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Josh Up against the Wall - Josh 260
Feb 27, 2014 Climate: Mann Climate: McIntyre Josh 
Over at Climate Audit Steve McIntyre's posts on the 'Mann vs Steyn' battle are great fun to read and the comments are very entertaining. The posts are here, here, here, here, here, and here, with another post added today.
Many thanks, Steve, for a great set of posts - the cartoons are queuing up.
PS In case you are wondering where Mann's attire comes from the reference is here
Reader Comments (26)
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Is that dustbin lid as tiny shield? Hint of where the plaintiff's pleadings belong, perhaps, along with the trusty hockey stick itself?
[Yes ;-)]
but but but ... Michael Mann's likeness is protected from parody and satire!
http://judithcurry.com/2014/02/22/steyn-et-al-versus-mann/
Surely if it says "Rigor" it should also say "Defense" ? ;-)
[Maybe... or, in a subtle way, maybe not ;-)]
Is that SuperMandia's cloak???? Doesn't cover much...then again, the Mann of 'Rigor' has been trying to stiff us.
I know just what he's going to say but I won't pre-empt the next cartoon.
Love it, but could you put up health warnings before you show images of a scantily clad Mann? There could be people out there about to eat or of a nervous disposition.
Great cartoon Josh but unfortunately you missed off his Nobel Prize medal :-)
Is he outfitted "with the simple sword of truth and the trusty shield of British fair play" ?
I do hope so!
There's not much protection for that big soft underbelly.
I am Spartacus, --- no I am, ---- no it's me, ----- we are all Spartacus !!!! - Oh well, never mind.
Josh, I love your cartoons and rarely fall about laughing but this one did it. Absolutely hilarious.
One wishes that Mr. Steyn could get a few of our Ontario Provincial Police to help with his case, vis a vis deleting emails. Seems our cops are a bit more on the ball than some others we could mention:
(context: a government was caught in a scandal, and someone tried to delete some emails)
http://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2014/02/27/opp_weighing_mischief_charge_in_deleted_liberal_emails_probe.html
But where are his Mannboobs? Ah.....they must be in his pleadings.
Sparta! But where are the rippling abs?
BTW, when are we going to see a cartoon of 300 SkSpartans Treehut scientists led by Mann and Lew? That's how they won the review wars on Amazon for Mann's Climate Wars and they did it without rippling abdominal muscles, research in Treehut files shows.
Awww, Josh . . . you make him look so cuddly . . . like a little cute baby venomous reptile . . .
John
Actually, Mann's blustering and hubristic character and his paranoid reaction to criticism suggest to me someone who struggles with a deep sense of inadequacy.
Who would be surprised to learn that in his youth a girl friend perhaps nicknamed him Justin?
Or even Tintin?
Martin Brumby: You've just give me the best g'faw g'faw of the day!!! Thanks.
sHx: Where's the abs? reminds me of a certain Anthony Aloysius H: "Where's that stiff upper lip man?"
(All together now: "Above that loose, flabby chin!")
Spinning Innocence ?
So "Investigations which weren't actually investigating Mann
didn't write in their conclusions that Mann had done something wrong"
..good comment on Steve's blog
Of course the Great Big Fat Lie about Mann's 'exoneration' is due to the difference in spelling between British English and American English, as demonstrated in what Mann insists was said by the Unversity of East Anglia in their Independent Climate Change Review Report:
'The scientists' rigor and honesty are not in doubt...'
Love it...
...oh no ...somebody's gonna get sued!
The War is lost but some don't see it.
No gladiator is he,
sold his soul for a government fee;
all wind and pi88,
no man of honour and know this;
man made global warming is dead,
and hokey stick all put to bed;
full of bluster and more - blethers on he does,
challenges everyone but never will he don the gloves;
all the while caressing his mortally offended ego,
deep ensconced behind Penn State bunker walls - what a so and so;
It's time to Mann up son,
to put your clothes on and get thee gone.
Mann's efforts to "clear his name" has resulted in him becoming just a parody of himself, a laughing stock, and will go down in history as a figure of ridicule, and a bogey-mann to scare a naughty child with.
Mann's "nobel prize" has attracted much publicity. but don't forget that his claim to an Olympic gold medal in track is as valid as his claim to a Nobel prize - see Josh here http://climateaudit.org/2012/11/01/olympic-mann-2/
I posted this bit of entertainment on Unthreaded, but perhaps it deserves a place on this thread:
Mark Steyn on 'distinguished' public figures Chris Huhne, Michael Mann, and disgraced former President of Pennsylvania State University Graham Spanier
Oh, yeah? Well, I'll see your 'monocameral exoneration' and trade you the bottom bunk for the extra pillow.
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