Dominic Lawson writes in the Daily Mail: Pope Francis’s new encyclical is in stark contrast to the style of his predecessor. While Pope Benedict’s works were in Latin, entirely spiritual in…
Category: Satire
Tuesday toon – Mont Doom
Josh writes: There is a hilarious transcript which was posted on BishopHill of a BBC Radio programme on the Lancet’s latest Alarm fest – all, no doubt, part of the run up to Paris in…
Tuesday toon – Cartoona Enciclica
Josh writes: Papal thoughts on the environment have been posted all over the place – here at WUWT, over on Dot Earth, and an excellent Twitter dissection here by JunkScience’s Steve Milloy. You can also read the whole…
Friday funny – Don't Ever Name It A Lull
Josh writes: Lots of news about science ending The Pause – so what will they call it next? As an extra bonus distraction why not think up what D.E.N.I.A.L. might stand for?…
Tuesday titter – Josh on the Stench of Green Subsidies
Josh writes: H/t Paul Homewood on an interesting story in the LA Times about the subsidies Elon Musk receives from the US Government. Well worth a read – if you don’t mind the smell. Cartoons…
Saturday satire – "Guilty!" cartoon by Josh
Josh writes: So Patchy has been found guilty by an internal review – what next? Cartoons by Josh
Friday Funny – the horror of rising sea levels in context
As many know, Mr. Obama made some wild claims about climate at the recent U.S. Coast Guard Academy commencement. For example: The world’s glaciers are melting, pouring new water into…
Friday funny – The Shy Scientists
Josh writes: Roddy Campbell emailed me to say – The decent mass of scientific society, in a quiet but significant majority, getting on with it in a civilised and peaceful…
Hump day hilarity: WUWT's new policy on hate mail – your hate mail will be published
There comes a time when you just have to decide not take the abuse silently anymore, but instead, to laugh at it. As many of you know, this is the…
Consensus-smensus: 97% of UK voters hiding in the deep ocean
Josh writes: One of the main things we learned from the recent UK General Election was that the forecasters got it catastrophically wrong – catastrophic in that the pollsters reputations…
Turning our backs on the poor? Cartoon by Josh
Josh writes: It is extraordinary to think that Bjorn Lomborg first published The Sceptical Environmentalist 17 years ago in 1998 – that’s as long as The Pause! However there has…
Remember the poor – a visual epistle to the Pope
Josh writes: I don’t think this cartoon needs any words but many thanks to Cumbrian Lad for an inspiring post over on the BishopHill blog. Matt Ridley’s excellent article on Electricity for…
Friday funny – or not. Guardian and BBC go abhorrent on fossil fuel divestment
Josh writes: Divesting from Fossil fuels seems to be flavour of the week, see here, here and here, but leaves a bitter taste. The Bishophill troll known as “aTTP” makes an appearence. Cartoons by Josh
Monday mirthness – Gav calls it
Josh writes: Following the correct use of a certain word on Twitter my guess is that Gavin Schmidt will go for a name change for his blog ‘Realclimate’. Go for it, Gav. Cartoons by…
Josh on 'Graunocrisy' – mountains of cash need responsible investing
Josh writes: The Guardian has £600 million invested in stuff like fossil fuels. Well, it’s a lot of money so they have to act kind of responsible. Cartoons by Josh
Hot news, evolution cools!
Steve McIntyre has the scoop: According to the University of Victoria, Andrew Weaver says: the next generation of his climate model will address the influence of climate on human evolution—much like it’s…
Countdown to alarm
Posted by Josh For UK viewers, last night’s BBC 4 programme ‘Climate change by numbers’ started well (I am a big fan of Hannah Fry). But sadly it descended into the…
Swivel eyed lunacy – posted by Josh
The recent climate skeptic witch hunt, even against people like Dr. Roger Pielke Jr., who ISN’T a climate skeptic but has presented some data on severe weather losses that contradict…
Josh on Pachauri's "hacked" emails and resignation
Apparently, Pachauri’s troubles are all just due to an “unfortunate series of incidents”… and his resignation from the IPCC is just to give time to set the record straight. Meanwhile,…
Friday Funny Bonus: East Coast Frozen Blizzard Edition
Cartoonist Rick McKee of the Augusta Chronicle sends this global warming related cartoon our way today. It is set for tomorrow’s edition of the paper, dated 2/21 but we get…
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