Category Archives: Climate Craziness of the Week

Climate craziness of the week – the last one, really!

Posted on December 22, 2011 by

The Telegraph goes full stupid with this headline. The craziness is that this photo essay has to be done every year, a point apparently lost on both the Telegraph and the photographer.

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Climate Craziness of the Week – let the kids freeze, all I want for Christmas is a zero carbon footprint

Posted on December 7, 2011 by

This guy (Headmaster Rob Benzie)  has become Scrooge in England, except he doesn’t provide even one lump of coal, because, well that would mess up his “carbon footprint”. This is just too bizarre not to pass on, thanks to The Daily … Continue reading →

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Climate Craziness of the Week – occupy Durban

Posted on November 27, 2011 by

You know it had to happen. What better place could there be for the great unwashed to protest? Gotta love the dead green tree growing out of the Earth. Here’s their message: ============================================================== #OccupyCop17: Climate Justice General Assembly Governments of … Continue reading →

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Climate Craziness of the Week: sea life “must swim faster to survive climate change”

Posted on November 7, 2011 by

From the National Science Foundation, more nuttiness from the reef alarmist Ove Hugh-Goldberg’s sea-buddy John Bruno, who I encountered in Brisbane last year. I wonder how sea life manages to outrun El Niño and La Niña ENSO events without being … Continue reading →

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Climate Craziness of the Week: Supermandia

Posted on October 31, 2011 by

Mike Mann thinks this is cool. In case you don’t know, SUNY’s Professor Scott Mandia is the guy running Mike Mann’s legal defense fund. My only question is, why does he need hip wader boots?

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Climate Craziness of the Week – have we had our fill yet?

Posted on September 21, 2011 by

From Reuters:  The sky will soon be full, view it while you can.

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Climate Craziness of the Week: Anthropogenic Girthic Warming

Posted on August 15, 2011 by

I would not have believed the claim if I hadn’t read it here: So the idea is that everybody should lose ten kilos the result of which would be a drop in greenhouse emissions that would be the equivalent of … Continue reading →

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Climate Craziness of the Week: This looks like a job for “green helmet guy”

Posted on July 20, 2011 by

Climate weirding at the UN: Here’s the whole weird story. I suppose neither the UN nor the Guardian remembers the “green helmet guy” fiasco from 2006, or they wouldn’t be using the term. Here’s a refresher:

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Climate Craziness of the Week: Mike Smith on “This Week’s Stupidest Global Warming Story”

Posted on July 3, 2011 by

By Mike Smith of Meteorological Musings This story from London’s Daily Mail is so bad, the reporter won’t even put his or her name on it. In the story, we learn the Joplin tornado was caused by global warming.  We learn … Continue reading →

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Climate Craziness of the Week: Grist perpetuates the tornado to climate change linkage myth

Posted on June 14, 2011 by

And of course they throw in all ‘extreme weather’ for good measure. But as they like to say, let’s ‘explode the myth’. From the Grist website, an intro to what they say is a ‘must see’ video, following McKibbens ‘must … Continue reading →

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Climate craziness of the week: “ethics requires” linking tornadoes to climate change

Posted on June 1, 2011 by

Since this essay by Penn State’s Associate Professor Donald A. Brown is placed on a publicly funded university web server,  I’m repeating this in entirety here for discussion. Be sure to see what I found at the end. Why Ethics … Continue reading →

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Climate Change Craziness of the Week: a fish story from llama land

Posted on April 12, 2011 by

This is just….just…ah heck I can’t even begin to describe it. The stupid, it burns. Here’s the odoriferous essence of this publicity stunt story:

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Climate Craziness of the week – Claim: nuclear tests stopped global warming in the mid 20th century

Posted on April 4, 2011 by

People send me stuff. Never mind the other aerosol sources, it was the Fat Man and Little Boy. From the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics April 2011, these claims: Atmospheric nuclear explosions induced the stagnation in global warming in … Continue reading →

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Climate Craziness of the Week: IPCC’s Pachauri claims 17cm of sea level rise made the Tsunami worse, but let’s check

Posted on March 23, 2011 by

From this article in The Hindu: (h/t to WUWT reader Adam Gallon) “In the 20th century, sea-level rise was recorded at an average of 17 centimetres. If the sea-level was significantly lower, clearly the same tsunami would have had a … Continue reading →

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The Sunday Silly – Josh on why the climate change “war” is like the war in Iraq

Posted on March 6, 2011 by

This gets the honor of “Climate Craziness of the Week”. Oh, that’s gonna leave a mark…

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Climate Craziness of the Week – Zero Carbon Living FAIL

Posted on February 25, 2011 by

Zero Carbon living…didn’t quite work out. Didn’t they do some calculations on this first? Sheesh.

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Climate craziness of the week: 8°F by 2100, sea level rise to hit US coastal cities hard

Posted on February 15, 2011 by

From the hot and well above sea level University of Arizona, home of the world famous parking lot climate station, comes this zany press release: Rising seas will affect major US coastal cities by 2100 Rising sea levels could threaten … Continue reading →

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Climate Craziness of the Week: Eat bugs, not meat, to “save the planet”

Posted on January 10, 2011 by

From Mongabay: Scientists in the Netherlands have discovered that insects produce significantly less greenhouse gas per kilogram of meat than cattle or pigs. Their study, published in the online journal PLoS, suggests that a move towards insect farming could result … Continue reading →

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Climate Craziness of the week: a basic science question for NYT reporter Justin Gillis

Posted on January 7, 2011 by

Readers please note the story I ran earlier: NOAA: “the atmosphere’s self-cleaning capacity is rather stable” This story talks about the ability of hydroxyl radicals in the free atmosphere to break down pollutants, and how there seems to be a stability … Continue reading →

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Climate Craziness of the Week: Amusment park or Ecopolis?

Posted on November 15, 2010 by

I can see where something like this might work as a resort. But 250 million “climate refugees”? Really? From job-maldives.com where they are “celebrating three years of service”: LILYPAD, A FLOATING ECOPOLIS FOR CLIMATICAL REFUGEES 2100, a large crowd of … Continue reading →

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Climate Craziness of the Week: Soylent Green Earth Sim

Posted on November 6, 2010 by

Ecotretas writes in with another stranger than fiction idea, now coming to PC near you: I’ve put up a post regarding a game that is being launched: Fate of the World. A SimCity like strategy game, but now with worldwide … Continue reading →

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Climate Craziness of the Week: Save the planet, combine your emails into longer messages

Posted on October 27, 2010 by

From Warren Meyer at climate-skeptic.com From the Thin Green Line, a reliable source for any absurd science that supports environmental alarmism: Sending and receiving email makes up a full percent of a relatively green person’s annual carbon emissions, the equivalent … Continue reading →

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Climate Craziness of the Week

Posted on October 12, 2010 by

This is too ridiculous to even comment on, so I’ll just let the image do the talking and provide a link:

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Climate Craziness of the Week – Attention citizens! You Are Thinking The Wrong Thoughts

Posted on September 16, 2010 by

by Dennis Ambler Those of who have long been in denial about the realities of global warming and the credibility of the IPCC, can now feel relieved, there may be hope for us yet. The diagnosis has been made; we … Continue reading →

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Climate Craziness of the Week: Global scale nanosphere nuttiness

Posted on September 7, 2010 by

Let’s see, what would we make those nano-disks out of? He says (see PNAS paper below): Silica-alumina ceramic hollow microspheres with diameters of 1 μm. (aka 1 micron) Do you think putting nano-sized silicon based pollutants into the atmosphere will … Continue reading →

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