I used to read Scientific American with interest and wonder. My favorite column was The Amateur Scientist because it had so many neat experiments and projects. Now, it is mostly…
Category: Climate Craziness of the Week
Climate Craziness of the Week – Shake and Bake
SEE UPDATE below the “Continue reading” line. In my town we have a contingent of crazies, just like most towns. I didn’t realize just how crazy some are until I…
Climate Craziness of the Week: The AGU peddles a mammoth climate change theory
Yes, our forebears started global warming by hunting the woolly mammoth. Right. Must be the mammoth albedo effect, much like the sheep albedo effect. Oh, wait, no it’s birch trees…
Climate Craziness of the Week: lighting up your windmill
I was in Newcastle, NSW AU on Wednesday night to give another lecture as part of the Australian speaking tour I’m doing. I had the pleasure of following David Stockwell…
Climate Craziness of the Week – cool (E)motional Icebergs
A group called http://www.coolemotion.org/ got funding from WWF to build a giant sculpture on an iceberg. As of May 6th the iceberg was still trapped in pack ice; http://coolemotion.blogspot.com/2010/05/iceberg-still-stuck.html But…
Climate Craziness of the Week: Denmark evicting citizens to clear cut forests for wind turbines
I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t read this message of a Danish group opposed to the plan. Greens clear-cutting trees in a national park and evicting people, whoda…
Climate Craziness of the Week – New Scientist: The Denial Depot Edition
New Scientist has a barrage of articles on “denialism”, including one from DeSmog Blog misinformer Richard Littlemore, who runs with the tired old comparisons of today’s skeptical public to tobacco…
Climate Craziness of the Week – MSM jumps on alarming headline
From a University of Leeds press release, comes this scary headline that seems to be picked up by the MSM. A Google search yields 16,400 hits on the title below.…
Climate Craziness of the Week: British lawyer urges UN to accept 'ecocide' as international crime on par with genocide
Supporters of a new ecocide law also believe it could be used to prosecute “climate deniers”. Effort started by Club of Rome lawyer. Excerpts from the Guardian article: A campaign…
Damage control: Greenpeace removes threats
WUWT readers may recall this weekend our feature “Climate Craziness of the Week – Greenpeace posts threats” that appeared on the Greenpeace “Climate Rescue” blog with the punchline: We know who…
Climate Craziness of the Week – Greenpeace posts threats
This is the face on environmentalism today – publicly issued threats from Greenpeace I find this sort of thing slightly troubling, but mostly I see it as just behind the…
Flowers Losing Scent Due to Climate Change
This is a bonus Climate Craziness of the Week. It seemed that while Climategate was raging, we saw an end to bizarre claims such as this. Now they seem to…
Climate craziness of the week: global warming "leads to more violence"
UPDATE: WUWT commenter P Wilson points out one single map that refutes this entire theory, see below the “read more” at the end of the post. – Anthony To add…
Climate craziness of the week
“Art” is in the eye of the beholder. Global warming “art” is often lodged in another place in the body. From AOL News:, this artistic project is described as: “…off…
Climate Craziness of the Week – Why I'm a Pepsi* tea drinker now
I used to love the Coca-Cola Polar bear TV ads at Christmastime. I marveled at the quality of the CGI animations when they first came out, like this one: They…
Climate Craziness of the Week – Hollyweird meets Copenhagen
There’s been so many to choose from this week, it has been hard to pick one. Until now. (h/t to Kate at SDA) Stephen Taylor of Canada writes on his…
Climate Craziness of the Week: What's more idiotic than holding a cylinder of CO2 for a photo op in the snow? – Calling it "art".
People email me stuff. Sometimes its just too bizarre to ignore. We have another person on an “expedition” with a camera and artistic license to foist upon the world: …
Climate Craziness of the Week #2: Steak Watch
Last week we had a people in New Zealand saying we need edible pets. This week we have England’s “premier climatologist” saying we need to give up meat. You first,…
Climate Craziness of the Week #1
I think single-handedly, artist, photographer, and intrepid dirt pile explorer Alex Hartley has launched a new WUWT feature. A fine addition to his list of accomplishments I think. His project:…
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