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.
The Discovery Channel for putting on shows stating that AGW is the cause of all our problems, then running “Raising the Baby Mammoth”. Proving beyond all doubt that on the late spring/ early summer day that the calf died and was literally flash frozen, it has never again reached the warmth of that time in order to thaw the animal. If that was a one-off, I could handle it, but it seems to be an ongoing process to find mammoths in Russia and Siberia. Anybody know the average temps back then? Got any tree rings?
I second Chris Turney and his Ship of Fools.
I’m working on it. The field is quite extensive, from fraudulent Nobel “winners” to hopelessly ignorant film stars living on the waterfront.
And institutions are eligible..mm, what about Bristol University which hires a moon-bat from the other side of the world.. Or the the University of NSW which has several remarkable denizens, not least Turkey of the Shokalskiy with a propensity to get into major trouble quicker than an armoured column into Crimea.
Dingle-bat Kerry must be a very, very strong contender. However I feel he has further potential to unleash far greater buffoonery and it’d be a pity to stifle this with too many premature awards, worthy as he is.
But, still I keep coming back to…. Meltdown Mann.
i nominate the MSM, who, as always, have given extreme coverage to the following today:
24 March: CTV: ‘Extreme’ weather events of 2013 points to human-induced climate change: UN
by John Heilprin, The Associated Press
GENEVA — The head of the U.N. weather agency blamed extreme weather on human-induced climate change Monday, citing key events that wreaked havoc in Asia, Europe, the U.S. and Pacific region last year.
Michel Jarraud, secretary-general of the World Meteorological Organization, said his agency’s annual assessment of the global climate shows how dramatically people and lands everywhere felt the impacts of extreme weather such as droughts, heat waves, floods and tropical cyclones.
“Many of the extreme events of 2013 were consistent with what we would expect as a result of human-induced climate change,” he said…
Jarraud drew special attention to studies and climate modeling examining Australia’s recent heat waves, saying the high temperatures there would have been virtually impossible without the emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the burning of coal, oil and gas.
He cited other costly weather disasters such as $22 billion damage from central European flooding in June, $10 billion in damage from Typhoon Fitow in China and Japan, and a $10 billion drought in much of China.
Jarraud spoke as top climate scientists and representatives from about 100 governments with the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change met in Japan to complete their latest report on global warming’s impact.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/extreme-weather-events-of-2013-points-to-human-induced-climate-change-un-1.1742875
at least the above headline includes the word “points”, but most MSM have taken it a step further:
24 March: Fox News: AP: UN says 2013 ‘extreme’ weather events due to human-induced climate change
Much of the extreme weather that wreaked havoc in Asia, Europe and the Pacific region last year can be blamed on human-induced climate change, the U.N. weather agency says…
Only a few places — including the central U.S. –were cooler than normal last year, but 2013 had no El Nino, the warming of the central Pacific that happens once every few years and changes rain and temperature patterns around the world…
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/03/24/un-says-2013-extreme-events-due-to-warming-earth-from-human-factors/
Just had a thought about the trophy: A scale model of a rusted out Russian ship locked in an iceberg.
Chris Turney is my #1 pick, especially since he just received some award right after his triumphant return from the Antarctic!
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/01/21/spiritofmawson-fiasco-leader-gets-award-for-excellence/
Secretary of State John Kerry. Lied to US allies when a us .gov website had information showing he was lying.
Stunning folks. We all realize this is a bottomless pit, right?
This guy stood out to me. Coming from him, as a kept man of the Heinz fortune and a talking head to boot. He needs swift boated again…..
I would bet that most folks who read this threat have inadvertently padded his pocket. Ever had ketchup?
Wonderfully done by Dr. Curry
http://judithcurry.com/2014/02/17/john-kerrys-remarks-on-climate-change/
Now we must anticipate this inaugural year’s winner!
http://youtu.be/ae6ofz3fgD8
James the Elder says:
March 24, 2014 at 6:59 pm
Last Glacial Maximum mean global T has been estimated at 3 to 6 degrees C colder than now. Going back another 20,000 years, it would have been a little warmer than that.
This attempt uses models to guess 4 degrees C colder:
http://www.clim-past-discuss.net/8/5029/2012/cpd-8-5029-2012.pdf
But at high latitudes the difference would have been even greater, possibly 8 to 10 degrees C colder, since the tropics weren’t much cooler than now.
Don’t forget Peter Gleick. His actions were duplicitious in the extreme.
I agree,my nomination and vote goes to Chris “penguins on the poop deck” Turney of Ship of Fools fame.
May I change my nomination to Kevin Trenberth?
The depths of duplicity were not plumbed until he had the temerity to suggest that the missing heat must be hiding in the deep oceans, where of course it can’t be measured, without suggesting a miraculous means by which the laws of thermodynamics were suspended to get it down there without first warming higher levels of the seas.
bones says:
March 24, 2014 at 7:23 pm
Hoo, boy! How did I miss that one!
Palm to forehead gesture, aka the US Marine salute!
Well done bones. I thought everyone was going to miss the most duplicitis act of recent climate times by Peter Gleick. Definitely my nomination.
TIm Flannery, for owning a river side home, and predicting without any foundation that the sea levels would rise alarmingly, and we would suffer dreadful droughts. (What’s new in Australia) Sea rises have not occurred. Don’t forget Timmy who is still noisy.
jim Steele says:
March 24, 2014 at 6:20 pm
Who would you rank second?
I agree with Bushbunny about Tim Flannery.
Let us not forget Julia “There will be no carbon tax under a government I lead” Gillard.
I think there should be a Nation category for the stupidest “climate duplicitist”.
i) E.U.
ii) U.S.A.
iii) Canada
iv) Australia
My nominee for the Canadian stupidest “Climate Duplictist” has to be the Zoologist Davis Suzuki, how a zoologist became Canada voice on Global warming has to be the strangest thing the state run CBC ever accomplished.
The IPCC, Al Gore, Tim Flannery, Mike Mann, and Jones from I can’t remember for colluding with Mann via emails
I nominate an underdog: Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, currently a vice-chairman of the IPCC. Not well-known, but nonetheless an influential figure behind the scenes. See:
http://notrickszone.com/2011/08/30/ipcc-vice-chai-van-ypersele-suppresses-open-scientific-inquiry-disallows-critical-debate/
He no longer uses the term “climate deniers” but, according to his tweets (https://twitter.com/JPvanYpersele), he is mighty fond of the term “climate confusers”. (OMG, you people at WUWT are apparently capable of confusing the climate! Evil sorcerers, that’s what you are. No wonder the U.S. East Coast had a terrible winter while western Europe enjoyed a gentle not-quite-a-winter and the U.K. had its moment when “the waves rule Britain.”)
IPCC. Duplicity is its reason for being.
To the media for promoting scare mongering over fact checking to sell more “news”.
I nominate old Patch or is it Nick. It has been my experience that old age and deceit generally triumphs over youth and skill. This time it could be different.
Very hard to beat Mann because he put his duplicity into court documents, but Lew and UWA by a nose for genuinely perverting a review process from a position of smug. And Kook, Nucitella, Redfearn, Suzuki, Steffen… Just about an endless list.
Not Flannery though- we should just forgive him for he knows not what he does, and means well. Not Karoly either, because he had the rare (in a warmist) commonsense to withdraw Gergis et al (2012) Duplicity implies malevolence.
(On further reflection, Mann, then Lew and UWA, because of the additional [state pen] action.)