Category Archives: Psychology

Peter Hadfield versus Tom Nelson

May 4, 2025PsychologyClimate: The Movie, Fredrik Ljungqvist, Gish Gallop, Martin Durkin, Medieval Warm Period, Peter Hadfield, Potholer54, Psychology, Tom Nelson, YouTubeJim Hunt

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:

Why It’s So Hard to Convince Pseudo-Skeptics

May 24, 2015PsychologyAnthony Watts, Barack Obama, Christopher Booker, Darren Schreiber, David Rose, Matt Manos, Neuroscience, Pint of Science, Pope Francis, PsychologyJim Hunt

Yesterday Anthony Watts published a guest post on his “Watts Up With That” blog authored by Matt Manos. It is entitled “Why It’s So Hard to Convince Warmists“.

Being a somewhat lazy realist I reproduce it here in full, although be warned that I have used the search/replace function of my text editor a teensy-weensy bit:

Tricks Used by David Rose to Deceive

January 25, 2015PsychologyBEST, CRU, Daily Mail, David Rose, Gavin Schmidt, GISS, Guest Post, Hadley Centre, NASA, NOAA, PCC, Sou BundangaJim Hunt

Regular readers of our so far somewhat surreal reporting from up here in the penthouse suite at the summit of the Great White Con ivory towers will no doubt have noticed that we like to concentrate on the facts about the Arctic, whilst occasionally naively exploring assorted psychological aspects of journeying through the “denialosphere”.

Some Sceptical Questions

March 12, 2014PsychologyArea, CT, Extent, JAXA, NSIDC, Psychology, Steven GoddardJim Hunt

With the able assistance of some of the regular readers of Steve Goddard’s so called “Real Science” blog I have drawn up a checklist of questions to answer should you (or any “sceptics” you may be aware of) be suffering from the delusion that the sea ice in the Arctic is “recovering” or “rebounding”:

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The Great White Con

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Category Archives: Psychology

Peter Hadfield versus Tom Nelson

Why It’s So Hard to Convince Pseudo-Skeptics

Tricks Used by David Rose to Deceive

Some Sceptical Questions