Zero Hedge reports that a technical director at CNN revealed to an undercover journalist for Project Veritas that the country’s major cable news channel deliberately worked to get Trump out. “If it wasn’t for CNN, I don’t know that Trump would have got voted out… I came to CNN because I wanted to be part … Continue reading
Author Archives: Geoff Chambers
Ethical Implications of an Argument by Richard Lindzen
Have you read Richard Lindzen’s talk to the Irish Climate Science Forum posted at WattsUpWithThat? If not, please do. As the title, “The Imaginary Climate Crisis: How can we Change the Message?” indicates, the subject is not climate science as such, but what we sceptics should be doing in order to get our message across. The … Continue reading
It’s That Mann Again
Michael Mann has been tweeting his appreciation of this article at Green Matters in which the author Andrew Krosofsky calls him “one of the most influential climate scientists in the world.” Mann particularly likes a tweet from greenmatters.com which calls him “one of the world’s most insightful scientific voices,” and another one which says: “As long as there … Continue reading
Lord Deben: “Covid Has Been Useful”
Exploring the origins of the bronze [“Couler un bronze” in French, besides its normal meaning of casting a bronze statue, also refers to a common excretory function] statue of Greta, I came across a video celebrating the organisation of which the statue’s Maecenas is a co-chair, namely the Climate Commission for UK Higher and Further Education. At 14 … Continue reading
Greta’s Brass Cheek
Just when you thought the world couldn’t get any sillier A bronze statue of teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has been unveiled at a university in the UK, with critics branding it a “vanity project.” The University of Winchester proudly revealed the ‘inspirational’ statue’, claiming it was the first life-size sculpture of the Swedish campaigner. … Continue reading
Lockdown Ferguson on What I Got Wrong (Part Two)
Here’s the rest of what Ferguson had to say to the science editor of the Observer. Despite the vituperation, UK scientists have done well, Ferguson believes – not just in terms of research, but in investing time in communicating their research to the public. “What is paradoxical is the fact that the UK has punched well … Continue reading
Lockdown Ferguson on What I Got Wrong (Part One)
A shock interview in yesterday’s Observer with Imperial College modeller Neil Ferguson revealed the true story behind Britain’s lamentable failure to halt the Covid 19 epidemic. “It was during one of my regular lockdown knock ups with my best friend’s wife that I realised what we’d been doing wrong,” said Ferguson. “The data we’d been … Continue reading
JIT’s “Denierland”
I read Paul Homewood’s post on “Denierland,” a new book by Jonathan Thacker. https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2021/03/09/denierland/ It was only when I went to Amazon and clicked on “Look Inside” and read the introduction, acknowledgements and index and saw the “thanks to Cliscep” that I realised that Jonathan is JIT who comments here. I vaguely remember him talking about a … Continue reading
What is Mann, That Thou Shouldst Magnify Him?
Eric Worrall had a post at WattsUpWithThat a week ago commenting on an interview with Michael Mann in the Observer, the Guardian’s Sunday sister paper. The Observer interview is no more than a boilerplate Graun-standard tree ring boyz band fan club rim job, enabling Mann to plug his new book. A sample exchange: Q: Who … Continue reading
It Ain’t ‘Arf ‘Ot, N’est-Ce Pas?
John Cook has an article at SkepticalScience about his support for the Facebook Climate Fact Checking project. Cook has teamed up with Sander van der Linden of Cambridge University and Tony Leiserowitz to help Facebook debunk climate misinformation. (The boy has come a long way since the heady days of 2010 when he expressed his excitement … Continue reading
