Essay by Eric Worrall
This isn’t actually a joke.
Jo Brand translated my science. I’m certain that comedy can connect people to climate change
Published: February 20, 2024 12.59am AEDT
Mark Maslin
Professor of Natural Sciences, UCLA new comedy project pairing leading comedians with climate scientists presents a novel way to communicate the climate crisis.
“If people like me have to get involved, you know we are in deep shit,” says Jo Brand, renowned British comedian and The Great British Bake Off host. Why? Because she has joined the ranks of other notable comedians such as Nish Kumar, Kiri Pritchard-McLean, and Jonathan Pie in Climate Science Translated, a project that translates complex climate science into accessible and funny content to spur millions of people into action.
Even though climate change is the greatest threat humanity has ever faced, research by the Climate Science Breakthrough team shows that just 2% of the public can name a climate scientist. Nearly everyone knows Jo Brand. Getting famous comedians to translate what climate scientists are saying in a funny, ironic and often blunt way makes the science much more accessible.
And it works. Research shows that humour can be a transformative tool in science communication and have a positive impact on people’s understanding of climate change. So far, my video with Jo Brand has been viewed more than 3 million times and has gained mainstream attention, with celebrities like Ellie Goulding, Gary Lineker, Rainn Wilson and Thom Yorke retweeting the videos. Each time, that brings the core message to a broader audience.
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Read more: https://theconversation.com/jo-brand-translated-my-science-im-certain-that-comedy-can-connect-people-to-climate-change-223745
The following is a video from the article above;
All the glaciers will melt and we’re all going to die? Ha ha?
What can I say? We at WUWT have maintained for years that alarmist predictions have degenerated into a farce. After more than three decades of getting it wrong, perhaps it is time to start laughing.
Climate scientists are the commedians… 😀 – not saying the clowns of the show 😀
Clima-Change™ increasingly causes heads to split over the rising numbers of instances where it is necessary to insert the caveat “this really is not satire” about the latest CAGW lunacy.
Nish Kumar, Kiri Pritchard-McLean, and Jonathan Pie
All BBC names
And all extreme lefties. Mind you they wouldn’t be on the BBC if they weren’t.
They are all about as funny as pancreatic cancer.
🤡 🤡 🤣 😂 🤡 🤣 😂 🤡 🤣 😂 🤡 🤣 😂
Krishna didn’t, so I did.
My thought exactly, how are we supposed to know which one is the comedian?
John Kerry and Al Gore walk into a saloon. Of course the bartender asks, “Why the long faces?”
Al Gore and John Kerry walk into a saloon.
John says that he talked to the Premiere of China Xi.
Al asks Kerry what the Premiere said?
John replies nothing, I couldn’t get a word out of him.
Can I just say, anyone that considers Jo Brand a comedian/comedienne does not know what an evil witch she actually is.
She even went as far as to say on air (BBC) she wished the person who threw yogurt at Nigel Farage had thrown acid instead.
That is how not funny Jo Brand is.
A complete hard left wing nut, from morning to night.
The BBC does not do comedy anymore in case some snowflake gets offended.
But, doesn’t the BBC think all of the snowflakes have melted?
About as funny as late night “comedy” shows on late night US network TV. Plonking sermonettes for the woke.
Gutfeld excepted
I can think of some folks who call themselves ‘climate scientists’. What they really are who knows?
Mann invested a lot of money in a green hydrogen company. It’s a penny stock now, but he overheard an engineer say that it’s sure to explode.
Not that I trust YouTube, but according to the link, this claim is overstated by about 3 orders of magnitude: “So far, my video with Jo Brand has been viewed more than 3 million times” (my view of that page says 159 views, not 3 million)
3 million was was within their error band.
I’ll take your for it as I don’t want to raise the count which is high enough already
He was applying the same algorithm they use for ECS.
RCP 8.5 model, they ran it a thousand times, discarded the low runs and averaged the rest.
How are we supposed to tell the difference between the comedians and the climate scientists?
Here is how you can tell.
Link goes to youtube video of Bill Nye the Science Guy singing along with “My Sex Junk”. (Hint: he is NOT a science guy and is certainly not a climate scientist despite playing one on TV.)
https://youtu.be/VtJFb_P2j48
(Video is safe for work. Not safe for your stomach if you understand how chromosomes control human development.)
Ugh, that was 3 minutes of my life I will never get back
Very entertaining. BTW, what language was she singing in?
How are we supposed to tell the difference between the comedians and the climate scientists?
It’s easy – one makes up situations that make you laugh and the other tells jokes!
I don’t get it…
“Even though climate change is the greatest threat humanity has ever faced”
Although I generally agree with Eric, I believe that statement to be false from all perspectives.
To this point, mankind has been very successful in adapting to a constantly changing climate and there is no good reason why we should not be able to continue with this success. Our chances are now better than ever before.
The threats are the government policies that have been forced upon a somewhat unsuspecting public who has for far too long, been trusting of governments. Big mistake.
Once that changes and we finally decide to take the reins into our own hands, if we are careful with our exploding populations and purposeful destruction of our environment (limit real pollution, not CO2), we should be good to go for many years.
The quote is from Mark Maslin.
The “…careful…” as it relates to population has to do with how we, that is this Earth’s human population in general, has put itself into a negative growth trajectory. If the youngsters don’t increase their reproduction rates, and fast, it will be all over for homo sapiens.
But don’t take my word for it, do your own search and research.
constantly changing climate ? within the last 100k years (human existence basically) the climate has changed … but very very slowly … I don’t think its gone from one extreme (cold) to the other (not so cold) in a single human lifetime …
I respectfully suggest that you have not seen the great movie
“ The man from Earth “. It is really good!
What exploding population?
What destruction of the environment?
Many countries are already seeing falling populations. Within 10 or 20 years the population of the planet will start falling.
The environment is improving in most countries, in many, the improvement is dramatic.
Did you hear the one about the model that fooled a generation?
Twiggy was really a bloke?
(well yeah, that has some observational credibility)
‘renowned comedian’?
Come off it! Her ‘comedy’ consists of nothing but ridiculing everyone not taken in by her leftie nonsense. A blot on the TV screen.
A blob on the TV screen.
That too.
Sounds like anyone watching her will already believe the AGW story. Hence harmless.
That’s what passes for comedy for most on the left. Insulting anyone who doesn’t agree with the agenda.
It’s about time the doomsayers lightened up. They are, by definition, the most humorless people on the planet. This is the therapy that might do the trick.
Oh, wait. The climate “scientist” is still as humorless as a hemorrhoid. Never mind . . .
Guest star, M. Manniacal, gloomy Gus of the week.
The public has been laughing at them for 30+ years, maybe they figure fight fire with fire?
We keep explaining to them why we do not accept their claims, but they do not listen to us and go on changing tactics thinking that we will believe them some day. NO WAY!
Alarmist Climate Science should be renamed to Psychology 101.
Climate Alarmists are reduced to trying to brainwash us better, since they can’t really prove that there is a climate crisis.
It’s beautiful weather in my neck of the woods.
> Even though climate change is the greatest threat humanity has ever faced, research by the Climate Science Breakthrough team shows that just 2% of the public can name a climate scientist.
Never argue with crazy. That just makes two of you. Besides our Reptilian Overlords say the plan is proceeding as predicted.
Finally something about climate science that makes sense. It is a joke, so use jokesters to explain it. Good for Maslin.
Just another “comedy” trope that plays exclusively to rusted-on lefties.
It’s already an overcrowded, over-baked gig.
George Carlin is my go-to standup for climate science.
And yet the BBC/UKTV pay comedians to drive gas-guzzling SUVs on the World’s Most Dangerous Roads.
Why aren’t the comics driving EVs?
So now we are supposed to believe comics?? I thought getting news from Instagram, TikTok and Facebook was stupid, but this news source really takes the cake!
Not much worse than getting your climate news from Nature or Scientific American, or the rest.
It’s all Human-caused Climate Change propaganda, all the time. Based on something other than science.
Now we are on the right track. Comedy is exactly the right venue for all the theories of climate Armageddon, not to mention the trillions of taxpayers dollars thrown away on government selected boondoggles when all the evidence told them in advance it was all snake oil. IF this isn’t comedy then it is deliberate societal sabotage.
Al Gore does his stand up comedy routine, and tap dances when a joke bombs:
“Now you take this tipping point
PLEASE”
“A hurricane injured an elderly Jewish man. The paramedic says, ‘Are you comfortable?’ The man says, ‘I make a good living.'”
“How do polar bears keep cool?
They use bear conditioning!”
“The climate scientists gave the planet ten years to survive. Nothing happened after ten years. So he added another ten years”
NO LAUGHS
So Gore does a sloppy tap dance, trips and falls down, Biden style, and gets a big laugh
“They played on our fears!”
Al Gore is SO dramatic.
Good jokes, btw. They made me laugh. 🙂
In the video, Prof. Maslin – “…we have to pretend…”
There you go.
We have known all along that the “climate” show is not about the climate..
Jo Brand… the former psychiatric nurse? Yes.
With the rare exception they’re all dreadfully woke and completely unfunny
Jo Brand is an obese self-righteous Tankie. The British public sector is full of them.
(“Tankies” is the nickname given to Lefties who applauded the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Russian tanks in 1968).
Here’s a little ditty (sung to it’s a Bailey and Barney world)
It’s a Bribem and Barney world
It’s a Bailey and Bribem world
It’s clowns and comedy all day
Make up your own lyrics
What a pitiful bunch of bottom feeders. If you want people to listen to you and take you seriously try speaking the truth for a change. If you think you are right and skeptics are wrong challenge them to a public debate. If skeptics are wrong you should be able to humiliate them easily. The reason you have to resort to comedians and psychologists is because you have nothing. If you dared to debate publicly you would get your backside handed to you. You cowards.
They could, of course, try and develop better and more convincing science but that seems a bit old fashioned I suppose.
Jo Brand is not a comedian, never mind renowned.
She is just another of the unfunny, far left rebels, who used to rail against the establishment, but now support it.
Comedians and jokers. What a pairing!
I can name climate “scientists” but I’ve never heard of Jo Brand.
You’re not a UK resident and to the left of Stalin.
Well, the tree ring hasn’t held up.
Why not try a tree ring circus?
“Send in the clowns!”
🤣
From Professor Maslin’s profile (he/him) on The Conversation website: “he has been awarded research council, charity and Government research and postgraduate training grants of over £75 million [US $95 million]”.
That’s not so funny for UK taxpayers and energy users but it does explain a lot.
Promoting Climate Change Alarmism has been good to him!
Jo was firstly a fully qualified senior psychiatric nurse, I’m glad a ‘climate scientist’ is getting the help that they realise they need.
Nurse Ratchet then?
Is Jo Brand the GB equivalent of renowned comedienne Kathy Griffin?
Clowns pairing with comedians.
This just goes to show how utterly desperate they are becoming as their stinking AGW edifice starts to crumble and sink into its quicksand foundations.
I think that is exactly what it is showing. The Climate Alarmists have run out of arguments, and all their predictions are proving wrong, so they have to resort to improving their brainwashing techniques to keep the climate crisis meme going..
“with celebrities like Ellie Goulding, Gary Lineker, Rainn Wilson and Thom Yorke” …
wait … Who ???
Gary Lineker.
Being a soccer fan, I know he was a pretty darn good striker and goal scorer for 2 or 3 clubs in the UK, and for England.
Also a very good, if sometimes controversial, commentator.
I would listen to him , and take note of what he says about things to do with soccer.
To do with Climate.. ??? Nope. !
Stick to your lane. !
The other names.. may as well pick up a telephone book!
Current scores stand at: Circus Clowns 1, Comedians and Comedian Scientists Nil.
Just exactly backwards. The best defense against these jokers is to make them the butt of a joke.
How many climastrologists does it take to change a light bulb?
Doesn’t matter, there won’t be any electricity to run the light bulb.
How do you tell them apart?
One tells unfunny jokes. The other _is_ and unfunny joke.
Seriously, anyone who knows no client scientist names will not know any after watching these shows – they’ll only know the name of someone who pretends to be a scientist while utterly avoiding the scientific method.
“Research shows that humour can be a transformative tool in science communication”
But the Left doesnt have a sense of humor. Oh, I get it! This is to convince folk on the the Right.
Here’s my favorite using humor re saving the planet:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c
My PC has a file named “Vocabulary Theft” into which I dump bits and pieces of fun and logic, some about climate change and now covid-19. Is any of this funny? Geoff S.
…………
Why is ‘abbreviated’ such a long word?
When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
“Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes.” William Shatner, Airplane 2.
Yes, and as far as news outlets are concerned, CNN is the mother faker.
Why is there only one Monopolies Commission?
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
Farming is hard when you use a pencil for a plow.
I ran out of toilet paper and had to use newspaper. The Times are rough.
Your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins.
I have kleptomania, but when it gets bad, I take something for it.
Never trust an answer from an atom. They make up everything.
When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife. (Prince Philip)
I started with nothing. I have most of it left.
…and the geek shall inherit the Earth… Gatthew 5:5
I have a degree in vacuum physics. I know everything about nothing.
Dyslexia is a form of DAHD.
The man that invented predictive text has died. May he rust in piss.
You can eat at the Lunar Cafe restaurant, nice place, but no atmosphere.
autocorrect is your worst enema.
Brevity is – – – of wit.”
‘Woke’ definition: A state of awareness only achieved by those dumb enough to find injustice in everything except their own behaviour.”
Really funny! 🙂
I was going to pick out a favorite, but I liked them all!
Clowning around with net zero is real fun-
China 2023 coal power approvals rose, putting climate targets at risk (msn.com)
So, it looks like the Western nations are just spinning their wheels with their CO2 reduction efforts.
The coal burners will offset any Net Zero gains, and then some. From now and into the future.
So why are Western nations still pursuing Net Zero? Does that make sense given the realities?
The very line that climate change is the greatest threat humankind has ever faced is a big enough joke in itself, so it doesn’t make any difference who’s telling it. And when there are few signs that anyone from governments to industries to businesses to consumers are making any big operational or lifestyle changes to combat this “threat” or “crisis” or whatever the alarmists want to call it is further proof that they view it as nothing but an exaggeration or a joke from the outset, especially when they see that fossil fuels continue to be the dominant energy-generating source by a wide margin. As well, when it’s obvious that the really big emitters have no intentions of switching away from them to supposedly save civilization, any demands that the rest of us should do this are met with a horse laugh.
I think it is reasonable to assert that scientists are a greater threat to humankind considering just how many people were killed by their genetically engineered Covid-19 virus. Let alone the other things scientists have created, from nuclear weapons to fentanyl.
Aren’t the comedians afraid of losing credibility by being associated with “climate scientists”?
Apparently not these “comedians”. I use quotes because I can’t imagine how someone who totally lacks a BS detector can be funny rather than pitiful.
This has a bit of a Fonzi on water skis feel about it.
Comedians joining climate scientists.
How shall we know which are the clowns?
Climate comedy is to comedy what climate science is to… well, you know.
Jo Brand isn’t funny, She is a rancid chippy old wokester.