Category Archives: Climate ugliness

Stunning ignorance on display from Senator Barbara Boxer over Oklahoma tornado outbreak

Posted on May 21, 2013 by

Via POLITICO’s Morning Energy – May 21, 2013: Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif. – Chair of Senate Environment & Public Works Committee) took to the Senate floor and invoked the Oklahoma tornadoes in her speech on global warming. “This is climate … Continue reading →

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US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse From Rhode Island Provides Erroneous Information To American Public in Global Warming Rant

Posted on May 20, 2013 by

Video Credit: Daily Caller/C-SPAN – click for video By WUWT Regular Just The Facts First, I’m sure I speak for everyone at WUWT when I say that our hearts go out to all the families in Oklahoma affected by the … Continue reading →

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Monday Mirthiness – John’s cooked up Skeptical Science survey

Posted on May 6, 2013 by

When I was first contacted by Skeptical Science proprietor John Cook about his request to have WUWT host a survey, I asked him several questions because I had misgivings about the design. He refused to answer my questions, and now … Continue reading →

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Lewandowsky et al 2013: surveying Peter to report on Paul

Posted on May 5, 2013 by

Guest analysis by Shub Niggurath In 2012, Stephan Lewandowsky and co-authors submitted a paper to the journal Psychological Science, generating widespread publicity. Here, I address a simple issue/question that has hovered around the paper from the time it made its … Continue reading →

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San Jose State University Meteorology decides burning books they don’t agree with is better than reading them

Posted on May 2, 2013 by

From the Fahrenheit 451 department comes this indictment of California’s higher education’s “tolerance” for opposing views. When I first got the tip on this, I thought to myself “nobody can be this stupid to photograph themselves doing this” but, here … Continue reading →

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Stephan Lewandowsky ‘flees’ Australia in wake of investigations

Posted on April 28, 2013 by

People send me stuff. Amid complaints about the veracity and ethics of his psychological research trying to equate climate skeptics to conspiracy theory nuts and “moon landing deniers”, it seems that Professor Lewandowsky is no longer at the University of … Continue reading →

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My response to Delingpole over invoking Godwin’s Law

Posted on April 14, 2013 by

Last weekend I posted an essay on what I considered to be a pointless invocation of Godwins Law by my friend James Delingpole: The battle of the pointless Nuremberg insults: Romm -vs- Delingpole (Note: For those of you who don’t know, … Continue reading →

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The battle of the pointless Nuremberg insults: Romm -vs- Delingpole

Posted on April 7, 2013 by

UPDATE: 4/11/13 Mr. Delingpole has made two responses: In the Spectator: http://www.spectator.co.uk/columnists/james-delingpole/8885551/no-i-wont-say-sorry-even-to-a-friend/ In the Telegraph: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100211704/apologise-to-michael-mann-anthony-id-rather-eat-worms/ I’ll post my response this weekend. – Anthony ============================================================= We don’t need either side of the climate debate invoking Godwin’s Law on any level, … Continue reading →

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McIntyre charges Grant Foster aka “Tamino” with plagiarism in a Dot Earth discussion

Posted on April 1, 2013 by

Reader “pottereaton” submitted this on 2013/04/01 at 2:28 pm McIntyre/Tamino Feud brewing: First McIntyre at DotEarth: Steve McIntyre Toronto, Canada Andy, The ideas in Tamino’s post purporting to explain the Marcott uptick,http://tamino.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/the-tick/ which you praise as “illuminating”, was shamelessly plagiarized … Continue reading →

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Dr. Michael Mann, Smooth Operator

Posted on March 30, 2013 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach People sometimes ask why I don’t publish in the so-called scientific journals. Here’s a little story about that. Back in 2004, Michael Mann wrote a mathematically naive piece about how to smooth the ends of … Continue reading →

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McIntyre’s dissection of the Cook-Lewandowsky “Lying/deceiving/incompetence” complex

Posted on March 28, 2013 by

You don’t need a degree in psychology to figure this one out, you simply need to be an astute observer. Steve McIntyre writes: Last fall, Geoff Chambers and Barry Woods established beyond a shadow of a doubt that no blog … Continue reading →

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Howler of the day – pure comedy gold from Greg Laden

Posted on March 28, 2013 by

Note to Greg, Tom Nelson found it for me, no crystal ball or Oz powers needed.

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I get the heave-ho from Hayhoe

Posted on March 27, 2013 by

Some climate scientists we know sure are notoriously thin skinned, as an illustration of this, today I got blocked by Dr. Katherine Hayhoe on Twitter after making my one and only Twitter comment to her. See below. Here’s the comment … Continue reading →

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The descent of Mann’s legal standing

Posted on March 27, 2013 by

Story submitted by Rob Ricket Mann plays the victim in article from “The Scientist” Opinion: Life as a Target Attacks on my work aimed at undermining climate change science have turned me into a public figure. I have come to … Continue reading →

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In where I get targeted by the Climate Science Rapid Response Team

Posted on March 27, 2013 by

Readers may recall that I became a target of Al Gore for getting some press. From Al Gore’s “Reality Drop” project, the GoreBots were given the orders. Read the entire interview by James Stafford here to see what got them … Continue reading →

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A question for Dr. Michael Mann – Would a professional scientist behave this way?

Posted on March 25, 2013 by

Some days you have to wonder how supposedly rational and intelligent people who are considered professional scientists allow themselves to behave like this. From Dr. Mann’s Twitter feed: 

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Hump Day Hilarity – Bill McKibben demonstrates what a classy intelligent guy he is…

Posted on March 20, 2013 by

…by agreeing with and reposting a photo that insults not only the intelligence of rational thinking people, but Native American people as well. (warning – graphic language)

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The Washington Post Eilperin emissions trick

Posted on March 20, 2013 by

Dave Burton, via his Facebook page writes: The Washington Post’s caption says “…emissions spew from the smokestacks at… coal-fired power plant…” Do you want to know what propaganda looks like? Take glance at this article from the Washington Post. The … Continue reading →

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Monday Mirthiness – Watch the genesis (and retraction) of a smear

Posted on March 18, 2013 by

This is hilarious, I finally got a retraction out of Dr. Michael Mann. The AGW proponents must be reeling from McIntyre’s takedown of Marcott et al, because I watched the most hilarious smear genesis unfold this morning a few minutes … Continue reading →

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Quote of the Week – Dear Paul Krugman: ‘I’ll see you in hell’

Posted on March 15, 2013 by

Krugman as usual, considers himself to be a judge of other people’s views, morals, and conscience. I find the column title amusing. Here’s what is so amusing and at the same time troubling about his column.

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