And the results are in! Capturing 22% of the vote, the SDA Readers Choice is…
Irritable Climate Syndrome
Congratulations to Stan for the winning entry, and thanks everyone for playing.
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The nominations are closed and I have finished the daunting task of selecting a handful of finalists from the hundreds of worthy nominations posted. (Background here).
Thanks everyone for playing – now, the polls open!
The poll will close Sunday at midnight. The submission chosen by our readers will win a $50.00 donation to the registered charity of their choice.
One person, one vote. And remember – cheating is for NASA scientists!
I want to Murkowski my suggestion as a write-in!
I forgot to list ‘Post Traumatic Weather.’
A write-in campaign would be a great idea,
but e@mails are not allowed.
frustrated, walking away,
kicking at a black dog,
just remembered I don’t own a black dog.
‘white man’s wind’ forever….
sorry but there ain’t enough post colonial guilt in any of the other choices…i believe and i’m sure you will agree that post colonial guilt is an essential component of any grand U.N boosted statement of how the world is going to hell…
Someone came up with something like “Weather, but now with taxes” – I did like that one very much. Good choices though. (Is Greenpeace a registered charity, or just a registered terrorist organization? Both, maybe?)
“Weather, but now with taxes”. I like that. It is accurate, and heck, I can pronounce each of the words on the first try. It ought to appeal to the masses.
I went with Climate Derangement Syndrome.
CDS just sorta rolls off the tongue.
I was torn between Climageddon and Anthropocalypse but remembered cows are to blame, too.
Great response to your contest, Kate!
Now have a contest to see if Conrad Black should regain his Canadian citizenship and join you as a regular FOX NOrth” contributor as soon as they are licensed!!
SDA Rocks!
I don’t know who came up with “death weather” but it summarizes the mindset of the human depopulation misanthropes obsessed with green disaster mythology.
These are all good.
I voted death weather because it seems like the kind of thing some greenie would come up with, hoping to kick the hysteria up a notch or two and get away from “warming” which is too obviously not happening.
Frankenclimate and Anthropocalypse are extremely clever, and I wish I’d thought of them. 🙂
I voted for Climate Derangement Syndrome because my wife made it up.
I have two late entries I was musing about: Climitia
and
Global Climate Pandemic
You are western, white and successful. Mother Nature hates you for it. Mother Nature’s Fatwa.
“Weather. Now with taxes” is good.
Geez, this is a toughie.
You have some talented readers, Kate!
Media generated climate disruption is all that has happened. Anyone who wastes a penny on buying a newspaper to be lied to is the fool. The idiots at CBC and CTV end up with some of my money thanks to the CRTC making me fund failure in my choice to watch Fox News, but thats OK because we will see when Sun TV gets going, just how many of the Canadian angry faced “pundits” will dare go on the panels to spout their sickly leftie Rhyerson drivel when an informed person with FACTS is across the desk from them. Presently they can sit in their ivory Simpson,Martin,Travers,Fife,etc hot tubs and all drink the same bathwater, but Gaia help them if an opposing viewpoint from the people out here who carry the freight for Canada ever enters the holy confines of the brain dead sanctum known as Toronto generated news. Well you little wanking newsfairies It’s coming, hopefully Sun TV will hire Jack Nicholson to chop a hole through Jeffrey Simpsons door Jan 1 and say, heres Sun TV. It will take a week to clean Jeffeys office and buy a new chair if that happens!
minuteman @10:31 – I too voted for minutewoman’s suggestion. It makes the point that hysteria on the subjects of Bush and Palin has a similar political and emotional taproot to bullying irrationality on the subject of “Global Warming”.
Lots of lol entries. I’m going to have to think about which one is best for a while. I want to vote responsibly.
Premature climateulation
In the comments I asked Kate whether, if I won, I could just, you know, have the $50.00. Charity begins at home, specifically my home. But alas I’m not a contender so, if it isn’t too presumptuous, I’d like to recommend this site. (There are others like it.) I’d click on to the grading charities link in the second paragraph, where you can find useful information like “PERCENT (of total expenses) SPENT ON CHARITABLE PURPOSE”.
I first looked into this stuff after the Haiti earthquake, and some of the info is quite sobering.
Al Gore Dumped by warmistas.
“The Al Gore approach to climate-change education didn’t work,”.
Throw Albert from the train, a chart, a chart;
Throw Albert from the train a goodbye ….
The problem with WAG:
“Too many charts.”
Warmistas pay no attention to O’s Commissar.
They are going shopping at the “fundamental gap”.
The slogan remains: climate change.
…-
“USF grant to get people thinking about rising sea levels”
“TAMPA – The Al Gore approach to climate-change education didn’t work, says University of South Florida geologist Jeffrey Ryan. Too many charts.
He wants people to see the evidence around them – wells turning salty, beaches and mangrove islands disappearing, signs that billions of dollars’ worth of waterfront property could be under water in the next several decades.
Sea levels are rising, “and that means there are adjustments we have to make,” Ryan said.
He received a grant this week from the National Science Foundation to persuade Floridians to start considering those adjustments.
Ryan, a USF professor and geology department chairman, is one of 15 researchers across the country to get a piece of the science foundation’s $20 million Climate Change Education Partnership.
He and partners from the USF colleges of business and marine science have nearly $500,000 to spend over the next two years planning the project.”
“”We need folks to start to connect the dots,” Ryan said.
“There is still a fundamental gap in what people understand about climate change,” Karsten said.
“Although there’s a consensus among scientists, the public isn’t there yet. The goal of this program is to get information into the hands of the average citizen,” she said.”
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/sep/19/na-usf-grant-to-get-people-thinking-about-rising-s/
There are so many funny choices to pick from!
You left one out.
SuperClimaFragilLiptic-BP-AcidOceanous!
Sung to this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edjj9ueypCs
Darn, and there I thought the competition was to come up serious alternative scary names, not humorous ones.
None of the names on the above list would ever be used by the fear mongers.
doubleplus uncold thoughtcrime
minuteman ?!
please don’t admit to being whipped…it’s bad for morale….
where was i?…oh yes….
‘white man’s wind’ has an ominous feel to it….one thinks of the ‘foehn’ for example….there’s the real hint of nemesis acomin’ to visit….
plus it falls tripingly off the tongue…it could be the name of a ‘greenie’ show…..or a dirgey kinda blues song ’bout ‘retribution and stuff….we did Gaia wrong and so on…
and i can see and hear a ‘magic negro’ Shaft kinda guy in a movie saying “the white man’s wind is gonna git you honkeys”…..’it be payback time fo you mofos….”
let’s face it babies…it’s the only choice.
I rather like “irritable climate syndrome”, because like IBS it involves a frequent evacuation of bowels, in this case all over the taxpayer.
I liked ‘Global Climate Diversity’ ricardo did.
Why didn’t I think of that?
we wuz robbed…there otta be a runoff….
‘white man’s wind’ has real greatness….and legs….i can see it going viral if properly presented to greater viewership…
i dunno…one hates to think something like this could be fixed…but hey i remember when ‘silence of the lambs’ won the Oscar over ‘the dresser’….
A famous Georgian said that quantity has a quality all its own. Following that maxim demanded providing a plentiful supply of both scary (for statists) and silly terms, but it’s odd how much better the mind works immediately after commenting. Now that I really think about it, a much better choice — and a shoo-in for Maz’s vote — would be “Hate Clime” (“H8 Clime” for Cindy and Meghan). “Klimakampf” wouldn’t be so bad either. OK, I’ll stop.
Just imagine the promotion remorse when the number of entries reached 350. There must be more than 24 for in a day for Kate.
Wait. That’s it: Clim8 K8. Be very afraid.
Anthropocalypse
As my choice. Sums it up pretty good.
All are pretty good.
TJ: “None of the names on the above list would ever be used by the fear mongers.”
Huh? … Google frankenfood.
Looks like I have 11th place pretty well locked up … do I get a participant ribbon?
Very nice poll, Kate.
I wouldn’t have thought any names like that would fly until I saw how many people latched onto “2012”.
At that point I decided, “Why, anyone could become president, too. It’s just that wacky of a world.”
Wouldn’t you know it?
White Man’s Wind is poetry, sheer poetry, but I do so love “Climageddon”.
aye aye lemur king…
‘white man’s wind’ wins the wooden spoon indeed…it’s sheer brilliance and multiplicity of nuance escapes most folks still they stop and THINK on it…
THEN the transcendant genius of the phrase becomes the emotional and psychic coup de foudre that as ever comes so unexpectedly..
how i applaud your stellar insight…
Don’t give up on ‘White Man’s Wind’, john. It ain’t over ’till it’s over.
not me mamba…never say die…
“Stop polluting or the Koran gets it”
I liked White Man’s Wind cause it also could mean farts, and being university educated, I find that funny, but I take issue with the lack of “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotty Logic” anywhere on that list.
John Begley, I greatly appreciate your tireless work on behalf of my campaign. I just want you and everyone else – especially Stan, the putative victor – to know that I do not accept the results, and that at 9 a.m. MDT on Sept. 20 my team of lawyers at Dewey, Dickem and Howe will be filing an injunction to have the results of the vote declared invalid.
It is my contention that Stan knowingly and willfully accepted illegal campaign contributions, that he and his operatives hacked into the computer system to delete votes for my entry, and, most damningly, that he and his mercenary thugs openly engaged in widespread voter intimidation.
I believe we have a strong legal case. The next few days will be challenging and potentially soul-destroying, but you can rest assured that I and my legal team will continue to fight to our last breath to see that this invalid and highly unjust result is overturned.
Sorry, but 78% of the people did not vote for this insensitive and fascist slogan. Therefore, we are forming a coalition to bring to the people what they really want and return us to a tolerant, sensitive and caring land.
Irritable Climate Syndrome is the best pick. Because it is so good, do not be surprised to hear David Suzuki referencing to it on The Weather Network interviews.
Not even having made the short list in spite of my repeated and stellar offerings…am I bitter? No. Will I accuse the winner of underhanded tactics (as EBD has done)? No. Will I threaten a coalition of the “unchosen” as Chris in the Bridge did? No.
I will simply go and sulk quietly, weeping at the sight of my frozen tomato vines.
Grats to Stan.
Irritable climate syndrome is appropriate.
It reminds me of irritable bowel syndrome…lot’s of you-know-what in both situations.
Finishing in eleventh place (a tie) in a “BIG SCARY NAME For Phase Four In Climate Fearmongering” contest is a personal BEST for me.
Being chosen as a finalist is an award in itself.
I would like to thank all the supporters of the Frackenclimate drive. I would also like to thank all the other entrants … without them, online polls, like this one, would not be possible.
I will be running in the “BIG SCARY NAME For Phase Five In Climate Fearmongering” contest.
Hah! Twenty-two per cent of the vote! Duff Conacher and Democracy Watch will be all over this. It means that 78% voted *against* ICS, which means that the vote is totally illegitimate. There needs to be a public inquiry to get to the bottom of this scandal, and a referendum on proportional representation or the single transferable vote, … or … something.
Congratulations Stan and also to Kate for adding some humor to the site as well as deadly serious narrative to the MGW scam MSM has entrapped its self into.
Given the choices, this was one poll that couldn’t “go terrribly wrong.” Maybe there’s a lesson here for the MSM?
mumble grumble gnash…. fist hits tabletop…kick aimed at cat hits chair leg….dog scrambles under bed….
this is a travesty…78% of the people have been effectively told their opinions don’t matter…….dagnabbit i thought this consarned sort of thing only happened at LGF….
and yes EBD i’m calling MY lawyers…the renowned dream team of Whimper Whine Moan and Bleat….by the time they’re through with this “stan” character he’ll wish he was Al Gore’s underpants…
Death weather only got three percent? I’m signing on with John Begley! I wuz ROBBED! Thirty seconds of hard work, wasted!
Still, “Irritable Climate Syndrome” caries with it that aura of BS that all good scams require. Actual poo in this case. ~:D
I recommend Xu, Grabbit and Runne, a reassuringly successful and psychopathic lawfirm, and I must say I can’t remotely relate to rita’s lack of corrosive, soul-rotting bitterness @11:59. I mean I wasn’t even nominated; the damage to my self-esteem hardly bears thinking about, but it does bear suing over. Everything is worth suing over; just ask Marginalized Action Dinosaur, oh wait you can’t.
Class Action time, my under-privileged disenfranchized brethren and sistren! We did not land on the dead gopher; the dead gopher landed on us! Who’s with me?
Very DROLL, Ministers.
The bedwetters, as Lord Christopher Monckton commonly refers to them, will not be happy with this selection/poll.
A very entertaining collection of comments, during my morning tea. Thanks ever so much.