Joe Bastardi writes on Twitter:
Interesting meeting tonight with @MichaelEMann We disagree on what drives the climate, but enjoyable exchanging ideas with someone who loves what he does as much as I love what I do.We live in same town so everyone can breathe easy now.Central Pa is still intact ha ha
Caption: Joe Bastardi invents the Shrimp Manhattan.
Mikey Mann tries to elevate himself with a butt thrust. Joe stays calm and centered.
Bastardi scores take-down with flick of the wrist, as MMann is off-center. 2-zero Joe.
Mike is yelling ” I work for Penn State, where he was a champion wrestler!”
(Is that a Mickey mouse watch?)
Great craft beer pub Joe. How about starting with two glasses of Nobel Old Peculiar.
Michael Mann: Damn I need to prove this shrimp salad is getting warmer due to climate change, where did Thomas Karl go?
Perhaps the same way as his computer. Remember it self destructed before the data and algorithim could be used to replicate his results. We will never know just how he did it.
But we will believe him anyway.
If you check the piece of wood immediately under my elbow you will find that it supports not only my elbow but also my conclusions.
Interesting …
What passes for wood these days is often is a picture of wood over a centre core of high density fibre board then coated with clear protective plastic. So, your tree rings can be made to order. Hmmm …
That might explain the peculiar lump on top of his head.
“That’s not a Nobel prize in my pocket.”
MM: “I’ve had enough beer. I get drunk very quickly.”…
MM: “My two bodyguards were wrestlers at PSU.”
JB: “I know; I coached them.”
Leftist meets skeptic to leech of skeptic’s hard earned money to bankrupt skeptics.
Michael Mann plots a “random” distribution of shrimp that will mysteriously benefit him.
Pick who loves the camera
Two faces made for radio, or ‘journalism’.
Mann: Let me give you some old fashioned climate gas that will surely concern you.
Mark. That’s a ripper!
For whatever reason Gilbert and Sullivan come to mind:
Pirates of Penzance
It is a mark of civilization that one can share a beer or three with folks with whom one disagrees. It’s a habit that we should relearn. link
Sure. Thump Mann about the head and shoulders with a blunt object, then we’ll take him for a beer. Sorry, that boy just gets my Irish up.
commieBob
Happy to share a beer with an alarmist anytime. I suspect I would have few agree to join me.
Got ur 6.
Expect to pay – that’s how they roll.
peyelut
I’m a Scot. Short arms, long pockets.
When sung ‘A policeman’s lot is not a happy one,
is sung as ‘A policeman’s lot is not an nappy one’
To explain the double entendre, police don’t change nappies.
G@ S was a satire.
What they may discuss, though, is what each think the atmospheric sensitivity is to a doubling of CO2, and see if their confidence limits, error bars, overlap.
A meeting with MM requires you bring a standard (not new standard) primary/intermediate set of textbooks in case he needs to look something up.
That still won’t help against Joe’s weather history knowledge. Show him weather and he’ll show you when it has previously occurred (and what teams were playing during that weather).
Joe should be the presidential advisor on climate, that egghead minus the goatee should be censured by honest science.
I like it! I admire and respect Joe B., and I neither admire nor respect MM… though I only know his public persona. I expect if he were my neighbor, we could find some common ground… dunno.
But anyone that will sit down and have a beer with someone, ex oficio, with whom they disagree is a good guy.
Cheers.
But you may lose you part or all of the common ground as Dr Mann keeps moving the goal line?
MM keeps moving the fence line?
Who picked up the check?
That looks like it might be an “American Express” card in front of Mann so I’d guess Soros. 😎
If that’s Manns Amex then it must have been the taxpayer!
Gunga Din, no myself I don’t think it is a credit card. size is wrong, shadows under it -not there. More like a mini menu. Note the drink glasses.
Behind Mann’s arm is a glass with possibly a micro brew. With the way he is out of the seat it is as if he is trying to block it from view. Tsk the reflection of the glass is quit clear.
And yes I am probably reading to much in the picture, he can’t be that paranoid and deceitful
michael
I’ll guess there were at least 2 others there.
They got out of the way. Also took the photo.
Note the glass of red wine.
If Joe’s working on both of those: Way to go!
Hiding the decline (of my sobriety).
You win the internet today.
Big Oil obviously /sarc
“Alarmist and skeptic forced to shelter from weather together; because climate change”.
One of these men knew Jerry Sandusky (and all his little friends) … very well.
Nice to know they had a pleasant exchange.
Captions:
“What happened after Mann said to Joe, “Pull my finger.”
I found this to be rather positive when it popped up on my Twitter feed. Two men from opposing sides meeting as though it were the most natural thing in the world to do. Respect both, I say. let’s hope it portends better, less divisive times
Are you trying to make shrimp disappear faster? People in the future will not know what shrimp tastes like because of climate change …
Different opinions do not need to create enemies
I have no problem with people having different opinions.
It’s when they believe that their “opinion” gives them the right to run other people’s lives and take their stuff. Then I have a problem.
MarkW
Profound.
cannibal rights! parasitizing your own species is an just an alternative metaphysics.
he just has a different opinion about what to do with MY stuff.
re-enacting dan pearl’s last meal?
Those who would be the least tolerant of different ideas are the least secure about their own.
Anthony’s relationship with Bill McKibben comes to my mind, they can agree to disagree as many of my acquaintances and I do also.
I cut them slack as they are personalities who seek indoctrination to maintain self-esteem. Offering an alternative to the popular truism tends to frighten them with cognitive dissonance, plus the prospect of taking an unpopular viewpoint in their social circles. They simply tune out any common sense approach.
“What is it again that you live doing? I’m into science”
Mikey can’t get pizza because climate change got the cheese and meat
Mann : Water into wine! It does not ring true to me.
Is today April 1st?
“Look, we’re so old we don’t need ‘safe spaces!'” “Our grandparent’s didn’t even know what ‘snowflakes’ were!”
“And I’ll have the Tree Ring Circus , with shrimp and a weatherman on the side”
Looks like Joe is taking advantage of the fact that Michael is buying 🙂
MM: How can this perma-bull-on-winter be correct on forecasts in our age of unprecedented AGW?!
JB: Enjoy the food and company, it’s the only food and company you’ve got!
Caption: two peas in a pod.
JB: I asked for data, not a date.
heck of an ad for grindr.
Old Vulcan proverbs…
Only Nixon could go to China.
Only Trump could meet with the Nork Human Chia Pet.
Only Anthony Watts could have lunch with Bill McKibben.
And only Big Joe Bastardi could make Mann-made global warming smile.
😎
Mann: Lean in Joe, lean in!
Bastardi: OK. (Aside: Why are we leaning in?)
Mann: We’re trying to hide the recline!
MM: I’m drinking you under the table you skeptic lightweight!
JB: You got me Mike – you’re way ahead on top-of head albedo too!
Is Joe Bastardi lacking friends?
I’m in Philly this evening on business. Where are they – maybe we can crash the party?
Not in Philly.
Try State College or one of the several nearby named places.
Park Forest Village, Houserville, Boalsburg, Ramblewood, . . .
Dracula on right, Renfield on left.
One’s a man called “Bastardi”; and the other . . . (isn’t)
Mann leaning in to adjust the height data, so that he looks taller than an Italian.
SSG Guido Incognito, Jr.
CAPTION: Wow! When did they get pole dancing in here?!
Get it? “Pole” dancing? Did you get it?
[Sorry. I’ll let myself out.]
“Darnit! Joe, I forgot my wallet!”
Mann and Bastardi at the opening of the world’s first CAGW Cafe. Mann is enjoying a self-carbonating soda, while Bastardi is looking forward to the cafe’s signature dish: shellless shrimps.
Detente.
“Hang on, let me adjust a little here … so’s … I can … let out another one of my brilliant scientific facts.”
Mann’s about to do a runner and leave Joe with the cheque…….and the mutant alien spider crawling out the glass.
No doubt there will be a story in the guardian next week about the proof of climate change being mutant alien spider invasions.
Ah! forgot the caption competition.
guardian exclusive!:
“Mutant Alien spider escapes. Leaves brother in glass!”
A bottle of red. A bottle of white.
We put the shrimp next to the one that’s right.
There was a climate of detente,
At our Italian Restaurant.
(Thought Joe might like the musical reference.)
Joe and mike finally see eye to eye.
increased c02 leads to a greening planet and
balding skull.
Does a fart that lifts you out of your seat contribute to climate change?
“enjoyable exchanging ideas with someone who loves what he does as much as I love what I do.”
There is no nice way to interpret that quote…
Damning with faint praise.
In Mann’s case, “Love is a many splintered thing…”
Gee, MM doesn’t eat babies after all.
“Joe, do you think we could get baked alaska?”
The Muscle Man and the Hustle Mann
CAPTION: …keep Your Enemies Closer
Blow Hot.. Blow Cold !
“Sorry I can’t sit, Joe. There’s a hemorrhoid on my ass that’s as big as my ego.”
Old Spanish Proverb: Quien con perros se echa, con pulgas se levanta.
(If you lie down with dogs, you will rise up with fleas.)
Fiction and Fact
Shave? !
“We don’t need no stinking shaves.”
” creepy…………”
Piltdown Mann can actualy sit?
“Mann’s head is so far up his arse he can’t sit down properly”
Mann – “What a beautiful mirror”
Bastardi – “I’m not seeing it.”
OK Joe, time to eat.
Something from all the hot and cold courses I think, except the medieval cooling selection – not sure what all that is about.
Joe, this seat needs to be adjusted
Chalk and mouldy cheese.
Fat man and Robin.
MM: Dumb denierr!!
JB: Bald liar!!
Photographer: Look here for a second and pretend you’re having fun
my precious
gnomish
Wkd!
Caption this photo? I dare not!
The words that keep leaping onto the page are:
“Bastardi and Bastard”
And proper etiquette keeps me trying to delete them.
Out, damn’d spot! out, I say!
To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them.
You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. Isaiah 11:6
This would be somewhat of a paraphrase of the verse, “and the conservative shall eat with the socialist”
Good choice, one of my favorite passages. I was thinking of MM hoist on his own petard (French péter, to fart).
What started as a friendly drink ended rapidly when a camera and potential audiences came in sight causing Michael’s internalized h̶o̶c̶k̶e̶y̶s̶t̶i̶c̶k̶ bottom sensor predicting another pending hot air release. General discomfort followed.
Caption: Michael Mann asks: “Joe, you have this, right?”
Another caption: Michael Mann, asks while puzzled: “What is this — we have to pay for this meal?”
Hide the recline!
Make love to the camera Mike; make love to the camera!
Hmm, Mann wears his watch on his right wrist. That’s telling.
Caption: Real Men drink wine, others try to dominate frame center.
If Mann is finally becoming civilized….
The Emperor attempts to turn Joe to the “Dark Side”.
“Woah, that’s some good stuff. Coulda sworn for a minute I was sitting down to eat with some climate deenyah.”
“Woah, that’s some good stuff. Could sworn for a minute Michael Mann was picking up my tab.”
I’d love to see those two in one of those public library “READ” posters, with a copy of “Earth in the Balance” in front of Bastardi and “The Great Global Warming Swindle” in front of Mann, and them giving each other’s reading material disbelieving looks.
Caption: Michael Mann in his Hockey Stick position!
Observe the rays of light radiating from between the two heads as they are forced to meet. This betrays the incipient energy release of a mutual annihilation event.
Who’s albedo is biggest?
… to the tune of that 60s rock song “Dragging’ the Line” with me dancing around out in the woods and then a singing pine tree comes in and in perfect harmony sings “hide the decline” (hide the decline). It’s hilarious. I love that video…
Snake meets mongoose.
MM trying to hire Joe the Wrestler to “talk to” the Judge releasing his emails…
Caption: You’re right! It looks like a camera.
I wonder if Dr Mann mentioned the comparative degrees of their educations and his view that Bastardi is not qualified to debate him.
Mann may have thought it but Joe said it was a pleasant exchange so I doubt he mentioned it.
My guess is they talked about the “weather” and not so much about how Mann (et al) has changed the “climate”.
Sleeping with the enemy
Sleeping with the enemy!
Truth revealed! Mann CAN’T sit down for discussion with a skeptic as something is wrong with his arse! Has it been reamed? Wood splinters? Red? Covered? Internal investigation needed?
I’d love to see them in a wrestling match.
Notice that the ice in Mann’s glass has NOT melted.
Bastardi is a 6th floor kind of guy. Mike Mann is a 4th floor type. That speaks volumes to those of us who inhabited Walker Bldg.
Just turn your head like this; then you can see the temperature increasing….