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stoat | February 6, 2013- Hello, Mr. Amman. We have here for you one persecution pizza with pepperoni!
- You must be mistaken. I am currently toeing the party line, and thus not persecuted.
- Would you like to be persecuted by us? We have Team Member discount. 10 for the price of 1.
- No, thanks.
- Are you sure?
- Yes.
- So, what do we do with this persecution pizza?
- Take it to Michael Mann.
- Where does he live?
- In Hollywood.
- Where exactly?
- Ask Roger Pielke.
- Which one?
- Whatever. Can I go back to the game now? Lewandowski just scored.
(thanks to Neven).
Refs
* Sunny Afternoon
stoat | January 16, 2012Tweaking the wackos refers. "James Pagett" wrote The Wonderful World of Wikipedia at WUWT complaining about the [[Soon-Baliunas controversy]] page. But despite the author knowing enough about wikipedia to have gotten himself topic-banned by arbcomm (which the post, oddly, doesn't have room to mention) the article does a very poor job of explaining how wikipedia works. Which isn't too surprising, as no-one outside does.
But because the post is at WUWT, and is about climate, and wikipedia, it doesn't take look for the wackos to start ranting about me, even though I don't feature in this story…
stoat | November 9, 2011 KK reports on the Tol vs Curry fight. Tol is complaining that Curry is doing her usual: posting about septic junk and then saying "oh but I'm just asking". Tol may have long hair but, unlike Curry, he isn't a bozo, or irresponsible (he did call me rude things in an email once, but I forgive him).
[Update: incidentally, there is an interesting exchange between KK and RP Jr (!) in the comments:
KK> Do you assign lousy, error-riddled textbooks for your class to read?
RP> Yes, absolutely. The Skeptical Environmentalist was a core reading...
It is interesting only because that was a silly…
stoat | November 4, 2011Via Eli I saw that there was some odd stuff at WUWT (nothing new there you might say). The weirdness is the ATI vs Mann case, or whatever it is called, and the ATI are complaining that Mann is allowed to be a party to a case about his own emails. Or something; the legalese is dull, obviously. The ATI counsel appear to have been doing some very dodgy things, like running the case whilst working for the EPA.
Anyway, I thought it would be entertaining to tweak them a bit, and did so for a while. What is funny (apart from their inability to count to 4) is the way they are happy to leap upon…
stoat | May 11, 2011If you haven't already, go look at coalcares.org. Then read on.
Yes, its a fake (grist via greenfyre). I feel for it, in the sense that I took one look at the sight, thought "f*ck*ng hell that's ridiculous" and looked no more. But, yes, I'm certainly capable of believing that the coal industry would do this kind of thing.
stoat | March 30, 2010I haven't been nice to Hobbes for a bit, so:
When God speaketh to man, it must be either immediately or by mediation of another man, to whom He had formerly spoken by Himself immediately. How God speaketh to a man immediately may be understood by those well enough to whom He hath so spoken; but how the same should be understood by another is hard, if not impossible, to know. For if a man pretend to me that God hath spoken to him supernaturally, and immediately, and I make doubt of it, I cannot easily perceive what argument he can produce to oblige me to believe it.
There. Isn't that wonderful…
stoat | August 31, 2009No, not arbcomm, though they seem to be fairly wacky. This summer has been very disconnected, but I'm finally back, so expect more unbridled tat. I was going to take a peek at the sea ice situation, on the off-chance that no-one else had, but googled it first and ended up with Greenpeace's sea ice 'mistake' delights climate change sceptics. Strange stuff. People forgetting to say "sea" in front of "ice" is hardly new or interesting, though, except in August when nothing happens. mt has the tedious detail so you don't have to bother.
But there is plenty more weird stuff. The Mighty James Annan…
stoat | September 28, 2008Inel notes that Monckton thinks he was misrepresented on Earth: The Ratings Wars. Which is most amusing: something at last that Monckton and I agree on: E:TRS is misleading (though we're talking about different progs in the series, of course). Or you can read TLstake on it instead.
He sez: I was interviewed for 90 minutes and all my views were backed up by sound scientific data, but this was all omitted. They made it sound as if these were just my personal views, as if I was some potty peer. It was caddish of them. The last bit is wonderful: clearly playing Bertie Wooster to the hilt; does he…
stoat | December 16, 2007Guess who has finally admitted my conclusions on the role of humans on global warming, and climate change, in general, are mistaken.
stoat | November 10, 2007The recent hoax seems to have been taken down - sad. There is a story about it at Reuters and its everywhere else.
I wanted to point out something which no-one else seems to have noticed, which was that the figures for the T and CO2 histories were very obviously faked. They were just straight lines with wiggles drawn on (indeed from my memory the wiggles were all upwards, suggesting that they had been drawn by hand with a pen above a ruler line).
This, and various other features many people have noticed, made the fakery rather too obvious to fool anyone for toooo long. Hopefully someone will…
stoat | September 18, 2007From the grauniad: Surfers fear smaller swell as Atlantic wave farm approved. Well you can't make everyone happy.
stoat | September 16, 2007Looking back over the past sea ice record, I see that a min year is very rarely followed by another record. But some people are getting so carried away by this years ice, they might not realise that. So does anyone want to put an interesting amount of money, at (say) even odds, on there being a record minimum in the arctic next year? I get the no-record side. And we use the record as presented by cryosphere today. Any (credible, non-anonymous) takers?
[Only £20 on offer so far, plus an indeterminate amount of beer; roll up, roll up -W Plus another £10 from PH by email]
[This was the first…
stoat | May 18, 2007RP Sr has had two previous attempts to knock holes in the IPCC WG I and they were both embarassing failures ([1] and [2] (the latter expanded at 2a)). Emboldened by this, he's had a third go which is just as bad.
Am I being too cruel and unkind here? I'm assuming anyone posting to the blogosphere on other peoples "errors" is fair game.
Anyway, this time its back to the dreaded butterfly effect (James, cover your eyes). There's an RC post on it here (see-also my early post on the old blog); RPs first take on it is here and all the arguments get hashed out in the comments there (oh, and don't…
stoat | March 9, 2007Well of course, all the time. But in particular World Climate Report claims to be the webs longest running climate change blog (we'll leave aside the fact that it doesn't allow comments - how odd, I wonder why? - and so isn't really a blog). And indeed their archive goes back to March 2004. But. Try the Wayback machine on them and something interesting emerges. Up until Feb 2005 they appear to have been a redirect to www.co2andclimate.org (which *was* a greening earth soc page, but now bizarrely seems to have morphed into a site selling holidays in Spain!).
Now WCR started off as a paper…
stoat | February 27, 2007Yes, its... well I'm not quite sure what it it, but its wacky, and all the planets are taking part. See here. Page 1 is only silly; but page 2 gets seriously wacky:
The "cause and effect" of these remarkable planetary transformations, we believe, is explained by appealing to a new form of Physics -- not yet embraced by most of mainstream science. In fact, this is an "old Physics" -- once the centerpiece of 19th Century, pre-quantum reality. At its most fundamental, it is a Physics based on the literal accessibility of "higher dimensions."
This "higher dimensional/hyperdimensional"…
stoat | October 9, 2006A not very subtle climate-and-flying campaign... checkout top-10-facts point 2 for fun with extrapolation...
stoat | June 5, 2006NSIDC has made a select set of images viewable through the popular interactive desktop application, Google Earth. Currently, Google Earth users can view images showing permafrost, snow, sea ice extent, and photographs of glaciers. Distribution of permafrost, snow, and ice are displayed as overlays on the Google Earth base map. Snow and ice information are updated daily. The glacier photographs are indicated by individual "push pins" that reveal the actual photograph when clicked.
Go to http://nsidc.org/data/google_earth/ to play.
stoat | March 15, 2006RP Sr is advertising a "balanced" climate meeting. And why is he so confident of balance? Well, check out the list of organisers and speakers. You could play bingo with them :-).
And if that isn't enough, good ol' Sonja A.Boehmer-Christiansen offers in the comment to publish the results... with friends like that...