2014 Bloggies awards and "Climate Duplicitist of the Year", the award goes to…

congratulations to all the worthy winners. hope the july conference is a great success:
MEDIA ADVISORY: International Gathering of Scientists Skeptical of Man-Caused Global Warming to Take Place in Las Vegas from July 7 to July 9
Ninth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-9) will feature world-famous scientists and writers, precede FreedomFest 2014.
Is the theory of man-made global warming still credible? Why do surveys show a majority of Americans and scientists do not believe global warming is man-made and a major problem?
Hundreds of the world’s most prominent “skeptics” of the claim that human activity is causing a climate crisis will converge in Las Vegas on July 7–9 to review the latest research and celebrate what they see as recent events that vindicate their opposition to what some claim is a “scientific consensus.”
The Heartland Institute – which The Economist magazine in 2012 called “the world’s most prominent think tank promoting skepticism about man-made climate change” – is joining scores of other think tanks and advocacy groups to host the 9th International Conference on Climate Change at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas…
“The scientists Heartland works with demanded we host a ninth conference this year to foster a much-needed frank, honest, and open discussion of the current state of climate science,” said Heartland Institute President Joseph Bast, “and we just couldn’t refuse. The public, the press, and the scientific community will all benefit from learning about the latest research and observational data that indicate climate science is anything but ‘settled.’”…
For more information about The Heartland Institute and the 9th International Conference on Climate Change, contact Director of Communications Jim Lakely at jlakely(at)heartland.org or 312/377-4000.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/03/prweb11708533.htm

Forget the bloggies (congrats to all, of course) but Donna Laframboise deserves an Order of Canada award for her courageous, dogged pursuit of the IPCC and its chair. If ever life imitated art, the IPCC would be the laughable little wizard behind the curtain, as ‘Dorothy’ Donna proves near daily.

My vote for award to Mann: a broken hockey stick.
Congratulations Anthony. Well deserved awards.

Suggest a case of Mann’s Brown Ale for the worthy duplicitist winner. Originally brewed across the Whitechapel Road from the (Royal) London Hospital home of the Elephant Man. The Liberty Bell and Big Ben were cast a few yards up the road. It may help him to see that CO2 is not pollution.

I thought that this might be of interest to people here. It is part of a piece about the reaction of America’s religious types to the new version of Carl Sagan’s science show, Cosmos.
“We can see this most clearly with one of the most urgent issues confronting the human species, the danger of global climate change. While it’s a matter of uncontroversial fact among scientists that the burning of fossil fuels is changing the Earth’s climate in perilous ways, climate science is far less accepted among the public, driven by fierce resistance from those who have an ideological reason for disbelieving it.
The renowned climate scientist Michael Mann, whose work forms the basis for United Nations climate reports and the famous “hockey stick” graph that illustrates global temperature rises, has been the subject of continual harassment by conservative legislators, including frivolous subpoenas by Ken Cuccinelli, the former right-wing attorney general of Virginia, accusing him of scientific fraud. In other localities, the right-wing response to climate change has reached epic levels of head-in-the-sand denial, such as when the North Carolina legislature passed a lawforbidding science to be used in forecasting future sea-level rise.”
In this guy’s world, Micheal Mann is a renowned scientist, the Hockey Stick graph hasn’t been thouroughly discredited and the only reason that people disbelieve that the climate is changing in perilous ways is purely ideological.

Congratulations Anthony. From Brisbane, Australia.

Congratulations Anthony. Well done. Keep going.
And what a great disappointment it must have been for UWA in that Lewandowsky was not even up to the mark on the Duplicitist Award. There’s just no excellence to be found at UWA it would seem.

31 March: Australian: Staff Reporter: EU carbon plunges ahead of emissions data
Speculation EU emissions fell further than expected last year has seen the continent’s carbon price experience its biggest one day drop in a year, with the price falling more than 20 per cent to below €4, Bloomberg reports.
According to the news service, carbon futures for December fell as much as 29 per cent after Britain posted a bigger-than-expected emissions drop last week, analysts are expecting the same when EU data is released this week.
EU carbon futures had reached a 15-month high earlier in the week, Bloomberg reports, as backloading took effect.
Data from more than 12,000 installations covered by the EU’s emissions-trading system will be made public on April 1, according to a statement on the commission’s website.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/latest/eu-carbon-plunges-ahead-of-emissions-data/story-e6frg90f-1226869651247

There should be a consolation prize for runners up in the Duplicity Awards…. maybe they should receive a “withheld data set”?