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Author Archives: Paul Matthews
AOC trolled by Swiftian satire
This clip from an Ocasio-Cortez meeting in New York seems to have gone viral. A woman in the audience says “Your next campaign slogan has to be this: we’ve got to start eating babies, we don’t have enough time, there’s too much CO2…” She is quite convincing, and I confess that it took me a … Continue reading
IPCC breaks its own rules
Another day, another ‘new’ climate report. This one is something about oceans and ice. There’s nothing new in this report (see commentary from Roger Pielke here, here and here) so what’s the point? The answer is, of course, that the constant stream of climate reports is an attempt to keep the climate scare at the … Continue reading
Nature Defamation
A new defamatory paper at Nature Communications shows the climate cult sinking to new lows. It follows a familiar technique of creating hatred and division by dividing everyone up into just two groups, the goodies and the baddies. The abstract starts with “We juxtapose 386 prominent contrarians with 386 expert scientists …”, at which point … Continue reading
BBC misleads the public again
OK, yes, I know, how is this news? If the BBC said something accurate and reasonable about climate change, that might be worth commenting on… Today the IPCC issued another report, Climate Change and Land. The BBC’s Roger Harrabin wrote an article about it, before the report was released (he was also burbling about it … Continue reading
Hockey Stick Groundhog Day
Some ancient history Fifteen to twenty years ago, Michael Mann and colleagues wrote a few papers claiming that current warming was unprecedented over the last 600 to 2000 years. Other climate scientists described Mann’s work variously as crap, pathetic, sloppy, and crap. These papers caught the interest of Stephen McIntyre and this led to the … Continue reading
Mark Maslin’s plans to “fix” democracy
I’ve written previously about Mark Maslin and his interest in trying to “fix” democracy. In that instance, a brown-nosing interview with Al Gore, it wasn’t very clear what was meant, beyond the point that fanatical extremists like him weren’t getting their way and therefore democracy was malfunctioning. Well, it’s now becoming a little clearer how … Continue reading
