climate denier, nature.
Unfortunately, nature has so far shown scant regard for the news of her demise.
But, definitely “nature” belongs at the top of that list of theirs.
On account of her committed contrarian behaviour over the last few billion years.
Wasn’t it an artist that lead Germany from 1933 to 1945 and tried to take over the world. He caused about fourty million deaths and the destruction of several cities. I believe it was a performing artist that killed Lincoln.
I was trying to find other do gooder artists that had caused great harm. Any suggestions?
I am watching the Smithsonian Channel at this moment. It is a story about those who tried to stop Adolf. There are monuments to them now. I hope to live long enough to see monuments to those brave people who have led the fight against CAGW alarmists who are trying to bring an end to industry and freedom.
Jim Francisco April 30, 2015 at 11:52 am
… those who tried to stop Adolf.
Let’s not forget these these guys.
Under the banner of Judea, the Jews of the world declared war on Germany in March of 1933.
In a meeting held at the Hotel Knickerbocker on March 21 by the Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America, former congressman William W. Cohen advocated in support of a strict boycott of German goods, stating that “Any Jew buying one penny’s worth of merchandise made in Germany is a traitor to his people.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Nazi_boycott_of_1933
Steve P: You’re more right than you realize.
jorgekafkazar April 30, 2015 at 2:12 pm
Please don’t presume to know what I realize.
-☺-
John Cook ?
…. but you can always fight fire with fire:
Winston Churchill:
http://www.museumsyndicate.com/artist.php?artist=667
He was a writer as well as an artist, and not a good one either. Struggled to sell his work. The first copy of his book was an abject failure. When he came to power, his second book was compulsory reading imposed by the state.
“his book”? Good grief. Winston Churchill wrote dozens of books. “The River War”, his second book I found a bit dated and stilted, but still a rich history. I have not read his first book, “The Story of the Malakand Field Force” (1898), written when he was 24 years old. His six-volume work “The Second World War” is magnificent writing by any standard, and was the major reason he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953. Have you been taking lessons in despising Winston Churchill from Barack Obama?
Belay my last – I thought you were discussing Winston, instead of Adolph. Apologies!
‘his second book was compulsory reading imposed by the state.’
any proof of this or do you just ‘know’ ?
The 2nd book was “given” away “free” and it was “expected” and “obligatory” to accept the book from the state without question. His books became “popular” after he came to power (In 1933?). This seems reasonable given that many other books/material that did not “fit” Nazi ideology was burnt. This is from memory in a documentary and I cannot find any reliable links, or “proof”. There is some information on Wikipedia, but I don’t trust Wikipedia for accuracy on this.
Andrew Russell,
I agree about Churchill. Many years ago I was given a birthday gift of his 4-volume History Of The English Speaking Peoples. It opened my eyes to history that was never taught in the schools I attended.
Caligula!
The piece perhaps might become a tribute to their vigilance, should oil and coal be the energy that gets civilization through another LIA, or better yet to zero pop. growth.
91% going on 97%. It only took 70 years. How long will it take this time?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3062053/Now-mention-war-Germans-no-longer-conflict-defeat-instead-think-victims-Nazis.html
From 1946, all you need to know about CAGW (note the C, without the C, you need to know much much more), from the master and the “master-race”. Hermann Göring, quoted by Jon Krakauer in “Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tilman”.
CAGW is the moral equivalent of war. /sarc
Goering was a thug, but he had his moments. When the police tried to prevent a 1937 modern dress performance of Richard III (think Brownshirt and SS uniforms without the insignias), Hermann intervened. Germans revered Shakespeare above many German authors.
But Goering may have been more intrigued by director Jürgen Fehling’s giving Richard a club-foot, a transparent reference to his rival, Josef Goebbels. The play, alas, soon closed. Who would dare to see it? [Jürgen Fehling survived the war, so he must have had protection from someone in high Nazi circles after his all-too-clear dig at the Hitler regime.]
Most sociopaths have the skills to operate in society.
Even high-society.
Did I miss your point ?
A subliminal allegory for the cult of AGW – and its ability to last.
Indeed it is… and it’s nothing more than a mere model! Poetic irony!
I wonder how much power the pump consumes and if it has EPA approved oil containment systems? Are there proper flammability warnings in the immediate vicinity?
Sustainable art leaves carbon footprint: no precedent set here.
and Jeez, It’s gotta smell like a drive-thru oil and lube shop when you stand around it.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
‘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.
‘The piece, which won the university’s 2015 Sustainability Art Prize, was the creation of third year fine art student Ian Wolter.’
C’mon folks, agree or disagree, you’ve sure gotta’ give our dear Ian one whole heckuvalota credit for artistic suffering and dedication. Think of it; minute after minute, hour after hour, day after day, week after week, month after month; glued to his artwork and laboriously hand pumping that symbolically drooling oil as it drools, flows, and runs down around along those deniers’ names. Pump. Pump. Pump. Crank. Crank. Crank. I mean, such a powerful, oh so creative statement, a vision of such undeniable brilliance and originality, could not possibly be jeopardized by any power source behind its flowing oil that was any less natural, less sustainable, less PC, less earth-loving than Ian’s own hands, and arms, and legs, and feet cycling, rowing, pumping and cranking away.
Unless, unless…could there? Could there be a plug in electric motor powering that flowing, running, drooling oil pump? Oh, please God that it isn’t so.
Ian is a superb Cranker; I think that’s the word, but I may be wrong.
I’m not sure where this piece of art (sic) is located, wouldn’t it be a good idea to add our names with post-it-notes?
LOL. Bet they didn’t think it would be regarded as meritorious by sceptics.
Instead of a Wall of Infamy, howabout a Hall of Shame for all the scaremongers and their biggest dud predictions.
Al Gore and his sinking Islands, the British berk and his breeding pairs surviving on the Antarctic, whoever thought the carbon intense windmill turbines would save the planet, the dick behind the carbon trading scheme in Europe rorted on a massive scale.
LOL, pack of dopes worthy of being the Coyote in the Road Runner cartoon.
I do hope Lord Monckton take exception and launches a Libel writ.
Lord Monckton has a good sense of humor.
The 32,000 names on the sceptic petition should also be there.
Jack,
Speaking of Al Gore, this is one of the funniest accounts I’ve read. (You have to understand the Superman saga.) It’s getting to be almost a decade old, but it’s stil timely.
Now that was a hoot!
Maybe his real name is Gor-El from planet Tripcon…
Idle thought; wasn’t Ian Wolter’s work of “art” good enough to be hung on his mom’s refrigerator?
The other plug was already in use by her microwave.