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Another in the Surreal Climate series - in response the WUWT story about the EPA rejecting CO2 petitions
I think we all know what the decent thing to do would be...
This week we had stories about how climate indicators show that the globe is warming.
(7 or 11 depending on how confused you get by the story - H/t Matt at WUWT for helping me out here)
Not very controversial, you might say - but the slightly nutty tone attracted my attention -
"Lo, the climate is getting hotter therefore we are doomed" kind of thing.
Not sure where the idea of breakfast cereal and Kool Aid Kats came from.
Talking of nutty flakiness, here is another story at Roger Pielke Jr on 'Silly Science' about the vast hordes
of Mexicans that are set to invade the US as soon as it get too hot in Mexico. Why the penguin?
Well, all the Colombians will be moving to Mexico and all the Ecuadorians to Columbia and all the Peruvians, etc etc...
leaving Chile free to become home to all the Antarctic penguins - at least I think that's the logic.
Michael Oppenheimer even wrote a response which was inspiring.
A couple of weeks ago I started a new series called 'Fantasy Climate' where anything goes really - even the title apparently!
So the next week I called it 'Surreal Climate' - H/t Tallbloke - rather a nice allusion to another blog.
A couple so far. This is for all those who found Tamino's review of the Hockey Stick Illusion
on 'Real Climate' to be slightly wrong. This sets it right.
This first one is Phil and Steve meeting at the pub. It didn't happen, but it should have.
Looks like someone has been stringing us along for some time
From a post over at Climate Audit - Phil Willis calls it 'Sleight of hand'
Another interesting reaction to the various inquiries into Climategate.
Lucia requested a puppet cartoon - here it is. Lucia has kindly pointed out
that I have done exactly the opposite of what a chap called David Brin described - sorry about that.
With all the whitewashing inquiries around this came to mind.
There is a badge competition over at WUWT and many thanks to Anthony
for posting a whole load of mine. Here is the Roger Pielke Jr badge.
I hope it is not too subtle - if you regularly read his blogs you will get it (and he likes it!)
There is a bit of a to do over at Keith's about the word Warmista.
To me it sounds like barista (which would be my all time favourite job)
and so has an affectionate tone, and much nicer than 'warmist' or 'alarmist'.
But do let me know if I have got this wrong.
A story dubbed Judithgate - Leangate might be better, especially as we dont want to get confused
with Judith Curry, who is like the Joan of Arc in the climate universe: for her honesty, her intelligence
and her courage to be a standard bearer for science - so I drew this.
...an idea that came from her saying she was throwing down the gauntlet on this thread at Collide-a-scape.
H/t and many thanks to Kendra for sending through the links, and to Bishop Hill for suggesting the hockey sticks.
Judith was of course referring to the excellent book The Hockey Stick Illusion
which anyone who is interested in Climate Science should read. Seriously.
There is a very colourful spat going on between Monbiot, Delingpole and North
Following a request by Anthony at WUWT and discusion at The Blackboard
about there being some climate skeptic yellow badges I thought an Anthony badge and a Lucia badge would be fun - see above.
And so no one feels left out below is a Warmista badge, and, because I couldn't resist, a Monckton badge.
The third one is an attempt at a collective skeptic badge - rainbow/weather/climate/hope/pormise...
and, yes, other groups use rainbow badges - so really useful for all kinds of marches you find yourself on ;-)
And a thank you badge for Atomic Hairdryer.
Also one for another articulate poster, Raven
(and hoping he/she will get in touch so I can do an 'inhabitants' cartoon)
And Bishop Hill of course.
Roger Pielke Junior gets into a bit of trouble with his readers
Anthony Watts - a true Titan of the Climate Blogosphere
Oh, yes they would.
The Insanity of Greenery H/T Bishop Hill
The now famous Unit Root thread at Bart's
Immediately below is a new series of cartoons about the characters that inhabit the blogosphere
With their crazy names and anonymity, dogged perisitence, finely crafted (occasionally) arguments
and saintly dedication, they all are most inspiring! More of these to come.
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Phil Jones goes before the UK Parliamentary select committee into the leaked Climategate emails. H/T W. F. Yeames
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