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Spencer’s Shenanigans: Part II

4 Apr 2026 by Gavin

We previously highlighted Roy Spencer’s poor practices in comparing models with observations, but we’ve now dug down a little deeper, and it’s not pretty.

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Filed Under: Climate modelling, Climate Science, Featured Story, Instrumental Record, Model-Obs Comparisons, skeptics Tagged With: CWG, Roy Spencer

Melange à Trois

8 Jul 2025 by Gavin

In honor of the revelation today, that Koonin, Christy and Spencer have been made Special Government Employees at the Dept. of Energy, we present a quick round up of our commentary on the caliber of their arguments we’ve posted here over the last decade or so.

TL;DR? The arguments are not very good.

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Filed Under: Climate Science, Featured Story, In the News, Instrumental Record, Model-Obs Comparisons, Scientific practice Tagged With: John Christy, MSU, Roy Spencer, Steve Koonin

Spencer’s Shenanigans

28 Jan 2024 by Gavin

A recent sensible-sounding piece by Roy Spencer for the Heritage foundation is full of misrepresentations. Let’s play spot the fallacy.

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Filed Under: Climate modelling, Climate Science, Featured Story, Instrumental Record, IPCC Tagged With: CMIP6, MSU, Roy Spencer

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