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Sep 19, 2012 Climate: Sceptics Josh
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Inspired by the huge amount of help currently being offered around the blogs to Lew with his infamous Moon Landing paper. I am sure readers will continue to be generous with their time in this worthy cause.
Update on Sep 20, 2012 by
Josh
Josh
Many thanks to the eagle eyed Hilary, cartoon now signed. Here is a higher res version for desktops or printing out and sending to your local climate scientist.
Update on Sep 20, 2012 by
Josh
Josh
Here is a 1600 x 900 desktop version. Hot from UEA, of course. Let me know if it does not fit - I can resize. And feel free to suggest other things we might find on a UEA/CRU desktop.
It looks like this by the way:
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Reader Comments (60)
Best yet. Bravo Josh.
THANK you Josh :-)
And I do hope that you have seen this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4GUMMx4sK8&feature=player_embedded
THANK you Josh :-)
And I do hope that you have seen this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4GUMMx4sK8&feature=player_embedded
Bravo !
There's true compassion for you! If only such help could have been organised for them over the past several decades. They are going to get it in spades from now on, as I suspect more and more scientists are starting to care about them, and will want to help out when they can. Thanks Josh for being so positive.
Got to be one of your best Josh...maybe even your best yet...most cutting.
Education is a wonderful thing but it is about time that THEY learned how to obtain and use it!
The "Union of Concerned Sceptics" - love it! I'll join, when it's there to join.
Oops, apologies for the duplication, sticky or stoopid, not sure which!
JerryM, no I hadn't seen that. Wow, that is strange - might require a glance at one's trusty James Delingpole Dictionary for the right words.
Another classic Josh - it really is a mystery (and disgrace) that your perceptive skills have not been given more prominence in the broadsheets or MSM yet.
"Union of Concerned Sceptics" - someone has to set that up and pronto. I don't think there will be a shortage of members.
That's one of your best yet, Josh.
BTW can't someone block the ip address of the increasingly bitter and now routinely rude and insulting Zed?
Union of Concerned Sceptics.
My cat has a credit card. Can she join?
"If it ever existed, and was genuinely sceptical, they wouldn't let you in Steve. Scepticism involves looking for the flaws equally in all things. Those who frequent this crank blog, blindly attack everything to do with climate science, and mindlessly support everything they think opposes it. You don't get any further from scepticism than that."
Sep 19, 2012 at 10:45 PM | deBdeaDsedZ
My dear 'deBdeaDsedZ', I have a degree in Philosophy, forty years working in science (or 'Natural Philosophy', as it used to be known) and even longer reading about it and playing with it. I don't need telling what scepticism is, I've spent my life doing it. There's nothing I enjoy more than when something makes me think "What??", then going out there and digging out all the facts I can find about it - including being constantly aware that all scientific "fact" is only the "best estimate to date".
If you truly think this is such a "crank blog", then perhaps you should try a little scepticism yourself about the junk "science" which is so regularly shredded by these "cranks", rather than just blindly accepting every half-baked claim about climate that you see and mindlessly attacking everything / everyone you think opposes it. I've changed my mind about many things after looking at the data. You should try it sometime.
Quality. Congrats Josh.
This is the best Josh's ever.
ps if I were a member of the UCS, I would be concerned too...about my mental sanity, that is.
Josh - just fantastic. Sadly I need a new monitor after letting my tea loose all over it, but a price worth paying for a damn good belly laugh. Thanks!
This is the best Josh's ever.
ps if I were a member of the UCS, I would be concerned too...about my mental sanity, that is.
JerryM - that is great (as is Josh's latest). Looks like Professor Lewandowsky is a little short on self-awareness, especially for a psychologist.
Priceless.
But, will the "Union of Concerned Sceptics" also raise a fund to help lost Kev find his Dear... eh sorry... help Dear Kev find his lost Warming?
Gosh, Latimer, I really do owe you an apology. Not about the 'PhilJonesMum' remark, I agree with Dung on this, but when Z discovered that not only could you mix up words, his situation-normal post, you could do the same with letters.
Like, mix 'em up, that is, not to produce anagrams, of course, that would be beyond the dear hermaphrodites' genomic potential, but to sow a post or two of confusion amongst the less-blessed readers of this blog when faced with a possible spoofer.
Me, for example!
I actually thought that it was you!
A moshpit, I am not.
I'll get my coat Mr A but, sadly, I'll probably be back :(
Even more sadly, I think, it'll come back too!
That is by a large margin the best, and most damningly accurate, cartoon done by Josh.
Oh, well done! As well as being very funny, and inoffensive to the most sensitive warmist, it explains quite literally how skeptics debunk shonky research.
Excellent.
Excellent Josh (with and without a comma between).
I've changed my mind about many things after looking at the data. You should try it sometime.
Sep 19, 2012 at 11:49 PM | Steve C
Steve
There are 2 requirements for your suggestion to work and ZBD has none of these.
a great cover for a book of your cartoons josh, when that day inevitably arrives when the word "carbon" has been banished from the MSM. bravo.
So frikking funny Josh, best idea you've had this year, your art work is always top $$$.
Call 1-800-GRANT to help these scientist now.
Great work Josh !
Absolutely superb, Josh ... Thank you for so many chuckles and smiles all in one picture! Mind if I grab it to brighten up my desktop?!
P.S. What happened to your signature - I sure hope one of those Lew Boosters didn't disappear it ;-)
Put me down for the Union of Concerned Sceptics as well.
Nice one, Josh.
Hilary, thank you again! I will amend. I will also post a high res version so you can use as a desktop. Hmm, I wonder what a climate scientist's desktop would look like?
Excellent as usual, Josh! Those of us with an interest in the social sciences, too, might like to provide some sort of outreach service under the umbrella of Clime-Aid, to start a helpful and friendly dialogue with those who are perplexed and overwhelmed by obsessive fears of CO2, climate chaos, fracking, etc - a sort of COIN in reverse.
Genius!
Josh, your ever-excellent cartoons tend to be tall- and-skinny - not a very desktop-freindly aspect ratio for desktops. Perhaps the next few can be wide-and-stumpy (i.e. 16x9)?
Since several messages above make no sense, I assume that he/she-who-cannot-be-named has visited again, and various of the nonsensical messages are in response. Since we know the rants will be dissappeared, perhaps other should restrain from replying?
Best yet.
They say the pen is mightier than the sword and you prove it yet again Josh.
However I do have one tiny, tiny criticism (dont booo yet!), the advice you are giving them is far too complicated ^.^
Steveta, working on that right now ;-)
The best line for me is "Is that good?" in response to "See, now I can try to replicate your results"
Science 101 as the Americans tend to say, explained with humour and, most of all, compassion :)
Richard
It is a truly witty, sharp stiletto to the guts of climate scientists, delivered with tenderness and sympathy, it could not be bettered.
Josh, that is a work of genius. Pour yourself a beer.
You guys are way too kind. I wasn't even sure it was that funny! And yes, Richard, I like that line ;-)
Will there be a signed, framed, limited print edition?
A good investment, I am sure.
Josh that is superb, don't be modest. My previous favorite was the "HYPE" connect the dots cartoon, now supplanted.
I've said it before and I'm saying it again, Best Yet!
"Since we know the rants will be dissappeared, perhaps other should restrain from replying?"
Sep 20, 2012 at 10:09 AM | steveta
Sorry about that, steveta, but it was aimed at me after I'd had One Of Those Days. Couldn't resist knocking its pointy little head off when it popped out from under the bridge.
It is a terrific cartoon, though. Top marks, Josh!
Thanks for "authenticating" this masterpiece, Josh ... I wonder if the leaked desktop will set off yet another investigation by Norfolk's finest along with Oxburgh & Muir Russell ;-)
Perfect!!
I love all the recycle bins on the UEA desktop version - a gentle reminder of their past misdemeanours - that made me much less grumpy than usual; even a laugh escaped from my belly.
Brilliant!
CLIME-AID
The only UK aid budget not dependent on taxpayers money!
Lindzen papers in the bin..?
Also (picky) Exxon has one 'n'. There was a great cartoon* when Standard Oil (Esso) adopted the Exxon brand name in 1973 - it was of the White House, with the name 'Nixxon' writ large above, and the caption, "but it's still the same old gas".
*Almost as good as Josh's :-)