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A frenetically busy week with a stream of interesting stories to cartoon plus
the return to work after the Christmas and New Year break.
Frist there was a poor debate on the Green Agenda in thew House of Lords
where the discussion seemed to wander around and even encompassed the
subject of food though it was difficult to understand what it had to do with the
subject in hand - unless of course there had been a bit of a misunderstanding and
they thought they were talking about vegetables.
Over at WUWT there was a post called Winegate about a
a scientific researcher falsifying the evidence that wine is good for you,
With the Doomsday clock moving 5 minutes to midnight I thought this made
perfect sense.
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Judith Curry has a great post about what looks like an interesting new book by
David Weinberger Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts are Everywhere,
and the Smartest Person in the Room is the Room.
Feels like familiar territory.
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and a very Happy Christmas and prosperous New Year to everyone!
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Mugs and stuff have appeared here
www.cafepress.co.uk/cartoonsbyjosh and cartoonsbyjosh.spreadshirt.co.uk/
14th Dec, Rog Tallbloke, a very nice bloke as it happens, was raided by the police
Will update this when I hear more. In the meantime, a summary.
Handy notice for your workplace
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Remember this? A huge thank you to all those who donated funds to me during Al Gore's 24 hours of Climate Reality.
You gave me so much encouragement and some extra time to do a coloured poster. So here it is.
I can get these printed locally and sent out to anyone who wants one (it will probably cost approx £10 for an A3 print +P&P)
Or you can download the high res version (5000px wide) and print it yourself. I will send the link to all who donated.
And, of course, anyone else who is interested - just email me. josh at cartoonsbyjosh.com
The version below is lower res (1800 px) version but probably ok for printing A4 or smaller.
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I am finishing off the scanning of the cartoons from Wednesday and thought this
deserved its own spot - it is my favorite from the day.
Donna's new book - a devastating critique of the IPCC - is out now and
selling like hotcakes - buy the PDF version here, the Kindle version here,
or the paperback version here at Amazon
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Too hilarious...
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The day job is extraordinarily busy right now but I felt this needed cartooning.
James Delingpole writes about The Linear No Threshold Hypothesis
It is a brilliant wheeze. By working out how many deaths are caused by a big amount
of toxin you can work backwards and predict how many deaths a tiny amount would cause. Simples.
Of course this could work for anything - like Green policies. Just work out how many people will
die because of fuel poverty this winter due to green policies, and work back to
how many deaths there are per Green Politician (Watermelon cf Delingpole).
So really it is always time to harvest Watermelons...
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A storm in a teacup, local climate science weather, or a new significant trend appearing?
David Rose's article here, Judith's reply here, and her BEST teambuilding here,
my cartoon here ;-)
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A crazy few days of BEST this and BEST that. Not sure I understood it all but this
seemed like an appropriate way of illustrating what happened...
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This week has all been the blog heavywwight wrestling match between
Lucia and Christopher Monckton in a discussion which is way above my grey cell grade.
After much behind the scenes discussion and some trepidation as to the deep water I might be getting into
I have come up with a series of cartoons - here are the first two.
Feel free to interpret them as you wish, is this Pirates of the Caribbean or Peter Pan? You decide.
Keira Knightley was, of course, the stand in model for Lucia in the first cartoon.
Part 4? Who knows... I will be reading the blogs with interest
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It has been an uncomfortable week for John Cook's crew at Skeptical Science-o-logy site.
First they got into trouble harrassing Roger Pielke Senior - which must be one of the worst
things you can do in the climate blogosphere. Roger leaves a final comment here.
Then it was discovered that John updated an article on Antractic ice but left the comments to the old article,
which they (John Cook, one of the mods?) responded to making the commenters look daft.
Excuses and explanations followed but things did not quite add up.
And then Lucia joined in.
Furious comments on blogs all round, all week,
and a lot of enjoyment by many at the expense of said crew.
We simply had way too much fun.
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A New Atlas of the World for Incomprehensible Times
There has been a considerable fuss about the feel-good 14th Edition of the Times Atlas of the World
even in the Guardian, which did elicit an apology from the Times.
Subsequently James Delingpole wrote a delightful spoof
which did not go down too well in the Maldives
Comment and cartoon at BishopHill too, of course.
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There is a post over at Climate Etc about Cool Dudes.
I may well have completely misunderstood the post but it seems
to be about a paper describing so called 'Climate Change Deniers' whatever that means.
I rather like the term cool dude so I think I will be using that from now on...
I am a cool dude, oh yeah.
There is also quite a bit around about Polar Bears at the moment,
they are cool dudes too. I know this because of the Tshirts they wear.
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Sea Levels
A suspiciously graphed paper here, discussed here, and here at WUWT.
And of course elsewhere, like here, in one of the funniest threads I have read,
and which is summarised by this.
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Christopher Booker suggested a lovely idea for his latest article
They did not use it there... it is here instead ;-)
Also from the article, the sad fact that Wind Turbines, much loved by the renewable energy lobby,
require back up generators if they are going to supply continuous energy.
So what is the difference bewteen now and a greener future? More dead birds and a hideous view? Great.
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Apologies for another rather dark cartoon - this time it's for the birds!
The original article here
It is the kind of thing get's me very upset...
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An interesting new crime has been proposed.
from here
Sounds daft but I can think of a good example!
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Nursing a hurt.
Obama chose not to attend a dinner in his honour at the Royal Society where
he would have been given a medal - he chose to visit a school, Globe Academy, instead.
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10th May 2011 - Conference on the Science and Economics of Climate Change.
Downing College, Cambridge. Sponsored by the Howard Foundation
The nine fascinating lectures from Phil Jones, Andrew Watson, John Mitchell,
Michael Lockwood, Henrik Svensmark, Nils-Axel Morner, Ian Plimer,
Vaclav Klaus and Nigel Lawson are summarised visually here.
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Sir Paul Nurse and the BBC Horizon: Science under attack programme
This was fun! Trying to get across the actual amounts of manmade vs natural CO2.
I had help with this from Aynsley Kellow
so it has been peer reviewed,
except of course I know that I am way lower on the 'peer' scale than Aynsley!
Thanks too to Andrew Montford and Richard Drake who also helped and please
do send me corrections - happy to amend if I have got anything wrong.
(BTW you can also view this image slightly bigger - click and choose 'view image')
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Had a early 2012 spring clean of the cartoons on this page - hopefully everyone
who wants one has a local copy.
Many thanks to these referring blogs
Bishop Hill • WUWT • Climate Audit • The Blackboard • Judith Curry • Roger Pielke Jr • Jo Nova
The Climate Scam • Our changing climate • James Delingpole • RealClimateGate • Tallbloke • The Air Vent • Shub's blog
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