Our regular reader(s) may be wondering at this juncture, but that is not a typo in today’s title. For an in depth discussion of how alleged “renowned amateur naturalist and honorary doctor” Chris Packham sensationally rebranded Toby Young’s self identified “skeptical” web site live on air on the BBC’s “Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg” see here.
By way of additional background information see also our in depth investigation of the Daily Sceptic’s Arctic porky pie production line over here.
To the apparent astonishment of the Septic’s alleged “Environment Editor”, Chris Morrison, Reuters Fact Check has now followed in “Snow White’s” dainty footsteps through the as yet unmelted Arctic snow cover:
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Tony Heller Sets Arctic Shark Jump World Record!
This is a photograph of a Greenland shark:
You will no doubt be astonished to learn that shark jumping supremo Tony Heller has just jumped over the entire East Greenland population of this long lived but officially vulnerable species. Without harming a single one!
Over on XTwitter “Steve”/Tony was recently shown this video which graphically reveals the declining age of the sea ice in the Arctic Ocean:
He responded as follows:
According to the “summary for skeptics” of the IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate:
Continue reading Tony Heller Sets Arctic Shark Jump World Record!Facts About the Arctic in March 2024
It looks as though the 2024 Arctic sea ice melting season has begun. For much greater detail see the 2024 maximum extent thread. However, here’s the latest JAXA Arctic sea ice extent graph:
Here too is an animation of sea ice motion on the Atlantic periphery, showing the effect of the passage of several Arctic cyclones through the area over the past 5 weeks or so:
My usual start of month processing hasn’t gone according to plan. Thanks to Lars Kaleschke at the Alfred Wegener Institute for the following information:
Continue reading Facts About the Arctic in March 2024SMOS went into safe mode on 22 February 2024 at 05:10 UTC for reasons that are still under investigation.
The spacecraft has been back in nominal mode since 25 February 2024 and on 27 February 2024, the MIRAS instrument was switched on and is currently performing well.
The reload of the nominal acquisition planning is underway, and if all science data quality checks are positive, nominal data production and dissemination will resume in the coming days.
Tony Heller Denies Global Warming
Apart from (presumably accidentally) empirically confirming global warming and Arctic sea ice volume decline, Tony Heller has also been frantically attempting to persuade his flock of faithful followers that the current value of the OSI SAF’s extent metric means that the impending series of “2023 has been the hottest year evah!” stories are all lies.
Here a few examples of his infamous oeuvre, together with “Snow White’s” responses:
Can you rustle up one of those for another date Tony?
— Snow White (@GreatWhiteCon) December 30, 2023
How about 3 weeks ago for example? December 8th.
Tony has also gleefully invoked the NSIDC’s annual minimum extent for his nefarious purposes, although he refers to it as “NOAA data”:
(At the risk of repeating myself)^n
— Snow White (@GreatWhiteCon) December 31, 2023
When you have a spare 5 minutes:https://t.co/x5TDGAwj9x
Switching swiftly to a cherry picked graph of the OSI SAF minimum extent, Tony invokes the spirit of a deceased parrot that went to meet its maker several decades ago. He remains blissfully unaware that I watched the Monty Python dead parrot sketch when it was first broadcast:
When do you suppose Tony will get around to implementing my suggestion of revealing the OSI SAF extent graph for December 8th to his flock of faithful followers?
Or a multi decade graph of NSIDC extent for that matter?
My prediction has come true in next to no time:
For some strange reason Tony has been silent about Arctic sea ice extent for a while, and has moved on to the Greenland ice sheet instead:
Presumably that’s in response to an article in The Guardian:
The Greenland ice cap is losing an average of 30m tonnes of ice an hour due to the climate crisis, a study has revealed, which is 20% more than was previously thought…
The study, published in the journal Nature, used artificial intelligence techniques to map more than 235,000 glacier end positions over the 38-year period, at a resolution of 120 metres. This showed the Greenland ice sheet had lost an area of about 5,000 sq km of ice at its margins since 1985, equivalent to a trillion tonnes of ice.
“Snow White” felt compelled to respond to Mr. Heller as follows:
At the risk of repeating myself:@TonyClimate is a jo-jo-joke!https://t.co/sWkZF6wYGF
— Snow White (@GreatWhiteCon) January 18, 2024
“Snow” is now going to see if “she” can bring the latest “Shock News” from the Arctic Ocean to Tony’s attention. Wish “her” luck!
According to Tony’s current favourite metric, Arctic sea ice extent has reduced for 2 days in a row, and has reached the 10% percentile.
[Update – January 21st]Tony has just pulled another one of his ageing rabbits out of his X rated climate scam hat:
“Snow White” responded with one of her own ageing replies:
You really have no idea what you're talking about, do you Tony?
— Snow White (@GreatWhiteCon) October 8, 2021
Why don't you reveal to your faithful band of merry (mostly) men the associated text describing what those 2 graphs of #Arctic #SeaIce extent anomaly show?#TruthDecay #BoMMM pic.twitter.com/8Zsf4avsaD
Evidently Tony has still not learned that it’s impossible to compare 1990 apples with 2001 oranges, despite having the difference explained to him on numerous previous occasions.
Stop Press! Tony has suddenly discovered that he’s been comparing apples with oranges all these years!!
Of course he blames the IPCC rather than himself:
“Snow White’s” first thought?
You're making this up as you go along.
— Snow White (@GreatWhiteCon) January 21, 2024
Aren't you Tony?
🔥🌍#ClimateBrawl🌍🔥 #ClimateScam
Watch this space!
Tony Heller Confirms Global Warming!
As the New Year rapidly approaches Tony Heller is up to his old Arctic tricks yet again. No doubt we’ll get on to many of his hoary old chestnuts in due course, but although I may easily have blinked and missed it he appears to have a new trick up his voluminous sleeve. Providing empirical evidence that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s global warming “predictions” are correct!
Here is a recent extract from “Snow White’s” XTwitter feed:
By way of further elucidation, here is an extract from the IPCC’s Technical Summary of their AR6 Working Group 1 report:
Continue reading Tony Heller Confirms Global Warming!The 2023 Arctic Sea Ice Minimum Extent
It’s that time of year again! Tony Heller has been asserting that “summer is over at the North Pole” for several weeks now, and the 2023 Arctic sea ice minimum extent will occur at some point over the next four or five weeks. The exact date and level will almost certainly vary from one extent metric to the next.
To get the minimum extent ball rolling, here’s Signe Aaboe’s graph of previous summer minima based on OSI SAF data:
Here too is Zack Labe’s equivalent, based on JAXA data:
Continue reading The 2023 Arctic Sea Ice Minimum ExtentThe Information War with the Fossil Fuel Industry
Here’s a few minutes old Xweet from my now ex Member of the European Parliament, Molly Scott Cato:
Those of us who care about the climate are in an information war with the fossil fuel industry
— Green💚🌻Molly (@GreenPartyMolly) August 2, 2023
This is a forensic analysis of the weapons they’re using
Since this is an existential struggle it would be good to familiarise yourself with them https://t.co/m7tOKvU9gB
Here’s a template for Arctic sea ice trolls, helpfully provided by my very good friend “Snow White”:
Look dumbass. Al Gore says the Arctic is warming at 4 times the speed of the rest of planet, but the data says it’s GETTING COLDER!
By way of a change, which is of course as good as a rest, today let’s take a look at some academic psychology. According to the recently published “The illusory truth effect leads to the spread of misinformation” in the journal “Cognition”:
Continue reading The Information War with the Fossil Fuel IndustryTony Heller’s Faithful Flock of Sheep
My Arctic alter ego was checking out the new “X” rated edition of Twitter when “she” couldn’t help but notice that Elon Musk had allowed Tony Heller back into the climate “debate” thereon, albeit with a new handle.
“Snow White” also noticed that for some strange reason Tony was telling lots of porky pies about Arctic sea ice again! Hence:
and:
Continue reading Tony Heller’s Faithful Flock of SheepIn actual fact July 26 #AMSR2 #Arctic #SeaIce extent is lower than 2005 👇
— Snow White (@GreatWhiteCon) July 27, 2023
This #InconvenientTruth will not be reported by @TonyClimate!#ClimateScam #BOMMM #TruthDecay https://t.co/WZaYKCI888 pic.twitter.com/OmJUXeAxfk
Rewriting The Arctic
Peter, a welcome new denizen here at the Great White Con Ivory Towers, appears to have parachuted into our far north summer hideaway on the shores of Santa’s Secret Summer Swimming Pool straight from Tony Heller‘s Unreal Climate Science blog.
Prompted by Peter I wandered over to Tony’s place where I found to my surprise that he has recently been busy warming up an old chestnut of his that has been debunked numerous times over the past decade. Allegedly:
Between 1990 and 2001, the IPCC rewrote the Arctic sea ice satellite record, and changed a trend of ice increasing to ice decreasing.
Here’s a previous chestnut rewarming event preserved for posterity:
Sadly Tony’s side of the “debate” has been deleted by the powers that be at Twitter, so here are the two graphs in question, combined by Mr. Heller into one illuminating animation:
I posted this comment on Tony’s blog last night (UTC), but he hasn’t got back to me yet:
Neither has anybody else. That’s probably because this morning my words of wisdom are still only visible to Tony and I?
[Edit – October 5th]Progress at long last! Vegieman directs the attention of Tony’s band of merry (mostly) men to:
However for some strange reason he neglects to mention that Tony’s link labelled “2001 IPCC Report” doesn’t lead to that graph!
[Edit – October 9th]Not a lot of people know that since things have gone quiet at Tony’s place I popped into Paul Homewood’s echo chamber, where rewriting the Arctic continues apace:
Needless to say my helpful comment is currently invisible.
Watch this space!
The Great White Con 2022 “New Einstein” Award
Having yet to cross metaphorical swords with many of the more foul mouthed “skeptics” of my acquaintance this missive comes to you later than usual this year. However I have just come across one Alan Poirier for the first time.
1) Apparently Alan’s source of Arctic expertise is Watts Up With That!
This is how the entirety of our conversation on Twitter went earlier this evening (UTC):
2) The pseudonymous Vegieman’s apparent source of Arctic expertise is Tony Heller!
This is how he signed off from our recent conversation over at Tony’s unReal Climate Science blog:
The arrogant, condescending manner you project is consistent with those that defend the absurdities of every godless, human denigrating, population destroying effort currently being perpetrated on mankind everywhere. What possesses you and your kind to glory in heaping hopelessness, misery, and despair on your neighbor? To come here and strut your depraved condition is evidence of your insecurity. Tony and most here share an integrity and regard for truth that you are severely deficient in. It would be good if you could abandon your sinking ship, but I know it is a very hard descent from the crows nest in which you reside.
Watch this space!