Category Archives: Humor

Hump day hilarity: Big Kahuna Warmy

Posted on June 19, 2013 by

From the overhyped and virtually overheated UK Met Office meeting yesterday where they tried to explain “The Pause” Telegraph blogger Sean Thomas was there and was able to get first hand reports on what was said. Bishop Hill says: “I … Continue reading →

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Friday Funny (well maybe not so funny) – XKCD takes on the real climate threat

Posted on June 14, 2013 by

Sobering graphics to scale: ice sheets 21,000 years ago versus today’s skylines.

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“Sorry, a TIME Magazine Cover Did Not Predict a Coming Ice Age”… It was just a TIME article.

Posted on June 11, 2013 by

Guest Post by David Middleton You can always count in TIME magazine’s Bryan Walsh for a good laugh… Well, I suppose that Mr. Walsh is correct that a 1977 TIME magazine cover did not predict “another ice age.” The prediction … Continue reading →

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The MAD MEN of Climate-Change Alarmism

Posted on June 10, 2013 by

Readers may recall that I and some other climate skeptics were portrayed in a parody of AMC’s “MAD MEN” last week by activist artist Steve Brodner, who apparently can’t handle comments about his artwork on his blog, since he didn’t … Continue reading →

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Friday Funny – we live in interesting times

Posted on June 7, 2013 by

This has been the most strange and unsettling week ever. Wiretaps, using the tax code as a political tool against your opponent, Huffington Post goes over to the dark side, and we witnessed the collapse of climate models ability to … Continue reading →

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Friday Funny – The Global Warming Escalator -vs- The Rocket

Posted on May 31, 2013 by

Many WUWT readers have seen the famous bit of propaganda produced by John Cook at the antithetically named “Skeptical Science” website, where he creates a series of steps along the graph of global temperatures suggesting that every time climate skeptics … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate data, Humor, IPCC, Satire | 68 Comments

Obama was right–‘the rise of the oceans began to slow’

Posted on May 28, 2013 by

From his June 4, 2008 speech on winning the Democratic primaries: “This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow, and our planet began to heal.” Here’s the proof: Ten year running mean sea level rise … Continue reading →

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Josh on great moments in use of the ‘D word’

Posted on May 25, 2013 by

Lucia notes: As some of you know, Dana flung the “D” word at Richard Tol. He and a sympathizer who uses the handle “@IdiotTracker” have provided interesting definitions of either “Denier” or “acting like a denier”. For those who don’t … Continue reading →

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Saturday silliness – more motivation to leave California

Posted on May 25, 2013 by

Yesterday I lamented the potential banning of fire. For those of you that don’t know, I live in a town that rivals Berkeley for nuttiness. Thanks to the progressive thinking fomented by Chico State University, Chico is often like an … Continue reading →

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Climate control – lather, rinse, repeat

Posted on May 18, 2013 by

We always talk about and are lectured to about how “weather is not climate”. Of course that’s a flexible meme, because now when the weather turns hot or bad, climate is to blame. I had to go to Walmart today … Continue reading →

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Friday Funny – great moments in 97% beliefs

Posted on May 17, 2013 by

Heh, this is from a commenter at Slashdot on Cook’s fatally flawed 97% consensus paper. While a bit harsh, it’s also funny. He responds to: Yeah! It’s like saying that 97% of priests believe in god anyway. by Razgorov Prikazka … Continue reading →

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IPCC’s AR5 Frankenscience – bringing proxies back from the dead

Posted on May 11, 2013 by

Josh writes: Steve McIntyre has a hilarious post on the desperate measures needed to get some non peer reviewed papers into the IPCC’s AR5. I am not sure where the phrase ‘Frankenscience’ comes from but it seems appropriate for AR5 which … Continue reading →

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Friday Funny: Prince Charles struck by irony meteorite

Posted on May 10, 2013 by

Apparently, Prince Charles recent pronouncement has created a riff in space-time, and an irony meteorite was ejected, striking the prince in the head. A photo follows. From Raw Story: Prince Charles criticizes ‘corporate lobbyists’ and climate change skeptics for turning … Continue reading →

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Beer Crisis Could Trigger Ice Age

Posted on May 1, 2013 by

A parody of current politics; a spoof; if it doesn’t make you chuckle, I quit! Guest post by Caleb Shaw The beer institute has come out with its yearly figures, and I am sad to report that you people are … Continue reading →

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More than a feeling…

Posted on April 24, 2013 by

You may recall this story:  Climate Craziness of the week – with the physical signature of UHI staring them right in the face, Mann & Borenstein go with their ‘gut’ instincts Josh writes: With several questions from MPs recently, see here, here and here, … Continue reading →

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Sunday silliness: zombie wood

Posted on April 21, 2013 by

Josh writes: Over at Climate Audit, Steve has been looking at the resurfacing of some Hockey Stick science papers, and the fun continues here and here.

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Kevin Rudd wins Golden Fleece Award

Posted on April 19, 2013 by

The Inaugural Golden Fleece Award – for Flagrant Fleecing of Community Resources The Carbon Sense Coalition has awarded its Inaugural Golden Fleece Award to Kevin Rudd and coal industry leaders for “flagrant fleecing of community savings in futile ‘research’ on … Continue reading →

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Saturday Silliness: Tamino aka Grant Foster fracks himself

Posted on April 6, 2013 by

People send me stuff. This morning my inbox had a forwarded Twitter item about a Tammy post where supposedly none of what McIntyre discovered about the dating problems in Marcott et al hockey stick “matter”, because “Tamino” has proven otherwise, … Continue reading →

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Introducing the anti-hockey stick – ‘The Scythe”

Posted on April 1, 2013 by

We already are well familiar with the shape of the hockey stick, so familiar in fact it has become an icon. Josh writes: It has already been concluded by Marcott et al that their results should now show no modern … Continue reading →

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Monday Mirthiness bonus edition: reflections

Posted on April 1, 2013 by

Objects in the mirror may be closer than they appear.

Posted in Humor, Marcott et al proxy paper, Satire | Tagged | 22 Comments