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
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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.)