Category Archives: Satire

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:

Don’t Panic! It’s Just Another Climategate 2 Correction!!

March 19, 2017SatireAFW, Arthur Lowe, Capt. Mainwaring, Climategate 2, Dad's Army, Daily Mail, David Rose, GWPF, NOAAGateJim Hunt

Regular readers will be aware that the alleged “Global Warming Policy Forum” recently published what they describe with tongue in cheek as a “correction” to one of the many egregious inaccuracies published on their web site recently.

That Deaf, Dumb and Blind Kid Sure Plays a Mean ClimateBall™

March 17, 2017SatireAnthony Watts, Bremen Uni, CIS, climate, OSI SAF, SMOS, The Who, Tony HellerJim Hunt

Our old friend Tony Heller has been publishing a glorious Gish gallop of articles showing OSI-SAF Arctic sea ice type maps and claiming amongst other things:

“103% Increase In Multi-Year Sea Ice Since 2008” and

Shock News! Finally, the GWPF Corrects a Mistake!!

March 13, 2017SatireDaily Mail, David Rose, David Whitehouse, GWPF, HadCRUT, Shock NewsJim Hunt

David Whitehouse has just published an article on the Global Warming Policy Forum web site entitled “How The Recent El Nino Saved Climate Models“.

The article itself is of course straight off the GWPF’s porky pie production line, but in the small print at the bottom there is this “Shock News!”:

Shock News! The Telegraph is Propagating Fake News About the Arctic!!

February 26, 2017SatireAFW, Christopher Booker, DMI, Fake News, NALOPKT, NASA, NOAA, NSIDC, Paul Homewood, Rutgers, Shock News, Snow Cover, Telegraph, Tony HellerJim Hunt

David Rose is mercifully quiet this weekend, but there’s no rest for the wicked! Christopher Booker in the Sunday Telegraph leads a bunch of the usual Alt-facts suspects in a barrage of fake news about our dearly beloved Arctic sea ice. According to Mr. Booker in the “Arctic Myths” section of his column today:

The Great White Con 2017 “New Einstein” Award

February 19, 2017SatireAndyG55, Ben Pile, Gator69, Mike Haseler, New Einstein, Tony HellerJim Hunt

Our regular reader(s) will be all too familiar with the 2015 and 2016 editions of our annual Great White Con “New Einstein” Award. The jury has now finished its deliberations on the 2016 award in a smoke filled igloo just outside the Great White Con Ivory Towers, not far from Santa’s 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 none other than Ben Pile (AKA @clim8resistance) with this extremely witty remark way back when in March 2016:

An Open Letter to the Managing Editor of the Mail on Sunday

February 11, 2017SatireClimategate 2, Daily Mail, IPSO, NOAA, NOAAGateJim Hunt

Thank you for your email. Unless I’ve completely misunderstood you’re directing me to this page?

http://www.readerseditor.dmgmedia.co.uk/?publication=www.mailonsunday.co.uk/readerseditor

If that’s the case then it doesn’t actually answer my repeated question, which included the word “amicably”. See below.

Beta Testing Snow White’s Alternative Fact Detector

February 7, 2017SatireAFW, Dana Rohrabacher, House Science Committee, JAF, John J Bates, Judith Curry, Lamar Smith, NOAA, NOAAGateJim Hunt

As part of our ongoing alternative facts research program we flipped the switch on the first beta test version of Snow White’s Alternative Facts Wetware™ (#AFW™ for short) AF detection subsystem early on Saturday morning (UTC). We were astonished when the needle literally flew past the end stops later that morning. Initially we suspected a bug must have sneaked in via one of Snow’s unprotected ear canals. However when she rather reluctantly ran her exhaustive diagnostic routines they revealed that her mission was in actual fact absolutely nominal.