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Apr 6, 2013 Climate: McIntyre Josh ;)
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Tamino's recent posts on Marcott et al bear an uncanny similarity to Steve McIntyre's work at Climate Audit. Dave Burton noticed and commented:
Grant, I find it just plain bizarre that you wrote all this and never even mentioned Steve McIntyre, who first figured out what Marcott had done wrong, and whose excellent work is the whole reason you wrote this.
H/t WUWT
This cartoon imagines Tamino, aka statistician and folk singer Grant Foster, putting things right. Do suggest some more songs that Tamino might like to try. I am sure he will be very grateful.
Reader Comments (128)
The C02 that you breath - The Hollies
Leaving on a jet plane (obviously, you can't get to Tahiti for that oh-so-important conference on a push bike)
And of course the anthem of climate scientists everywhere: Money for Nothing.
Redacting Blues, surely..?
to the tune of "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" (Joan Baez, and also Johnny Cash, also The Band):
Joan Baez, "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"
p.s. random aside, I once enjoyed the enormous pleasure and honor of being part of a relatively small sing--a-long led by Joan Baez, but I won't discuss the circumstances now since it would not be conducive to my preferred web anonymity.... but finding this link/song brought back some wonderful memories for me!!
"Redacting Blues"
Cancel that - I was forgetting it was Marcott! I should know better than to doubt Josh..:-(
My bloggie lies over the ocean (Scottish Trad)
Always The Last To Know - Del Amitri
Between The Cheats - Amy Winehouse
Careless Whisper - Wham!
Cheater, Cheater - Joey + Rory
White Lies - Nils Lofgren & Grin
Well, I suppose anything by Status Quo...
Fake - Alexander O'Neal
Send in the clowns - Judy Collins
Whatever you want - Status Quo
Bob Dylan - The times they are a changin
New Musik - Living by numbers
Busted - Why?
"Don't know why, there's no sun up in the sky .... Stormy Weather"
This song topic may not be much noticed by Mann/Tamino/Schmidt et al, but arguably the greatest uncertainties about climate modelling and projections come from......
CLOUDS
This could be the anthem for climate science..... "Both Sides Now" is the song by Joni Mitchell (few ppl seem to know that Joni wrote the song) but it was made famous by Judy Collins:
Judy Collins, "Both Sides Now"
The Model - Crapwerk
Unbreak My Chart
"To Mike, With Love"
(tune of "To Sir, With Love" by Lulu)
strange feeling to see her do it many years later for "American Idol" but look, Lulu can still bring it:
Lulu, "To Sir With Love"
also:
"Somebody to Love"
"White Rabbit"
(both by Jefferson Airplane)
RAOTFLMAO is, I believe, the appropriate abbreviation!
The End - The Doors
"Emotional Rescue" (Rolling Stones)
"I Believe in You" (Dylan)
"You Gotta Serve Somebody" (Dylan)
"Blowin' In The Wind" (Dylan)
"Follow the Yellow Brick Road"
"Riders on the Storm" (The Doors)
"Light My Fire" (The Doors)
"Climate Blues" (to Doors song "Roadhouse Blues")
"Don't Go Breakin' My Heart"
"Jailhouse Rock"
and.....
"Have You Never Been Mellow"
[should be sung TO the notoriously nasty Tamino or Mann]
Donovan
Yellow Watermelo
Suspicious minds - Elvis
Anything by "Simple Minds"
Don't make me over (ohh ahh)
Don't make me over (ahh)
Now that you've got me at your command (ahh ohh)
Accept me for what I am (ooh ahh)
Accept me for the things that I do (ooh ahh)
Accept me for what I am (ohh ahh)
Accept me for the things that I do (ohh ahh)
Civilization, this version
http://www.jazz-on-line.com/a/m3u/DECL4508.m3u
not a title, but it would be great to do something with the lines,
"Something inside is telling me, that I've got your secret"
and
"I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are"
and
"You make it hard, you make it hard, you make it harddddd...." (to keep our stories straight)
and
"Can I tell it like it is"
and
"I've got an answer, I'm going to fly away"
from:
CSN, "Suite Judy Blue Eyes"
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"Mannian Wood" (to tune of Beatles "Norwegian Wood")
"Don't Think Twice, It's Alright" (Dylan)
"Play Mikie Play" (to tune of Dylan's "Lay Lady Lay")
"Knockin' on Mikie's Door" (tune of Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door")
"Tangled Up in Spew" (tune of Dylan's "Tangled Up in Blue")
sorry, all, as soon as I started this the flood of songs came, but I'll step away from the computer now!!!
Here comes the Sun - George Harrison
Ashes To The Wind by (MANFRED) MANN'S EARTH BAND
Fan The Fire by EARTH, WIND AND FIRE
Fantasy by Earth, Wind & Fire
Don't Overheat On Me by The Phenomenauts
Temperature by Aerosmith
Check Yo Temperature by Tech N9ne
Theme tune from the 'A Team' and 'Team America: World Police'
Watermelon Mann
heyyy what about the
"MISSION IMPOSSIBLE" theme song:
Mission Impossible theme song
[trying to stop myself here]
Martin A: "Watermelon Mann" Bravo. Cheers. Right-on!
Young Mann, are you listening to me?
I said, young Mann, what do you want to be?
I said, young Mann, you can make real your dreams.
But you got to know this one thing!
No man does it all by himself.
I said, young Mann, put your pride on the shelf,
And just go there, to the I.P.C.C.
I'm sure they can help you today.
It's fun to stay at the I-P-C-C.
It's fun to stay at the I-P-C-C.
They have everything for activists to enjoy,
You can hang out with all the team ...
It's fun to stay at the I-P-C-C.
It's fun to stay at the I-P-C-C.
Fifty ways to cheat a paper - Paul Simon
Those Malevolent Men In Their Lying Machines.
They Go Up, Tiddly, Up, Up.
Never Down, Tiddly, Down, Down.
They Enchant All Enviros And Steal All The Scenes
With their Up, Tiddly, Up, Up
Never Down, Diddy, Down, Down.
Climate Changes
Still don't know what I was waitin' for
And my time was runnin' wild
A million dead end streets and
Every time I thought I'd got it made
It seemed the taste was not so sweet
So I turned myself to face me
But I've never caught a glimpse of
How the others must see the faker
I'm much too fast to take that test
Cl-cl-climate-changes
Turn and face the strange
Climate-changes
Don't want to be a richer man
Cl-cl-climate-changes
Turn and face the strange
Climate-changes
Just gonna have to be a climate man
H/T Bowie
Don't know much about history
Don't know much climatology
Don't know much about a science book
Don't know much about the stats I took
But I do know Shaun I love you
And I know that if you love me too
What a wonderful world this would be
(etc.)
Climate Mann
And all this climate science
I don't understand
It's just my job
Five days a week
A climate Mann
A climate Mann
And I think it's gonna be a long, long, time
'Til touchdown brings me 'round again to find
I'm not the Mann they think I am at home
Ah, no no no
I'm a Climate Mann
Climate Mann
Burnin' out his fuse
And debate alone
H/T Elton
"You took the words right out of my mouth" = TAMeatloaf
And of course who can forget that old favourite by the Guess Who -
"Shakun All Over"
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
The Mann who warmed the world.
"Who knows? Not me,
We never lost control.
You're face to face
With the Mann who warmed the world."
These are all Beatles songs. Enjoy.
* Mean Mr. McIntyre
* Baby I’m a Rich Man
* All You Need is a Hockey Stick
* Taxman
* Norwegian Wood (This Bird has Moved North Due to Global Warming)
* Sgt. Mann’s Lonely Blogs Echo Chamber
* Back in the U.S.S.R.
* While My Hockey Stick Gently Weeps
* You Should Give Me Your Money
* Magical Mystery Data
Proxy Music – Garland, Maine
Make me a deal and make it straight
All signed and sealed, I'll take it
To Michael E. Mann I'll show it
I hope and pray he don't blow it 'cause
We've been around a long time just try try try tryin' to
Make the big time
Wheres the Hockey game?, Garland, Maine.
Stuck in the Middle with Yew - (Stealers Wheel)
Everybody Wants to Rule the World - (Tears for Fears)
The Model - (Kraftwerk)
Unbelievable - (EMF)
Always the Sun - (The Stranglers)
The Scientist - (Coldplay)
The Bogus Man - (Proxy Music)- (and I claim my fiver!)
The World is Cold Without You - (Nirvana UK 1970)
Open Your Eyes - (Snow Patrol)
In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia,
On the trail of the lonesome pine
In the warm sunshine, our heat divined
He found his cone and I found mine
Oh, Mann. Like the mountains are blue
Like the pine, I'm lonesome for you...
Fabulous, Josh (as always) ... and clearly from all subsequent comments highly inspirational! And theduke ....
@Apr 6, 2013 at 6:41 PM: re the far, far better thing that Foster/Tamino has ever done:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q9-var1f8w&list=PLC3708E5838A7D3C7&index=5
certainly no argument from me on that one (or with the tunes that follow!)
And now for my own modest contributions to the songbook ...
To the tune of The Bare Naked Ladies' If I had a million dollars:
If I had a million datapoints (or alternatively:)
If I had a million proxies
For the back to the medieval future crowd, to the tune of Greensleeves (of course!):
Alas, my audience, you do me wrong
To treat me so discourteously
For I have laboured all night long
In the cause of sustainability
And (considering the source of initial "inspiration" ... from The Graduate and with sincere apologies to Simon and Garfunkel:)
And here's to you, Mr. Michael Mann
Marcott loves you more than you will know
Gaia bless you, please, Mr. Michael Mann
Heaven holds a place for those who play
Hey, hey, hey
We'd like to know a little bit about you and your files
We'd like to help you learn about yourself.
Look around you all you see are sycophantic eyes,
Strut around the 'net until you feel at home.
And here's to you, Mr. Michael Mann
Gergis loves you more than you will know
Gaia bless you, please, Mr. Michael Mann
Heaven holds a place for those who play
Hey, hey, hey
Hide it in the hiding place where no one ever goes.
Put it in your chart with all your upticks
It's a little secret just the climatologists' affair.
Most of all you've got to hide it from the press.
Koo-koo-ka-choo, Mr. Michael Mann,
Pachy loves you more than you will know.
Gaia bless you, please, Mr. Michael Mann
Heaven holds a place for those who play,
Hey, hey, hey
Sitting on a hot-spot on a Sunday afternoon.
Steering clear of all adverse debate.
Laugh about it, shout about it
When you've got to choose
Every trick you play's a trick you lose.
Where have you gone, Jim the Hansen man,
Our paper turns it's tainted eyes to you.
What's that you say, Mr. Michael Mann
NASA's Jim has left and gone away,
Hey hey hey.
And for an encore ... the climateers' all-time, all-purpose favourite (to the tune of S & G's Sounds of Silence):
Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to serve some tricks again
Because my proxies weren't worth keeping
Without adjustments and much tweaking
And the vision that would gain me so much fame
Still sustains
Within the sounds of silence.
As I posted earlier at WUWT (where this thread is linked) - these are all actual songs on the theme of cheatin'
Ref “Your Cheatin’ Heart” – surely Josh meant “Your Cheatin’ Graph” ?
[or as another poster suggested, "Your Cheatin' Chart"]
Here are a few more songs for the Tammy Manns to sing:
Always the Last to Know
Between the Cheats
Cheater Cheater
Cookie Jar
Hole in the Head
I Don’t Wanna Know
It Wasn’t Me
Would I Lie to You?
Should’ve Said No
Things That Make You Go Hmmmmm
and...
Party’s Over
Lyin Eyes
Bassline Junkie! D. Rascal
I'm overwhelmed, but still we had our season in the sun.
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"The Trail of the Bristlecone Pine".
In this drawing Tamino looks identical to William Connolly (or however it is he spells it). Could they be clowns?
one other opportunity Josh, Shades. They are sold in the US under the name Foster Grant.
Green Door by Shakun Stevens
Green door what's that secret you're keepin'?
There's an old piano
And they play it hot
Behind the green door (Green Door)
Don't know what they're doin'
But they laugh a lot
Behind the green door. (Green Door)
Wish they'd let me in
So I could find out
What's behind the green door. (Green Door)
Knocked once tried to tell 'em I'd been there
Door slammed hospitality's thin there.
Wonder just what's goin' on in there.
Comfortably Dumb
Blinded By Science - Thomas Dolby
Kill The Poor - Dead Kennedys
This Is Religion - Public Image Ltd