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:

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!”:

David Rose’s Climatic Alternative Facts and Deceptions

February 12, 2017TemperatureAlt Facts, Benjamin Friedman, Climategate 2, Daily Mail, David Rose, Donald Trump, Judith Curry, Lamar Smith, NOAA, NOAAGateJim Hunt

For some relevant background to this weekend’s dose of “Alternative Facts” from David Rose in the Mail on Sunday you may wish to peruse this article in our sister journal “Alternative Facts Wetware™“:

The Son of the Blog of Fools Gets Arctic Sea Ice Horrifically Wrong

September 22, 2016SatireAnthony Watts, Breitbart, Caleb Shaw, James Delingpole, Northabout, Paul Homewood, Ship of FoolsJim Hunt

Halloween is a little way away still, but nonetheless I have a horror story to tell you. Are you sitting comfortably?

As our regular reader(s) will be aware we have been following the fortunes of the plucky little yacht Northabout on her Arctic circumnavigation with great interest. That includes the series of reports about the voyage on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme. Even recent passers by may have noticed that we were none too pleased with the most recent episode in the series!

Gross Deception About MASIE and the Sea Ice Index

February 28, 2016ExtentGWPFAAA, MASIE, NALOPKT, NIC, NSIDC, Paul Homewood, Ron Clutz, SII, Walt MeierJim Hunt

Our title for today is a reference back to a 2015 article by Paul Homewood on his “Not A Lot Of People Know That” blog, in which he told a load of old porky pies about the National Snow and Ice Data Center’s graphs of Arctic sea ice extent. Only last week Mr. Homewood cooked up another pile of porky pies concerning the Danish Meteorolical Institute’s Arctic sea ice extent metric. Now he has turned his pie baking skills to the Multisensor Analyzed Sea Ice Extent (MASIE for short), which is “a prototype collaborative product of the National Ice Center and NSIDC”.

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:

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:

Mark Serreze and the Arctic Sea Ice Death Spiral

January 29, 2015ExtentAnthony Watts, Extent, James Hunt, Jay Zwally, Mark Serreze, Morecambe and Wise, NASA, National Geographic, NSIDC, Seth BorensteinJim Hunt

Anthony Watts has been telling porky pies again. He claims his blog is “The world’s most viewed site on global warming and climate change”, which may or may not be true. However Anthony published an article earlier today entitled “NSIDC Mark Serreze’s sea ice ‘death spiral’ no longer ‘screaming’ on the way down, now termed to be ‘erratic & bumpy’“, which most certainly contains an inaccuracy or two.

The Great White Con

Putting the Arctic sea ice record straight

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