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May272012
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Bishop Hill
Bishop Hill Caption competition
May 27, 2012 Climate: Allen Myles Allen recently met rapper Will.I.Am in Oxford, the latter's arrival in a large helicopter being much noted by the press. Readers are cordially invited to suggest a caption for the photo below.
The prize for the best entry will be a coffee mug adorned with the Josh cartoon of your choice.
Reader Comments (251)
A few ideas:
"So what you is sayin is dat you can make dis model predict anyting you want? Wow, we all gonna get rich wiv dis, man!"
"The beauty of these models is We can make them 'predict' any doom we like, and we brand any dissenters 'holocaust deniers' until they see sense."
"Ordo ab da chao bro"
"Trust me, I'm a 'scientist' "
"Sign here to endorse our alarmist cause, and we'll say no more about your hip.hop.copter's carbon footprint. Just ask Al Gore how it works."
And here is actual live footage of a polar bear drowning in the Arctic as a direct result of your trip in that helicopter, which is most definitely not DOPE!
Or the alternative:
"OK Will, so our concept is you and the band singing a cover of 2Unlimited's 'No Limits' in front of a big screen, showing montage of different climate change scenes inlaid with graphs and stuff, how does that sound?"
"No Will, that is not Perez Hilton chopped up under that Wind Turbine, that is a Peacock"
Now Will this screen shows how a sizable financial donation from you to our research fund will offset the carbon footprint of your helicopter.
My.les: This al.gor.ythm from the c.r.u me.ans your te.am wins even if the songs are sh.i.t.
Will.i.am: i.am i.can i.will.
... and this moves the mouse pointer.
Bish, just as you start to have a serious exchange with establishment climate science you post of all things a caption competition, which needless to say immediately gets over 100 juvenile responses. Good time to introduce frivolity, eh?
Rapper and crapper; but. which is which
All.E.N: I'm thinking something catchy for the Christmas market.
Will.I.Am: We are going to need a talking pine tree and a comedy climatologist with a hatchet...
"What we want you to do is to put these alarmist messages into your rap songs, and then use your FaceBook account to spread the lies far and wide to all your 3.1 million followers. Geddit?"
@simon abingon:
"...a serious exchange with establishment climate science..."
You are having a laugh aren't you?
Myles: Don't worry - no matter how hypocritical our actions, people like Simon are willing to shill for us
Will: In the music business honesty and trust are paramount
May 27, 2012 at 5:33 PM simon abingdon
"juvenile" yeah yeah
Was the rapper there to discuss GCM model validation criteria or statistical analysis of temperature proxies? No. He was there for the publicity - both for himself and the AGW movement.
The event merits all the mockery it may gather.
"This is my favorite! This is where the denier kids and adults who don't succumb to social pressure, get blown to bits."
Here's my trick. You see that if you simply use this graph showing oil consumption of your helicopter per trip, people will forget all about the petrol consumption per trip graph here.
"... and if you'll forgive my drooling, Will, we now come to my favourite site of all: Pornhub! Guaranteed to produce a hockey stick in my pants."
' Think of Hockey Stick as The Voice... It didn't stand up to scrutiny, it has been panned and discredited by the critics, and even some of the main players think that it's just lame! . But hey! it's a good gig! and it keeps the profile high and the money coming in '
So, Mr Will, if you invest, say, £5 million in my green scheme, I can promise you, er,
let's see.... I'm not really sure how to work this thing.
I don't think Simon Abingdon's caption is a winner....
See Will, I am the rapporteur.
http://iamscholarship.dipdive.com/news/3993
Simon In Abingdon the reason Will I am is getting slated on here is because hes set himself up as a hypercrite .Actually despite his studid name and producing formulaic bland souless pop
and his big hollywood mansion and his fast cars hes worth 175 millions .
Its actually a repution he dosent deserve.He should have stayed away
Couldnt find his Interview with Clakson on Top Gear Quite moving, So i used Oprah Winfry instead
Will i am showed up in Oxford in a private helecopter to talk and support Myles Allen a man who would deny cheap affordable air travel to the majority of ordinary working class people and more other things
Hes on some jumped mumbo jumbo urban myth scientific theory thats just a theory
@ Jamspid: Next time you want to attempt to write something, I suggest you get an adult to help you.
Did I mention that I am a scientist? Look at this this is temperature trend I had to plot in Excel for a friend in Norwich...
Bro, look at that trick to hide the decline.
Cat and Rimmer try to work out how to reprogram Holly to prevent Lister from eating Vindaloo and destroying the universe with excess methane emissions.
Ok Will, this is called a laptop computer. To get it started you just push this button right here...
[Snip - raise the tone please]
'My favourite is that one of Acton from behind'
Yeah ok Dad
"... and then there's hotmodels.com..."
" We have spent decades refining and simplifying our climate models. This is our latest excel sp ...er.... model. Just enter any CO2 data in this cell and bingo 6c of warming appears over here"
So you're the TechnoKrat from the StarFleet, and you don't know the password?
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Jamspid: +1. I could not have put it better myself.
Yo, check out my video .... Dawg ....
If you're in trouble he will save the day
He's brave and he's fearless come what may
Without him the mission would go astray
He's Arnold, Arnold, Arnold Rimmer
Without him life would be much grimmer
He's handsome, trim, and no-one slimmer
He will never need a zimmer
He's Arnold, Arnold, Arnold Rimmer
More reliable than a garden trimmer
He's never been mistaken for Yul Brynner
He's not bald, and his head doesn't glimmer
Master of the wit and the repartee
His command of space directives is uncanny
How come he's such a genius? Don't ask me!
Ask Arnold, Arnold, Arnold Rimmer
He's also a fantastic swimmer
And if you play your cards right
Then he just might come round for dinner
He's Arnold, Arnold, Arnold Rimmer
No rhymes left now apart from quimmer
He'd better fade us out before we get to schlimmer
Fade out you stupid plimmer
.. U think I can get me a contract??
The mo money we come across, the mo problems we see.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=twkh0YiInPM
No I don't think we can change "Hide the Decline" to "Hi da Calvin Klein".
I think we have winner.
How about doing this number, Will? I'm sure you'd do a better job than these clowns.
Dude, your climate model is "two girls one cup"and they baught it, that's dope; my helicopter is just like a wind turbine; doing my part!
MA: So here is the plan. We hold this pose. The photo gets taken. BH will pick up on it, seeing as we deliberately chose someone like you with zero green credibility (the helicopter was a nice touch by the way.) BH is bound to run a caption competition, just as he is starting to have a serious exchange with establishment. His reputation in tatters thereafter. What do you think?
WiA: Are you going to switch the laptop on?
WiA: Well my helicopter is a special one. It actually generates power above a certain speed, I saw the self same principal on Sky News last week. Some Indian chap with a rotor on the front of his car. He must have copied me...
MA: Dope.
I hope this is allowed. An update my original caption:
And this is what my left arm was like before Michael Mann twisted it.
This one is the dissenters, broken down by age and sex.
This one is the dissenters, broken down by age and sex.
Old and not getting any
"Crap" music pays better dude!
"This is the first time I've ever been seduced by predeterminism theory"
(Quote from Red Dwarf)
Will, look serious, scratch your chin and nod occasionally; they'll think we're on Real Climate.
You're noughts, I'm crosses, I'll start.
The lyrics for Don't Phunk With My Chart were coming along nicely.
"Here's the problem. We should have painted the bicycle green too!"