Nominations are open for the first annual 'Climate Duplicitist of the Year' award

I cast my vote on Chris Turney and “The Ship of Fools”!

Peter Gleick
Peter Gleick is a MacArthur “Genius Award” recipient, a (forced to resign) chairman of the “Task Force on Ethics” at the American Geophysical Union, a (forced to resign) member of the National Center for Science Education, and current president of the Pacific Institute. He is also featured in a “documentary” film titled “Last Call at the Oasis.”
http://fakegate.org/
Fakegate
On February 20, 2012, Peter Gleick confessed to stealing documents from The Heartland Institute with the intent of exposing its funding sources and damaging its reputation. He also disseminated a fake “climate strategy memo” that he and other environmental activists on the left claim describes Heartland’s “secret strategy” to mislead the public about the true nature of climate change.
At first Gleick claimed he obtained the fake memo along with other documents from The Heartland Institute. Now he claims it came from an anonymous source before he stole the documents. Heartland has consistently and unambiguously said the memo is a forgery and was not produced by anyone associated with The Heartland Institute.
“Fakegate” is the title given to this scandal by the London Telegraph’s James Delingpole.
The Heartland Institute conducted an internal investigation that showed the memo was not authored by anyone at the organization. Two external, independent investigations — one by Protek International and one by Juola & Associates — found the same. Many others have also conducted excellent investigations into this matter.

There are so many worthy contestants (involuntarily entered, to be sure) for this award that I hesitate to add more; but I must. Highest on my list (after Mr. Gore, of course), is President Obama; but closely following behind him is our own EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency, which resolutely pushes Global Warming as scientific while being confronted repeatedly by evidence to the contrary. As a result of EPA’s pushing, we have numerous stringent and nonsensical rules that can be added to at any time. I suppose it is possible for some of the people at EPA actually to believe what they say, but we all know that their reason for persisting in their doctrine is to control the rest of us (for our own good, of course). Do consider the EPA for this award, and give it all the publicity you can!

John Cook, for his highly duplicitous 97% survey.
The central purpose of that ‘survey’ was simply to give advocates and media lackeys alike a seemingly overwhelming sound bite; something that at a single stroke could be used to convey the ‘consensus’ of ‘peer-reviewed climate scientists’ and thus shut down any further discussion.
Due to Cooks duplicity all that became available in an instantly deliverable, seemingly irrefutable one-liner. It has to be said that given the extent it has been used across almost all media it has been an outstanding success.
Lord Monckton has since destroyed the ‘survey’, exposing Cooks quite deliberate intent to deceive via obviously loaded questions and a deliberately biased screening process. That’s perfect duplicity territory. (Awarding him this prize would also go some way to righting his obvious deceit, too.)
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/09/23/skeptical-science-conspiracy-theorist-john-cook-runs-another-survey-trying-to-prove-that-false-97-of-climate-scientists-believe-in-global-warming-meme/

Cinderella/Longshot pick:
The Gaurdian’s Laurence Topham… aka Peanut Butter Milkshake Boy… aka Environmental Jesus.
“His suffering saved the Planet.”
Now mail me my prize.

Good idea. I see there is a new institute for the study of poor science in the bio-medical area (http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21598944-sloppy-researchers-beware-new-institute-has-you-its-sights-metaphysicians). I reckon something like that for climate science would also be an excellent idea, given the new-found importance of the area.
The title for the award is a bit cumbersome. I suggest an ‘Occam’s Broom Award’ for the most important deployment of that device in climate alarm campaigning. The device is described by Daniel C Dennett (2013) as follows:
‘The molecular biologist Sidney Brenner recently invented a delicious play on Occam’s Razor, introducing the new term Occam’s Broom, to describe the process in which inconvenient facts are whisked under the rug by intellectually dishonest champions of one theory or another…The practice is particularly insidious when used by propagandists who direct their efforts at the lay public …their carefully crafted accounts can be quite convincing simply because the lay reader can’t see what isn’t there.’
I give some examples from the climate arena here: http://climatelessons.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/occams-broom-and-stink-of-97-of-climate.html

Gore, Mann, Lewandowsky, it’s a warmacopia. Please also remember Peter Gleick wants it bad enough to commit a felony and Richard Muller who is doing his BEST.

I nominate David Cameron, the British Prime Minister. He is a most duplicitous, green worshipping toe rag.