Climate sceptics, feast your eyes on two brilliant and appropriately passionate articles in best-selling UK tabloids this morning: Now that’s an inconvenient truth: Report shows the world isn’t as warm as the green doom-mongers warned. So will energy bills come down? Fat chance in the Daily Mail by Labour MP Graham Stringer How scientists got …
The Graun really is worse than you thought. This article by John Gibbons plumbs new heights. Under a fetching picture of Gigi Love’s fluorescent bottom, Gibbons drools bile over the Irish Climate Science Forum, Richard Lindzen, retired male engineers and meteorologists, deniers, aging contrarians, conservative white males, elderly white men, elderly engineers, and elderly white … Continue reading
BBC rebukes Radio 4 presenter for Tweets about Manchester MP BBC reprimands Radio 4 science host as he launches rant against MP who is sceptical about climate change MP welcomes ‘swift’ BBC rebuke of presenter over climate sceptic tweet BBC presenter Adam Rutherford rebuked over tweet criticising climate change sceptic A few days ago, the … Continue reading
Greg Laden once wrote a long essay exhorting Americans to demolish more monuments with less hesitation. It climaxes with a stirring, Lutherian cri de coeur: Nobody loves historic preservation more than I do. Clearly. Here you stand, Greg Laden, on a rubble-pile of equestrian marble, trying to get it through our thick skulls: … Continue reading
The GWPF has a fascinating paper published recently which is attracting much attention. The author: Anastasios Tsonis is distinguished professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is also an adjunct research scientist with the Hydrologic Research Center in San Diego. It starts off talking about ENSO (El Nino/La Nina/Southern Oscillation) and … Continue reading
What a fool I’ve been. What a handsome, persuasive fool. Don’t feel too bad if I fooled you too, which I did. Heck, I’m so charismatic I even fooled myself. But first, some basic definitions. The Science is the mythical evidence for the urgent net dangerousness of man-caused climate change. If males continue emitting … Continue reading
Being a leftwing sort of person in the world of climate scepticism is sometimes a bit of a bore, and I tend to avoid political discussion which doesn’t actually impinge on the question of climate change. As Paul Matthews established in an article-cum-survey at Bishop Hill a while ago, we lefties, while in a minority, … Continue reading
Yesterday, membership of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee was announced: Previously, there were 11 members of the committee, and apparently there will be three more appointments, so the announcement seems to have been somewhat botched. The identity politics brigade sprang into action following this announcement, see for example Cambridge physicist and Master … Continue reading
