Category Archives: Censorship

The Mysterious Case of the Missing Tweets

November 28, 2021CensorshipAndy West, ClimateBall, Judith Curry, Ken Rice, Roger Pielke Jr., Twitter, Willard, WUWTJim Hunt

An article by Andy West on the topic of “Public ClimateBall” has now been posted on both Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. and WUWT. Here’s a brief extract from the introduction:

Climate blogger ‘Willard’ has put significant efforts into a large taxonomy of skeptical challenges (the ‘Bingo Matrix’ or ‘Contrarian Matrix’) and brief rejoinders to same. Along with the very useful characterization of especially the rhetoric aspects of the conflicted skeptic / mainstream climate-change blogosphere, as an engagement not based primarily upon rational argument leading where it will, but one with different rules, a kind of ritual or game: ClimateBall™. Everything herein is my own view of ClimateBall, and what it points to.

Watts Up With Polariced Mysteries?

May 5, 2021CensorshipAndy May, Antarctic, Anthony Watts, Carlos Castaneda, Censorship, Steve Koonin, Willis Eschenbach, WUWTJim Hunt

It’s not very often that we discuss an article from Watts Up With That with even the vaguest hint of approval in the smoke filled editorial offices at the Great White Con, but here’s the exception that proves the rule! No doubt the fact that allegedly I inspired the article in question is also relevant? Here’s the start of a guest post at WUWT entitled “Polariced Mysteries“, written by our old friend Willis Eschenbach:

Censorship Down Under by Senator Malcolm Roberts

March 29, 2017CensorshipBoM, Censorship, CSIRO, Facebook, Malcolm Roberts, TwitterJim Hunt

Senator Malcolm Roberts is live streaming “a public forum in Parliament House tonight where we will be deconstructing climate data from over 250 data sets” via his Facebook page. Allegedly:

You can listen in and see the empirical evidence for yourself which disproves the AGW hypothesis.

Not A Lot Of People Know How Paul Homewood Propagates Fake News About the Arctic!!

February 28, 2017CensorshipChristopher Booker, MASIE, NALOPKT, Paul Homewood, Ron ClutzJim Hunt

A couple of days ago we explained how Christopher Booker explained that blogger Paul Homewood:

Has drawn on official sources.. to uncover what is actually happening [in the Arctic]

Have we got news for you Christopher? That’s not how it works in the cryodenialosphere! Mr. Homewood’s article about Mr. Booker’s article about Mr. Homewood’s previous article(s) is littered with factual errors. This is what happens should you be foolish enough to attempt to correct such errors.

For Life on Earth, Ice is not Generally a Good Thing!?

February 13, 2016CensorshipAnthony Watts, Area, Carl Mears, Christopher Monckton, David Legates, RSS, Ted Cruz, Willie SoonJim Hunt

Or so Viscount Christopher Monckton of Brenchley claims in answer to the question I recently put to him and his fellow authors in a comment below an article on the Watts Up With That blog entitled “The Profiteers of Climate Doom” and bylined “Christopher Monckton of Brenchley, Willie Soon and David R. Legates”. As I put it in my initial comment:

Censored Arctic Shipping Update

August 23, 2014CensorshipCensorship, Concentration, Hanseatic, NSR, Steven Goddard, Tony HellerJim Hunt

Our headline for today is only partially plagiarised from today’s “Arctic Shipping Update” article on “Steven Goddard’s” (un)Real Science blog. This morning Tony Heller posted the following ACNFS Arctic sea ice concentration visualisation:

Forecasting Sea Ice Extent in the Dark

June 12, 2014CensorshipAnthony Watts, ARCUS, Censorship, Extent, Gish Gallop, SIPN, Temperature, Thickness, VideosJim Hunt

My title today refers to the fact that the summer Arctic sea ice forecasting season is with us once again. The ARCUS Sea Ice Outlook (SIO for short) started in 2008, with the aim of gathering together and publishing “community predictions of the September sea ice extent”. The SIO is now part of the recently created Sea Ice Prediction Network, and the deadline for submission for the first set of forecasts of 2014 was June 10th.

“Real Science” Censorship – Episode 2

April 19, 2014CensorshipAl Gore, Beaufort Sea, Censorship, Nobel Prize, Steven GoddardJim Hunt

After having a brush with the “Real Science” censor last month I’ve really gone and done it now. Steven Goddard’s blog has been badmouthing Al Gore recently. I’m afraid I couldn’t let that slight on Al’s predictive abilities go unchallenged. Steve evidently didn’t care for my suggestion that he “is fond of poetic license”, so my alter ego is “now spam” there too:

What’s Up With Watts Moderation? Episode 1

April 5, 2014CensorshipAnthony Watts, Censorship, NSIDC, Shock NewsJim Hunt

We proudly present some “Shock News” concerning a disappearing comment of ours on the “Watts Up With That” blog.

According to the April 2014 edition of the NSIDC’s Arctic Sea Ice News:

Recursive Fury From David Rose?

March 22, 2014CensorshipDavid Rose, Psychology, Recursive Fury, Stephan LewandowskyJim Hunt

There’s accusations flying around the blogosphere in all directions at the moment on the currently very hot topic of “Recursive Fury”, also referred to as “Conspiracist Ideation” in the literature.

By way of a little background, this time last year the learned journal Frontiers in Psychology published a paper called “Recursive fury: Conspiracist ideation in the blogosphere in response to research on conspiracist ideation”. The lead author is Stephan Lewandowsky who is now Chair in Cognitive Psychology at Bristol University just up the M5 motorway from here. If you click that first link you will note that rather than being able to read the paper you will instead find a note from the editors that reads as follows:

The Great White Con

Putting the Arctic sea ice record straight