Category Archives: Ridiculae

Hilarious climate science fail by the warmists at GRIST (and now CNN)

Posted on January 23, 2013 by

Jeez, there’s no excuse for this spectacular failure to understand one of most basic principles about the Earth’s weather and climate. From: How to respond to people who say the cold weather disproves global warming | Grist This helpful diagram … Continue reading →

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Climate Craziness of the Week: The Weather Channel on crack

Posted on January 3, 2013 by

No, really, they must have been on crack when they came up with this one. I have no other explanation that works. First a primer. What is “Space Weather”?  Wikipedia (agreed not the best source but humor me, at least … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Keep doing that and you’ll go blind

Posted on December 19, 2012 by

Statistical failure of A Population-Based Case–Control Study of Extreme Summer Temperature and Birth Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The story of how global warming causes congenital cataracts in newborns babies has been getting wide media attention. So I thought I’d … Continue reading →

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NYT, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and David Crane have no clue about how grid tied solar power actually works with the grid

Posted on December 13, 2012 by

Hurricane Sandy seems to have brought out the latent stupidity in just about everyone in their zeal to get in on the climate alarm resurgence. I laughed out loud when I read this op-ed in the NYT by DAVID CRANE … Continue reading →

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A LOL ! press release on renewable energy from wishful thinkers at the University of Delaware

Posted on December 10, 2012 by

From the University of Delaware a press release that made me laugh out loud when I read it for the sheer disconnect with reality. The bold in first sentence about the 99.9% is mine. See why I think their press … Continue reading →

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Science spin of the worst kind: National Geographic’s ‘When The Earth Stops Spinning’

Posted on December 2, 2012 by

Yet another reason why I no longer subscribe to National Geographic Turned on my TV today, and this popped up, so of course I had to write about it. This is stupidity on steroids, packaged as psuedo-scientific claptrap entertainment for … Continue reading →

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Alice in Wonderland science

Posted on November 29, 2012 by

Our energy and environment deserve better – in South Africa and Qatar Guest post by Dr. Kelvin Kemm A few weeks ago, perhaps as a prologue to the “global warming disaster” convention in Doha, Qatar, South Africa’s Department of Environment … Continue reading →

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Fashionable words and climate science

Posted on November 8, 2012 by

From the University of Bristol  some research you have to wonder about how it ever got funded. One new fashionable word set I think they should add to this is “Tabloid Climatology™”. Drifting word clouds may change perceptions of climate … Continue reading →

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Dissing skeptics hits prime time CBS drama “The Good Wife”

Posted on November 4, 2012 by

Global warming zinger in CBS “The Good Wife” I was just watching the episode “The Art of War” in the drama “The Good Wife” on CBS and was shocked to see this very pointed put down about climate skeptics. Scene: … Continue reading →

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Frankenstorm-itis: Five degrees of Separation from Reality and Eleventy Gazillion Joules Under the Sea

Posted on November 3, 2012 by

Guest post by David Middleton This is a sort of sequel to my most recent guest post.   Any and all sarcasm is purely intentional. I ran across this really bizarre blog post from “The Energy Collective” on Real Clear Energy… … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, extreme weather, Humor, hurricanes, Little Ice Age, Oceans, Paleoclimatology, Ridiculae, Satire, Sea Surface Temperature | 80 Comments

McKibben and Romm schlepping for Tabloid Climatology interviews

Posted on October 29, 2012 by

People send me stuff. This time it is a press release from the laughably named “Institute for Public Accuracy”. Even in the midst of hurricanes, these people don’t give up trying to tie weather to climate. It’s shameless desperation. Here’s … Continue reading →

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Brad Johnson’s ‘Frankenstorm’ malfeasance masquerading as idiocy

Posted on October 26, 2012 by

Harsh headline, I know, but when you read what former Climate Progress propagandist Brad Johnson of the TV weathercaster pressure group “Forecast the Facts” has sent out in a press release late Friday regarding hurricane Sandy, you can only be … Continue reading →

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Journey to the Center of the Mirth

Posted on October 9, 2012 by

You may have heard about this project: Jeff L. writes in WUWT Tips and Notes: You have to see this version of climate insanity – using climate alarmism to justify drilling BILLION dollar well to the mantle. I am a … Continue reading →

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Al Gore on Obama’s failed debate performance – ‘it was the altitude’, not the attitude

Posted on October 4, 2012 by

I would not have believed this if I wasn’t able to see it myself. This bloviation even tops Gore’s “Earth’s interior is millions of degrees” comment on live TV. Watch this video segment from Gore’s Current TV: 

Posted in Al Gore, Humor, Politics, Ridiculae | Tagged , , | 158 Comments

There’s no business like snow business – Weather Channel to start naming winter storms

Posted on October 2, 2012 by

From their press release The Weather Channel announced today its new naming system for winter storms, making it the first national organization in North America to proactively name winter storms. In time for the start of the winter season, naming … Continue reading →

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Mutiny of the bounties – Heartland responds to ridiculous Truthmarket campaign

Posted on October 2, 2012 by

This is even more ridiculous than Stephan Lewandowsky’s “moon landing conspiracy theory paper” and Skeptical Science’s sekrit “crusher crew” kids klub managed by John Cook. I suppose the people pushing these things just have no idea what clowns they look … Continue reading →

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A new meaning to “WiFi hotspot” – increased CO2 may ruin future WiFi connections

Posted on September 27, 2012 by

From Tom Nelson: Huffington Post: Carbon dioxide could ruin wifi connections for your kids Climate Change Effects: Things Global Warming Just Might Ruin For Your Kids [Scroll down at the link above: The alleged CO2-induced wifi problem is #26 of … Continue reading →

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How the IPCC handles ignores factual author corrections in AR4

Posted on September 13, 2012 by

Since the errors in IPCC AR3 were outed, there’s been this general view from the skeptical climate community at large and here on WUWT that the IPCC is collectively an elitist, pigheaded, organization, resistant to change.  Recall ‘Voodoo Science’, as … Continue reading →

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The Hoegh-Guldberg device – shades of Rube Goldberg

Posted on August 20, 2012 by

From the ocean weather will eat this idea alive department comes a ridiculous bit of wishful thinking from the world’s lead scientist on “the coral reefs are going to die and its all your fault” discipline. Yes, it is our … Continue reading →

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