This article not directly related to Arctic sea ice, but instead is one of our (very!) occasional series on the psychology of anthropogenic global warming “skepticism”.
Peter Hadfield is better known as the man behind Buster Keaton’s face on the “Potholer54” channel on YouTube. Tom Nelson is the “producer” of Martin Durkin’s “Climate: The Movie”. Peter produced a video criticising that movie. Many months later Peter and Tom have just recorded a “long-form, man-to-man debate” via Zoom about those criticisms. Here is episode 1 of Potholer’s version of events:
Here is “Snow White’s” hot take on the first 10 minutes of Tom Nelson’s version of events on X (formerly Twitter):
6:37 "You've referenced this as (Ljungqvist, 2000). It's not actually, it's 2010. But that's a minor mistake"
— Snow White (@GreatWhiteCon) May 4, 2025
6:46 "It's also not global temperatures, as it says in the title. These are NH temperatures, above the Tropic of Cancer… But that's just another mistake"
In brief, Tom seems to be incapable of providing a straight answer to a straight question, and instead loudly rails against what he continually refers to as the instrumental temperature “spike of doom”.
Can you spot the difference between these two graphs?
Dang – I did a long blog post about that scam bottom graph that keeps being thrown out as their “defense.” And then this got released: The study: Networks of Climate Obstruction: Discourses of Denial and Delay in US Fossil Energy, Plastic, and Agrichemical Industries, PLOS, January 15, 2025.)
explaining why this disinfo is so widespread – not a big surprise.
Our study suggests that climate obstruction in different industries is more coordinated than is generally recognized,” said co-author Jennie Stephens, professor of Sustainability Science and Policy at Northeastern University and of Climate Justice at the National University of Ireland Maynooth.
“Combined with the high engagement of the petrochemical derivative and fuel sectors with government regulatory, policy, and political entities in the energy and environmental in particular, this suggests strategic attempts to undermine and subvert climate policy through social media,” the authors wrote.
https://elixirfield.blogspot.com/2023/05/a-common-misinfo-graph-claim-about.html
Here was my debunking of the “common misinfo graph” that you reposted above.