A trivia question today for CA readers.
Most readers are aware of the picture of Scott Mandia of the “Climate Rapid Response Team” in spandex Superman uniform, though, as a costumed vigilante, Mandia would arguably be more the hapless Defendor than the aspirational Superman.
CA readers are aware that John Cook (picture below left), proprietor of SKS and Psychology groupie to Stephan Lewandowsky, is an occasional cartoonist. Part of his private cache of images was recently exposed, a cache that ranged from images of Cook himself in Nazi uniform to what appear to be Cook’s (hopefully merely metaphoric) male-GILF fantasies of Monckton, Watts and Delingpole as heavily muscled fantasy Spartans.
On the right below is a cartoon of a round-faced costumed vigilante, apparently affiliated with a Psychology (PSY) department, in Mandia’s favorite outfit. Readers are invited to speculate on whether this is from a new cache of private Cook images, perhaps featuring Cook himself as a sort of Psychology defendor of Lewandowsky and Mann, or otherwise identify Cook’s doppelganger.
Update: Cook’s doppelganger is of course from Gangnam Style http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=CH1XGdu-hzQ#t=193. One day, it struck me that the Team were a sort of science parody – doing it Gangnam style. It increasingly seems to me that the right response to unhinged articles like the most recent Lewandowsky et al is to listen to the chorus of Gangnam Style.
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Oh my!
But Halloween was 5 days ago.
I took a short look at the SS website a few days ago, if the comment numbers are anything to go on, no ones home.
You quadrupled their readership.
Mark
It could be the Korean K-Pop artist named Psy…
The dancers in the foreground give it away, the black and white smudge looks to be Psy in a tux.
Cook was probably making a reference to Psy, the Korean pop star.
Why give Cook more attention? He is a complete hack and loser.
Your answer is right. But the image isn’t in the version that you linked to.
One day, it struck me that the Team were a sort of science parody – doing it Gangnam style – and played the video. The PSY superman seemed to me to be a Cook doppelganger.
Well, at first I thought this must be a “trick”™ question! But now that I’ve seen (and heard!) the answer, all I can say is that my knowledge of post-modern “music” is as deficient as my understanding of post-modern team “science” 😉
I would never have guessed in a million years!
Steve: in the past, I’ve referred from time to time to workshop and conference presentations by Knowles et al; Jones, K. et al; and Mathers, M.
“Men in Black” wrangled unruly aliens on Earth
“Men in Tights” wrangle unruly climate data on Earth
“Men in Tights” is a classic…
Possibly more superfriends.
Psychlops but he’s been given two eyes instead of the familiar one. Even Art Depts suffer declining standards it seems.
It’s the superhero formerly known as
Here is a set of pictures for the SkS kidz to photoshop next.
“Nazi’s with cats”
http://naziswithcats.tumblr.com/?og=1
anthony,
That is one creepy website.
Can anyone help?
On other word press site I have no problem viewing on my I Phone 4 but Steve’s site is split down the middle and is therefore unreadable.
So as to stay on topic as unreadable as the full page view of John Cook’s SKS site?
Stacy, scroll all the way to the bottom and you’ll see part of the “View Full Site” link. Click that or use this URL:
climateaudit.org/?ak_action=reject_mobile
Dear TerryMN
It works and very much appreciated. Hopefully Steve does not now have a long pause in blogging 🙂
Regards
S
hehe, troublemaker
Steve:is mentioning K-Pop to Mosher chum to shark?
haha. Cook reminds me of the host of Star King. except less funny.
Hi Steve. I’m a big fan of the TV show Red Dwarf, where they introduced something called a GELF, meaning a Genetically Engineered Life Form. A GILF on the other hand has a totally different meaning. You might want to make the change, if you meant the former …
Pointman
Steve: never heard of the TV show Red Dwarf.
No Pointy, GILF is Genetically Insignificant Life Form, Steve’s right.
Steve, you should give Red Dwarf a look see.
Hi Geronimo. It’s usually an acronym for something a tad more earthy than Genetically Insignificant Life Form. It’s probably one of those transatlantic dialect things. As Churchill said, two great nations separated by the same language.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gilf
Pointy
I ended up on the same page yesterday. Remember this is commentary on a beyond-strange photoshop of Monckton, Watts and Delingpole. Edgy yes – but Watts didn’t seem to mind and I’m sure Dellers wouldn’t want it any other way! Interesting that the effectiveness of this obsession with enemies is finally being questioned: The story of how greens became energy enemy number one. Thanks to Ruth Dixon and Ben Pile on Twitter for that.
Steve: yes, the photoshopped image was beyond strange and it is very hard to understand the mentality. If you think about it, I think that my description, including the preceding adverb in parenthesis, is surprisingly apt.
hahaha! 😀
GELF?
Gaia Enthusiastic Life Force
Steve writes “right response to unhinged articles like the most recent Lewandowsky et al”
I’d propose “right ORIGIN OF unhinged articles like the most recent Lewandowsky et al”
The mentalities/maturities/influences match.
How does one pronounce Lewandowsky with a Korean accent?
@SMc
Please, please change the lead post
The images and people depicted by them are just so atrociously ugly – it discourages logging on
Ridicule deserved and detested. What’s not to like.
Steve,
You are better than this.
-A long time fan
Agree with Jeff. This is below what I expect of CA – more WUWT like…
Well you given very serious environmentsl scientists something to Tweet about…
Steve: the images of Cook in Nazi uniform and of the “Spartans” were posted up at SKS.
Note use of denialist, as the unhinged output of Mann and Lew is taken as mature compared to this childishness. But ridicule really is the only option – or at least it’s a totally valid option. Disagree therefore with Jeff and R.
Did Dana Nuccitelli make comments about any of the preceding dozen or so very serious Climateaudit posts?
As opposed to mature behaviour, like dressing up as Superman, that pushes forward the cause of science, I suppose.
I see. And when there is a post about confidence regions in controlled multivariate calibration: radio silence.
I was hoping the flying avenger was Spreadsheet Man, come to double check the arithmetic in Climate Science papers.
We’re ridiculing the frankly ridiculous stuff that they’ve created.
Oh, and we *also make fun of the pictures they’ve taken and altered.
The fact that Dana et al have had a humour bypass is hardly a reflection on Steve.