With the 2014 Bloggies Awards coming up next weekend, I thought it would be good to offer our own award. Given what we’ve recently learned about the behind the scenes behavior of The University of Western Australia and Dr. Stephen Lewandowsky self inflicted car crash in handling valid ethics complaints, now dubbed “Lewgate”, I thought that he deserved to be nominated for some sort of award.
Therefore, I’m nominating him for this first annual ‘Climate Duplicitist of the Year’ award. However, to be fair, there are others that might be more worthy of such an award, so I am giving readers a chance to place nominations in comments. See below.
Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/duplicity
In 48 hours, the nominations will be tabulated, and the top 5 nominees will be presented for a vote in a subsequent post. If you feel Lewandowsky deserves the award as I have nominated him above, you can also list him with any other nominees you present.
Rules:
- Nominations are open for 48 hours and close at 6PM PDT Wednesday March 26th.
- Voting for the top four nominees (determined by number of nominations) will open Thursday March 27th at 9AM PDT
- Voting will close on Saturday March 29th at 9AM PDT
- The winner will be announced at 6PM PDT (9PM EST) on Sunday March 30th.
- Nominees must be living, real, persons that have had some statement, forecast, prediction, claim, or other utterance related to climate that is inherently duplicitous or misleading.
- Organizations, such as IPCC, NOAA, CRU etc. are also eligible to be nominated.
- Nominations must include a citation, URL, or excerpt that represents the reason for the nomination.
- You cannot nominate yourself or your organization.
- The winner will receive a gift (TBD) sent by US mail, illustrating their award with an inscription along with a permanent status in the awards page which will remain resident on WUWT and updated yearly. A press release will also be made.
- No wagering allowed.
Well, we can’t give all of the accolades to Gory Al, the Godfather of Climate Fear Mongering! 😉
Leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew!!!
I would like to nominate Chris Turney: “Sea ice is disappearing due to climate change, but here ice is building up,” the Australasian Antarctic Expedition said in a statement. Turney explained that “climate change may have prompted the iceberg to shatter and float into the previously open sea where the mostly Australian team finds itself stranded.”
After having given this much thought….I must nominate the President of the United States. Barack Obama. The brow wiping, pyjama party throwing jet-setting hypocrite. I believe his global warming/climate change rhetoric, is an incredible example of duplicity. Mind you, he is no scientist….climate, or otherwise! LOL!
My vote is for Camille Parmesan for hijacking conservation success and metamorphosing the resulting population changes in to global warming caused ecosystem disruption.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/03/23/the-aaass-lost-climate-integrity/
I vote for the one and only Mann. And the reason for the nominations is his (discredited) hockey stick
Al Gore, it’s hard to top the whoppers he’s told!!!
So many worthy candidates, so little time to evaluate them all properly. But this gang just makes it under the wire based upon publication date:
http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/8/2/024024/article
John Cook1,2,3, Dana Nuccitelli2,4, Sarah A Green5, Mark Richardson6, B?rbel Winkler2, Rob Painting2, Robert Way7, Peter Jacobs8 and Andrew Skuce2,9
Another instance of the magic number 97%, close to what Saddam Hussein used to get in his presidential elections.
I would think that Mickey Mann would fit this category, as Monckton’s essay showed with superb clarity:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/03/24/hide-the-decline-deja-vu-manns-little-white-line-as-false-hope-may-actually-be-false-hype/#more-106064
Mann’s ‘False Hope’ is false hype
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley
I figure duplicity is more like having a principle that is supposed to be applied equally, but in reality is applied differently from one person or group than the next. It seems more a case of hypocrisy here: applying the opposite of the principle, regardless of who is involved.
Or have I missed something?
Brad Johnson of “forecast the facts” might be somebody worth noting. Look into his twitter feed since he doesn’t blog. https://twitter.com/climatebrad
London School of Economics produced G. Soros, C. Figueres, the folk behind the New Economics Foundation, and home to the Grantham Research Institute / Climate Chan….
ouch. . gotta . . . head-ache . .oww… where’s the loo?
There are so many possible candidates in a few catagories. Person, study, publication, graph, etc. You could widen the award effort and also have it once a month. It might make a useful summary/history when looked at after a year or two, especially if the nominees and winners are catalogued. Imagine if we had something like that to look back through now, over the last 10 15 yrs. At the moment the bad science/scientists/politics transgressions are in the various minds of those involved in the challenge, not really available for big picture documentation.
WUWT has the integrity and ability to do something like this and be consulted/respected by researchers/interested others, especially as the tide turns faster
2nd Camille Parmesan for same reason.
******L1AR OF THE YEAR AWARD*****
(no requirement that it have been said in 2013 — even if that were so, not retracted, so still on the books, thus, a current l1e)
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Category 1 — Most Lies Per Minute
Winner: Michael Mann
See, e.g., http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2012/09/18/climategate-star-michael-mann-courts-legal-disaster/
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Category 2 — Biggest Lie
Winner: Barack Hussein Obama
“… this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow…”
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Category 3 — Most Idiotic
Winner: Al Gore (tough to choose — so MANY candidates…)
“The interior of the earth is extremely hot, several million of degrees… .”
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) for making lawyers available to its members in order to better communicate their climate science message to the masses. I always thought the truth didn’t need a lawyer.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-science-lawyers-up/
And, re: Algore, yes, he is idiotic, however, I do not think he can successfully argue reduced capacity. He was trying to work his geothermal scam. He was exaggerating in order to deceive, just really stupidly.
Al Gore will be hard to beat. I understand he has at least one sea front mansion purchased at the height of his AGW touring http://heartland.org/policy-documents/sea-level-rising-gore-buys-multi-million-dollar-oceanfront-mansion plus others While it is not clear how close to the actual tide the house is, he apparently also made a claim that he spent all his money on fighting global warming.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/05/03/stunning-pictures-al-gores-new-9-million-mansion-media-totally-ignore
Cheers
Roger
http://www.thedemiseofchristchurch.com
With respect (or dis-respect) to Lewgate. May I recommend a special award. A spent toilet paper roll core “plated” in tin foil?
Peter Gleick, obviously. For his duplicitous acquisition and misrepresentation of private information. Citations at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/02/24/heartland-institute-releases-peter-gleick-emails-detailing-fraud-identity-theft/
Yes, we need several categories. Lewandowsky is number one, in my humble opinion, because his duplicity was so effective in attaining his ends, so obvious, yet endorsed by institutions of higher learning and scientific societies.
After Jim Steele’s expose of Parmesan, she is a close second because her duplicity has been something like a program that she developed for years, her work has been effective in attaining her ends, and reviewers should never have allowed her later articles to see the light of day.
I nominate Peter Gleick for a lifetime achievement award.
To be head of an Ethics Committee while engaging in wire fraud, Identity theft and forgery must meet the definition of “Duplicity”.
Interestingly, the WordPress spell checker say that i should replace the word “Gleick” with “Fickle”. 😀
The Union of Concerned Scientists deserves some recognition for their title alone.
The president. Everyone says, “Imagine if Al Gore had become president.” You don’t have to imagine it; it is staring us in the face.
All the others are small potatoes, in terms of power.
Worst is that he knows it is false, and persists with it.
Oh boy,,,,, homework again ;-]
Some many candidates and so little time》