Watts isn't just wrong. He lies deliberately. He isn't just mistaken, or even sincere but exaggerated, because his ability to spin, quote selectively, misinterpret and cherry pick indicates he is quite familiar with the data and must know exactly what he's doing.

For a detailed look at just how cleverly he lies, and how much of an artful dodge it really is, check out...

http://neven1.typepad.com/blog/2016/02/grasping-at-uncorrected-straws.html

...for a detailed look at just one maneuver.

Mind you, Watts takes the time to highlight this nonsense, but he hides from his readers that new minimum records have been set last week for both Global sea ice area and extent, and the Arctic sea ice maximum record could very well be broken too in the coming weeks. [Actually, it was! Thats what this thread is all about.--ER.] None of that on WUWT. These things simply don't exist in the world of climate risk deniers.

This isn't just somebody who's mistaken, or even somebody who is honestly pointing out contradictions and bringing up valid points, it is a deliberate campaign to obfuscate the facts and mold public opinion. There is a deliberate agenda. This guy's on somebody's payroll. Don't let those oh-so-intimidating footnotes seduce you. They are, at best, meticulously documented irrelevancies--sort of like the dense fog of scholarship that supports Holocaust Deniers, Nazi Anthropology and Race Theory, and Tobacco Industry Cancer Studies.

Unless you just think its all a conspiracy theory. Which one do you favor?

Its a Communist Plot to steal our freedom.

Its a cabal by climatologists so they can get their research funded.

The Federal Government wants an excuse to open a bunch of new agencies to hamper our businessmen because it hates capitalism..

The United Nations wants to wreck the US economy as part of its ongoing campaign for world domination..

You'll be in excellent company. At one time or another all of those theories have been floated here at the Zone.