Readers surely recall: Nominations are open for the first annual ‘Climate Duplicitist of the Year’ award.
The top nominations are in, now you can vote.
(poll is closed per original rules, result will posted Sunday night)
Only one vote per person, vote stuffing attempts are minimized by the design of the poll software.
Trenberth was added as bonus option, even though he’s been relatively quiet recently. I recognize that readers had many more suggestions for nominations, but these are the ones most numerous in comments.
My vote has just been cast for Mickey boy Mann, serial duplicitist extraordinaire
I voted for Mann based on his body of work over the years. Next year for Gore. Than Gleick. Once the classics are out of the way….I will vote for the most duplicity for that given year.
Looking at the rules for this game, number 9 states this:
“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.”
Perhaps if Mann wins it then it can be arranged to send him a fake Nobel prize as a gift. Then he will have 2.
Since this is “of the year”…. Mann or lew all the way, I had to vote lew because his case is funnier.
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. . . . . ” Michael Mann, tear down this bogus Hockey Stick. ”
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re:Eyvind Dk says March 27, 2014 at 3:40 pm
Pretty cute, vid, but, someone is going to get ‘served notice’ (Mann does not like his ‘image or likeness’ used in parodies!) Ask Elmer …
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I agree with the suggestion that we need a lifetime achievement award.
Much as it pains me as a Canuck, Maurice Strong (high school graduate: FRS, FRSC, etc) IMO deserves top billing, along with Crispin Tickell, and the Prophet James Lovelock.
From Donna LaFramboise:
The IPCC: Providing ‘Hope for Our Earth’
These people imagine that they’re saving the world – that they’re delivering “Hope for our Earth.” They know what the rest of us must do. They believe they have the right to make moral judgments on behalf of all of humanity – without our participation or consent. Like religious zealots, they insist there’s a proper way to understand their material – never mind intellectual freedom or free speech. And then there’s their insistence that the Yokohama meeting is about taking action.
http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2014/03/26/the-ipcc-providing-hope-for-our-earth/
So what does this hope for the Earth really mean?
Chairman Mo’s little red website
From heading the first UN environment conference in Stockholm in 1972 to masterminding the 1992 Rio summit, “Maurice Strong,” says Maurice Strong’s website, “has played a unique and critical role in globalizing the environmental movement.” Mr. Strong is now 80 years old and thus out of the running for the title of CEO of “Earth Inc.,” but it is his environmental nightmares and dreams of global governance that will dominate Copenhagen. This is a man, we might remember, who welcomes the collapse of industrial civilization, and has described the prospect of billions of environmental deaths as a “glimmer of hope.” My editor didn’t believe me when I wrote this, so here’s what Mr. Strong actually said, in his autobiography, in a section described as a report to the shareholders, Earth Inc, dated 2031: “And experts have predicted that the reduction of the human population may well continue to the point that those who survive may not number more than the 1.61 billion people who inhabited the Earth at the beginning of the 20th century. A consequence, yes, of death and destruction — but in the end a glimmer of hope for the future of our species and its potential for regeneration.”
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=7e5f9073-4b71-4690-868d-c2c4eb23551d
http://judithcurry.com/2014/01/25/death-of-expertise/#comment-442818
Earth Charter Inventors Stephen Rockefeller, Maurice Strong, Gorbachev
http://judithcurry.com/2013/09/11/responsible-conduct-in-the-global-research-enterprise/#comment-378892
Tickelled Green
http://www.climate-resistance.org/2008/02/tickelled-green.html
Dominic Lawson: A retort to the population control freaks
I don’t accept the assumption that this country is unbearably overcrowded – or would be at 71m
I was surprised to hear Sir Crispin Tickell citing 20 million as the appropriate number of residents for the UK; only four years ago, on BBC 2’s Newsnight, he spoke in support of a figure of 30 million. Numbers, numbers. In his earlier broadcast, Sir Crispin remarked: “Someone has said that constantly increasing growth is the doctrine of the cancer cell. You just get out of control.”
This metaphor, in effect describing the birth of children as like a metastasising tumour, is truly disgusting. Who, though, was that “someone” Sir Crispin airily quoted? His name is Paul Ehrlich and he is a patron, along with Tickell and Sir Jonathon Porritt, among others, of the Optimum Population Trust, an organisation that campaigns tirelessly for an organised reduction in human life.
http://tinyurl.com/kype72r
Algore is the original climate duplicitist so he got my vote.
Lew’s managed to top him.
‘Where is Baruq Obama? Where is John F’n Kerry?’ RIGHT
AND what about Hillary? She’s in there with both feet!
Mann can wriggle out of this by dropping his cases. But it won’t stop Mark. If he felt his scientific experiment is correct he could put on his case all his research. But he isn’t doing that. So he and Al Gore (who depended on others to get his info) , then invested in Green energy, must be top contenders for this award.
Chris D. says:
March 27, 2014 at 2:42 pm
Yikes! It’s not even April yet. Maybe it should be called Climate Duplicitist of the Year-to-date, as I’m sure 2014 will see many more contenders! Ah, such a target rich environment.
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I’m unsure of the schedule, but April Fools Day would be a good day to award the prize.
The choices are all so enticing…
This is a tough one (and yes, I think we should have more than 1 vote). I voted for Mann, not because of his glorious history or for sentimental reasons, but because his reach and threat to free speech makes him very special. And calling Prof. Curry ‘anti-science’ just recently shows his avowed commitment to suppression of everybody but him. Eliminating the Other.
Having said that, the rest of the field richly deserve the prize as well. Like I say, more votes please.
@Eyvind Dk, sir, the video is priceless! LMAO falling off chair
The fix is in! Clearly this poll has been skewed to show a decidedly Lewandowskyan bias! :p
/sarc
I would vote for Rajendra Pachauri this year, but he is not an option. He told the Guardian on March 7, 2014 that extreme weather is only going to get worse because of global warming, when the IPCC report AR5 states that connections of warming to extreme weather have not been found.
We could award a runner up prize too.
Mark Steyn should use the poll results as Exhibit A against Mann.
Uh, don’t you idiots, who voted for Mann, know you are going to be sued if he wins?
Each and every one of you will be named in a new defamation suit.
Or are you planning on just denying the lawsuit exists?
OK, I voted for him, but I didn’t give my real name.
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rogerknights 10:37am
“Climate connivers?”
Got to love it. A so truthful play on words.
That is the type of phrase that can stick — and hurt.
Eugene WR Gallun
I went with Lewandowsky. I wanted to vote for Mann but the criteria is “the last year”. If this were cinema Lewandowsky fits the role of the henchman who at the opening of a movie commits some obscenely gross crime — and later we find out who is the mastermind villain behind it.
So for short term follow-the-leader evil — I guess it goes to Lewandowsky.
Eugene WR Gallun
U.K. (us) 1:47pm
ouch
Eugene WR Gallun
Chris “Fast Ice” Turney for me.
If Al Gore hadn’t invented the internet we wouldn’t even be discussing these other candidates.