The University of East Anglia, home of the infamous Climatic Research Unit, has offered to photoshop images of graduate students throwing their mortar board hats into the air, and sell the faked photographs to students, in lieu of allowing students to actually throw their hats into the air.
Graduating students told to mime throwing mortar board caps in the air and then pay £8 to have them PHOTOSHOPPED in later in case anyone is ‘injured by the falling hats’
Health and safety bosses have banned a class of law students from throwing their mortar board-caps in the air at graduation in case anyone gets injured.
But all is not lost for the University of East Anglia class.
They have been told they can mime the action for a picture and a computer whiz will Photoshop the flying cap in – all for the pricey sum of £8.
In an email sent to all third and fourth year law students set to graduate on July 21, those behind the photos have requested that no caps are thrown skywards to prevent the pointed sides from hurting anyone as they fall back down to earth.
An attachment in the original email – from the company Penguin Photograph – gave instructions for how the ‘fun’ picture should go.
It requested that students: ‘…mime the throwing of their hats in the air and we will then Photoshop them in above the group before printing’.
The paragraph continued: ‘As well as being safer, this will have the added advantage that even more of the students’ faces will be seen in this photograph.’
If UEA thinks it is OK to fake student graduation photographs, what else do they think its OK to fake?
Suggesting that the respected CRU might be faking something because the university they are attached to is openly offering to photoshop a hat in the air into a graduation photo?
I’ve seen some weak inferences before, but I don’t recall one as weak as this.
Perhaps you are suggesting that the HadGEM3 doesn’t actually exist, and the money was diverted to cups of tea while the research was faked using … some other climate model?
A hint about constructing a sound argument: Try to show that your conclusions logically follow from your premise.
this just made lunch time BBC news where it was reported the tradition was scrapped as a hat fell on someone last year causing them a head injury. The severity of the injury and the circumstances were not reported.
tonyb
I think it’s called hyperbole, Seth. Commonly used by humorists, but it may offend some serious-minded types. If you’re one of these, I’d advise you never to read Mark Twain.
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It doesn’t take much to get the trolls dander up.
The fact that CRU has been faking data for years is well documented.
Follows logically? That’s not how induction is supposed to work. If they did X perhaps they would do similar thing Y isn’t a proof and isn’t meant to be, but ISa rational way to come up with a hypothesis.
Nice try Seth, are you new to the climate communication game?
Or born yesterday?
CRU has form.
Course your naivety might be understandable..If your surname is Borenstein.
Before the machinations of these fools, who knew data could be “Faked but real”.
A truly post normal scientific concept.
Does the name Phil Jones, ring any bells?
I’d just post a few signs at the entryways with the message
Beware of Falling Mortar Boards”
and be done with it.
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On the bright side, where better to get injured than at a graduation ceremony of a bunch of lawyers? One of them will be signing their 1st client while the ink is still drying on their diploma.
The only way that a falling hat can harm someone is if they are wearing it at the time – which may explain some of the brain-dead climate assertions coming from the CRU.
Poor babies. These days even mortar boards have to come with corner bumpers. No wonder they all go screaming into the night when it’s warm.
They’re not at all afraid of injuries. What they’re afraid of is public perception. If all those law students whip those heavy mortar board hats in the air, and the pointy ends on the hats come down and pierces the students’ skulls, the university already knows there’s not going to be any injuries.
They’re worried that, in the absence of injuries, the public may realize that years of law school at UEA has actually wiped out anything within the skull that might have been injured otherwise.
For UEA.inmates fear is a constant companion.
When I was young institutions were where mentally ill and irrational patients were kept, places of safety.
Nowadays universities are called institutions and also have places of safety.
Wow. It’s a good thing they stopped this deadly practice. And also, I hope they have the good sense to prohibit the changing of the Ph.D students’ soiled diapers right on the stage during the ceremony, too. That could be traumatic for the little youngsters, and might scar them for life.
But wait! On the up side, the aerosol effects of having these large particles in the atmosphere could offset some large fraction of warming caused by the extra CO2 emitted by the crowd.
What we need is a long chain of practical suggestions that allows the children to continue to throw something into the air to celebrate their new advanced degrees. I’ll start with a few:
– Every mortar board will come with a parachute, which deploys automatically by way of motion and altitude sensor.
– Every graduate will be required to wear a helmet with full face mask under their mortar board. Injuries to arms and shoulders might still occur, of course.
– NERF [tm] mortar boards
…. add your helpful suggestions here
Isn’t it the act of throwing the caps in the air that is so special and not the documenting of the act?
Is this the representative thought process of UAE: it is not what happens that is important, the important thing is what one documents is happening.
Geez, I hope they don’t extend that thought process to their climate reporting.
Oh, wait …
never mind.
Wait a minute. Why do mortar boards not come with a warning label?
Danger: Hazardous when thrown.
Clearly the manufacturer is liable for failure to include adequate warning.
Perhaps there weren’t enough students and visitors to make a good picture so they photo shopped them in also. How do we know?
It is a bit of a dichotomy that, considering one of the 3 principle fears of these leftist handwringers, overpopulation, would be well served if we would only thin the herd with death by mortar board
See “Fake” and UAE in the title did not even raise an eyebrow. It’s not like the pairing is uncommon.
Damn – s/b UEA, obviously.
How many people have been injured by falling hats?
It doesn’t matter whether anyone was hurt or not. The important thing is to be concerned.
It’s clear that these falling hats are a micro-aggression. How can any student remain in their safe place when the fear of decapitation is in the air all around them?
For an extra expense they will add a hockey stick pattern to your credentials too.
What?! No bubble-wrap suits? What if someone fell on their way to getting their diploma?
£8 for a fake picture of a fake memory, sounds kind of expensive. What’s that in dollars, close to $12? Send them a picture of the money. I wonder how much climate scientists would pay for a photoshopped picture of a civilization destroyed by global warming?
John G — Been done. Mad Max. Water World. Many others. But in all those movies they were running around in high powered fossil fueled trucks, motorcycles, Boats, flame throwers, etc. etc. So civilization was destroyed but not the oil refineries? Odd that. Just the usual Hollywood disconnect.
The refinery in the second Mad Max movie looked to be home brew. It was certainly several orders of magnitude smaller than any modern day refinery.
Secondly, the whole conflict was due to the bad guys desire to take over that refinery.
“Mad Max. Water World. Many others. But in all those movies they were running around in high powered fossil fueled trucks, motorcycles, Boats, flame throwers, etc.”
Not just the oil… in these movies, they are constantly being reckless with their trucks, motorcycles, boats, flame throwers… as if fixing these was easy (or even possible). And these movies always seem to happen in a far away future – nobody seems to remember the days of civilization. So I assume these movies happen in a steady-state future. (The notion of “what the future is like” seems to imply a pretty stable future.)
Do they have a magical supply of spare parts?
Or are they just really good at recycling?
But wait a minute! Just how do you expect the graduating imported muzzie from throwing the diaper on his head? I won’t ask the burlap bag covered ones throwing anything,as they aren’t allowed an edumaksion anyway.
Ok the corners and sharp edges are the risk factor. Time for an inventive genius to develop a round mortar board- rounds- with a doughnut shaped brim.
Meaningless: it’s all symbolic.
Oh, wait!
I don’t think that a hazard exists now but fifty years from now when those thin skinned pin heads children send their thinner skinned pin headed and mush headed children to that university it could be a hazard. Better start now trying to make a hat that will do no harm. 🙂
John Cleese knew something was up with UEA, Check out the village idiot skit 2.45 to 3.00 min. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhDJxEPRDek
I didn’t graduate for UEA*, can I still have myself photoshopped into a picture?
* Thank goodness my parents sent me to a real university.
Virtually the entirety of British academia is now a cesspit infested with armies of liberal leftist totalitarian cockroaches. I expect the same is true of the US, Canada and Australia too. I wouldn’t recommend anyone to go anywhere near a British University unless they are desirous of being brainwashed and taught how to not think.