Category Archives: Satire

Watts Up With That Koonin Hypocrisy?

June 5, 2021SatireAnthony Watts, BP, Michael Mann, Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American, Steve Koonin, WUWTJim Hunt

Our regular reader(s) must have noticed by now that in the dim and distant past we had the occasional debate with Anthony Watts, proprietor of the self proclaimed “world’s most viewed climate website”, catchily entitled “Watts Up With That”?

You may even have noticed that more recently we managed to engage in an admittedly brief debate with the suddenly world famous American Physicist Steven Koonin?

Now in a world exclusive we bring you the shock news that we are suddenly unable to debate with either of them!!!

Unsettling Defence of the Undefensible?

May 26, 2021SatireMedium, Steve KooninJim Hunt

As mentioned in a previous episode of my series of reviews of Steven Koonin’s new book “Unsettled”, he published an allegedly “detailed point-by-point rebuttal of the fact check” of his book by Climate Feedback on Medium.

China’s big Covid-19 business?

April 19, 2020SatireAlex Dawson, Ben Wegg-Prosser, Canyon Bridge, Cayman Islands, Covid-19, Daily Mail, Glen Owen, Global Counsel, Harry Cole, Imagination Technologies, Peter Mandelson, Simon Fraser, Theresa May, Tom TugendhatJim Hunt

We’ve already come across Glen Owen and Harry Cole, broadcasting batty bunkum about the novel coronavirus pandemic from the platform of the Mail on Sunday. Glen and Harry are now turning their searchlight away from science, and submitting business and economics to its cold, hard glare. In an article under one of the Mail’s trademark lengthy headlines they tell to us today the tall tale of the:

David Rose’s Great Covid-19 Con?

April 10, 2020SatireAndrew Neil, ClimateBall, Covid-19, David Rose, Extinction Rebellion, Matt Ridley, Pandemics, Rupert Read, Spectator, Tamsin EdwardsJim Hunt

Recent readers may well have arrived here because I have started commenting on the Great Covid-19 crisis? Regular readers may recall my previous Arctic sea ice altercations with David Rose? He “writes for the Mail on Sunday” according to his byline in Andrew Neil’s Spectator magazine. One or two people of a certain age may even recall the initial raison d’être of my Arctic alter ego’s blog?

The Great White Con 2020 “New Einstein” Award

February 15, 2020SatireAndrew Cotton, Michael Liebreich, Telegraph, Tony Heller, TwitterJim Hunt

Our regular reader(s) have grown to love the amazing prizes awarded to the winner of our annual Great White Con “New Einstein” Award . The jury has now finished its deliberations on the 2019 award in the traditional smoke filled igloo just outside the Great White Con Ivory Towers, not far from Santa’s secret summer swimming pool. I am pleased to be able to announce that the first prize of the loan of a polar bear suit kindly donated by the Daily Telegraph plus a battered big board from Cotty’s quiver has been awarded to the ever spiteful Spike55 at Tony Heller’s unReal Climate Science blog, with:

Watts Up With Arctic Sea Ice Thickness?

October 17, 2019SatireAnthony Watts, Anthropocene, Byron Sharp, David Middleton, Holocene, Malcolm Roberts, Medium, Thickness, Volume, WUWTJim Hunt

Regular readers will no doubt recall that I have previously been “banned” on trumped up charges at the “Watts Up With That” blog. It thus came as a pleasant surprise when I recently popped back there and tried to pass comment on a “reprint” of an article by Professor Byron Sharp in Medium entitled “How I changed my mind… about global warming“:

Ship of Fools III Escapes Arctic Sea Ice

September 10, 2019SatireAnthony Watts, ASIB, ASIF, Breitbart, document.no, Donald Trump, James Delingpole, Joss Stone, Matt Ridley, Paul Homewood, Ship of Fools, Svalbard Post, Tore Toppe, Trygve Monsen, WUWTJim Hunt

According to a comment on the Arctic Sea Ice Blog 2019 has been:

Another year with a climate change research ship stuck in the vanishing Arctic ice .The NWP barely open.

The reality? The MS Malmö isn’t a “climate change research ship” at all. According to the web site of Arctic Wildlife Tours it is:

An Inconvenient Truth About Polar Ice Melt

May 29, 2019SatireAl Gore, Anthony Watts, BoE, CFACT, Chris Turney, Daily Mail, David Rose, Guy McPherson, Jay Lehr, Videos, Wieslaw MaslowskiJim Hunt

The celebrated web site of our old friend Anthony Watts published an article yesterday entitled “The polar ice melt myth“. As a self styled expert on that particular topic I popped over there expectantly, only to discover that it is an actual fact a cut ‘n’ paste of an April 30th article by Dr. Jay Lehr at CFACT. Part of that article reads as follows:

The Great White Con 2019 “New Einstein” Award

March 1, 2019SatireASIF, Freegrass, Lurk, New Einstein, Richard Lindzen, Roy Spencer, Spike55, Tony HellerJim Hunt

The omens are good that 2019 is destined to be a year of firsts in the Arctic. Our regular reader(s) will no doubt fondly recall previous editions of our annual Great White Con “New Einstein” Award? 2019’s competition breaks all the moulds by opening the running with a quote from Snow White’s home from home at the Arctic Sea Ice Forum rather than one of the usual “skeptical” venues!

Reductio Ad Absurdum

September 1, 2017SatireAnthony Watts, Arctic Mission, Steven Goddard, Surrealism, USS SkateJim Hunt

A somewhat surreal modern Arctic art installation:

Multiple personalities are a terrible thing. They always catch up with you (plural) in the end! https://t.co/6PNW9Y9SLf pic.twitter.com/jDGInt3KwT

— Snow White (@GreatWhiteCon) August 30, 2017