A new draft paper from a group of French researchers reports very encouraging results from the malaria drug Hydroxychloroquine, combined with Azithromycin, an antibiotic. 80 coronavirus-positive patients were treated, and all but two of them showed a rapid improvement over a few days. Unfortunately, the team leader, Didier Raoult, seems to be something of … Continue reading
Author Archives: Paul Matthews
Have our climate models been wrong?
Have our climate models been wrong? This is the title of a new episode of the BBC World Service’s “The Inquiry”, available here on BBC sounds. It’s about the emphasis on RCP 8.5, often misleadingly referred to as “business as usual”. After introducing the topic via James Hansen’s call to action in 1988, and the … Continue reading
The Cost of Net Zero
Following on from Tony’s post about the cost of the Net-Zero-by-2050 pledge in Australia, the GWPF has today released several reports looking into the “astronomical” costs for the UK. Andrew Montford has written Three trillion and counting: Net zero and the national ruin. Andrew discusses a report from the Committee on Climate Change, chaired by … Continue reading
Two impossible things before breakfast
The news this morning from “Climate Action in Wonderland” is as follows. Firstly, inspired by the need to be appearing to do something in relation to the COP26 climate meeting, the ban on petrol and diesel cars is supposedly going to happen by 2035: Demonstrating the UK’s urgent action to reduce emissions, the Government plans … Continue reading
A Wrong Parody of Climate Denial
From time to time we’ve had fun on this blog with the comical attempts of academics in sociology and psychology to understand, deal with, and convert to the true faith, “climate deniers”. Here is a new classic of the genre, from the highly prestigious Stanford University. The press release is Pathways to changing the minds … Continue reading
Matt Ridley on Today
Roughly every two years, someone is allowed on to the BBC Radio Today Programme to question climate change hysteria, for about two or three minutes. Previously it’s been Nigel Lawson, whose appearance was followed by howls of outrage from the climate mafia and a grovelling apology from the BBC. At this time of year the … Continue reading
Roger Harrabin breaks BBC impartiality rules
On Friday night Nick Robinson hosted the Johnson v Corbyn debate with scrupulous impartiality, ensuring that each candidate had the same amount of time to speak, in accordance with BBC guidelines. But notorious BBC climate propagandist Roger Harrabin seems to think the rules don’t apply to him. In this incoherent tweet (despite apparently having … Continue reading
The doom cult and Kevin Anderson’s memory lapse
Some of the more reasonable climate scientists on twitter, such as Steve Forden here (“There seems to be a growing love of vague societal collapse scenarios that if you don’t accept then you are either bad or naive”) and Richard Betts (“no excuse for making up doom stuff. In fact it quite likely puts … Continue reading
New climate models – even more wrong
The IPCC AR5 Report included this diagram, showing that climate models exaggerate recent warming: If you want to find it, it’s figure 11.25, also repeated in the Technical Summary as figure TS-14. The issue is also discussed in box TS3: “However, an analysis of the full suite of CMIP5 historical simulations (augmented for the period … Continue reading
Bogus survey from Ipsos MORI / Deloitte
There’s a new survey out today, The State of the State, by Ipsos MORI in conjunction with Deloitte and a think tank called Reform. Ben Page, head of Ipsos MORI, claims that the survey shows “Massive support for #ClimateEmergency action”: NEW Massive support for #ClimateEmergency action – the UK public SAY they support action and … Continue reading
