Tag Archives: Skeptical Science

The Collapsing ‘Consensus’

Posted on May 22, 2013 by

 Guest essay by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Environmental Research Letters ought to have known better than to publish the latest anti-scientific propaganda paper by John Cook of the dubiously-named Skeptical Science website. Here are just a few of the solecisms … 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 →

Posted in 97% consensus, Humor, Satire | Tagged , | 232 Comments

Skeptical Science kidz channel Inigo Montoya in new ‘consensus’ paper

Posted on May 15, 2013 by

All you can do is laugh. Brandon Shollenberger writes at Lucia’s about the new Fuzzy Math consensus “proof” paper from the ever entertaining John Cook at Skeptical Science, rated with the help of 27 of the SkS kidz club. The … Continue reading →

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Is John Cook planning to use systematically biased “correct” survey answers to make unbiased skeptics look biased?

Posted on May 8, 2013 by

Guest post by Alec Rawls After finalizing a long post on John Cook’s crowd-sourced consensus-rating survey  (to be titled “I take Cook’s survey so you don’t have to”), I submitted my completed survey to Cook’s website and received an automated … 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 →

Posted in Climate ugliness, Stephan Lewandowsky | Tagged , , , | 103 Comments

John Cook’s new survey – lots of questions, no answers

Posted on May 3, 2013 by

I and (according to Cook) 50 other blogs (with a supposed 50/50 skeptic to advocate split) have received this invitation: Hi Anthony As one of the more highly trafficked climate blogs on the web, I’m seeking your assistance in conducting … Continue reading →

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Nuccitelli gets a bruising by the factual hand of Monckton

Posted on May 1, 2013 by

Cook “the books” is wrong to slam Roy Spencer By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Anyone who has met Roy Spencer knows him to be a careful, thoughtful, unpolemical scientist of formidable skill and knowledge. With John Christy he presents the … 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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Second Lewandowsky conspiracy theory paper delinked from journal

Posted on March 28, 2013 by

I’ve been waiting to get some confirmation on this since yesterday , and now that I have it, I can state that the link to the second Lew paper Recursive fury: Conspiracist ideation in the blogosphere in response to research on … 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 →

Posted in Climate ugliness, Opinion, Stephan Lewandowsky | Tagged , , , , | 50 Comments

Trenberth Still Searching for Missing Heat

Posted on March 26, 2013 by

Kevin Trenberth is one of the authors of new Balmaseda et al (2013) paper Distinctive climate signals in reanalysis of global ocean heat content. I find the title of the paper somewhat odd. The paper is based on the European … Continue reading →

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NODC’s Pentadal Ocean Heat Content (0 to 2000m) Creates Warming That Doesn’t Exist in the Annual Data – A Lot of Warming

Posted on March 13, 2013 by

INTRODUCTION In the post Is Ocean Heat Content Data All It’s Stacked Up to Be?, we discussed and illustrated, for the depths of 0-700 meters, that the NODC’s pentadal ocean heat content had a significantly higher warming trend than the … Continue reading →

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Stephan Lewandowsky and John Cook – making things up

Posted on March 9, 2013 by

Fabricated quotes and gross distortions are used to paint skeptics as conspiracy nuts.  The question is, is it a conspiracy, or is it just incompetence? Guest post by Brandon Shollenberger Many people have shown interest and scorn for a recently … Continue reading →

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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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A Conspiracy of One

Posted on March 4, 2013 by

Guest post by Brandon Shollenberger Words cannot describe the humor of Michael Mann’s latest post: As professional climate change deniers become increasingly irrelevant and desperate, so do their distraction and smear efforts. These are mostly just noise in the background … 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 →

Posted in Climate ugliness, Humor, Satire | Tagged , , | 130 Comments

Fact check for Andrew Glikson – Ocean heat has paused too

Posted on February 25, 2013 by

Over at The Conversation Andrew Glikson asks Fact check: has global warming paused? citing an old Skeptical Science favorite graph, and that’s the problem; it’s old data. He writes: As some 90% of the global heat rise is trapped in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate data, Global warming, Oceans | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 524 Comments

Lewandowsky’s latest smear paper gets pulled from the journal website

Posted on February 6, 2013 by

Readers may recall these two recent WUWT stories: More shameless conspiracy theory from the ‘Skeptical Science’ smear quest team Lewandowsky’s bear-baiting behavior Tonight I’m pleased to report, that one skeptic who stood up and complained about Lewandowsky’s libelous claims, has … Continue reading →

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Lewandowsky’s bear-baiting behavior

Posted on February 5, 2013 by

Skeptic Baiting and Academic Misconduct Guest post by Tom Fuller, writing at The Lukewarmer’s Way I see here at Watts Up With That that Australian professor Stephan Lewandowsky has teamed up with other climate activists to publish a paper designed to … Continue reading →

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