Category Archives: Satire

Gross Deception About DMI’s “Missing Graph”

February 20, 2016SatireDMI, Extent, GWPFAAA, Open Source, Paul Homewood, Ron Clutz, Trolls, TwitterJim Hunt

For reasons that will take too long to explain just at the moment I answered a question asked by Ron Clutz over at Paul Homewood’s “Not A Lot Of People Know That” blog. Having done that I had a quick look round and discovered that unlike most of his “skeptical” friends Paul is writing almost as many posts per day about sea ice as I am! Needless to say he’s raking over the coals of his “Gross Deception” article from last year.

The Great White Con 2016 “New Einstein” Award

February 13, 2016SatireAndrew Cotton, Anthony Watts, CatWeazle, Gail Combs, GWCABBWSC, Judith Curry, Lawrence Martin, New Einstein, Roger Helmer, Steven Goddard, Telegraph, Tony Heller, Twitter, UKIPJim Hunt

Our regular reader(s) will be already be all too familiar with the 2015 edition of our annual Great White Con 2016 “New Einstein” Award. The jury has now finished its deliberations in a smoke filled igloo just outside the Great White Con Ivory Towers. 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 Gail Combs with her:

The Great Global Warming Policy Forum Con

February 4, 2016SatireBBC, Bob Ward, Extent, GWPF, GWPFAAA, MASIE, Nicholas Stern, Nigel Lawson, Paul Homewood, Ron Clutz, Walt MeierJim Hunt

You may possibly be aware that here in the United Kingdom the charitable status of the so called “Global Warming Policy Foundation” was challenged in 2014. As the BBC reported in 2014:

Mail Makes 1000% Arctic Mistake

July 29, 2015SatireDaily Mail, IPSOJim Hunt

We officially complained last week about some egregious errors in a “Daily Mail Comment“. In particular:

The northern ice-cap… is NOT bigger than at any time for decades.

In an official response we were told:

The Great White Con 2015 “New Einstein” Award

February 17, 2015SatireDavid Rose, Gail Combs, GWCABBWSC, New Einstein, Roger Tattersall, Steven Goddard, Tony Heller, UKIPJim Hunt

As regular readers will have realised by now, we are subject to a continuing barrage of verbal abuse as we fearlessly pursue our goal of telling the truth about the Arctic whatever the obstacles. Following the latest such episode we have consulted our learned counsel and decided to publish the spiciest episodes here. By the time August 2015 draws to a close a poll of our loyal reader(s) will determine which of our utterers of undeleted expletives will be awarded a wild card entry into the 2015 Great White Con Arctic Basin Big Wave Surfing Contest.

Uncivil Dialog in the Climate World

February 8, 2015SatireAnthony Watts, Ken RiceJim Hunt

I’ve recently been mud wrestling with pigs again, over at “Watts Up With That” in the comments below an article entitled “Friday Funny: ‘civil dialog in the climate world’”, which begins as follows:

A Letter to the Editor of the Mail on Sunday

February 2, 2015SatireDaily Mail, David Rose, IPSOJim Hunt

CC: @IpsoNews

To whom it may concern,

As you are no doubt aware, I am rather dissatisfied with the responses I have received from you to my assorted enquiries over recent weeks. In such circumstances I took the liberty of attempting to communicate directly with David Rose about the wide variety of inaccurate and/or misleading statements about climate science that your esteemed organ has published over recent weeks. Here is a brief overview of my recent conversations with your leading investigative journalist on Twitter:

David Rose’s Apocalyptic Vision of Al Gore’s Nobel Lecture

September 1, 2014SatireAl Gore, Daily Mail, David Rose, Nobel Prize, Wieslaw MaslowskiJim Hunt

According to David Rose’s headline in his article about Arctic sea ice in yesterday’s Mail on Sunday:

Stunning satellite images show summer ice cap is thicker and covers 1.7 million square kilometres MORE than 2 years ago…despite Al Gore’s prediction it would be ICE-FREE by now

David Cameron Practices for Big Wave Surfing Contest

August 24, 2014SatireBarrow, Beaufort Sea, David Cameron, GWCABBWSC, MIZ, Polzeath, Surf, WMNJim Hunt

Shock News! It has recently been brought to our attention by the online version of the Western Morning News (WMN for short), our local daily newspaper, that the once Great Britain’s current Prime Minister (GBPM for short) has been secretly training for next week’s Arctic Basin big wave surfing contest just down the road from here in North Cornwall! According to the WMN:

A Few Players Short of a Great Green Con Surf Team

August 22, 2014SatireArea, Barrow, Bob Ward, Great Green Con, GWCABBWSC, Jon White, Matt Ridley, Shock News, Steven Goddard, Tony Heller, USCGC HealyJim Hunt

Shock News! Over in the denialosphere at the (un)Real Science blog I’ve been challenged to yet another Arctic sea ice bet. This one now seems to be signed and sealed, but will probably have to wait a few years before it is delivered: