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MORE???? Go and plant yourself a windmill...
No, because then you'll emit CO2 and we have a policy against that sort of thing.
Very good. I can think of a certain minister singing along.. "got to pick a pocket or two boys" :)
I hope you're ready for panto season Josh.
Where's all the global warming gone?
IT'S BEHIND YOU
It seems that Professor Kevin Anderson has been misquoted by the Daily Telegraph's Environment Correspondent; has denies having called for energy rationing.
But I can vouch for the following quotation from him: I transcribed it myself. He spoke some words of wisdom during a BBC Radio 4 play entitled "Getting to Four Degrees". The play interspersed a fictional future family coping with global warming with real-life experts like Kev. I use the word 'expert' with the same enthusiasm as I describe Silvio Berlusconi as a 'prime minister'.
Professor Kev said: "I mean there are some things in science, you know, gravity will remain roughly the same, there will be lots of things in science that remain the same. And therefore we can say quite a lot about the physical makeup of the world. And if you know there’s 9 million billion people in there about how they may respond.” Roughly the same, eh? Phew! If this intellectual Titan's ideas had contradicted Newton we might've been in trouble! Check out this masterpiece of radio at http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/audio/getting-four-degrees. A few highlights: Britsh roads melting; Hull evacuated; doctors surgeries open only at night. This is NOT intentional comedy.
Question: How does one attain a university chair when one's pronouncements are of barely pub-talk calibre?
NIce, a whole heap of ideas there, Frosty.
BTW did you just choose the name Frosty for fun or is all this inclement weather your fault?
this one is just wonderfull, congrats Josh!
That bowl is a genius touch!
rationing may not be required after all!
1 Dec: Guardian: John Vidal: Cancún climate change summit: Japan refuses to extend Kyoto protocol
Talks threatened with breakdown after forthright Japanese refusal to extend Kyoto emissions commitments
The delicately balanced global climate talks in Cancún suffered a serious setback last night when Japan categorically stated its opposition to extending the Kyoto protocol – the binding international treaty that commits most of the world's richest countries to making emission cuts...
He said: "Japan will not inscribe its target under the Kyoto protocol on any conditions or under any circumstances."...
"This is a very bad start to the negotiations. The danger is that other countries may want to follow Japan's example and run away from binding commitments to cut emissions," said Poul Erik Laurisden, a spokesman with the aid agency Care International.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/dec/01/cancun-climate-change-summit-japan-kyoto
Sordnay, thanks for noticing ;-J
Josh, may I ask how long you've been drawing?
Excellent. It sums up beautifully the way our self-appointed masters would like it to be in the future.
sHx, ever since I can remember, but not as far back as Dickens.
An excellent piece Josh, very poignant. It's sad to think that the same basic theme has been drawn for many centuries, relating to different resources; we never seem to learn.
Frosty;
IT'S BEHIND YOU
Many a true word said in jest and certainly poignant!!!
Appologies CL you sneaked in just before me.
Brent asked:
Question: How does one attain a university chair when one's pronouncements are of barely pub-talk calibre?
Given that just about every further education college in the UK is now tagging itself University of - oooh, let's say 'East Anglia' since we're having a laugh, then the likes of Tom Sharpe's Wilt are no longer local government staff taking Meat 3 every Thursday, they're now Leading University Experts On Climate Emissions from Methanogenic Herbivores with a Chair funded by Waitrose.
Pub talk is as good as it gets if you have to spread this alleged talent thinly enough to teach half of the school-leaving population to said University standard. And it's not just the likes of University of Fenland that deliver such achingly poor standards - fact is that because you can get that decently-paid chair in these places, junior lecturers who would have been learned their trade in once-respectable universities go off and spout their half-baked drivel in public, which if shared with older and wiser colleagues over coffee would have been put straight back in its box for a rethink.
Heck, I sound like an old fogey, don't I?
Nice one, Josh, as always!
If a picture says more than a thousand words, then your drawings refute more than a million CAGW words - taking the CAGW exaggerations, and inflation, into account ...
sHx, ever since I can remember, but not as far back as Dickens.
Touche!
The reason I asked was because I have been a little critical of your work in the past and that has bothered me a little. Believe it or not, I've been tempted to fire an email your way with a few suggestions.
Anyway, FWIW, your recent work shows marked improvement but still I'd like to see a lot more anger in those cartoons.
Of course, "Josh 55" means the 55th cartoon by Josh. Duh! :-)
Early Birds Beaverbrook :)
I'm probably a little sprightlier this morning, having been up early to dig my esteemed spouses's motor out of the global warming, and push it over the rise so she could get to work.
There were too many Pete's posting here and WUWT so I took some 70's inspiration.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdnUo1q2E90
I always thought cool bear was called Frosty, I'm not so sure now, it's Frothy Man!
sHx, fire away an email - josh at cartoonsbyjosh.com I like constructive criticism.
Frosty, an entirely appropriate name.
For me, the gently indicated humour and lack of rancour is just what I like about Josh's cartoons. Good to see you back, Josh.
Maybe it's the cold medicine, but Mr Bumble is starting to look more and more like Leonid Brezhnev. Think I might go and have a little lie down...
BBD you set off a hilarious memory of the 'Spitting image' version of Brezhnev, where they open the freezer door to consult him...
Then I had this vision of keeping the hockey team in a cryogenic state in a museum, only opening the door for classes of school children to point and laugh, so as not to forget the lessons of history :)
sHx, fire away an email - josh at cartoonsbyjosh.com I like constructive criticism.
What? You mean I'd actually tailor my criticism to your tastes? That I'd try to destroy you in private whereas I could do that day in day out in public forums? That's the last time you see me talking to you in the markets, pal. I wish I could draw a little so you could see my outrage.
Anyway, you could have heard from me six months ago. You won't hear from me today because I'm so bloody angry. Maybe in the next six months.
And don't forget: "Because I'm hard, you will not like me. But the more you hate me the more you will learn".
"the likes of Tom Sharpe's Wilt are no longer local government staff taking Meat 3 every Thursday, they're now Leading University Experts On Climate Emissions"
That's a bit hard on Henry Wilt who, as I recall, was a lot brighter than his employers, not to mention the local CID...
James P
You're right - I exaggerated their worth. And I probably meant carbon emissions.
sHx, maybe I misunderstood, you said you were tempted to email me and I said that is fine, go ahead. Did I miss something?
"Did I miss something?"
Only the faux outrage. I can't be seen talking with you in public anymore. I have a reputation to maintain... and all that. BTW, you've got mail.