Category Archives: Satire

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

Stale News? Mail on Sunday Corrects Yet Another David Rose “Porky Pie”

March 30, 2017SatireDaily Mail, David Rose, Lamar Smith, Michael Mann, Peter StottJim Hunt

Our continuing campaign against the Daily Mail Group porky pie production line has just borne some slightly less low hanging fruit!

Perhaps Lamar Smith, Chairman of the United states’ House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, would like to play “spot the difference” with us once again? Here are three different versions of David Rose’s February 19th article in the Mail on Sunday, entitled “US Congress launches a probe into climate data that duped world leaders over global warming“:

Shock News! Alice F. Convicted in WUWT Show Trial!!

March 28, 2017SatireAFW, Anthony Watts, Kafka, Shock News, Tony Heller, Twitter, WUWTJim Hunt

Regular readers will be aware that Snow White and I have long been banished from the hallowed halls of Watts Up With That. What is one to do, then, when Anthony Watts publishes these scurrilous allegations about one’s character by the pseudonymous “Sunsettommy” under an article by David Middleton on a topic under much discussion here?

A Report on the State of the Arctic in 2017

March 25, 2017SatireAMS, Anthony Watts, GWPF, John Christy, Judith Curry, Lamar Smith, Michael Mann, Ole Humlum, Roger Pielke Jr., Roy Spencer, Shakespeare, UAHJim Hunt

Our title for today is borrowed then modified from the title of a Global Warming Policy Foundation report entitled “The State of the Climate in 2016”. The associated GWPF press release assures us that: