Quote of the week – a preposterous POTUS pronouncement

Last night in the SOTU address, Obama made this pronouncement about climate change: But the debate is settled.  Climate change is a fact. To that, I say this:

Quote of the Week – sensationalizing for the greater good

Susan Crockford writes …commenter Brad Keyes at The Conversation defends the use of the “Ursus bogus” image with this astonishing statement:

Quote of the week – cue popcorn

Bishop Hill writes of our good friend and eco-entertainer, Dana Nuccitelli:

Quote of the Week: 'We’ve got to get rid of all this green crap.'

An about-face of epic proportions. You’ll never guess who said this:

Quote of the Week – 'global warming fear is damaging our young'

WUWT reader “Newty” writes in a comment in response to the National Geographic scaremongering at 2013/11/05 at 12:38 pm Seriously though I was terrified before I first started coming here.…

Quote of the week – the death of 'Popular Science' commentary

Apparently, the science was too popular, so what do these fools do? Alienate their readers of course:

Quote of the week- the recasting of the argument begins

Every once in awhile a window opens and shows us the dark, illogical souls of the bureaucrats in the climate cabal. This is one of those times.

Quote of the Week, down under edition

Many Australians are celebrating the win of Tony Abbott and his coalition government as a vote by the populace against the much hated Carbon Tax ramrodded by former prime minister…

Quote of the week …about that 97% consensus

For those that have heard about that claimed “97% consensus” on global warming from John Cook and the SkS Kidz, here is a thought from the oldie but goodie department:

Quote of the Week – 'high school' climate science

A poll follows, a first for QOTW. Sometimes in the climate wars when things get ridiculous and emotional we often ask or see asked “what is this, high school”? A…

Quote of the Week: Bill McKibben's self delusion

I had a tough time deciding if this should be “Quote of the Week” or “Climate Craziness of the Week”.  The quote is from 350.org’s founder Bill McKibben, who says:…

Quote of the week – Nature on the failure of climate models

From the world of Claimatology™, comes this smackdown from Nature.

Quote of the Week: London Mayor declares his climate skepticism

London Mayor, Boris Johnson, writes in The Telegraph:

Quote of the week – a pause for cooling off

From Dr. Judith Curry: 

Quote of the week – misplaced priorities

One of the most shocking stories to come out of the Oklahoma tornado this week is this one. The mind reels that in the middle of tornado alley, in a…

Quote of the week – Cook's cartooning crash

Via Tom Nelson Stranger than fiction: A little background on the cartooning and cricket blogging of John Cook of Skeptical Science, Al Gore’s Climate “Reality” drop partner.

Quote of the Week – dogmatic 'mannerisms' of science

Judith Curry is featuring a report by Emil Røyrvik of Norwegian organization SINTEF, which has taken a semi critical look at the “climate wars”. Dr. Curry highlighted this passage: 

Quote of the week – the 'big' lack of documentation

From Andrew Montford, who points out the obvious (at least obvious to everyone else) when it comes to the “big oil” and “big coal” meme.

Quote of the Week – an interesting admission at RealClimate

Models: some are good, some are not so good, some are useless.

Quote of the Week – blaming Nature for poor model performance

There’s not much I can say about this quote from the Washington Post’s Joel Achenbach as it stands on its own quite well. The context of this quote is article…