Since there was so much coverage of Mark Steyn’s take no prisoners testimony at the Senate hearing this week, (full text and video) I commissioned Josh to create a cartoon that sums up what went on. It will be in our upcoming U.S. (and Canadian) edition of the Josh -WUWT climate calendar, look for it to be announced very soon – Anthony
I’m up for the Calendar.
Can’t wait for the calender! 🙂
Steyn didn’t hold anything back, He gave them both barrels !
I couldn’t have asked for a better Christmas present !!!
Love the expression on Judith Curry’s face.
I love judith all of her
A natural aristocrat–vs. mass mann Markey.
Well done, Josh! Thankful at Christmastime…. for: YOU.
(and way to go, Anthony, making that happen)
He pwned them. And another home-run, er slam-dunk, um slap-shot for Josh!
Not fair – my calendar arrived yesterday.
I suppose I’ll just have to print off the cartoon from here
And as a thank you to Mark Steyn for his hours of effort on behalf of truth in science, a little free publicity!
“Christmas Glow Worm” (Mark Steyn and Judith Curry (played by Jessica Martin))
(you can buy it via Steyn’s website or Amazon)
(youtube)
Of COURSE that is Dr. Curry in the green dress! Do you think she could dress like that on the job and get taken seriously?? She has twenty such lovely outfits!
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Haha, yes and the hapless
Rear-Admiral Donkey-Sycophant,
papers a-flying. The poor soul
didn’t have a clue. He has bluffed
his way throughout his whole Navy
career probably, by keeping his head
down and saying aye-aye. Now he has been
forced to appear and waffle before the Senators,
he is entirely out of his depth against real scientists.
Said he; “I am just a simple sailor” ? … in a pig’s eye !
He was as “humble” as he was coached to be! If there had been robust cross examination then the house of cards would have fallen.
I’ll be buying some swag from Steyn, again, to support his lawsuit with the ever mendacious Mikey Mann.
Love this parody of Mikey Mann.
Well, yes, Steyn is a great hockey-stick player. He knows where the hockey-stick is going to be. : )
He is second only, in my opinion, to Lindzen. I’ve see Lindzen in dialogues where he anticipates where his antagonist’s argument and focus is going and then Lindzen pre-empts it before the antagonist gets to his/her punch line. Steyn does it in a boisterous manner, Lindzen does it in a low-keyed even toned manner . . . the effect is the same in the end.
John
You tube is trying very hard to disappear this parody of Mikey. As is google.
RD I have to tell you they aren’t making a very convincing job of vanishing it. 14,800 hits on YouTube and about 34,000,000 on Google for “hide the decline”.
Youtube definitely lowers and obfuscates its search results for skeptical results as does google.
(411: Speaking of hits, this is reader comment # 1,667,000! That’s more comments than all alarmist blogs combined. –mod.)
Thanks Mod! I win!
1,667,000!
Seriously, congratulations to WUWT.
To celebrate I’ll avoid stuff and take the wife and Cavaliers to the beach and toast WUWT friends.
“Speak honestly and you’ll deliver the big hits.”
Also “Hide The Decline II – The Sequel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrd3HYU80Dk
I find you video very funny – thanks for brightening my day
Curse you! I will not get this earworm out my head for days!
Here ya go, Aphan (at the risk of blowing your cover…), the antidote:
Dean Martin 😉
(youtube)
I wish ol Dean was the anecdote to so many more things…lol I made my kids watch the videos of him and Foster Brooks the other day…they were weeping with laughter.
Whatever cover I may have had was completely unintentional. 🙂 unlike your repeated efforts to “not” blow it lol!
#(:))
Glad to hear that your kids inherited your great sense of humor.
And I just prayed that God, Who can supply all the antidotes we need, will take care of what Dean Martin’s singing cannot.
Take care.
🙂
Here’s a real scientists destroying Mikey’s hockey stick.
Richard Muller, Professor of Physics, Berkeley. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BQpciw8suk
Judith Curry, Professor Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ga Tech: http://judithcurry.com/2011/02/22/hiding-the-decline/
Same week as COP21 comes this from the Group of Gloom and Doom…Shakun and Clark and Marcott, oh my! (To the tune from Wizard of Oz)….From the report, “….glaciers had largely retreated from the area during the earliest stages of the last termination and before the onset of the deglacial CO2 rise and increase in tropical sea surface temperatures” and “but the trigger for early deglaciation of the tropics remains unclear.”…..Of course it remains unclear, their research couldn’t be massaged enough to show even the slightest conection, and of course, they will need more funding to “help” make the conection clear….smh…. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jqs.2822/abstract
My favorite Mark Steyn comment regarding Manns false Nobel prize:
“But, it is revealing– it is this misrepresentation of credentials by people falsely claiming to be Nobel Laureates –is revealing because it gets to the heart of the problem here that they are attempting to cloak the science [of climate] in an authority that it does not in fact possess.”
-Mark Steyn
For more Canadian hilarity: http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/rex-murphy-the-high-church-of-global-warming
Robert – if there is anyone who can come close to matching Mark Steyn for wit/wisdom/words surely it must be Rex Murphy.
Josh, I put your name up there with all of my climate heros!
Unfortunately, no-one on either side changed their point of view.
The majority of the time was given over to the CAGW side with senators asking Admiral Titley loaded questions that he dutifully answered with the Government’s prepared responses.
It looked like a waste of everyone’s time and effort as no change will come from it.
Kind of like COP21, only cheaper and without people dressed as spoons!
John from Oz, my US centric perspective differs. Inhofe is not a serious player; his book is pure den1al, and he even wrapped it in evangelical Christian overtones. Wrote about that in the opening section of the climate chapter of my ebook The Arts of Truth. Weakens rather than strengthens AGW opposition legitimacy, cause hands more ammunition to the ‘3% flat earthers’ meme.
Cruz chairs a subcommittee with legitimate jurisdiction over the climate science, and is trying to get that on record. The written submissions are not political theater like the hearing, they are facts the subcommittee is obligated to consider. Plus Cruz is presently the second most popular Republican presidential candidate. And Don Trump cannot be taken seriously (I hope).
Ditto Lamar Smith’s House committee, subpoenaing NOAA for the emails behind the Karl abomination. NOAA and the Commerce Secretary so far committing very clear obstruction of congress, both a civil and criminal offense. Which shows Smith is onto something, especially since he is going on whistleblower information. What you are witnessing is the beginning of serious US political hardball by skeptics. About time.
The other thing to read is Harvard Law’s Prof. Larry Tribe court brief on the constitutionality of Obama’s Clean Power Plan. He says it isn’t. That court fight is only beginning, but I put my money on Tribe. The most inspiring, best informed con law professor in the country. Glad I took it from him early in his career. And he is a liberal in a warmunist university who just happens to think the US constitution is more important than Obama’s global warming crusade.
Hope this missive cheers you up a bit. As Churchill said in 1942 at the end of the Battle of Britain (I paraphrase), “It is not the beginning of the end. But it is the end of the beginning.” We skeptics and lukewarmers (I think the most rational position) are on a long march to victory. We have Ma Nature on our side (Curry and Wyatt Stadium Wave, Akasofu Arctic cyclicality, the Pause…). Takes a long time to overcome 25 years of political momentum when the other side’s motives have little to do with actual climate change. Like the failed $100 billion/year GCF that poor Tuvalu and Kiribati will not be getting from COP21. That is another skirmish victory in a long war.
Thanks ristvan
Ristvan: “We skeptics and lukewarmers (I think the most rational position) are on a long march to victory. We have Ma Nature on our side (Curry and Wyatt Stadium Wave, Akasofu Arctic cyclicality, the Pause…).”
I think so too. Depending on how hard Nature spanks us with a cold period, and how soon, the defeat of Climatism will deeply discredit persons, parties, and persuasions (like environmentalism) associated with it, just as the defeat of the Germans discredited those 3 Ps associated with fascism. Then it will be our turn to say, “This changes everything.”
Today’s proud parade has reached its peak–“whence every road leads downward.”:
The unaffordability and unreliability of renewables will become undeniable in 2016 in Europe.
Populist parties will win elections there.
The CO2 satellite will reveal emissions and absorption patterns that conflict with warmist doctrine.
A major recession cum financial crisis will cut down on contributions to the UN’s green fund.
(And maybe Rossi’s E-Cat gadget will make the whole matter moot–I’m hoping but not hopeful, though.)
Nit: “As Churchill said in 1942 at the end of the Battle of Britain (I paraphrase), “It is not the beginning of the end. But it is the end of the beginning.””
Actually, that was after the victory at El Alamein. (The Battle of Britain ended in 1940.) Later he said, “Before El Alamein we never had a victory. After, we never had a defeat.”
Does Senator Inhofe have any role in this? Forgive me if I missed it. He seems to be quiet these days.
Senator Inhofe doesn’t sit on the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.
He was born in 1934 …
Wasn’t that the hottest decade on record?
Senator Jim Inhofe is alive and well!
And still speaking out against AGW:
{Note: the U.S. Constitution clearly required that such an “agreement,” to be binding on the American people, must be ratified by the U.S. Senate. Otherwise, it is “words, just words”(B. Hussein O.); the above legal scholars are just as trustworthy as the scientists touting AGW — paid-to-l1e (mainly by “special interests”).}
(Source: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015-12-12/nations-sign-historic-climate-change-agreement )
{Emphasis mine}
“U.S. Constitution clearly requires… .”
Great! Mark Steyn tells it like it is, and the truth hurts the conniving alarmists.
I forgot.
Thanks Josh for the very dynamic cartoon!
Seconded.
Nice drawing. Mann gets pukked.
Says you.
Myself, being descended from a couple of Canuck’s, I fear that the term “Canuck” may cause consternation in certain individuals (mostly those unluckily of another persuasion), and there might be hell to pay.
Then again, “Canucks” are pretty forgiving when not playing the Chicago Blackhawks.
Your comment would have been even funnier if you had said “playing the Boston Bruins” instead of Chicago. But given that Chicago is the home of you know who and we have been called “Canuckistan” in the past, no insult is possible. We’re usually too busy trying to keep warm this time of year to worry about what we are called. Put another log on the fire, Martha, and cook me up some bacon and some beans …. Love that C&W. Thanks for the chuckle.
Ref. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/riots-erupt-in-vancouver-after-canucks-loss-1.993707
sorry , meant to post the reference to the Canuck/Bruins fiasco. We can embarrass ourselves over hockey. No assistance required.
Wayne from the Great White North. And boy is that white global warming ever coming down right now. Ski time.
Have fun.
And keeping on topic, eg, Saturday Silliness…parody, a liberal tries to explain why she thinks the world will end, and what should be done about it.
This was just awesome. The scariest thing from that whole event was the poster from obama’s website telling people to go after and report deniers. The normal rule of arguments over the internet is that the first person to call the other a nazi loses, but that poster could have been pulled from ‘The rise and fall of the third reich’ (a long and excellent history on Nazi Germany). The reports of children turning in their parents for speaking out against the regime. The government urging citizens to report their neighbors.
I wasn’t aware of that, and am quite frankly in shock. A sitting President should be impeached for endorsing that kind of rhetoric, it goes against everything we sacrificed in WW2 to prevent. For the first time in my life I’m ashamed to be an American, to see our values so easily trampled after so much sacrifice to preserve them.
Canada loves WUWT! Leo DiCaprio was the laughing stock of Canada yesterday cuz he claimed he watched climate change in action when filming a movie in Calgary. He said he watched a warm wind blow and melt, like 8 feet of snow. Firstly, Calgary has never had 8 feet of snow, and he was clearly referring to one of “Chinook winds.” The main stream media reported widely on it, and cast him out to be pretty stupid.
What’s that saying about hockey…”went to see a hockey game and a boxing match broke out”!!!
No it’s the reverse: “I went to a boxing match and a hockey game broke out.”
Yes, it was somewhat “disconnected and random”–but he was fighting fire with fire–and it was effective in trumping Markey, where sweet reason wouldn’t have been. (What a world.)
I thought the most brilliant part of Mark Steyn’s presentation was not during the initial testimony but very near the end when he asked permission to respond to what the admiral had to say about why the Pentagon is preparing to address the threat of climate change.
As I recall, Steyn reviewed what he sees as the main security threats and then told the admiral that the Pentagon’s approach was a complete and utter waste of time.
I though that Senator Cruz failed in his heroic effort to suppress a smile but did succeed in suppressing a laugh.
I wonder if the admiral secretly agrees with Steyn. I noted the admiral did not respond in a direct way when Senator Cruz twice asked him point blank if he agrees with the President’s views about climate as a security risk that the Pentagon must prepare for as a priority concern.
They couldn’t find a way to tax the air we breath in, so they decided to try and tax the air we breathe out . It’s called ” Cap and Trade ” or ” Carbon Tax ” !! ….Don’t be fooled again !!