Thanks for looking!
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There is a lovely cartoon over at Roger Pielke Jr's which, delightful though it is,
helps perpetuate the myth that Global Warming is somehow an issue for climate skeptics.
It isn't.
The issue is Catastrophic Anthropogenic, and specifically that singularly caused by CO2,
Global Warming and the alarmist hype surrounding the lack of science
and the punitive energy policies that have been pursued in response to a non problem.
So I decided to do my own version of the cartoon - with apologies to the other cartoonist.
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Some people are very keen on Free Markets being the answer to all the world's current economic woes.
To be sure Free Markets are a good thing but I think they're only part of the answer - what do you think?
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Anthony over at WUWT is requesting we write to our local paper's editor - read about it here
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49 former NASA scientists and astronauts have written to NASA saying
“We believe the claims by NASA and GISS, that man-made carbon dioxide
is having a catastrophic impact on global climate change are not substantiated.”
which I happily say I thoroughly agree with.
You can read the whole letter here at WUWT
Great timing too considering that James Hansen, famous NASA employee,
was awarded the Edinburgh Medal this week...
H/t to Anthony Watts for suggesting adding the NASA logo - why didnt I think of that?
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The Boris Johnson 2012 Mayoral Campaign began in Richmond!
A packed Duke Street church was introduced to Boris by our local MP, Zac Goldsmith.
This is the first time I had seen Boris in person and, I have to say, he is very funny and entertaining!
He got in all the requisite political slogans but his comic asides and his daft metaphors were very amusing.
And, of course, the crowd loved it.
Cartoon notes below, rather long image... click for a larger version
Fascinating lecture by Peter Kareiva
and...
a great lecture by Roger Pielke Jr
Powerpoint slides in pdf form here
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Matt Ridley's wonderful book The Rational Optimist provided some upbeat fodder
for Reader's Digest which Matt has posted on his blog.
As it has been 'Planet under pressure' week I thought I would join in.
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Must listen James Delingpole on BBC 5Live listen from 1 hr:16 mins - on iPlayer
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Me and Mrs Josh went to a fab party last week - to celebrate James Delingpole's book Watermelons.
It was great fun especially as we got to meet Fenbeagle, and Mrs Fenbeagle of course, and we talked about
anything and everything climate, artistic and wind turbine - it was brilliant and I am sure we will meet up again.
We thought a joint cartoon might be rather appropriate... here it is.
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The day job is very busy at the moment, again! But I am just about keeping up with news
via BishopHill, WUWT and other blogs. I am also using Twitter as a quick way of getting updates.
However, with Mike Mann's book still getting good coverage in various corners
of the media I felt another cartoon was needed, and I managed to squeeze in some time.
Especially as another Mike, Mike Daisey, gave us such a brilliant quote:
"I stand by it as a theatrical work" speaking of his made up story about
the conditions at a Chinese factory which makes Apple products ( you can read the whole retraction here).
And 'Game of Thrones'? It's an HBO blockbuster of a series based on George R R Martin's books 'A Song of Fire and Ice'.
If you haven't seen the series you might not have the foggiest clue as to what I am referring to...
but, never mind, even the title 'A Song of Fire and Ice' couldn't be more apt.
And guess what the show's slogan is: "Winter is coming".
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Ok, I know, I have a 'thing' about wind turbines... grrr.
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Been thinking of becoming a pigeon. I mean, look, they have all the fun!
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Mann everywhere. Is he being set up?
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Oh by the way, become an executive film producer at Kickstarter here!
All in a good cause
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This Wednesday Prof Richard Lindzen gave a superb talk at the House of Commons in London.
You can read Simon Carr's thoughtful pience in the Independent here or James Delingpole excellent blog post here
Below are the cartoon notes from the superb lecture by Richard Lindzen on Wednesday 22nd Feb 2012.
The notes do not do the talk justice in any way and one or two are a bit obscure but they might make more sense if you read the pdf notes.
Click the image or download below to see a larger version - warning, it is quite big!
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Fakegate has all the usual Gaurdian suspects in a quandry. At first it seemed
such a great story and they so want Heartland Institute to be shown to be wicked
that they have been justifying Gleick's actions and trying to claim some kind moral high ground
where blagging information, faking documents is justified due to Public Interest.
The rest of us are simply gobsmacked at their unabashed nakedness.
A more balanced view from the Washington Times here
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Yes, FakeGate got more exciting. Peter Gleick confessed to having blagged the Heartland Institute material.
It is widely suspected that he also produced the Fake memo, but, as yet, he has not explicitly said one way or the other
Steven McIntyre has a good story summary, WUWT has its usual great comprehensive coverage, Lucia has lots to read, with a special mention
to Stephen Mosher who guessed it was Gleick all along. Andy Revkin is an interesting read, as is Climate Etc here and here.
And of course BishopHill is always worth reading - I would say that wouldnt I.
Some are saying Gleick is a hero, but I think most people would say not. This is not quite what we expect our heroes to do but, to be fair to Peter,
he has apologised, and I believe that is sincere - I actually feel very sorry for him.
This cartoon is not Peter Gleick. It is your everyday stereotypical climate scientist -
round, bearded and doing something suspicious...
Another 'Gate' - but this one turned round and bit the owner.
Leo Hickman and co at the Guardian thought they had a bona fide leak of incriminating
information on the funding of climate skeptics by the Heartland Institute.
Two problems, the funding turns out to be rather small beer, especially in comparison to the
vast sums of money paid to promote Climate Change Alarmism. Secondly it looked like the funds were
going to fund scientists and with another trenche for a website to explain climate science research.
Hardly a surprise, and not exactly incriminating. It is what the Heartland do after all.
Third problem. The most incriminating document was a fake.
So now it has become know as Fakegate. Ouch.
Great comment by Lucia here, summary and comment by Judith here and lots at
BishopHill, here, here and here, and WUWT, here and here, and even one at Roy Spencers
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Buy this book - it is a hilarious read, reassuringly outspoken and just fun.
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An extraordinary quote from a Scottish Wind Farm Landowner
But with recent news that wind farms have been paid a secret £13 million compensation
to shut down over the last few months it is no wonder all those in the industry
are hearing the clink of cash above the roar of the turbines.
If you are wondering what a wind turbine sounds like and
what a blight it can be watch this short video.
If, like me, you love birds then you might find this video a bit too sad
But this will cheer you up a bit ... and this one
In Scotland? Find out more about Wind Energy at a meeting in St Andrews
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Apparently there is no need to panic about the Himalayas!
It's in the Guardian ... twice. So it must be true...
come back to haunt Dr Pachauri, eh.
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For some reason this has always made me smile
From Carbolic Smoke Ball Co. Nice site with unusual gifts too. Like this one - Ashes of Difficult clients
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Here is another daft argument "9 out the the last 10 years have been the hottest ever."
What does that tell us? It's a bit like saying...
H/t Matt here at Briggs' blog and James Evans on BishopHill here.
And others have said the same elsewhere - do remind me where and I will add the link.
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There has been a lot of blog battling and twitter twootling started by this WSJ article
with climate crossness here and here and here, all brilliantly buffed and rebuffed by Matt Briggs
A lot of the argument was about 'how to do climate graphs' with input taken from Skeptical Science.
H/t MrSean2k at WUWT who finds a rather good example.
So here is a quick lesson in how to do Climate Graphs - please concentrate.
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 the 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
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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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