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The Twelve Days Of Christmas
T’is the silly season. Time to celebrate larrikins-a-leaping, maids-a-milking, hounds-a-hunting, geese a-gabbling, progressives-a-plotting and the mysteries of our Earth Climate System in song. (Tune:Twelve Days of Christmas).
On the first day of extreme-weather,
An angel sent to me
A message from Jehovah and a super-Nova,
And a Paltridge in a pear tree.
On the second day of weird-weather,
A warmist sent to me
A big Brown bag of Carbon Con,
And two alarmists from the IPCC.
On the third day of preaching Gaia to the masses,
A warmist sent to me
And three alarmists in a peer-tree.
On the fourth day of whatever-the-weather,
A Climate Code Red sent to me
One Milne-a-moaning,
And some Greens on an Arctic spree.
On the fifth day of extreme-weather,
A warmist sent to me
And five galahs in a Hercules for thee.
On the sixth day of Climategate,
A warmist sent to me
Another trick: a hockey stick,
And The First Nobel for the IPCC.
On the seventh day of bird-braining,
Greenpeace sent to me
A video from Mr Claus – but not about the pause,
And seven alarmists in a peer-tree.
On the eighth day of nullius in verba,
An angel sent to me
A Christmas greeting and a secret meeting,
And eight Fellows from the Royal Society.
On the ninth day of EU carbon-backloading,
A warmist sent to me
Some Newspeak and a silly tweet,
And nine alarmists in a tee-pee.
On the tenth day of Warsaw-waffle,
A warmist sent to me
And ten alarmists from the IPCC .
On the eleventh day of psycho-babble,
A warmist sent to me
An “inconvenient truth teller” and a snake-oil seller,
And eleven alarmists in a peer-tree.
On the twelfth day of whatever-the-weather,
A warmist sent to me
And twelve alarmists now all at sea.
Michael Kile
December, 2013
Academics and others who dare to question the majority view are brutally told the science has been settled. Many such dissenters from catastrophist orthodoxy have lost their jobs, been denied promotion, or subjected to constant harassment and ridicule. This not the way science should be done
Aug 25 2024
3 mins
There's a veritable industry of academics raising alarm about how global warming and a polluted, dying planet will leave humanity and the animal kingdom in such a state that cannibalism will be a matter of survival. I'll spurn schoolyard puns and cheap gags except for one, and that by way of good advice: don't give them a big hand
Aug 09 2024
13 mins
I thought initially that this topic was a bit of fun. But it turns out that entomophagy, as the eating of insects is called, is an essential component of the Western lemmings' race to net-zero. Need it be said that one of the biggest and most enthusiastic lemmings is our very own climate crazies at the CSIRO?
Jul 31 2024
15 mins
