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HotWhopper
Personal blog · blog.hotwhopper.comsciencepolitics
HotWhopper is a personal blog at blog.hotwhopper.com about science and politics. Since 2014, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “95% of climate models are not wrong.”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link HotWhopper as a rebuttal to climate-skeptic claims, mainly Roy Spencer's temperature graphs and model comparisons, and also to an actor's climate remarks.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Global warming & climate change. Eavesdropping on climate science deniers, their weird pseudo-science and crazy conspiracy theories.
Most-linked posts?
- 95% of climate models are not wrong.4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-02-15
What Hacker News says?
Do read this criticism of Roy Spencer's methods, which to me do not appear credible: http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2014/02/roy-spencers-latest-decei... http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2014/05/roy-spencer-grows-even-we...
Comment linking /2014/05/roy-spencer-grows-even-wearier.html
on “What's Really Warming the World?”Submitted 95% of climate models are not wrong. as a story · 17 points
HN discussionFor reference, here's the spreadsheet with the screenshotted link [0], I've copy-pasted the climate change deniers and corresponding sources below. Anastasios Tsonis https://www.businessinsider.com/scientists-who-deny-climate-... Elliot D. Bloom https://www.independent.org/aboutus/person_detail.asp?id=403... Patrick J. Michaels https://climateinvestigations.org/patrick-michaels-climate-d... S. Stanley Young https://…
Comment linking /2014/02/roy-spencers-latest-deceit-and-deception.html
on “'Cancel Culture' Comes to Science?”And here's an entry point as to why he's wrong: http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2014/08/denier-weirdness-97-irony...
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on “I was denied admission to a PhD program because of my perceived political views”see http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2014/02/roy-spencers-latest-decei... (courtesy ovis below)
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on “95% of climate models agree: the observations must be wrong”Another take on the graph, shown here: http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2014/02/roy-spencers-latest-decei... It's been speculated on RealClimate that Roy Spencer is continuing to use the highest emission scenario for these comparisons, which is not made clear on his site.
Comment linking /2014/02/roy-spencers-latest-deceit-and-deception.html
on “95% of climate models agree: the observations must be wrong”You'd do well not to listen to an actor about climate change. http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2013/09/my-advice-to-topher-field...
Comment linking /2013/09/my-advice-to-topher-field-take-money.html
on “Snails Are Dissolving in Pacific Ocean”I'm afraid the graph in that article has been carefully designed to deceive you. Unfortunately it's something that is not easy to spot unless you are familiar with temperature anomaly graphs. Roy picks a baseline of 1979-83, which is unusual (I've never seen any other anomaly graphs plotted using that baseline, and it's especially strange since the graph only begins in 1983). The reason he does that is that during t…
Comment linking /2014/02/roy-spencers-latest-deceit-and-deception.html
on “Cause of global warming hiatus found deep in the Atlantic Ocean”
