Category Archives: media

Great moments in activist climate science – NRDC’s Dr. Laurie Johnson: ‘CO2 makes your car hot’

Posted on May 23, 2013 by

People send me stuff. This makes Bill Nye’s recent CNN fail look almost forgivable. My friend Lars Larson, who runs a nationally syndicated radio show out of Portland, OR sent me this audio clip today. I had to listen to … Continue reading →

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Bill Nye the clueless weather guy – flattened by tornado data

Posted on May 23, 2013 by

“Yid with Lid” ran this scathing headline (in the screencap below) yesterday, and pointed out why Nye just doesn’t have a clue. The tornado data following eviscerates Nye’s claims, who seems unable (or maybe unwilling) to Google his own claims … Continue reading →

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The MSM finally notices ‘the pause’

Posted on April 16, 2013 by
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The Mail on Sunday takes on the CCC

Posted on March 31, 2013 by

David Rose of the Mail on Sunday is having a go at the Committee on Climate Change for their denial of the points raised in his article last week and this graph, which was sourced from NCAR and used in … Continue reading →

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A sea-change on climate sensitivity at The Economist

Posted on March 27, 2013 by

People send me stuff, today it was this “editors picks” from John Micklethwait, editor of The Economist. After years of being pro-warming, I was shocked to see this headline as a “pick”. It seems a change in editorial position may … Continue reading →

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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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I offer @ClimateOfGavin help understanding events -vs- trends

Posted on March 14, 2013 by

Yesterday, when Climategate 3 was released, the ever flippant Dr. Gavin Schmidt made this Tweet in response: Source: Google Trends, searching the word “climategate” from December 2009 to March 2013 http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=Climategate&date=12%2F2009%2040m&cmpt=q It seems that Dr. Schmidt doesn’t understand the difference … Continue reading →

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Warmist epic ‘Greedy Lying Bastards’ bombs at the box office

Posted on March 12, 2013 by

Earns just $45,000.00 nationwide on opening weekend – film cost $1.5 million to make GLB earned forty five thousand dollars nationwide, wow. Maybe it had to do with the situation described in this review by Alana Goodman from a showing … Continue reading →

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A review of Craig Rosebraugh’s documentary “Greedy Lying Bastards”

Posted on March 9, 2013 by

Michael Moore for Dummies Guest post by Rod McLaughlin Unlike many readers of this site, I have environmentalist sympathies. I think green anarchist turned film-maker Craig Rosebraugh once did some good. When he organized the “Liberation Collective” in old town … Continue reading →

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Quote of the Week – blaming Nature for poor model performance

Posted on March 7, 2013 by

There’s not much I can say about this quote from the Washington Post’s Joel Achenbach as it stands on its own quite well. The context of this quote is article on the bust of a forecast that was to be … Continue reading →

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Juliet Eilperin out at Washington Post environment beat

Posted on March 4, 2013 by

It seems shakeups in green reporting are all the rage this year. First we heard that NYT is closing its environment desk:  New York Times Dismantles Its Environment Desk Then last Friday late in the day (5:10PM EST) we got … Continue reading →

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New Climate Central writer tries to connect climate and extreme weather with love of bigger destructive storms

Posted on February 21, 2013 by

From the weather is not climate unless we say it is department comes this disturbing admission. From Tom Nelson, an illustration of the sort of defective thinking we see in some people who think climate and weather have no distinction: … Continue reading →

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State of the Union climate spin doctors stand ready to take your call

Posted on February 12, 2013 by

People send me stuff. In this case somebody sent me something that I hadn’t gotten through the ‘approved’ channels. Thanks to “Son Of Soylent Green” for this tip via email. Looks like Obama is getting ready to ramp up the … Continue reading →

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BBC edits out climate warming data in climbdown

Posted on February 12, 2013 by

Just like the IPCC and its reliance on reports from activist NGO’s has gotten them burned, so has the BBC. From the Daily Mail: The BBC has been forced into an embarrassing climbdown over climate change claims made in Sir … Continue reading →

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Why we don’t take CNN or Bill Nye seriously anymore: asteroid> meteor> global warming

Posted on February 11, 2013 by

Paul Westhaver writes in Tips and Notes: CNN talking empty head (Feyerick) asks Bill Nye if approaching Meteor was a result of global warming…. but Bill’s response is oddly disquieting.

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Eurekalert’s lack of press release standards – a systemic problem with science and the media

Posted on January 29, 2013 by

I noted a link to WUWT in this NYT essay by Andrew Revkin titled: When Publicity Precedes Peer Review in Climate Science (Part One). I liked Andy’s bit of artwork to go with it, seen at right below. I was … Continue reading →

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Programming note Morano vs. Nye (but Nye backs out at last minute)

Posted on January 23, 2013 by

UPDATE: Morano emailed me from his phone just before the interview started @925PM : I was literally only informed of Nye backing out 6 min. before segment to begin by CNN producer. yet somehow they found a Sierra Club guy … Continue reading →

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The NYT corrects a global temperature mistake – meanwhile, James Hansen’s ‘Jor-el’ complex worsens

Posted on January 20, 2013 by

First, here is a letter from Harold Ambler which went ignored, he writes: When I found a rather major error in a New York Times article about climate change, I took the trouble to write the editors. I did so … Continue reading →

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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

Why social media is important in the #climatewars

Posted on January 2, 2013 by

I noted today that WUWT just passed 6000 followers on Twitter, and 15,000 followers of the blog by email. About the same time, WUWT reached 5000 likes on Facebook. A few years ago, I never much thought social media was … Continue reading →

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