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The most important jokes in the world right now are the ones Facebook doesn’t want you to see. Anthony Watts posted a 2018 cartoon which is so “hot” it got removed in just 8 hours. @wattsupwiththat This cartoon is not a joke, it’s a community safety message. Source: The original Pat Cross cartoon. 10 out of 10 based on 78 ratings June 10th, 2022 | Tags: Cartoon, Censorship, Facebook, Funny | Category: Big-Government |  Print This Post | | Green Utopia We’re trying to control the weather by limiting a universal molecule intrinsic to life on Earth. What could possibly go wrong? Loopholes, for starters. Only this isn’t a loophole — it’s an obvious outcome of “carbon neutrality”. The only thing that could have stopped wood from replacing coal is if the tidal-windy-solar idea had been competitive, reliable and batteries were really cheap. Or, if we all went nuclear. So carbon neutral means conserving black coal deposits underground and mowing down thousands of square kilometers of forests. Don’t think Greenpeace saw that coming. Carbon Loophole: Why is wood burning counted as green energy? Fred Pearce, Yale, e360 The forests of North Carolina, Louisiana, and Mississippi — as well as those in Europe — are being destroyed to sustain a European fantasy about renewable energy… Wood burning is booming from Britain to Romania. Much of the timber is sourced locally… But Drax’s giant wood-burning boilers are fueled almost entirely by 6.5 million tons of wood pellets shipped annually across the Atlantic. Drax Power, UK emits 23 million tons of “good” neutral carbon which used to be trees: About 23 million tons […] December 21st, 2017 | Tags: Biomass, Carbon Accounting, Cartoon | Category: Global Warming, Renewable | Print This Post | | There is only one good reason to buy The Age: cartoonist John Spooner … For foreign readers, there are two big headlines in Australia this week that Spooner is teasing us with. One is about Shorten’s fantasy that Australia can go 50% renewable by 2030. This is an “aspirational ambition”, which, according to opposition leader Shorten, doesn’t need any kind of feasibility or budgeting before being announced as a policy. He plans to wave his magic wand and make aspirations happen, regardless of stuff like “money”, “Watts” and thousands of dead bats. 9 out of 10 based on 83 ratings I believe we’ve seen this method before, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away: Thanks to Steve Hunter 2015 Credit Steve Hunter illustrations Happy Easter to everyone!
9.7 out of 10 based on 90 ratings It’s time to pin down the definition of the Green Blob Owen Paterson gets the credit for setting this phrase into popular use (as far as I can tell). Here is his definition: Owen Paterson: I’m proud of standing up to the green lobby By this I mean the mutually supportive network of environmental pressure groups, renewable energy companies and some public officials who keep each other well supplied with lavish funds, scare stories and green tape. This tangled triangle of unelected busybodies claims to have the interests of the planet and the countryside at heart, but it is increasingly clear that it is focusing on the wrong issues and doing real harm while profiting handsomely. Local conservationists on the ground do wonderful work to protect and improve wild landscapes, as do farmers, rural businesses and ordinary people. They are a world away from the highly paid globe-trotters of the Green Blob who besieged me with their self-serving demands, many of which would have harmed the natural environment. Pressed in Fenbeagle’s hand the Green Blob became The Green B-Lobby. Which adds that edge — the amorphous blob becomes a Lobby blob. …
Are the”rellies” asking what they can buy you for Christmas? Have you got friends who are skeptic-leaning and might appreciate an easy-going, cartoon-loaded book? Problem solved : -) Order it here. This is a book like no other. Carter and Spooner make a special combination. Readers here will know Bob Carter, who is a well known long-standing skeptical marine geologist, who has written Climate: the Counter Consensus (2010) and published countless papers. He’s formerly a Professor and Head of Earth Sciences at James Cook University (until JCU caved in to political correctness in a tale of remarkable petty spite). People may not realize that John Spooner is a prize winning cartoonist for The-not-so-skeptical-Age daily newspaper in Melbourne. He has won too many prizes to list (see here) and is a brilliant political satirist with exceptional skill at the art of caricatures. It’s worth buying the book just to read the first chapter written by Spooner, once-upon-a-time-a-lawyer turned cartoonist. The best cartoonists have to be smart– if they aren’t a step ahead, it isn’t funny. “Every cartoonist and satirist in the world, not to mention the investigative reporters, should by now have had their bullshit detectors on high […] November 13th, 2013 | Tags: Book, Carter (Bob), Cartoon, Spooner (John) | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | Thank you DeSmog! Without FakeGate we would not have had this cartoon. (Readership est 850,000) Cartoon by John Spooner. The Age. Source:The Age John Spooner: The Age Gallery Spooner: Nat.Lbrary collection Spooner: The National Times Collection 🙂 TRANSCRIPT: Julia Gillard to Tim Flannery (top picture) “Tim, sorry to drag you in like this. I’m not that upset that you were so wrong about water shortages now that we’re drowing in the stuff. And how were you to know that there would be no statistically significant increase in warming for the last 15 years of increasing CO2 emissions.” Julia Gillard to Tim Flannery: (lower image) “No! I want to know why I pay you 10 times what Bob Carter gets and he still wins the argument!”
On Wednesday I mentioned the Carter/Flannery disparity in wages: And if Bob Carter receives an honorarium type amount of $1500 a month, the pull of those big dollars must be powerfully tempting for people like Tim Flannery who struggle along on about $1200 each day he works. […] February 18th, 2012 | Tags: Carter (Bob), Cartoon, FakeGate, Flannery (Tim), The Age | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | Pickering has it in a picture 🙂 Let’s applaud the brilliant Larry Pickering. It says a lot about the state of our nation, that after retiring 30 years ago, the esteemed cartoonist felt the inescapable urge to come back now. The Australian government and the Big Climate Scare are both achieving once-in-a-generation status. They are both ideas so preposterously absurd, they are Fertilizer for Funnies. When a government is so bad, that it brings long retired cartoonists out of retirement, you know this era is the end-game stage of a historic low. Cartoons like this are exactly why the Big Scare Campaign is scared to death of free speech. Pickering uses comedic exaggeration to the full, but people don’t need to take this literally. It cuts through. This captures a dangerous idea. What if the government was milking the scientific system? Imagine if they treated some scientists different (what, you mean like calling them names?). Gillard may control the Army but we skeptics have the best cartoonists. It’s no match. The Tax is temporary. 9.4 out of 10 based on 36 ratings […] October 16th, 2011 | Tags: Cartoon, Pickering (Larry) | Category: Funny stuff, Global Warming | Print This Post | | Saving energy or stopping pollution is a good thing. What’s the danger in acting now? We can save energy and stop real pollution without setting up a whole financial bureaucratic system based on “thin air”. The wholly unnecessary trading system feeds the sharks of finance with more money and power. We waste blood, sweat and tears and encourage cheats. We reward fraud and foster corruption. When we trade real things, people who cheat get caught easily. They can’t get away with it for long. But in the quasi world of meaningless permits-for-air, the only limit to cheating is “what they can get away with”. For example: Carbon credits paid to China to build hydro dams end up helping bankers buy yachts, and feed the mafiosi in China. They evict homeowners, don’t pay them enough compensation, flood their valleys and commit these people to homelessness or more slavery to bankers through mortgages. Sure, some useful outcomes might occur. But hoping we get lucky is not “planning”. It’s policy-by-accident. If solar energy, say, is a good idea all on its own, we don’t need to invent fake reasons to force people to use more of it. We could for example tax […] October 29th, 2010 | Tags: Cartoon, Emissions Trading Scheme, Hazlitt (Henry), Precautionary Principle, The Skeptics Handbook II | Category: AGW socio-political, Global Warming | Print This Post | | Since time immemorial people have been inventing or exaggerating scares to gain power. I used to think carbon dioxide posed a real threat, and I even used to be an active member of the Australian Greens. Then I discovered all the things we weren’t being told (like this and this), and how much money was involved and I was shocked. There are many good people among the Greens who will be outraged when they realize how they have been used.
The most selfish aims are always cloaked in “good intentions” Some Greens really believe a market based trading system is the best way to deal with pollution. But this pollution is not a pollutant, and this “free market” is not free. Last year the carbon market reached $130 billion dollars. It’s projected to reach $2 Trillion, and you can be sure that “sub-prime” carbon is coming too. The market depends wholly on government mandate; it’s “fixed” from beginning to end. Who would buy a carbon credit if they weren’t forced to? In a free market, no one. Worse, funneling money through fake markets is like inviting corruption to a three course meal. 7.5 out […] August 19th, 2010 | Tags: Bankers, Cartoon, Climate Money, Greens, JoNova's Favourites, Skeptics | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | How many scientists does it take to prove the debate is not over? More than 30,000 scientists have signed The Petition Project. More than 9,000 of them have PhDs (not that that proves anything about carbon, but it does prove something about the myth of “consensus”). The petition’s wording is unequivocal: “There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.” Source: www.petitionproject.org The Petition Project is funded by donations from individuals and run by volunteers. It receives no money from industry or companies. In late 2007, The Petition Project re-did the petition to verify names again.
AGW says: Everyone knows the petition is bogus and filled with duplicate and fake names. Skeptics say: Name 10 fakes. 8.8 out of 10 based on 13 ratings […] January 15th, 2010 | Tags: Cartoon, Consensus, Petition Project, The Skeptics Handbook | Category: AGW socio-political, Global Warming, The Skeptics Handbook | Print This Post | |
It’s unthinkable. Big Government has spent $79 billion on the climate industry, 3000 times more than Big-oil. Leading climate scientists won’t debate in public and won’t provide their data. What do they hide? When faced with legal requests they say they’ve “lost” the original global temperature records. Thousands of scientists are rising in protest against the scare campaign. Meanwhile $126 billion turned over in carbon markets in 2008 and bankers get set to make billions. 8.7 out of 10 based on 6 ratings […] December 1st, 2009 | Tags: Cartoon, The Skeptics Handbook II | Category: AGW socio-political | Print This Post | | |
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