More battling - Josh 241

 

The post on Rob Wilson's lecture has certainly caused some seismic activity in the climate blogosphere.

Cartoons by Josh

Update on Oct 22, 2013 by Josh

Now added some mangled Shakespeare to the cartoon. Thankyou Phillip Bratby for the quote and for noticing the hockey stick. I have added Anthony's description of it, also noted by JJ over at WUWT. So a big Hat tip to all three of you!

Comments

[Pharos]

Nature's trick redux.

[HaroldW]

Between a crock and a tarred trace.

[Phillip Bratby]

Is that a hockey stick I see before me?

[Hilary Ostrov]

@ Phillip Bratby

Indeed ... so pls. forgive me for ...

Alas, poor Mann, we knew him well

Out! Out! Damn crock

The moving goal-posts of East Anglia woods

Et tu, Wilson?

;-)

P.S. Wonderful work, as always, Josh!

[jay currie]

Oh what a work is Mann.

It is rare to see someone actually dig their grave tweet by tweet; but armed with only a broken stick Mann is getting the job done.

Josh, as ever, the puzzled look tells the tale.

Thank you.

[Phillip Bratby]

@ Hilary

Just to expand a little, Shakespeare being so prescient:

Is this a hockey stick which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
A hockey stick of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
I see thee yet, in form as palpable
As this which now I draw.

[Doug UK]

Hats off to Tasmin Edwards for having the guts to stand up to Mann who acts like little more than a kindergarten playground bully.

As others have said - he is digging his own scientific demise with each petulant dummy spitting tweet.

He should remember - "Too many Tweets make a Twat"

(Twat - UK English for Cooch)

[Messenger]

How to win friends and influence people

Michael E. Mann ‏@MichaelEMann 6h
@flimsin Tamsin, I don’t need to be lectured on “tone” by you, of all people. Uninterested in a profile-raising twitter debate w/ you.

[Arthur Dent]

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geoffreylean/100021024/gummer-goes-on-getting-greener/

Those, like me, with long memories will remember that our friend Lord Deben was once described in a similar way

[Hilary Ostrov]

@ Phillip Bratby

Nice one! And with sincere apologies to the late great prescient bard, I offer ..

The quality of climate science is quite strained
It droppeth as the heavy rain from Pachauri
Upon the place beneath. It is twice cursed:
It curseth him that's pal reviewed and him that's not
'Tis gloomiest in the gloomiest: It becomes
The Mannian monarch better than his stick
A sceptic shows the force of statistical power
The attributes and detection
Wherein doth sit the doom and gloom of man
But no mercy is above the unsceptic sway
It is enshrined in their feet of clay
It is an attribute to Gaia herself
And peon power doth then show likest Nature's
When common sense seasons reason.

[Sleepalot]

Ode to a Po.

Shall I compare thee to Mann's PCA?
Thou art more shapely and more numerate.

( A po can handle numbers one and two.)

[Neil McEvoy]

The stick's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing.

[Josh]

Love all the Shakespeare!

[Phillip Bratby]

Thanks Josh: As I said above, the bard was so prescient.

[John Silver]

Reading this while listening to ELO, I bow my head in the general direction of England.

[ktwop]

The Many Crocks of Mann
The Mann of many crocks

[Pharos]

I said 'I'm a big follower of google' not 'a big swallower of pot noodle!'

[Pharos]

“A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation”
Mark Twain quote