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Rod Phillips is Decoding Climate Science Disinformation using the Skeptical Science #FLICC Framework.

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DEAR JOHN,@_ClimateCraze

Your strategy is simple: demand data, get handed world-class databases by @fionaharvey, ignore the text, paste a chart showing the Ice Age, and declare victory.👇🧵[1/9]

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Brett, mate. You genuinely seem to think wind turbines are, like, giant cheese graters spinning around, turning structural fiberglass into a fine, breathable mist that settles over local schools.

If turbine blades were shedding two tons of material into the air over their lifespan, the balance of the blade would shift so violently after a single storm that the entire tower would tear itself out of the ground.

Yes, leading-edge erosion happens due to rain, bugs, and dust hitting the blade at high speeds. But there is a massive difference between microscopic surface pitting and shedding literally 4,000 pounds of structural material per blade!

Turbine blades are retired due to mechanical fatigue, the cumulative stress of flexing under incredible wind loads millions of times over 20 to 25 years. They don't need to lose a single ounce of weight to suffer from long-term structural micro-cracks that eventually make them less safe.

I'm assuming that (given your deep concern about theoretical fiberglass dust "floating in the air" near rural wind farms) you're similarly worried about the actual, heavily documented particulate matter, sulphur dioxide, and heavy metals pumped into the atmosphere daily by fossil-fuel power plants?🤔

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OK. If you're sitting comfortably, Gordon...
At the start of the graph (1890s) the black data line regularly bottoms out at 22C and stays mostly below 26C.

At the end of the graph (2000s–2020s) the data line never drops down to 22C again. In fact, its lowest troughs now remain well above 24C, and its average oscillates tightly around 27C.

A simple subtraction of the initial baseline from the final baseline shows a clear net increase of +1C to +2C over the course of the graph.

That's not "cooling", Gordon.

[Smoke&MirrorsHQ🌍🌡️ @SmokeamHQ]

Gordon here claims that every single rural NWS station shows zero warming. "EVERY, that means all of them",

And his ironclad proof behind this extraordinary claim is... a single, heavily annotated chart from Keene, New Hampshire. Basically extrapolating the planet's climate destiny from one town in New England!

Love the attempt to describe a clear upward trend as "cooling", too. 😂

And what about his claim that humans are only relevant because they add concrete, brick, steel and glass to urban areas? It's a fascinating theory to bring up under a chart explicitly titled "Humid Continental Climate" for a rural/semi-rural station where those exact urban heat island elements are largely absent...

[Gordon 🇺🇸🗽🏴‍☠️ @Nodrogging]

@SmokeamHQ @MatthewWielicki EVERY, that means all of them, rural NWS station shows no warming the previous 100+ years. CO2 is not relevant. Humans are not relevant other than continuing to add more concrete, brick, steel glass into urban areas. One example below of many.

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@anika_climate @Iromg @paulpuccioni @MarkJLittlewood

[Smoke&MirrorsHQ🌍🌡️ @SmokeamHQ]

So you critique NOAA, IPCC and world-renowned climate scientists using "nationally regarded analysis tools I developed." If your proprietary, ground-breaking statistical tools are so highly regarded by the nation, why are you debuting them to a few people on Twitter instead of publishing them in a peer-reviewed journal?

When your original "the science is fake" premise was thoroughly dismantled, you panicked and threw up a massive wall of text to rewrite history. Suddenly, you claim your original question was actually a highly sophisticated macroeconomic risk-benefit analysis regarding the UK’s 0.7% global emissions contribution.

NO ONE IS BUYING IT, JAMES.

You didn't write that thread to debate fiscal policy; you wrote it to whinge about the BBC, got caught out and tried to hide behind a ripe cloud of pretensions.

[Smoke&MirrorsHQ🌍🌡️ @SmokeamHQ]

@English_JimBob @adlrope @toadmeister @CMorrisonEsq @BBCNews @metoffice How about some "calm" scientific evidence to back up your asinine notion that the BBC models climate predications?
https://t.co/J4sSMeIZNA

[Smoke&MirrorsHQ🌍🌡️ @SmokeamHQ]

@English_JimBob @adlrope @toadmeister @CMorrisonEsq @BBCNews @metoffice "None of them came to pass"

Jim, are you hallucinating this? Global temperatures have repeatedly smashed records over the last decade, and global sea levels are rising at an accelerated rate.

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If historical tracking was under-reported because the 1920s lacked global satellite networks and modern communication, it means your entire baseline is fundamentally unreliable, not that your narrative is magically "even truer."

You are frantically jumping from chart to chart, trying to use a century of huge breakthroughs in medicine, forecasting and infrastructure to argue that climate change isn't real.

A seatbelt dramatically slashes fatalities, but it doesn't mean cars stopped crashing.

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Declaring "victory" because fewer people are dying from disasters due to multi-billion dollar infrastructure, early tracking systems and international aid is an interesting take.

It COMPLETELY ignores the eye-watering economic damage, displacement and agricultural impacts that these events still cause.

Who gives a shit, as long as it's happening to other people, though, right?

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@Real_UAP @MatthewWielicki It's not going to get globally cold again for tens of thousands of years. Our industrial CO2 emissions have ensured that.

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https://t.co/xUNfvFMGU6

[Smoke&MirrorsHQ🌍🌡️ @SmokeamHQ]

Well, the rave reviews of @CMorrisonEsq's brand new opus are in!

Questioning climate policy is sensible; declaring an entire scientific enterprise fraudulent requires rather more than a collection of alarming quotations and suspicions about people's motives.

In today's Smoke And Mirrors, we explore the difference between genuine scepticism and arguments that treat every inconvenient finding as evidence of a cover-up. The awkward question is not whether scientists can be wrong, but what would persuade their critics that they were right?

Link in comments👇

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If he'd bothered to read past the bold text, he might have noticed that the articles are talking about entirely different penguin species with opposite ecological needs: specialised ice-dependent penguins are losing their habitat, while opportunistic Gentoo penguins are actively expanding into newly melted territory.

To top it off, he's pointing to a hyper-specific colony thriving "inside an active Antarctic volcano" to try and disprove global environmental trends!

The media isn’t running a conspiracy; he just doesn't know the difference between a macro-climate ecosystem shift and a geothermally heated bird sanctuary.

[Critica Climatica Alias Fortunato Nardelli @climacritic]

CBS: I pinguini collassano a causa dei cambiamenti climatici.

BBC: I pinguini prosperano a causa dei cambiamenti climatici.

Ci prendono per i fondelli a causa dei cambiamenti climatici

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@MatthewWielicki @volcaholic1 Did you read @volcaholic1's words "Yesterday's record-breaking deluge"?

If it broke a record, Matthew, it is by definition unprecedented.

Breaking a 41-year local record means it bypassed decades of baseline atmospheric behaviour in a single afternoon.

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You seem so incredibly eager to win an internet argument that you are presenting data for 2025 and 2026 as complete bars when they are labelled on your own chart as "latest year provisional."

Defending your scientific integrity by showing a data bar for 2026 that stops at barely 100 events, simply because the year hasn't finished happening yet, is pure chronological confusion.

You smugly say "Here are the global numbers," but you still refuse to unpack the stacked bars. You are actively hiding the individual trendlines for floods and wildfires underneath a giant, chaotic tower of storm data. If you are going to tell someone to look at the numbers, you might want to make sure your chart doesn't look like a colourful game of Tetris that you are actively losing.

Having a wonderful day, btw.
You?

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The actual study explicitly investigates how localised wildlife nutrients act as an additional "biological darkening effect" that refines existing climate models. Aggregating it with a a crappy NY Post headline to imply penguins are doing the heavy lifting of industrial-scale warming is pretty feeble.

This year's "cow farts", presumably.
Tee-hee, @ClimateDepot 🙄

[Marc Morano @ClimateDepot]

STUDY: Too much penguin poop in Antarctica is accelerating snow melt and rising sea levels – Climate Depot https://t.co/tKVhsTpbkd

[Smoke&MirrorsHQ🌍🌡️ @SmokeamHQ]

Posting an annual data graph that plummets off a cliff for 2026 while the year isn’t even finished yet is a curious scientific breakthrough.

By grabbing an aid-logistics database (EM-DAT) that only tracks disasters severe enough to trigger international insurance or emergency declarations, and then burying the flood data inside a stacked bar chart where the green blocks clearly maintain a higher average baseline in the 2020s than the early 2000s, you somehow built a visual that actively contradicts your own caption!

The only thing provisional about this data is the logic you used to read it.

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@cjtjgeol @climacritic Try driving a car with 0.04% of its brake fluid replaced with air and see how thermodynamics treats you.

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@climacritic When prominent scientists "never give you an answer," it’s not because they are stumped, Ian.

It’s because they don’t want to spend their afternoon debating 19th-century thermodynamics with someone who behaves like an internet troll asking for "proof" that the Earth is round.

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@RocDocClayton @MatthewWielicki No, historical TRENDS in weather are used as the basis for describing and predicting global climate change.

Previous generations did not have access to our advanced measurement technology.