Have you heard the Joke … I’m doing a study about the nature of humour … Ok it’s not funny, but isn’t that in itself funny? Have you any idea what makes one thing humorous and another not?
So, here’s a few of the accepted theories of humour. And I will attempt to create a joke to test these various theories (some less credible than others). please add comments at the end.

Relief theory – suggests laughter is a release of tension.

Joke: Have you heard WUWT is closing down – at least that’s what NOAA said. Continue reading →

The global warming scam has been dying on its feet. I have been wondering whether it would go out with a whimper or a loud bang (i.e. court cases). But of course – it is so corrupt, I forgot the bleedingly obvious :
Express: Britain would take 40 YEARS to recover from ice age caused by collapse in weather system

Mail: Could The Day After Tomorrow happen? Collapse of ocean currents would cool Earth so much that global warming would reverse for 20 years… but the planet WOULDN’T freeze over

To say I’ve completely pissed off is a massive understatement. I have not spend nearly a quarter of my life fighting the corrupt bogus snouts-in-the-trough non-science of global warming scare mongering and profiteering, just to let another equally ridiculous scare take its place.
But to be frank, this is what you get when you’ve got a subject that is rotten to the core – which is just chasing after news stories – which doesn’t care about the evidence, doesn’t care about scientific validation of research, is content to chuck out junk “science” to get cheap headline.

We sceptics won the global warming “war” at the level of the scientific evidence long ago. The human adjusted measurements of temperature might still show warming – but the fact it is the human adjustment and not the actual temperature that has the warming is proven by the satellites which show no warming for 18 years.
And anyone who knows anything about climate – whether sceptic or even climate extremists – knows that the climate has not shown any trends in severe weather, droughts, floods, snow, ice-packs are back to normal, etc. Last time I looked the only trends were a drop in hurricane activity, that there was potential evidence of some melting of Greenland – but like the Glaciers that is almost certainly a delayed result of coming out of the little ice-age. And there may just be a significant trend in rainfall. However, given how many things are measured, we expect by pure chance to find some trends that are just significant – so there is no overall significant change in the climate … except the rise in CO2 (with no apparent affects) and the continuing natural variation which does not appear to have changed one jot in its scale as shown by the Central England Temperature record.
So, this is not a “preponderance of evidence “(>50% ) it is an absolutely overwhelming damnation of the global warming doomsday scam.

Irritating climate alarmists

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As a non-American I was pleased to see Ted Cruz make the head of the “Sierra Club” look like an idiot for his denial of the scientific evidence for the pause from the satellites. But we’ve seen 100s of other clips – none of which did much except chip away at the global warming scam so I’ve grown content with slow but steady progress.
So, today when I saw a real preponderance of evidence for scepticism in the global warming news, I was to write another article about the “tide turning” – perhaps speculating on whether the slow progress to victory, would now turn into a rapid retreat for the climate extremists. But then it struck me that the real news was the face on all the top stories:

So, it really looks like it’s Ted Cruz’s day.

Whilst global temperature shows no sign of warming, the “Global warming”(scam) definitely shows signs of warming up as UK newspapers like the Express & Sun come out with all guns blazing  and demoralised climate extremists cling desperately to any straw floating their way – no matter who, what or how long these floaters have been digested.
However, the problem for us sceptics, is that with the demoralisation climate extremists, they just aren’t putting in the effort they used to and so we sceptics can’t get to laugh at their antics as we used to.
And with Mann about to lose his court case, Ricogate (it also looks like heading to court),  climate is becoming far too serious. So we desperately need someone with a proven track record of comedy to give us sceptics a laugh:

The White House is about to ramp up the public relations campaign for its regulations to fight global warming. The renewed PR effort comes just one month before the United Nations climate summit in Paris.
How is it doing this? By bringing on Thomas Reynolds, “a top communications strategist at the Environmental Protection Agency and a seasoned political operative, to a new position dedicated solely to messaging Mr. Obama’s global warming agenda,” according to The New York Times.
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Below is a “personal” letter I received from Ezra Levant. What I find so interesting is:

1. Globally the “public” media in Canada, UK and Australia all pretend to be “impartial” and no doubt like the BBC they have similar requirements to be impartial. But they are really no different from any other media – pushing their own agenda – except unlike any other media, the only people they have to keep on side are their paymasters in government.
2. Because of new technology, the cost of media is now falling dramatically. Where once it was necessary to have massive broadcasters like the BBC, these days, it’s almost possible for a handful of people to set up start and operate a successful broadcaster. And like the proverbial shrew and the dinosaur – the dinosaurs are never able to contemplate that those shrews will ever drive them to extinction.

Dear Mike,
Have you been watching this federal election campaign? It’s a gong show.
I don’t mean the politicians. I mean the media. Their conduct is outrageous. They’re not even pretending to be neutral. They’ve got a full-blown case of Harper Derangement Syndrome.
I call them the “Media Party”, because they’re campaigning full-tilt. You just can’t trust them to give you the straight news. Continue reading →

The express is a major UK tabloid, which now appears to be joining the stable of sceptic papers openly mocking the climate extremists:

Global warming ‘is FAKE’: Volume of ice caps is INCREASING, claims top geologist

THE WORLD is not heating up, some areas are actually getting colder and the volume of polar ice caps is INCREASING in some places, a leading geologist has claimed.

09:00Monday 14 September 2015
MANY independent scientists have concluded that the global warming scam is based on a flawed computer model, thus your correspondent Len Eyles (Observer August 27) can stop worrying.
NASA reported last year that the ice coverage of both the North and South Poles is the same today as it was in 1979. The Globe and Mail of Toronto reported that February 2015 was the coldest on record.
The myth of man-made climate change has lead to the construction of grossly inefficient wind turbines that blight the countryside, and seascapes, resulting in the loss of employment in electricity dependent industries. For example:
The Tata Steel Company, based in Wales, is mothballing its plant in Llanwern, signalling the loss of 250 jobs. A year ago the steel giant closed its site in Port Talbot, costing 400 jobs.
Read more … http://www.chichester.co.uk/news/letters/letter-climate-change-scam-1-6948785

Over the weekend, there was another massive “splutter” from the media with only four stories even vaguely mentioning “the world’s biggest problem” throughout the whole world over a 10 hour period.
And as this comment today makes clear, the climate extremists have lost almost all media support. Now Global warming is on life support. Like the Dead Parrot it is technically dead but still gives the occasional twitch when prodded by that tiny handful of the heading-toward-bankruptcy green=gullible media:

The only media organization practically that gives a stuff!!! Good on you Guardian!!!
I do feel however on a pessimistic note that it is to[o] late. (marky226)