Why our usually illiberal establishment has been so chilled out about XR’s week of vandalism. Ben Pile at Spiked Online Extinction Rebellion (XR) protesters in Cambridge have launched a week-long campaign of obstruction and petty vandalism. It began with the protesters issuing demands to Cambridge City Council to hold a citizens’ assembly on climate change, … Continue reading
Author Archives: Scepticus
REPORT: Latest Cook et al. paper “probably terrible”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.—A major report, announced today by a multinational team of skeptic researchers, finds a new article by the prominent climate alarmist John Cook “highly likely [to be as crap as, or even] crapper than his usual fare,” concluding that “there would be little to very little point (90% confidence range)” reading it. CliScep … Continue reading
The Sensitivity of Climate Scientists
Guest post by Clive Best Every time that a new result shows a low climate sensitivity (ECS), climate scientists are queuing up to rubbish it. God forbid anyone implying that CMIP5 models are running too hot! Even Myles Allen received such a battering when referring to his recent paper on the BBC Today program: “that … Continue reading
Polar bear attack paper invalidated by non-independent analysis
Cross-posted from Shub Niggurath Stephan Lewandowsky has co-authored (yet another) paper attacking climate skeptics. His colleagues-in-arms this time are long-time climate consensusite Jeff Harvey , Bart Verheggen, and a cohort of ecologists along with Michael Mann. First author Harvey is well-known to climate commenters as a rant-prone passionate bulldog for the climate cause. The … Continue reading
Sir Ian Byatt on the consequences of UK climate policy
Sir Ian Byatt, economist and former Government advisor, is presenting a paper today at a conference in Paris organised by Benoit Rittaud. Other speakers include Patrick Moore and Václav Klaus. Sir Ian’s paper can be read here. Continue reading
Climate Updates from The Royal Society (AKA The Alarmists’ Inventive Inventory of More Bad News)
The Royal Society has produced a new report to try to maintain the climate scare, providing an update on the last IPCC report (AR5) that came out in 2013. It’s in two parts, a document that summarises their main points in a non-technical way, starting off with “Climate change is one of the defining issues … Continue reading
Winning! Not winning!
The internet making fun of mainstream media messaging – an example of winning? Ian: In an email shared amongst the Cliscep team recently I mentioned that I thought climate scepticism had passed a tipping point and that our side was now, finally, winning. Jaime agreed, but cautioned that the scales have only tipped very lightly … Continue reading
