Arctic Sea Ice Forum Humor

[vox_mundi]

[Florifulgurator]

https://skepticalscience.com/frank_propagation_uncertainty.html

[gerontocrat]

Sending protestors to jail seems to be a new Global Growth Industry, with Australia competing to be up there with the Global Leaders.

[vox_mundi]

[neal]

ehhh

[etienne]

The Copernicus Revolution was about earth being a part of the solar system and not the opposite. I guess the AGW Revolution is about humanity being part of life on earth and not the opposite.

Didn't know where to post it, and I thought that it sounds like a joke.

Added : I could also say it this way :
Copernicus told us that earth is not the center of the universe, AGW tells us that humans are not a superior specie. I guess the same might happen to me than what happened to Copernicus with such declarations.

[vox_mundi]

[vox_mundi]

[John_the_Younger]

My brother showed me this 'version' in '74 and it's never (since) been far from my thoughts:

[etienne]

Just for fun, some extracts of the book "The Kingdom of God Is Within You" by Leo Tolstoi. It is about non violence, but it is also so true about AGW. Didn't know where to post it.

"Christ's teaching is no use, because it is inconsistent with our industrial age," says Ingersoll naively, expressing in this utterance, with perfect directness and simplicity, the exact notion of Christ's teaching held by persons of refinement and culture of our times. The teaching is no use for our industrial age, precisely as though the existence of this industrial age were a sacred fact which ought not to and could not be changed. It is just as though drunkards when advised how they could be brought to habits of sobriety should answer that the advice is incompatible with their habit of taking alcohol.

The arguments of all the freethinking critics, Russian and foreign alike, different as they may be in tone and manner of presentation, all amount essentially to the same strange misapprehension—namely, that Christ's teaching, one of the consequences of which is non-resistance to evil, is of no use to us because it requires a change of our life.

The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.

[gerontocrat]

Very interesting. Read carefully.

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/scientists-discover-heaviest-known-element-governmentium-1.764295

SCIENTISTS DISCOVER NEW ELEMENT

Oxford University researchers have discovered the heaviest element yet known to science. 

The new element, Governmentium (symbol=Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. 
These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called pillocks.

Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert. 
However, it can be detected, because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact.

A tiny amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second, to take from 4 days to 4 years to complete.

Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2 to 6 years. 
It does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganisation in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places.   

In fact, Governmentium's mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganisation will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes. 

This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration. 
This hypothetical quantity is referred to as a critical morass. 

When catalysed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium (symbol=Ad), an element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium, since it has half as many pillocks but twice as many morons.

[gerontocrat]

A Politically Correct Christmas & New Year Greeting from the Southern Hemisphere (probably AussieVille)

[HapHazard]

Via my sister down south (major cold snap there right now):

[Juan C. García]

Via my sister down south (major cold snap there right now):

I don't see where is the humor...
And I don't understand why I should put that I like it (if I want to find it later on...)

Are these pictures real?

[etienne]

Sometimes,  when the situation is hopeless,  it is better to laugh than to cry.

If I had no sense of humour, I should long ago have committed suicide. (MM, 9)  Gandhi

People look at you like if you would be crazy, but it helps getting over the trouble.

[HapHazard]

I don't see where is the humor...
And I don't understand why I should put that I like it (if I want to find it later on...)

Are these pictures real?

Yes, they're real. Fire "tornados" are common enough during fires when the conditions are right, as most of us know already. BC had their fair share last year. As for the other one:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/kelowna-tornado-steam-devil-1.7082398

PS It's either laugh or cry. I found the meme format to make it funny, in a morbid kind of way.

Enjoy our decline!  :'(

[vox_mundi]

[etienne]

Vox_Mundi, is it a joke or was it supposed to be posted in the forum decorum and you didn't pay attention where you were posting ?

[SeanAU]

[vox_mundi]

[vox_mundi]

Canada ice fishing season gets off to late start due to warm weather
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-canada-ice-fishing-season-late.html

[vox_mundi]

[vox_mundi]

[Richard Rathbone]

Its because we don't want to be the same  as Neanderthals and  Denisovans who are also homo sapiens.

[vox_mundi]

does no one in Germany have a sense of humor ...  😉

[etienne]

What about the stars on the US flag?
https://subscribe.adbusters.org/products/corporate-america-flag

[gerontocrat]

A poem for Grumpy Old Men like me by Ogden Nash (1950)
What the title means I am not sure.

You Can Be A Republican, I'm A Genocrat  by Ogden Nash

Oh, "rorty" was a mid-Victorian word
Which meant "fine, splendid, jolly,"
And often to me it has reoccurred
In moments melancholy.
For instance, children, I think it rorty
To be with people over forty.

I can't say which, come eventide,
More tedious I find;
Competing with the juvenile stride,
Or meeting the juvenile mind.
So I think it rorty, yes, and nifty,
To be with people over fifty.

The pidgin talk the youthful use
Bypasses conversation.
I can't believe the code they choose
Is a means of communication.
Oh to be with people over sixty
Despite their tendency to prolixty!

The hours a working parent keeps
Mean less than Latin to them,
Wherefore they disappear in jeeps
Till three and four A.M.
Oh, to be with people you pour a cup for
Instead of people you have to wait up for!

I've tried to read young mumbling lips
Till I've developed a slant-eye,
And my hearing fails at the constant wails
Of, If I can't, why can't I?
Oh, to be beside a septuagenarian,
Silent upon a peak in Darien!

I'm tired of defining hadn't oughts.
To opposition mulish,
The thoughts of youth are long long thoughts,
And Jingo! Aren't they foolish!
All which is why, in case you've wondered
I'd like a companion aged one hundred.

Written 1950

[vox_mundi]

[etienne]

Just for the teenagers among us :
Did you know that 50+ on solar cream doesn't have anything to do with how old you are?

[gerontocrat]

Terrible joke received from me Bruv in NZ

[Freegrass]

Terrible joke received from me Bruv in NZ

He's good.

[Rodius]

Schrödingers cat?

[Richard Rathbone]

Semi-silvered mirror. If you look carefully at the floor you can see its a combination of transmitted and reflected images because the mirror isn't symmetrically located with respect to the tiles. Cat on one side, box on the other. Neat image, but Newtonian rather than quantum.