Cartoon by Nicholson from “The Australian” newspaper: http://nicholsoncartoons.com.au
Humour
Al Gore Visits Washington
Leprechauns Cause Global Warming?
IT is always dangerous to use a proxy measure to make assumptions about a relationship. At popular blog The Blackboard, Zeke has used the Irish population as a proxy for the population of Leprechauns …given that Leprechauns are invisible thus cannot be counted accurately.
“After retrieving the historic population of Ireland from Wikipedia which, despite its obvious pro-AGW bias due to the efforts of that disreputable scallywag William Connelley, has good data on other subjects. I plotted Irish population and GISS temperature data from 1930 to present, and the results were astounding!”
Yes, the chart shows a good correlation between the proxy for the number of Leprechauns and global temperatures. But hey, correlation is not causation, so maybe Leprechauns don’t cause global warming.
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Click on the chart, for a larger view of the relationship.
Picture of the Leprechaun from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leprechaun
Story via Ian Beale.
Hot Days
In the same way as the full moon is supposed to cause a rise in lunatic acts, I hate hot days because it brings out the AGW fringe. Art Raiche, Sydney
Comedian George Carlin on ‘Saving the Planet’
Here’s a video for those tired of the righteous and what Bob Carter calls hubris: Click to play.
A Cold Snap in a Warming World?
“A COLD front is sweeping across Europe after gripping swathes of North America last month, but the deep freeze does not mean the threat of global warming has abated, caution scientists.” [Read more here.]
But at least one cartoonist in Belgium appears to be fed-up with the pronouncements from the warmaholics, inparticular Al Gore. [Via Anthony Watts.]
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.