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
Author Archives: Paul Matthews
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
Andrew Neil interviews XR spokesperson
Enjoy. Update Oct 14th: There are now two transcripts of the interview available. A brief one from Chaamjamal and a more detailed one from Alex Cull. Continue reading
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
