Like Anthony, I get mail. Only he gets much, much more.
A few days ago, a Canadian reader sent me this photo and asked how he could display it on WUWT. The short answer is you need to get it on the WWW with a URL that ends in .jpg.
Or, tickle my fancy, especially on an Open Thread weekend.
He notes “I took the picture of the sculpture not realizing the significance of the script on the bus at the time. An innocent juxtaposition I am sure.”
Perhaps, but if I were to get on this bus and saw this lady in the driver’s seat, I’d walk. Even if I worked for NOAA.
“I took the picture of the sculpture not realizing the significance of the script on the bus at the time. An innocent juxtaposition I am sure.”
Maybe, maybe not. But it is hilarious no matter which it is.
Was this the robotic creature who first dreamed up CAGW?
Random truths.
This is the Idol that the Greenies pray to !! The God of defeated technology !
It must be ‘The Enforcer’ to be released on the unrepentant skeptics.
NOAA =Oceans
Rust=acidic
Statue embodies= “Ocean acidification!! ”
Extrapolate! Extrapolate!
(Dr. Who reference)
Loved the old Dr. Who characters, particularly Colin Baker, I heard TARDIS is now an acronym for Temperature And Relative Dissonance In Society.
I think it’s the Terminator rising up from the trash heap of history that is CAGW to terminate all us climate deniers who are standing in the way of global governance by the self righteous misinformed elites.
This is the early genesis of the War Against The Machines. An early cybernetics research program at NOAA which would eventually morph into Skynet.
Yeah, Roadnut!
Next to an early NOAA submarine. $20,000,000.00
May it forever rust in peace. Amen
Silly decisions with serious consequences
America Is Losing Out to Russia in the Wheat Wars
Who wants expensive ethanol with plenty of dirt cheep oil available ?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-20/america-is-losing-out-to-russia-in-the-wheat-wars
The decline in US wheat acreage is a product of the federal government’s Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). The program is designed to take marginally productive lands out of production that are prone to soil erosion and other hazards and pay farmers to plant those lands to permanent non-crop vegetative cover. The program started enrolling these lands in 1986 and wheat acreage started declining immediately thereafter.
Since wheat is more likely to be grown on low productivity land than corn or soybeans, wheat acreage in the US has been most strongly affected by this widely adopted federal program.
This decline in US wheat acreage is not connected to ethanol production.
Over the years, wheat production has become less important to Saskatchewan where U.S. government policy does not apply. link
I agree, there are different forces which are causing a decrease in wheat production.
I notice the plot above starts at 1990. The seeds of losing the wheat wars may have been sown (excuse the pun) as early as 1980 by President Carter with the Russian grain embargo. Then, throw in the CRP and Ethanol laws and we get the full story about losing out to Russia in wheat production.
Peak wheat production in the US appears to have been around 1980:
http://www.roperld.com/science/cropsworld_us.htm
The lasting affects of the grain 1980 embargo, while arguable and with varied opinions on the internet, seem to be most often summarized with the following passages (which parrot the explanations from my wheat farmer cousins and uncles in Kansas who experienced real and lasting effects)…
http://www.orwelltoday.com/grainembargo.shtml
I guess everybody wants ethanol when it’s mandated. Government in action, simultaneously making both food and fuel more expensive.
The bus driver probably likes heavy metal music. So do I, but only if it involves pipe organs with a 32 foot pipe.
Or better – a 128′ register.
About 4Hz would be right about right for Earthquake.
Yeah, that really rocks the house on my 3″ computer speakers.
The sign actually says 128″, or inches, which is 10 feet 8 inches. Sorry to spoil the fun.
The 128″ was an egregious mistake. The YouTube title had it right. Of course, the whole video is a joke, I’d like to know what they’re covering with the sign.
Caption: “NOAA — We are driving this bus, and the route is settled. (Pay no attention to our rust.)”
Oxygen sequestration.
Terminatress or Borgette? Can’t be sure.
Actually, this is where Gavin came from:
Perhaps NOAA is simply testing how climate change will increase rust on metal objects.
It is the Goddess Gaia !
Glorified Abstraction Impersonating Art
Gears And Iron Acidifying
Goofy Anthropological Invented Agenda
Wait a sec….is it CHAINED to the bus??? There is so much symbolism in that image that could be hilariously examined and pontificate upon…..
And one more thought…why is NOAA destroying the environment by not chopping up and recycling it’s transportation vehicles after using them to their fullest potential? Are they selling off their “toxic waste” to Canada where all those toxins and chemicals are allowed to leach into the soil there? Shameful!
It appears the robot is wearing beer goggles as a bra.
Also has an open differential between her thighs but her knees are chained closed. I guess she can’t make up her mind.
NOAA’s “Magic School Bus” wit their ever so friendly school teacher and bus driver.
Trouble is the bus driver doesn’t have the magic red hair, is all steel and devoid of any intent to present replicable science; plus she loves to lie to children and the childish.
NOAA’s bus to nowhere with anyone foolish enough to ride.
Ya gotta admit one thing, she sure looks like the Gavinator’s type; tall, in chains with a Mohawk. Gavin better make his move before Manniacal sees her.
Does that bus look like its been parked and mothballed in those weeds for a while? My first thought was that someone chained themselves to it hoping to get NOAA to “get serious” about global warming only to end up like this six months later when someone finally came back.
“Fwoop-Wiii-awk-chirp-chirp!!!!!” (What a woman!!!!!!)
Signed,
R2D2
That looks like a Bill Swets sculpture, a former farmer from the little town of Timnath, Colorado (near Fort Collins), who makes fantastic animals out of old steel farm implements, chains, car parts, etc. If I recall, he was also attempting to repurpose an old bus at one time, but I think it was an old Denver city bus, not a NOAA vehicle. Anyway, here’s one of Swets’ fabulous metal dinosaurs. http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/swetsville-zoo-fort-collins?select=8BAoz6EsDQ4BaWRCnyF6-Q
I’ll be back! 🙂
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Exterminate, Exterminate!
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You’ll be assimilated!
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PS This is the last one!