Evangelical Deniers: The poorest and most vulnerable and the lowest of the low @wattsupwiththat

You know how Anthony Watts on occasion has criticised other people for using photoshopped images or "fake" photos to illustrate a point, while at the same time faking images of his own. Well, he's done it again. This time pinching a photo from a company bringing cleaner energy to Africa (and South America), to argue that his readers should instead pollute "poor people" out of existence.

Compare and contrast - WUWT touting dirty energy (and religion), while using a photo about how a company helped a family in Rwanda move to cleaner cooking! (Scroll to the bottom.)

Today WUWT and CFACT (archived here) are touting support for the pseudo-religious cult, the Cornwall Alliance. (I've written about that organisation before.) The WUWT article has the headline:

Protect the poor – from climate change policies

The CFACT chap boasts that in seven years, the Cornwall Alliance has managed to attract a 150 people, stating that: "More than 150 have already signed the declaration." and urges WUWT readers to "Sign the declaration" of the Cornwall Alliance.

If you look back at the WayBack Machine, what that means is that 1350 people must have retracted their signature sometime since 22 September 2008! What's surprising is that this bunch of cranks got "1,500 individuals" to sign it in the first place. I'm not so surprised that 150 of them stuck it out. There will always be cranks and charlatans in the world. [Correction: KR has pointed out that this hypocritical cult is promoting a new document, pretending to care about poor people while promoting fossil fuel industry interests. Sou. 27 September 2014]

The world has warmed a lot in the 33 years since 1980

There's a smarmy article up now on WUWT with Anthony Watts and David Whitehouse (of the GWPF, a denialist lobby group and propaganda machine in the UK) now saying "it hasn't warmed since 1980"!  Sheesh it's hard to believe even creeps with such a dubious history as that pair would try to pass that one off.

Here is what Anthony wrote:

Using 1997 as preferred by Rose, we are fast approaching Dr. Ben Santer’s 17 year test, and if we use Jones and Lindzen’s 1995 start point, we’ve passed it. What will Gillis say then? – Anthony

What will Gillis say then?  Gosh Anthony is so transparent in trying to shift the goal posts.  What a desperate and silly ploy.  Since the last decade was the hottest on record and since the world has warmed in the last fifteen years, seventeen years and 33 years, Gillis will say just that.  The UK Met Office has already slapped down the Mail's disinformation outlet, David Rose.  But Watts continues to promote his lies. And here is what Whitehouse wrote in the same article:

Removing this volcanic signal also reduces the statistical significance of the rise in temperature seen since 1980. (In fact, statistically speaking, one is hard-pressed to find any statistically significant warming between 1980 – 1995.)

The world is significantly hotter than it was 33 years ago

Though people  like Watts and Whitehouse would have you believe otherwise - it's now more than two years since Dr Phil Jones pointed out that the warming since 1995 is statistically significant.

Let's look at their idiotic claim that there has been no warming in 33 years.  That is, none since since 1995 and no warming between 1980 and 1995, therefore no warming since 1980:

Source: NASA

These crooks try to wave off the warming by distracting readers with volcanoes and ENSO and the like.  It's complete nonsense what they are writing.  Look at the chart.  The volcanoes we've had this past century hardly make a dent on the decadal time scale.  Unless you know where to look, you can barely see them in the chart above among the random noise of weather.  And there's no ENSO now but it's still as hot as ever.

It's not just the air around us that's heating up.  Click here to see how much the oceans have heated up, how fast sea levels are rising and how much the Arctic sea ice has disintegrated.

Rogues like Anthony Watts and his cronies would have us all dead from heat exhaustion or starvation before they'd admit just how wrong they are.  But it's getting harder and harder for them to retain credibility even among what used to be their supporters, with stuff they are spouting these days.

PS Tamino has recently written an article about similar nonsense from the GWPF, with analysis.