So much of the debate surrounding climate change seems to hinge on questions of causation. In particular, the two principal causation questions of interest are: Is the anthropogenic emission of carbon dioxide the cause of global warming? Is the global warming the cause of the current incidence of extreme or environmentally damaging weather-related events? The …
Do you remember, back in the good old days, just over a year ago (6 months BC – Before Covid) when the mainstream alarmist media was breathlessly reporting two studies which showed that modern global warming was truly global and unprecedented in magnitude in the last 2000 years? I doubt you could have missed it; … Continue reading
Australia’s government broadcaster ABC has been totally captured by leftist group-thinkers. Its top presenter Leigh Sales is a case in point. Take special note of her incredulity here that Trump could question the warmist narrative. Leigh Sales on the ABC TV’s 7.30 last night Sept 16) “interviewed” Donald Trump’s former press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Sales packed … Continue reading
Evident: Adjective: clearly seen or understood; obvious. Late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin evidens, evident- ‘obvious to the eye or mind’, from e- (variant of ex- ) ‘out’ + vident, past participle of videre ‘to see’. You may recall that not so long ago I recounted for you the history of the … Continue reading
Some thoughts on the last week. Nothing controversial. Ahem. Climate Last weekend I rejoiced in XR losing hearts and minds so, for balance, here’s our favourite XR alumnus with friends: Nuclear for Net Zero? Well, it’s a lot better than any other version. IMHO. Feel free to disagree. Covid A couple of previous paragraphs of … Continue reading
Ok, I’m in optimistic mood. But this post is to give space to discuss the latest in the UK, both on climate and anything else people see as a crisis. Today: Extinction Rebellion facing ‘organised crime’ curbs Tuesday: Tony Abbott rails against Covid ‘health dictatorships’, saying some elderly should be left to die naturally Both … Continue reading
My article below might seem off-topic in a climate blog. Not altogether. It’s a case study in how Australian schools are brainwashing kids as young as nine with an hopelessly inauthentic dogma. Teachers by and large are from the low end of university entrants (based on admission scores) and lack the smarts and time to … Continue reading
Uncertainty as Knowledge Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that you wake up one morning with a burning desire to learn everything there is to know about uncertainty and its relationship to knowledge. And let’s say, for the sake of extending this rhetorical ploy, that you want to make sure that your desire … Continue reading
The New South Wales Government has published its final report on the devastating forest fires of 2019/20, which destroyed 5.5 million hectares (21,236 square miles) of outback wilderness in South Eastern Australia, killing or displacing nearly 3 billion animals in the process, destroying thousands of homes and claiming many human lives too. Climate change is … Continue reading
I want to argue that the Covid-19 pandemic looks like a real crisis in a way that man-made global warming (AGW) doesn’t. And that our aim as climate sceptics should be to make AGW look like a real crisis. Not to make AGW be a real crisis – that I think is not within anyone’s … Continue reading
Greta Thunberg is one of those hard-to-pin-down thinkers whose ideas are widespread and influential without being well-defined. Like Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault, and Russell Brand. Of course, she has written them down. In a book, published by Penguin Science. With an average of six lines of writing on each page. Like a Noddy book, though without … Continue reading
