Halloween is just a comercial con and an excuse for children and young adults to misbehave.

More importantly Prof. Lindzen has made it to the Dail Mail

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6259555/Climate-scientist-says-climate-claims-nonsense-coral-reefs-not-danger.html
Prepare for the usual global warming fanatic backlash. To quote Samuel Johnson "Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard, unless it rebounds".

We always accompanied our childrens' excursions, leaving one of us to fend off the tricksters with sweets. Neighbours who did not do this had their doors egged.

Oct 13, 2018 at 7:50 AM | Supertroll

Some of the tricksters got older and became Climate Scientists. They never really grew up, or abandoned their faith in witchcraft.

EM
"I am not saying that land or a landlocked ocean at a pole causes an Ice Age. I am saying that it is a necessary precondition"
Point taken, but it's hardly your theory (it was a central plank of an American textbook on Stratigraphy that I used back in the 1990s).
Why should a professional geologist require a theory of glaciation? Even if I had worked on glacial deposits, I doubt that I would have needed one.

PCar. I'm sure that it will be the parents who, theoretically, face incarceration, not the little sweet demanders. Towns have Halloween ordinances for good reasons in North America because they can, in some places degenerate into outright battles, with "tricksters" committing acts of outright vandalism on peoples' houses and cars (and gang rapes are not unknown) and, on the other side, homeowners giving out sabotaged sweets. I'm sure the police need all the help they can get in some cities and towns. We always accompanied our childrens' excursions, leaving one of us to fend off the tricksters with sweets. Neighbours who did not do this had their doors egged.

http://joannenova.com.au/2018/10/arctic-sea-ice-model-spaghetti-expertise-the-un-can-bank-on/

●A close look at the arctic sea ice models that have launched the careers of a thousand polar bears●

This is Expertise the UN can bank on

In the GWPF 2018 Lecture, Richard Lindzen pointed out the genius of Arctic climate models

First, for something to be evidence, it must have been unambiguously predicted. (This is a necessary, but far from sufficient condition.) Figure 1 shows the IPCC model forecasts for the summer minimum in Arctic sea ice in the year 2100 relative to the period 1980–2000. As you can see, there is a model for any outcome.

It is a little like the formula for being an expert marksman: shoot first and declare whatever you hit to be the target.

"I do hav a mental model of climate, one which has fitted the evidence quite well.
What bothers me is that nobody else here has one.
Oct 12, 2018 at 11:43 PM | Entropic man"

Your mental model does not include the MWP or LIA. Nor does it include the warming after the 1816 Year Without a Summer that opened up Arctic Ice for the Franklin Expedition to get in, but not out, as it cooled again.

Your mental model is as wrong, as those models generated by computers. It is not up to anyone else to provide an alternative. Climate Science never bothered to consider anything other than CO2 as the temperature control knob. It is a bit late to be admitting Climate Science has been wrong all along and seek help from those ostracised by the IPCC.

You should have been honest about Mann's Hockey Stick 20 years ago.

Entropic man:

I do hav a mental model of climate, one which has fitted the evidence quite well.

What bothers me is that nobody else here has one.

My recipe for tuning lead into gold is nearly perfect.

What bothers me is all you people laughing at me don't have recipes at all.

This is not a recent article. Why did the BBC trust trougher-in-chief Gummer to be honest, like Tim Yeo?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/9498568/The-tangled-tale-of-Lord-Deben-and-a-dodgy-Severn-barrage.html

Did someone shovel pork pies into Gummer's mouth, or did he produce them from his own stock?