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Excellent comedy, if you haven’t already seen this. (Adapted from the Stage Play “Yes Prime Minister”) Yes Prime Minister Global Warming etc Part 1 from Aris Motas on Vimeo. Part II Yes Prime Minister Global Warming etc Part 2 from Aris Motas on Vimeo. Written by Antony Jay and Johnathan Lynn. BBC. h/t Waxing Gibberish and Friends of Science on Facebook. 9.8 out of 10 based on 102 ratings June 23rd, 2017 | Tags: Satire & Parody | Category: Funny stuff, Global Warming |  Print This Post | | UPDATE: It is apparently funded by the Arts Council England. Couldn’t we guess? A new climate forcing, let’s call it Musikiness, will change the upper trough-o-sphere: Climate change data is being transformed into beautiful symphonies What is the sound of a dying planet? Translating hard facts into feeling is the issue of our age – and it is the task Climate Symphony have appointed themselves. A collective of artists and scientists, the London-based team are inspiring action by transforming climate change data into music. Listen at the link. Wait til you see what it can do. This is a pretty powerful tool: “Climate Symphony has developed a side-project – calling out lies in politics.” “We want to create a formal record,” she says, “A method of fact-checking the things Trump is saying, of finding distortions. It’s revealing. You’re looking at it, and listening to it, and you find that it’s distorted. It’s all distorted.” Musikiness could replace the US GAO. (Who needs auditors). But I worry about what happens if they use the wrong key. Finally, twenty years late, EcoWorriers care about transparency and “hard facts”: “…it isn’t just […] June 20th, 2017 | Tags: Satire & Parody | Category: Funny stuff, Global Warming | Print This Post | | William M. Briggs would be the smartest, funniest and best informed Climate Editor the New York Times ever had. He’d put the Times back on the map as the frontline of debate. As such, there is no way he will get this job (and this is a real application). He’s the perfect candidate — the Statistician to the Stars has published actual papers on climate models, uncertainty, and yet also writes with wit and humor. Guys like William are the reason the new media is killing the old. A few snippets here, the whole letter at Brigg’s Blog http://wmbriggs.com: New York Times Is Looking For A Climate Change Editor. That’s Me! It is the Times’s tremendous luck that I’m at liberty, ready, and willing to take on this monumental task. Together we can screw people’s heads back on straight and get them to worry about something really important. Like the rise of politics dictating science and the corrupting influence of money. I am an actual bona fide scientist. I have published actual articles in the Journal of Climate, among many others. My specialty is in the value and goodness of models, and the expense and badness […] September 14th, 2016 | Tags: Briggs (William), Satire & Parody | Category: Funny stuff, Media-matters | Print This Post | | Eggs and Bacon Bay, Tasmania Their billion-dollar-ABC reports every irrelevant thought bubble a greenie group can dream up: “PETA launches bid to change Eggs and Bacon Bay to healthy alternative” The ABC can’t find a single local who wants the change, but they treat the fantasy to a three-photo feature, complete with expert opinions and interviews. The locals think the idea is a bad joke. Listen to Doug: …Doug said locals were perfectly happy with the name. “These single-interest groups ought to go overseas and annoy the shit out of ISIS,” he said. The only person outside the ABC who thinks this issue is worth discussing is some poor chicken mayor who is happy to sell out the locals for fear of offending the busybody control-freaks: Huon Valley Mayor Peter Coad is willing to consider the idea. “Obviously these issues should be taken seriously and have some merit,” he said. Dear Mayor Coad, PETA are demanding a meat-free map. You think this is serious? One type of Eggs And Bacon Flower. The town, by the way, is named after a flower. That’ll be next on the hit list, and before […] August 9th, 2016 | Tags: ABC, Media bias | Category: Funny stuff, Global Warming, Media-matters | Print This Post | | You know it makes sense — air conditioners are as dangerous as suicide bombers. They must be stopped. Next up, refrigerators… Here’s a petition you can support: Do it for the children, for the future. Remove air conditioning from all US State Department property. WHEREAS, Secretary of State John F. Kerry has suggested that air conditioners are as big a threat as ISIS, and WHEREAS, it is the duty of our elected and appointed government officials to lead by example, 9.3 out of 10 based on 108 ratings Things are really getting serious now. There is not only extinction and endless droughts, but there are depressed dogs. Unprecedented depressed dogs. The chain of effect goes like this: electric heaters cause climate change which makes winters wetter in England and owners don’t like mud, so ipso, ergo, garbo, dogs get stuck indoors, go stir crazy and rip furniture. I presume the answer to this is to sell the car, cancel the heating, and wait for the world to warm cool for your dog to get happy? Leading pet behaviourists told The Independent that the number of depressed and unsettled dogs they have seen in recent months is unprecedented. Carolyn Menteith, a dog behaviourist who was named Britain’s Instructor of the Year in 2015, says Global Warming might be causing pets to become depressed: “I’ve never seen our dogs or horses this bored before in 20 years. Yes, this is the worst in recorded history, or 20 years, whichever comes first. Horses that have lived happily outside before are saying ‘I actually can’t cope with this mud and wet anymore’…”. For me, the unprecedented thing here is the talking horse. […] February 6th, 2016 | Tags: Blame CO2, Satire & Parody | Category: Funny stuff, Global Warming | Print This Post | | Big Oil knows no bounds. Not only can it derail governments, and thwart the UN, World Bank, and IMF but now it may be sending out climate death squads to assassinate Arctic Ice Experts. These expert hit squads apparently push people down stairs, run them off the road, and strike them down with lightning. Lightning! (That is one mother of aTesla Coil.) James Bond could learn something. Q, where are you? Prof Wadhams at Cambridge has been the go-to man for Arctic scare stories across the UK (h/t Delingpole). In 2012, Wadhams predicted Arctic Sea Ice was set to collapse in just four years. Last year, after years of a relentlessly surviving Arctic, even some alarmists threw Wadham under the bus, (so to speak) as being too “extremist”. But now he’s topped that. You see, in January 2013 there were four leading Arctic experts in the UK, now there is one, and he is very very worried. No, seriously, you can’t make this up. Let’s try to imagine how much more profitable Big Oil would be if every single Arctic climate expert in the World was dead. (Count the zeros…) The utter futility of it all escapes Wadhams. After a […] July 27th, 2015 | Tags: Conspiracy Theorist, Lewandowsky (Stephan), Psychology | Category: Funny stuff, Global Warming, Psychology | Print This Post | | Not only climate change destroy coffee, chocolate and beer, but war is going to ruin your weekends too. When war breaks out and they come for your first-born, you may ask if you should’ve left the car in the garage more. You may wonder if you could have used public transport, and converted all the lights to LEDs sooner and only eaten locally sourced oranges. Feel the guilt. Send them your money. Walk for Peace! There is no end to the combinations and permutations of ways to use fear to ask for funds. Before we set up Departments of Climate Change, Global carbon trading markets, Emissions reductions schemes, and prepare our Defence Force for the wave of violent desperate climate refugees that were forecast but didn’t come, we need one thing more than any other. We need climate models that actually work. “Climate change will destabilise our region and undermine our way of life, yet we are doing nothing to prevent it.” Exactly, we are doing nothing, nothing useful at all. Though we are pouring billions of dollars down deep wells trying to reduce CO2, and prepare for a climate we absolutely cannot predict. (Is that the […] June 22nd, 2015 | Tags: Blame CO2, Peak Fear, Satire & Parody | Category: Funny stuff, Global Warming | Print This Post | | More adventures in science from The Guardian. “No more beer, chocolate or coffee: how climate change could ruin your weekend”. Obviously, since coffee, hops, and cocoa are all plants which like arctic weather and frosts, and grow mainly in Greenland glaciers, a warmer world will devastate these essential foods. I’m in tears just thinking about it. Likewise, being alien silicon lifeforms, these plants will struggle as the pollution called carbon dioxide rises from 0.04% of the atmosphere to 0.05%. Oh the pain. If only these plants used CO2 as a basic building block like every other plant on Earth. It must be tough being so much smarter than the rest of the world. …. Somehow, somewhere, The Guardian become The Guard-Onion. I just can’t take these people seriously anymore. Dear Karl Matheisen, what were you thinking? No more beer, chocolate or coffee: how climate change could ruin your weekend Karl Mathiesen Climate change is the biggest threat to all of civilisation our species has faced since the 80s. Scientists say rising seas will envelope major cities around the world while heatwaves will bring wildfires and torrential rains bring floods. And the global economy is stuffed. […] June 11th, 2015 | Tags: Peak Fear, Peak Grain Production, Satire & Parody, The Guardian | Category: Funny stuff, Global Warming | Print This Post | | Never ever take the thought police seriously. I’m not sexist, I’m not racist, I’m not ageist. We just hate old white men. Comedian: Neel Kolhatkar, Melbourne. | Youtube. UPDATE: I’m reminded of this Sydney Morning Herald article two weeks ago. “Seven words you didn’t know were racist”. (Kaffir Lime. Peanut Gallery. Barbarian. Paddy Wagon. Gyp. Bugger and Sold down the River.) We can always rely on the SMH. h/t warcroft 9.4 out of 10 based on 35 ratings February 8th, 2015 | Tags: Political Correctness, YouTube | Category: Free Speech, Funny stuff, Global Warming | Print This Post | | I guess scientific debate is too hard for some people. While skeptics want to talk about the evidence, some people just want to put their heads in the sand. This story tritely reminds us that a picture is worth a thousands words. Indeed! The original caption read “Townsville Salutes the Australian government for their achievements in combating climate change”. But the scientific evidence is clear that there are more accurate captions, so I thought I’d help them — strictly in the spirit of satire of course. … Fully 99% of climate models didn’t predict global warming would slow. Even in hindsight, they still don’t know why it happened. The organizers want the idea to spread: Mr Hirst said he hoped that the concept would take off and that others would set up their own shots. “People seem to like the idea … I would love to see people do it on Bondi Beach.” Go for it, I say. Tweet this!
… Click here for the story of the 28 million weather balloons, and how tricky the IPCC can be at ignoring them. There’s more on the missing Hot Spot here. […] September 24th, 2014 | Tags: Satire & Parody | Category: Funny stuff, Global Warming | Print This Post | | This is a good sign. And oh boy, there is so much more material to extend this theme. I predict we’ll see a lot more of this new form of public debate… Michael Loftus does do a good Al Gore. Some very funny comments about this on The Blaze. Ridicule and mockery rather takes the fun out of things for the bully-boys of climate fear. It will dent recruitment. So how long before DeSmog find a link to The Kochs?
H/t Sam. 9.5 out of 10 based on 76 ratings Back when CO2 levels were ideal, and there were 1 billion less cars than today, monsoons always happened in the same place, the rain was the same year after year, and there were no local extinctions of animals. If we could only return to renewable slave power: [ScienceDaily] The researchers identified five episodes over the past 6,000 years when dramatic changes occurred in Egypt’s mammalian community, three of which coincided with extreme environmental changes as the climate shifted to more arid conditions. These drying periods also coincided with upheaval in human societies, such as the collapse of the Old Kingdom around 4,000 years ago and the fall of the New Kingdom about 3,000 years ago. “There were three large pulses of aridification as Egypt went from a wetter to a drier climate, starting with the end of the African Humid Period 5,500 years ago when the monsoons shifted to the south,” Yeakel said. “At the same time, human population densities were increasing, and competition for space along the Nile Valley would have had a large impact on animal populations.” No climate models were harmed in the production of this paper. 8.8 out of 10 based on 66 ratings […] September 9th, 2014 | Tags: Satire & Parody | Category: Funny stuff, Global Warming | Print This Post | | Amazing what they can discover with data from just the last 130 years. Hey but it must be right. It’s bootstrapped! Finally, the study you’ve been waiting for. Now we can be absolutely certain — it’s practically proven beyond all doubt — your SUV changes the climate. We just need to assume the climate models understand the climate and that there are no longer natural cycles at work AND that there are no effects from the sun from the solar wind, solar magnetic fields, or spectral changes. Easy. (Don’t look at the evidence, the pause or all the model failures.) The new headline: 99.999% certainty humans are driving global warming: new study It’s at The Conversation – -the government funded site where government funded scientists discuss their bestest ideas. WARNING – Modern global temperatures (red) were homogenized with imaginary Vostok data for entertainment purposes only. See footnote* Obviously being 95% certain is not enough. Desperate believers are upping the ante. I guess all those people who were not convinced by 95% certainty will now switch over, blown away by the last 4.999% certainty that was missing before. It’s the third decimal place that does it. PS: There’s […] September 5th, 2014 | Tags: CSIRO, Satire & Parody, Statistics | Category: Funny stuff, Global Warming | Print This Post | | Blades being chopped for transport. | Global Cement Magazine It’s the new alternative fuel — decommissioned turbines. There are 21,000 wind turbines in Germany alone at the moment. With 15,000 tons a year of old blades expected to be dumped by 2019, it’s a real problem to get rid of them. The EU says they can’t be dumped in landfill. Here’s the perfect solution. Chop them, shred them, then deliver the fibreglass reinforced plastic to the local cement plant. The resins hold 15MJ per kilo. “One tonne of resin saves 600 kg of coal at the cement plant!” It’s a win-win all round. Residents get rid of the bird chopping towers, the cement plant gets energy, and the windmills may, possibly for the first time, save some CO2 for the Greens. What’s not to like? Indeed this is recycling you can like. The raw materials in old blades can even be used in the cement too. Wind Turbines make good alternative fuels for cement production. Global Cement Magazine Sept 2014 page 10 9.4 out of 10 based on 90 ratings […] UPDATE: After I wrote this Brandon published the letter in full and raised some provocative questions. (See below) —————————— What bad news for The University of Queensland. Their entire legal staff were on holiday at the same time and this eminent university was protected only by a Law & Society 101 student who staffed the overnight service of FreeLegalAidOnline. A mockfest is ensuing across the Internet. It is so unfair. A year ago John Cook published another 97% study (the magic number that all consensuses must find). It was published under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license (see Anthony Watts view). Cook’s work is obviously impeccable (except for the part about 97% being really 0.3%), but evidently it uses a special new kind of “open data”. The exact date and time each anonymized reviewer reviewed a sacred scientific abstract is commercial and must be kept secret. These volunteer reviewers allegedly stand to, er … lose a lot of money if that data is revealed (they won’t be employed again for no money?). Such is the importance of this that the University of Queensland left the data on secret-secret forum protected by no passwords and then put […] May 18th, 2014 | Tags: Cook (John), JoNova's Favourites, Satire & Parody, SkepticalScience (debunking) | Category: Funny stuff, Global Warming | Print This Post | | A miracle has occurred, climate models which have been plagued with failure and have finally been gifted with The Scientific Truth. Apparently the God of Weather has visited upon Matthew England and others. (We wonder why God didn’t visit earlier, but are grateful for this insight.) The climate models didn’t predict Antarctic sea ice extent trends. Polar amplification was supposed to mean it would warm twice as fast at the poles, yet inconveniently after years of massive output of CO2 — above the levels assumed in the models — Antarctic sea ice has hit another record high. Finally in the eighth round of making excuses for their excuses, the Scientific Truth has emerged to sweep away the scientific untruths that went before. (After all, climate models couldn’t possibly have been expected to understand heat flow around the planet could they?) The yellow line shows how much rain Antarctica is stealing and dumping as sea ice. If you turn on your tumble drier the penguins in Antarctica have to walk further.
Ocean winds keep Antarctica cold, Australia dry Science Daily May 11, 2014 Source: Australian National University New research has explained why Antarctica is not warming as much as […] May 12th, 2014 | Tags: Antarctica, England (Matthew), Satire & Parody | Category: Funny stuff, Global Warming, Logic & Reason | Print This Post | | Global panic — strictly for your weekend entertainment. Enjoy! … … The funny side of screaming for the climate.
h/t Geoff S : – ) 9.2 out of 10 based on 88 ratings April 13th, 2014 | Tags: ABC, Satire & Parody, YouTube | Category: Funny stuff, Global Warming | Print This Post | | A reader here sent me this excellent letter, which definitely deserves to be shared, and widely. Enjoy! – Jo A Guest Post by the Clipped-Wing Warrior Hi, there. I’m a Global Warming sceptic. By that I mean that I am sceptical of all but the first of the Ten Tenets of the Church of Global Warming, which are; The globe warmed over the course of the 20th century. The globe is warming right now. The global warming is going to continue in the future. This warming is unusual, unnatural, and unprecedented. This warming is an overall bad thing. This warming is caused mainly by increased CO2 levels in the atmosphere. Human CO2 emissions are responsible for most of the warming. Humans are capable of reducing their global CO2 emissions. A significant amount of warming could be avoided if humans reduced their CO2 emissions. The amount of CO2 emissions reductions that would be achieved by bringing in a CO2 tax will reduce the amount of global warming by a large enough amount as to be worth the economic pain that would come with the application of a CO2 tax. Apparently, to be a true Warmist you must confirm your belief […] April 8th, 2014 | Tags: JoNova's Favourites, Religion, Satire & Parody | Category: Funny stuff, Global Warming | Print This Post | | RMR (Rick Mercer Report) sends up the long winter. Love that Canadian sense of humour. : – ) Pace, Paul Howard’s comment on youtube: here’s sending a group hug for our Canadian friends. h/t Richard 9.6 out of 10 based on 80 ratings March 25th, 2014 | Tags: Funny, Satire & Parody, YouTube | Category: Funny stuff, Global Warming | Print This Post | | |
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