Category Archives: climate ugliness

Notes on the faked Heartland document

Posted on February 15, 2012 by

UPDATE: there’s even more evidence that the document was faked. The Koch Foundation and The Atlantic weighs in in update 3 below. As a follow up to the post Notes on the Heartland Leak, I’ve prepared some notes on the … Continue reading →

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Editorial – In support of Dr. Michael Mann and open debate

Posted on February 4, 2012 by

UPDATE: Lubos Motl has a poll running on whether this is the right stance to take or not. Feel free to take it here – Anthony This is an editorial that I never thought I’d be writing and I expect … Continue reading →

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Mann of the people

Posted on January 19, 2012 by

Tom Nelson spots another Climategate zinger. Email 2743, Sept 2009, Michael “Robust Debate” Mann: “So far, we’ve simply deleted all of the attempts by McIntyre and his minions to draw attention to this at RealClimate.”

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Comparing climate skepticism to “creationism” in the classroom

Posted on January 19, 2012 by

Alternate title: Science education gets Gleicked From AAAS: “Is climate change education the new evolution, threatened in U.S. school districts and state education standards by well-organized interest groups? A growing number of education advocates believe so, and yesterday, the National … Continue reading →

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A Response to Skeptical Science’s “Patrick Michaels: Serial Deleter of Inconvenient Data”

Posted on January 17, 2012 by

Guest post by Patrick Michaels When the battle is being lost, there is a tendency to try to raise a level of distraction to shift the attention away from the desperate situation at hand. Such is the noise being raised … Continue reading →

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The new Hollywood blacklist

Posted on January 12, 2012 by

It’s like reverse McCarthyism. If you don’t believe in the AGW party line espoused by other “enlightened” actors, you don’t get to work.

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The climate science peer pressure cooker

Posted on January 10, 2012 by

Will Replicated Global Warming Science Make Mann Go Ape? By Patrick J. Michaels – from World Climate Report About 10 years ago, December 20, 2002 to be exact, we published a paper titled “Revised 21st century temperature projections” in the … Continue reading →

Posted in climate ugliness, Michael E. Mann, peer review, satire | Tagged , , , , , , , | 153 Comments

Greg Laden caves – makes nice with Tallbloke

Posted on December 20, 2011 by

Tom Nelson points out that Laden seems to have caved to impending legal action. His essay now is a world apart from the angry and accusatory rhetoric of a few days ago. I think maybe Laden and the owners of … Continue reading →

Posted in climate reconciliation, climate ugliness | Tagged , , , , , , , | 178 Comments

Enron Romm

Posted on December 19, 2011 by

Most WUWT readers know Joltin Joe Romm by his trademark over the top rhetoric and his outright hatred of skeptics on parade every day at his Center for American Progress blog. Most of us have learned to ignore it, because … Continue reading →

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Tallbloke to take to torts

Posted on December 17, 2011 by

I’ve received this email from Roger Tattersall’s attorney (known as a solicitor in England) with the request that I post it. I’m happy to do so. Please see in the letter where the legal fund is being setup. – Anthony … Continue reading →

Posted in climate ugliness, Climategate, Uncategorized | Tagged , , | 328 Comments

Team ugliness – a call to get a skeptics PhD thesis revoked

Posted on December 2, 2011 by

Guest post by Dr. Patrick Michaels – originally on Forbes, reposted here at the request of the author. Climategate II: An Open Letter to the Director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research To: Dr. Roger Wakimoto Director, National Center … Continue reading →

Posted in climate ugliness, Climategate | 199 Comments

Climate scientist loses court case – ordered to “cease and desist” smearing independent journalist who wrote about IPCC errors

Posted on December 1, 2011 by

Excerpt from Pierre Goseelin’s  NoTricksZone: Der Spiegel today has a story on IPCC bigwig and ultra-alarmist Stefan Rahmstorf, who is also a lead scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and elite member of the Hockey Team. For … Continue reading →

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The worst kind of ugly climate propaganda: David Suzuki targets kids at Christmas in the name of climate change

Posted on November 30, 2011 by

Here’s the popup message solicitation you get when you visit the website for the first time:

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The tribalistic corruption of peer review – the Chris de Freitas incident

Posted on November 27, 2011 by

From New Zealand Climate Change, this goes beyond “noble cause corruption”. This is outright malicious interference with the scientific process, and it’s damned ugly. I can’t imagine anyone involved in professional science who could stand idly by and not condemn … Continue reading →

Posted in climate ugliness, Climategate | Tagged , , , , , , , | 224 Comments

Don’t mock the Monck

Posted on November 20, 2011 by

Apparently, Monckton is a member of the House of Lords, according to constitutional lawyer in England. I don’t have a dog in this fight, I’m just in it for the popcorn sales. That said, here’s the plot summary. A lot … Continue reading →

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Climate Skeptic Combusts in New [William J Clinton Foundation] Video

Posted on November 4, 2011 by

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” Correction: This video appears to be associated with the William J Clinton Foundation versus the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) as was previously stated. Updated Below – New “The Air-Conditioned Suit” video surfaces “‘Combustible’ is … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, climate ugliness, Curious things | Tagged , , , , | 145 Comments

My thanks to Mike Roddy for helping with BEST review

Posted on October 22, 2011 by

Eh, even when I try to get away from it on weekends it follows me via email. But, I decided I’d take a moment to post this comment from Joe Romm’s Climate Progress somebody sent me that popped up on … Continue reading →

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On “Skepticalscience” – Rewriting History

Posted on October 11, 2011 by

At Shub Niggurath Climate blog, he’s done a follow up to his first essay on the ongoing issues with integrity that the oxymoronically named blog “skepticalscience” has. Excerpts are posted below. I’ll point out the John Cook has not responded … Continue reading →

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The TV show where my character gets punched out by a climate scientist

Posted on October 4, 2011 by

UPDATE: The connection in Crownies to me is unmistakeable now, see update below. Stranger than fiction shades of Ben Santer: “Next time I see Pat Michaels at a scientific meeting, I’ll be tempted to beat the crap out of him. … Continue reading →

Posted in climate ugliness, media | Tagged , , , , , , | 111 Comments

Thanks to Michael Mann’s response, a newspaper censors a letter to the editor ex post facto

Posted on October 2, 2011 by

UPDATES below – some confusion afoot by differing newspaper versions has been discovered. The print version appears to be online. ================================= Letters to the editor are one of the oldest free speech venues for public opinion in the United States. … Continue reading →

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A modest proposal to Skeptical Science

Posted on September 25, 2011 by

UPDATE: Some new data has come to light, see below. As Bishop Hill and WUWT readers know, there’s been a lot of condemnation of the way John Cook’s Skeptical Science website treated Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. recently when he attempted … Continue reading →

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The anti-science battle of Green -vs- Mooney

Posted on September 24, 2011 by

Heh, gotta love this. Get popcorn. I was tipped off to this by Chris Mooney in a Tweet where he’s calling for reinforcements: Kevin Green of the American Enterprise Institute got the war of words rolling with these comments at … Continue reading →

Posted in politics, Alarmism, climate ugliness | Tagged , , , , | 181 Comments

Over-cooked or well done?

Posted on September 22, 2011 by

Bishop Hill has yet another amusing entry on the post facto revisionism going on over at the oxymorinically named Skeptical Science blog run by John Cook. Add to that, Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. also has an entry where he says … Continue reading →

Posted in climate ugliness, Opinion | Tagged , , , | 110 Comments

Forbes: Can We Really Call Climate Science A Science?

Posted on September 19, 2011 by

Below are excerpts from a story by Paul Roderick Gregory, in Forbes, plus an examination of how desperate the website SkepticalScience seems to have become in the way they treat professionals. Excerpts from Forbes: ================================================ Three recent events have brought … Continue reading →

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Monckton answers a troll

Posted on September 18, 2011 by

This is a response by Christopher Monckton to the comment on the Nurse anti-science thread yesterday by anonymous commenter “The other Brian” who in typical troll style, tries to distract away from the post and point being made with noise.- … Continue reading →

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