Nominations are open for the first annual 'Climate Duplicitist of the Year' award

Well, we can’t give all of the accolades to Gory Al, the Godfather of Climate Fear Mongering! 😉

I would like to nominate Chris Turney: “Sea ice is disappearing due to climate change, but here ice is building up,” the Australasian Antarctic Expedition said in a statement. Turney explained that “climate change may have prompted the iceberg to shatter and float into the previously open sea where the mostly Australian team finds itself stranded.”

Al Gore, it’s hard to top the whoppers he’s told!!!

I would think that Mickey Mann would fit this category, as Monckton’s essay showed with superb clarity:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/03/24/hide-the-decline-deja-vu-manns-little-white-line-as-false-hope-may-actually-be-false-hype/#more-106064
Mann’s ‘False Hope’ is false hype
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley

There are so many possible candidates in a few catagories. Person, study, publication, graph, etc. You could widen the award effort and also have it once a month. It might make a useful summary/history when looked at after a year or two, especially if the nominees and winners are catalogued. Imagine if we had something like that to look back through now, over the last 10 15 yrs. At the moment the bad science/scientists/politics transgressions are in the various minds of those involved in the challenge, not really available for big picture documentation.
WUWT has the integrity and ability to do something like this and be consulted/respected by researchers/interested others, especially as the tide turns faster

Yes, we need several categories. Lewandowsky is number one, in my humble opinion, because his duplicity was so effective in attaining his ends, so obvious, yet endorsed by institutions of higher learning and scientific societies.
After Jim Steele’s expose of Parmesan, she is a close second because her duplicity has been something like a program that she developed for years, her work has been effective in attaining her ends, and reviewers should never have allowed her later articles to see the light of day.

The Union of Concerned Scientists deserves some recognition for their title alone.

I second Chris Turney and his Ship of Fools.

i nominate the MSM, who, as always, have given extreme coverage to the following today:
24 March: CTV: ‘Extreme’ weather events of 2013 points to human-induced climate change: UN
by John Heilprin, The Associated Press
GENEVA — The head of the U.N. weather agency blamed extreme weather on human-induced climate change Monday, citing key events that wreaked havoc in Asia, Europe, the U.S. and Pacific region last year.
Michel Jarraud, secretary-general of the World Meteorological Organization, said his agency’s annual assessment of the global climate shows how dramatically people and lands everywhere felt the impacts of extreme weather such as droughts, heat waves, floods and tropical cyclones.
“Many of the extreme events of 2013 were consistent with what we would expect as a result of human-induced climate change,” he said…
Jarraud drew special attention to studies and climate modeling examining Australia’s recent heat waves, saying the high temperatures there would have been virtually impossible without the emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the burning of coal, oil and gas.
He cited other costly weather disasters such as $22 billion damage from central European flooding in June, $10 billion in damage from Typhoon Fitow in China and Japan, and a $10 billion drought in much of China.
Jarraud spoke as top climate scientists and representatives from about 100 governments with the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change met in Japan to complete their latest report on global warming’s impact.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/extreme-weather-events-of-2013-points-to-human-induced-climate-change-un-1.1742875
at least the above headline includes the word “points”, but most MSM have taken it a step further:
24 March: Fox News: AP: UN says 2013 ‘extreme’ weather events due to human-induced climate change
Much of the extreme weather that wreaked havoc in Asia, Europe and the Pacific region last year can be blamed on human-induced climate change, the U.N. weather agency says…
Only a few places — including the central U.S. –were cooler than normal last year, but 2013 had no El Nino, the warming of the central Pacific that happens once every few years and changes rain and temperature patterns around the world…
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/03/24/un-says-2013-extreme-events-due-to-warming-earth-from-human-factors/

Chris Turney is my #1 pick, especially since he just received some award right after his triumphant return from the Antarctic!
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/01/21/spiritofmawson-fiasco-leader-gets-award-for-excellence/

I agree,my nomination and vote goes to Chris “penguins on the poop deck” Turney of Ship of Fools fame.

TIm Flannery, for owning a river side home, and predicting without any foundation that the sea levels would rise alarmingly, and we would suffer dreadful droughts. (What’s new in Australia) Sea rises have not occurred. Don’t forget Timmy who is still noisy.

I agree with Bushbunny about Tim Flannery.
Let us not forget Julia “There will be no carbon tax under a government I lead” Gillard.

The IPCC, Al Gore, Tim Flannery, Mike Mann, and Jones from I can’t remember for colluding with Mann via emails

I nominate, Nick Cohen
“The climate change deniers have won”
“Yes, Mr Cohen, those whom you deliberately and with malice call “deniers” are winning. Incredibly, even though they have only 0.03% of the funds, none of the machinery or the institutions, the enmity of western governments, existential opposition from the $350 billion renewables industry, no support from the large global carbon trading market, and only scorn and derision from the entire UN, and yet they are winning with nothing but wits and facts.”
http://joannenova.com.au/2014/03/nick-cohen-deniers-have-won-gets-startlingly-close-to-the-truth/

Come on you guys–some great nominations but you aren’t following the rules (in some cases) and I don’t want to see your nominations disqualified:

7. Nominations must include a citation, URL, or excerpt that represents the reason for the nomination.

Surely England (et al) 2014 would get a look in for denying the pause then recently writing his highly publicised and dubious ‘the ocean did it’ paper to explain the very same pause he had denied. He basically authored a paper refuting his own proposition; a classic case of duplicitous double speak. (also a massive own-goal IMO). Second him, anyone?

Woops – Sorry for not backing myself…bleating’s cheating; here’s one of many articles re England’s position on ‘the pause’ that never was…
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/why_did_matthew_england_deny_the_warming_pause_he_now_concedes/

oh no…
24 March: Reuters: Robert Evans: Global warming not stopped, will go on for centuries: WMO
There has been no reverse in the trend of global warming and there is still consistent evidence for man-made climate change, the head of the U.N. World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said on Monday…
“Levels of these greenhouse gases are at a record, meaning that our atmosphere and oceans will continue to warm for centuries to come. The laws of physics are non-negotiable,” (U.N. weather agency chief Michel) Jarraud told a news conference…
http://news.yahoo.com/global-warming-not-stopped-centuries-wmo-204257559.html

Al Gore since his residence uses more power than a small town and his non stop crabon spewing jet travel.

re: Lew’s research ethics and lack thereof….
For those most conversant with all of the details of Lewgate (which I am not): it could be interesting to analyze how Lewandowsky’s behaviors do or do not conform to the letter and spirit of his new employer’s research ethics policies, the University of Bristol…. also in comparison to prevailing research ethics standards at UK universities in general, and any national rules and guidelines about research in the UK.
The argument would not be that he could be ‘formally’ judged by the requirements of an institution which he had not yet joined, but rather that it should be disturbing both internally and externally if Bristol turns out to have hired a researcher whose prior work does not meet it’s minimum standards.
For instance, there is this document online:
University of Bristol doc. on Ethics of Research Policy and Procedure
There seem to be a variety of ways in which Lewandowsky’s past behaviors would have been dubious under the stated standards at Bristol. Again, not that Lewandowsky is in peril with Bristol in some ‘formal’ sense, but rather that Bristol officials and faculty should be embarrassed and dismayed if they have hired someone who in the past failed to meet their professed standards.
[this comment cross-posted at Climate Audit]

The IPCC.

Just watched Jimmy Cartier and David Letterman and their ignorance on climate. Has to be some award they qualify for.

My nomination is James West. Sure he is not as famous as Albert Gore or as litigious as Michael Mann, but for plain duplicitous creativity nobody comes close to James West’s recent article in Mother Jones. The article argues the reason that the debris of the tragic flight 370 in the Indian ocean is difficult to find is due to – wait for it – Global Warming.
Apparently Global Warming has messed up the currents in the southern Indian ocean. The article is replete with bogus technical explanations, of course unsubstantiated, of the changes occurring in the winds and currents in this distant part of the world
Here’s the article:
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/03/climate-change-malaysia-airlines-370-search
James surely needs at least an honorable mention simply on the strength of this one article . I mean where else will you find a writer, almost in real time, warp a genuine human tragedy into a ludicrous global warming story. The man has duplicity in bucket loads. A dark horse perhaps, but surely is a serious contender nevertheless.

Yeah, I agree with rogerknights; I didn’t realise there were so many ‘two faces’ in Gotham batman! Too soon for lifetime achievement awards so I suggest you skim off the wannabes and just give us the four most successful scammers to choose from based on the current state of play…. this profusion of talent is kind of a sad indictment on the whole climate field really…

Chris Turney gets my vote, not because he was the most two faced climate scientist (though I admit this is highly debatable ), but because he said things like
” As the Shokalskiy attempted to leave, however, we found ourselves surrounded by a mass breakout of multi­year ice”
Climate change science can be mundane and boring, but Turney and his merry men kept me amused for many days.

Say, how about Rajendra Pachauri?

Omigod Onyabike- I had forgotten all about Matthew England (and his little mate Andy Pittman). Not Turkey though (or Gergis)- too insignificant.
There are just too many worthy winners.

As an Australian I would have to nominate Gillard. “There will be no carbon tax …”etc. Flannery second but we didn’t vote for him.

G.S. Williams says:
March 24, 2014 at 10:37 pm
Say, how about Rajendra Pachauri?
Holy duplication Batman! How did we forget the grinning Commissar? Where’s ya quote/URL GSW? I’m sure there are a bundle from Raj. He’s always pretty pleased to contradict his own organisations findings when he has a microphone. Too… many… choices… Argh!

I have to go with Kevin Trenberth. He set the stage with his out of year “travesty” comment. Doubled down with the “heat is in the deep blue sea” gift to the suspension of the laws of thermodynamics.
But his race to the finish was the happy notion of seawater effectively piling up on the surface and just waiting for the opportunity to “slosh” back. (He will, my models tell me, take personal credit for the possible El Nino coming this year. “See, see….there is the warm water sloshing back.” I am pretty sure as he takes that credit he will not explain how that same water has sunk to the depths of the deep blue sea.)
Meanwhile, as Mark Steyn has seriously lawyered up I fear that Mann may be road kill before he is able to pick up his consolation award for Miss Congeniality.

Political motivated or based Nobel Duplicity Award?

Anthony, can you give your readers a copy of the citation for the Duplicity Award? It might help narrow down what is fast becoming a ridiculously massive field of contestants.
Something like “For their persistent effort to corrupt their own personal ideals in the pursuit of deception. In keeping with the highest ideals of the Machiavellian politics the Duplicity Award goes to… (insert name)….”
BTW, excuse the saddle soap but have thoroughly enjoyed your informative and sometimes hilarious blog for some time. Kudos to you and your team

If there is no date cut-off, ie; last year or any year, I nominate Chris Hill from Albury (Australia). Apparently according to Chris, daylight savings is the cause of Global Warming (2008).
http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/8080/droughtxc8.gif
H/T to handjive @ JoNova
http://joannenova.com.au/2014/03/nick-cohen-deniers-have-won-gets-startlingly-close-to-the-truth/#comment-1409575

Lew is my choice for several reasons. It’s good with a clear cut example to carry the first prize so to avoid misunderstandings of what this prize is about, or it could end up like the Nobel Peace Prize. Lew is also the right shoddy company nobody wants to be associated with – perfect company for next years loser.

To save time, here is the article from the Border Mail, 01/10/2008;
Chris Hill, Albury. Border Mail, 01/10/2008
Drought trigger clear as day.
When I was a kid we never had drought after drought.
Then we started with daylight savings. We started with a little bit, but now we have six months of the year daylight saving.
It has just become too much for the environment to cope with.
It is so logical, for six months of the year we have an extra hour each day of that hot afternoon sun.
I read somewhere that scientific studies had shown there is a lot less moisture in the atmosphere which means we get less rain.
I believe this one hour extra sun is slowly evaporating all the moisture out of everything.
Why can’t the Government get the CSIRO to do studies on this, or better still, get rid of daylight savings. They have to do something before it’s to late.
-CHRIS HILL
Albury
As Anthony would say…….the stupid, it burns.

I cast my vote on Chris Turney and “The Ship of Fools”!

Peter Gleick
Peter Gleick is a MacArthur “Genius Award” recipient, a (forced to resign) chairman of the “Task Force on Ethics” at the American Geophysical Union, a (forced to resign) member of the National Center for Science Education, and current president of the Pacific Institute. He is also featured in a “documentary” film titled “Last Call at the Oasis.”
http://fakegate.org/
Fakegate
On February 20, 2012, Peter Gleick confessed to stealing documents from The Heartland Institute with the intent of exposing its funding sources and damaging its reputation. He also disseminated a fake “climate strategy memo” that he and other environmental activists on the left claim describes Heartland’s “secret strategy” to mislead the public about the true nature of climate change.
At first Gleick claimed he obtained the fake memo along with other documents from The Heartland Institute. Now he claims it came from an anonymous source before he stole the documents. Heartland has consistently and unambiguously said the memo is a forgery and was not produced by anyone associated with The Heartland Institute.
“Fakegate” is the title given to this scandal by the London Telegraph’s James Delingpole.
The Heartland Institute conducted an internal investigation that showed the memo was not authored by anyone at the organization. Two external, independent investigations — one by Protek International and one by Juola & Associates — found the same. Many others have also conducted excellent investigations into this matter.

There are so many worthy contestants (involuntarily entered, to be sure) for this award that I hesitate to add more; but I must. Highest on my list (after Mr. Gore, of course), is President Obama; but closely following behind him is our own EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency, which resolutely pushes Global Warming as scientific while being confronted repeatedly by evidence to the contrary. As a result of EPA’s pushing, we have numerous stringent and nonsensical rules that can be added to at any time. I suppose it is possible for some of the people at EPA actually to believe what they say, but we all know that their reason for persisting in their doctrine is to control the rest of us (for our own good, of course). Do consider the EPA for this award, and give it all the publicity you can!

John Cook, for his highly duplicitous 97% survey.
The central purpose of that ‘survey’ was simply to give advocates and media lackeys alike a seemingly overwhelming sound bite; something that at a single stroke could be used to convey the ‘consensus’ of ‘peer-reviewed climate scientists’ and thus shut down any further discussion.
Due to Cooks duplicity all that became available in an instantly deliverable, seemingly irrefutable one-liner. It has to be said that given the extent it has been used across almost all media it has been an outstanding success.
Lord Monckton has since destroyed the ‘survey’, exposing Cooks quite deliberate intent to deceive via obviously loaded questions and a deliberately biased screening process. That’s perfect duplicity territory. (Awarding him this prize would also go some way to righting his obvious deceit, too.)
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/09/23/skeptical-science-conspiracy-theorist-john-cook-runs-another-survey-trying-to-prove-that-false-97-of-climate-scientists-believe-in-global-warming-meme/

Cinderella/Longshot pick:
The Gaurdian’s Laurence Topham… aka Peanut Butter Milkshake Boy… aka Environmental Jesus.
“His suffering saved the Planet.”
Now mail me my prize.

Good idea. I see there is a new institute for the study of poor science in the bio-medical area (http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21598944-sloppy-researchers-beware-new-institute-has-you-its-sights-metaphysicians). I reckon something like that for climate science would also be an excellent idea, given the new-found importance of the area.
The title for the award is a bit cumbersome. I suggest an ‘Occam’s Broom Award’ for the most important deployment of that device in climate alarm campaigning. The device is described by Daniel C Dennett (2013) as follows:
‘The molecular biologist Sidney Brenner recently invented a delicious play on Occam’s Razor, introducing the new term Occam’s Broom, to describe the process in which inconvenient facts are whisked under the rug by intellectually dishonest champions of one theory or another…The practice is particularly insidious when used by propagandists who direct their efforts at the lay public …their carefully crafted accounts can be quite convincing simply because the lay reader can’t see what isn’t there.’
I give some examples from the climate arena here: http://climatelessons.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/occams-broom-and-stink-of-97-of-climate.html

Gore, Mann, Lewandowsky, it’s a warmacopia. Please also remember Peter Gleick wants it bad enough to commit a felony and Richard Muller who is doing his BEST.

I nominate David Cameron, the British Prime Minister. He is a most duplicitous, green worshipping toe rag.

With so many candidates, you might have to go to a March madness type of bracket system for voting.

Although I am not sure he fits the definition of duplicitous, I nominate Scott Mandia as “Best Dressed” for his excellent work as “Super Mandia.”
http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2012/09/breaking-vivienne-westwood-makes-bid-to.html
A shame he got caught up in the AGW silliness because earlier in his career, he did some excellent work on hurricane storm surge for Long Island and NYC as well as excellent summaries of major hurricanes to hit Long Island/NYC Metro

So many champions worthy of the prize – the mind boggles. It’s way more competitive than the Nobel Peace Prize. Even if we stipulated that only previous winners of that prize qualify, that would still leave us with enough options for years to come.

I second, or third, the nomination of Peter Gleick. Lewandowsky is, simply, too much a jerk to be taken seriously by anyone.
Gleick crawled down from the ivory towers of academe to the pit of lies and deceit — and, then, was allowed to re-ascend.
Friends still talk with him. I can’t imagine what his justifications, over dinner parties, might be. He is a perfect symbol of the corruption of the science. …..Lady in Red

I like the idea of multiple categories (climataologist, meterologist, other scientist, journalist, politician, blogger?), and awards should be for contribution within the calendar year. A yearly lifetime achievement award should be named after the initial recipient and be dubbed the Al Gore Lifetime Achievement Award. Acceptance speeches could be used to explain each recipients ‘outstandingness’ in his/her field. The awards could be shaped like hockey sticks, or other icons of duplicity. Go big or go home :>)

I know this does not count but just shows you how uncertain they really are. I suspect they were merely reporting on the weather and not the climate – and they didn’t even know it.

Independent – 20 March 2000
Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past
…within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”.
“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said……
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.html
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Independent – 4 February 2012
Science behind the big freeze: is climate change bringing the Arctic to Europe?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/science-behind-the-big-freeze-is-climate-change-bringing-the-arctic-to-europe-6358928.html

Al Gore, for the specific claim in his “An Inconvenient Truth” movie companion book that enviro-activist book author/ex-reporter & Pulitzer-winning Ross Gelbspan discovered a leaked coal industry memo proving skeptic climate scientists were paid industry shills out to “reposition global warming as theory rather than fact.” Photo of Gore’s book page here: http://gelbspanfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/AnIncT-263.jpg
The first time Gelbspan publicly mentioned those memos was in a December 1995 radio interview, also quoting how the coal group intended to target “older, less educated men and young, low-income women.” http://gelbspanfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/NPR-LOE-Gelb-reposit-12-15-95-1024×591.jpg
Gore quoted the very same “older, less-educated males” / younger, lower-income women” memo phrase in his 1992 “Earth in the Balance” book. http://gelbspanfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/ErintheB-360.jpg
Ross Gelbspan never won a Pulitzer ( http://www.pulitzer.org/faceted_search/results/gelbspan ), and the above coal group memos do nothing to prove a quid pro quo arrangement exists between skeptic climate scientists and the fossil fuel industry – money paid in exchange for fabricated skeptic science reports.

I have to go with Mann on this one. His attack on Judith Curry, while in the process of suing Tim Ball and Mark Steyn for defamation, is duplicity at it’s finest.

NOAA

I nominate Macquarie University for the way it behaved to Prof Murry Salby. The citations are here: http://wattsupwiththat.com/tag/murry-salby/