Category Archives: Humor

Lucia drops some reality on the Gorebots – Update: The astroturfing is from Skeptical Science

Posted on March 5, 2013 by

UPDATE: Apparently, they didn’t like Lucia’s version of reality, she writes: lucia liljegren (@lucialiljegren) says: March 5, 2013 at 11:45 am They suspended my account. And I wanted #1 on the leader board. Dang!! UPDATE2: Apparently this is an Astroturfing … Continue reading →

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Friday Funny – John Cook’s withdrawal symptoms

Posted on March 1, 2013 by

Call a whaaaambulance! WUWT readers may recall that this blog and other popular skeptic blogs are in the running for the 2013 Bloggies in the Science category, as detailed here. Also, for the first time, the website “Skeptical Science” (operated … Continue reading →

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Monday Mirthiness BONUS edition: Waiter! There’s horsemeat in my climate sandwich!

Posted on February 11, 2013 by

Josh writes: Roger Pielke Jr has a must read post on the link between the UK’s horsemeat in burgers scandal and Climate change, which is both timely and clever. And it inspired this cartoon. Many thanks Roger! 

Posted in Current News, Humor, Satire | 44 Comments

Monday Mirthiness – chill your drink while wailing about the polar bears and sea level rise

Posted on February 11, 2013 by

WUWT readers may remember when Ursus Bogus made an appearance in Science magazine, and the hilarity that ensued from it. The embarrassment for Science was that it was a Photoshop job.  There’s also the penguin version of the stock art. Science … Continue reading →

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Paul Ehrlich joins the Royal Society, rants on Twitter

Posted on February 10, 2013 by

Josh writes: “All the text Paul Ehrlich is saying comes from his recent tweets.“ And the Bishop says “it’s a hoot”. I wonder where he got the idea that its was “the greatest snowstorm on record for the city” when … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Humor, Satire | Tagged , , | 60 Comments

Friday Funny – ‘Demonizing’ Steve McIntyre

Posted on February 8, 2013 by

Warwick Hughes writes: Thanks to The National Business Review in New Zealand we have this rare article on Steve McIntyre while he was visiting downunder.

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Is Yoko Ono smarter than a 4th grader?

Posted on January 23, 2013 by

Guest post by David Middleton First up: Yoko Ono and friends… ‘Fracking kills’: Yoko Ono joins star-studded cast fighting against hydraulic natural gas drilling in upstate New York John Lennon’s son Sean Lennon, actress Debra Winger, songstress Natalie Merchant and … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Current News, Education, Energy, Fracking, Humor, natural gas | Tagged , , , , , , , | 105 Comments

Sunday Silliness – Kenji takes on the UCS Chicken Little

Posted on January 20, 2013 by

Josh provides this updated cartoon which was originally intended to be a Friday Funny last week. The reason for this cartoon about the Union of Concerned Scientists will become clear in a couple of days. 

Posted in Humor, NASA GISS, Satire | Tagged , , | 37 Comments

Friday Funny – Seth Borenstein’s best headline evah

Posted on January 18, 2013 by

Gosh, who knew?

Posted in Alarmism, Humor, media, Satire | Tagged , , , | 66 Comments

Friday Funny – our big oil man

Posted on January 11, 2013 by

This isn’t a rounding error…

Posted in Al Gore, Humor, Satire | 42 Comments

Josh on the IPCC AR5 leak #2

Posted on January 8, 2013 by

Leak #2 shows it is no longer a grey area… 

Posted in Humor, IPCC AR5 leak, Satire | 50 Comments

Quote of the Week: The Gleick tragedy continues at AGU…

Posted on January 6, 2013 by

Steve McIntyre has returned from his holiday trip and points out how the American Geophysical Union (AGU) has taken up the Gleick tragedy at the 2012 convention, as if the prodigal son had never committed a crime. He writes:

Posted in Humor, Quote of the Week, Satire | Tagged , , , | 92 Comments

Friday Funny

Posted on January 4, 2013 by

Reactions are still coming in from the announcement of Al Jazeera purchasing CURRENT TV.

Posted in Al Gore, Humor, Satire | 77 Comments

Too funny! Even Joe Romm’s bosses don’t think climate is an issue worth mentioning for 2013

Posted on December 31, 2012 by

Romm must be fuming. After disappearing his formerly independent “Climate Progress” blog and merging it with the main Think Progress website, where he’s lucky to get a dozen comments a day. His parent organization, Think Progress, utterly fails to mention … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, Humor | Tagged , , , , | 118 Comments

Avast, ye virus pirates!

Posted on December 30, 2012 by

Willis recent post “Modern Piracy” is the inspiration for the title, along with math challenged pirate marketing team. This in-your-face sales pitch to renew my Avast Antivirus popped up today on my desktop, but the piracy is in the math:

Posted in Curious things, Humor | Tagged , | 125 Comments

Some Christmas gift notes for Dr. Michael Mann

Posted on December 24, 2012 by

As reported this past weekend, we had a hilarious case of Mann overboard! Since then, it has become the #1 story on WordPress worldwide. It stems from a $10 calendar from COSTCO I sent Dr. Mann, Dr. Gavin Schmidt, Dr. … Continue reading →

Posted in Fakegate, Humor, Michael E. Mann, Satire | Tagged , , | 119 Comments

Too Funny! I send Michael Mann a free WUWT calendar as a Christmas gift, and he goes full conspiracy theory

Posted on December 22, 2012 by

Some days, you just have to laugh. As WUWT readers know, we’ve had the Josh 2013 Skeptic Calendar done independently in the UK via Bishop Hill, and of course we gauged interest here at WUWT. Josh sent over the artwork … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate ugliness, Humor, Michael E. Mann, Satire | Tagged , , | 285 Comments

Stupidest global warming/climate change story of the past decade

Posted on December 22, 2012 by

While Matt Ridley makes mincemeat of über alarmist Joe Romm’s latest ridiculous claims, I started doing a search for stories to do a “year in review” for such things. I just found this, though it is six years old. It … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, GLOC, Humor, Ridiculae | Tagged , , , | 93 Comments

Friday Holiday Funny: The Twelve Days of Climategate

Posted on December 21, 2012 by

Concept and wording by Anthony, art and prose tweaking by Josh of CartoonsByJosh.com (be sure to visit his tip jar) As sung to the tune of The Twelve Days of Christmas by EveryMann, Climate Scientist, with backup vocals by the … Continue reading →

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The Tuesday Titter – Mannte’s Inferno

Posted on December 18, 2012 by

Heh, I saw this last night, and I made a screencap early on but decided not to comment about it. But since Tom Nelson has put it out there, I thought maybe I should bring attention to it now. Dr. … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, Michael E. Mann, Satire | Tagged , , , | 82 Comments