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New Dogs; Old Tricks

Like the croaking raven, Steve McIntyre spends his days rasping out "the trick!" Steven Mosher assures us that this somnambulistic accusation is "largely misunderstood by nearly everyone discussing it,...

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Then and now, Europe, US to see snowy, cold winters: expert

Charles Rotter thinks that Dr. James Overland re-evaluating predictions in a story on physorg.com means that he's just making it up as he goes along. So Charles does some making it up of his own with...

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Condensed Monckton

Anthony Watts takes a break from managing Steven McIntyre's Climate Audit blog to help fellow denialists support "Lord" Monckton's call for e-mail harassment of Prof. John Abraham of St. Thomas...

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Climatic collision on the National/Financial Post website

Anthony Watts is busy deleting contacts from his Rolodex and trying to frame the sudden and unwelcome media scrutiny of global warming denialism as part of the Climategate "whitewash" and the alleged...

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Gore cleared in masseuse case

Is Anthony Watts clearing the air on yet another attempt to besmirch politician and environmentalist Al Gore, or is he taking the opportunity to remind his readers that 'the alGore' is evil, evil,...

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Quote of the Week

Anthony Watts brings to our attention a quote from Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. about the hated Joe Romm that is "long overdue", prompted by Joe's coverage of Clive Crook at the Atlantic repeatedly smearing...

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BBC questions if Pachauri’s continued presence “is still serving the best...

Apparently some British politicians think that Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), should step down because denialists don't like him. Continue reading →

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Maybe they’ve found Trenberth’s missing heat

Anthony Watts notes another climate press release with a class-clown giggle so he can side-step the fact that Kevin Trenberth's honest concern about deep-ocean temperature records is being resolved....

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Skeptical Science? John Cook – embarrassing himself

Somehow John Cook calling Anthony Watts a "denier" is an embarrassment. Anthony's in full thin-skinned rant mode here, and it seems that poor John is now dead to Anthony. Continue reading →

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Breaking: NASA GISS Dr. James Hansen – arrested yet again

Anthony Watts snickers "Here’s our buddy Jimbo, looking dapper in a fedora, tie, dockers, and cuffs." Anthony decries repression from behind his keyboard when it supports his beliefs but he finds it...

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Booker: “anomalies” in Pachauri’s accounting

'Honest broker' Christopher Booker's latest fabricated attack of Dr. Pachauri in The Telegraph is an attempt to blow irrelevant accounting irregularities at a research institute into a new "-gate"...

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New Scientist’s Fred Pearce calls for Pachauri to resign

Anthony Watts pastes in parts of an article by Fred Pearce calling for Dr. Pachauri to resign as IPCC Chairman. Funny how when Fred says something that suits Anthony's agenda he's happy to take it at...

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NSF grants $700,000 for theater production on climate change

Tax money wasted on art? Outrageous. And on a topical subject that might accidentally trigger thinking? Art should distract, not stimulate, right Anthony? Continue reading →

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Mann’s old University gets another subpoena

Anthony Watts is a bit muted on the topic of Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's attempt to restart his deeply ill-advised "investigation" of Professor Michael Mann over some of the grants he...

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Climategate?

I've hesitated to dip my toes back in the swamp water that Anthony Watts tries to pass off as a science blog, because road-kill skunks are more pleasant than the mental stench he generates. But the...

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Dr. Ray Bradley’s amazing photo

Anthony Watts presents us with chilling evidence of scientific fraud: Professor Ray Bradley's faculty website photo! Continue reading →

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On Suzuki: “celebrity and integrity seem to be mutually exclusive”

Stop the presses! An environmentalist (Canadian biologist David Suzuki) might have been rude to someone! The proof is in a letter to the editor in a minor Canadian newspaper! Those climatologists are...

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IPCC head Pachauri booted from “Global Thinkers” list

Anthony Watts returns to his obsession with Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Dr. Pachauri's dropped off a random list of "important people" in Foreign...

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Contest

On Christmas Eve Charles The Moderator announces a contest designed to make fun of Californian official's wild-fire warnings. Now that's what I call having a hate-on for gubmint. Continue reading →

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Lump of coal award: to IPCC lead author Kevin Trenberth for hiding the...

Alec Rawls awards Kevin Trenberth a lump of coal for not picking his words perfectly in a causal e-mail that was later stolen. Fair enough, right? Continue reading →

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Do We Care if 2010 is the Warmist Year in History?

The new denialist talking point emerges! Who cares if 2010 was the warmest year ever? Ira Glickstein says (well, suggests) that it's all because of lying corrupt climatologists making malicious...

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Craven Attention: The Sequel

Steven Mosher's post is attempt to turn a semi-apology for misrepresenting Greg Craven's statements about scientific advocacy into a new attack. It turns out Mosher was describing the "aftertaste" of...

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The greens worst nightmare? A CO2 to Oil process

Anthony Watts projects his mental rigidity onto "the greens" when he posts a University of Minnesota press release about a process for petroleum generation that converts carbon dioxide. Continue reading →

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Failing to make his case, James Hansen uses children as legal pawns

Because five of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit, alleging that the US Federal government has failed in its duty to protect the atmosphere, are teenagers Anthony declares that Dr. James Hansen is using...

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Wegman paper retraction by Journal

Anthony Watts tells us that Deep Climate's successful exposure of the Wegman Report's plagiarism and its resulting retraction is cowardly. Continue reading →

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Scientific American’s interview with Dr. Richard Muller

Anthony Watts wriggles like a puppy over his mention in Michael Lemonick's lazy interview of physicist Dr. Richard Muller about climate change science. Continue reading →

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Climate Progress blog shuts down – disappears all previous comments

Anthony Watts is eager to cast aspersions on Joe Romm's Climate Progress website. It's shut down! Not. A redesign is incomplete, but somehow this proves that Joe's giving up because no-one (except...

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NASA’s Hansen asked to account for outside activities

Christopher Horner, of that home of scientific inquiry the American Tradition Institute, accuses James Hansen of "outside activities" and receiving prizes. I guess the sciencey stuff isn't working, eh?...

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ATI press release on the Mann UVA emails

You'd think that Anthony Watts would report the conclusions of the National Science Foundation Inspector General's investigation into the accusation that climatologist, and denialist flash-point, Dr....

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Thanks to Michael Mann’s response, a newspaper censors a letter to the editor...

Anthony Watts tells us that Michael Mann, lead bully of "the Team", has forced the proud Vail Daily to withdraw a Sept. 30th, 2011 Letter to the Editor from the skeptical mind of Martin Hertzberg,...

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Hansen rakes it in

Anthony Watts is naturally all-in with Christopher Horner's dumpster-diving. The braying "American Tradition Institute" operative has discovered that Dr. James Hansen is a "millionaire bureaucrat"!...

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The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project puts PR before peer review

Remember the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature study begun by the "reliable" Dr. Richard Muller? Their results are in and it seems Anthony Watts has been run over by reality and taken away in the...

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Trenberth: null and void

Anthony Watts finds an excuse to make insulting references to a climate scientist. Will wonders never cease? Seems hard to reconcile with his regular calls for niceness. Continue reading →

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An Open Letter to Dr. Phil Jones of the UEA CRU

Willis Eschenbach uses this "new" batch of Climategate e-mails to serve up warmed-over self-righteous fury. Did you know that Dr. Phil Jones didn't answer Willis the way Willis expected him to?...

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Pielke Junior on: The climate debate is ‘over’

Anthony Watts deletes a reposted Global Warming Policy Foundation attack on Roger Pielke Jr., until now a reliable comfort to denialists. Continue reading →

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I’ve been Lenfesteyed

Anthony Watts gets written off as nothing more than a right-wing talk-show resource and he doesn't like it. Neither does Lord Monckton. Too bad they simply make James Lenfestey's case for him with...

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The “well funded” climate business – follow the money

Anthony Watts tries to re-stir a cold pot. A couple of years ago Joanne Nova (who?) kinda proved that the US gubmint is giving seven billion dollars a year to smug climate scientists. Continue reading →

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Paging David Appell and Nick Stokes again: time to fess up and apologize

Them alarmists were exaggerating, sort of, when they talked about threats against Australian climate scientists, so they owe Anthony Watts a personal apology. Continue reading →

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A wave of heated peer pressure results in shrinking integrity

More enthusiastic broadcasting of baseless aspersions by our dear Anthony Watts. Gail Combs (not a scientist?) declares unequivocally that "other scientists will lie through their teeth". Continue...

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Friday Funny: Dr. Michael Mann keeps interesting company

Anthony Watts thinks that a 31 year-old Brazilian goth's MySpace page is clear proof of the identity of "caerbannog666", a 57 year-old American who's a critic of Anthony's denialism. And everyone knows...

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Dr. Michael Mann invokes the Streisand effect

Anthony Watts thinks trying to link climatologist Michael Mann to the Penn State child abuse scandal is a great publicity tactic. Continue reading →

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Al Gore’s ‘drowning polar bear’ source reprimanded

Anthony Watts pretends that an environmental scientist being exonerated over accusations of corruption and scientific malpractice counts as a reprimand. Continue reading →

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Nobel cause corruption?

Anthony Watts knows that Dr. Michael Mann has never claimed to have "won the Nobel Peace Prize." The editors of The National Review also know this. And yet they are both enthusiastically spreading that...

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The IPCC weighs in on the Mann Nobel dilemma, and throws him under the bus

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change swats a semantic mosquito and Anthony Watts, as he gets squished like the bug he is, declares victory. Continue reading →

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University of Graz Responds to Parncutt’s calls for death penalty for “deniers”

Denialist outrage has led the University of Graz to censor their music professor's ill-advised ramblings about climate change! Freedom from speech is victorious! Also, Anthony's critics are still...

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Dana Nuccitelli’s holiday trick for sobering up quick: put a little less rum...

Alex Rawls tries a swaggering attack on Dana Nuccitelli's criticism of his solar climate ideas, but finds himself on the losing side when solar scientist Leif Svalgaard shows up. Continue reading →

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Antarctic warming courtesy of Mr. Fix-it

On the basis of David Middleton's "Mk I eyeball", careful scientific work on Western Antarctic temperature records is dismissed with a sneer as "manufactured" and denialist cooling (via squinting)...

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My Blog Spawn

Anthony Watts privately obsesses over his critics, in all the completely irrelevant ways possible. His "My Blog Spawn" page is painful evidence his projection, resentment, back-of-the-classroom...

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Michael Mann forced into a “do-over” in Mann -vs- CEI & Steyn

This is why prejudiced idiots like Anthony Watts should avoid legal interpretation as well as stay out of science. Did Dr. Mann's libel case against Mark Steyn, Rand Simberg and the National Review...

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Portents in Paris

Last week Islamic fanatics cold-bloodedly murdered a dozen French journalists at Charlie Hebdo who have mocked extremist Islam, and there'll be an environmental conference in Paris this year. Therefore...

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