I thought about calling this article “The Road to Nowhere”, until I realised how inappropriate that would be for a process that really got going with COP3 in 1997 in Kyoto, and which has since seen the whole jamboree travel to such exotic holiday destinations as Buenos Aires (twice), Marrakech (twice), New Delhi, Milan, Montreal, … Continue reading
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Climategate’s aftermath at UEA, inquiries and an apology
What was to become known as Climategate hit the School of Environmental Science at UEA like a blast from a twelve bore shotgun, causing damage everywhere, confusion and mad chicken flutterings. Few knew whether the emails were genuine or a gigantic smear job. Those that did know were keeping low. The few of us consulting … Continue reading
The Tuatara’s tale
Everyone has heard of the tuatara. It’s as famous as the Coelocanth for being a living fossil (an oxymoron if ever there was one). The tuatara is the sole surviving member of an entire order of reptiles that emerged in the Triassic. It’s a cute little thing that is definitely out of its depth in … Continue reading
The Books of Daniel
Today’s reading comes from the Book of Daniel, Chapter 12, Verse 5: “And Daniel sayeth unto the throng, ‘People of vision, working together patiently and persistently, hast inspired their community and changeth the course of history. These leaders, recognising the threat to civilisation poseth by climate change, have successfully alerteth many of the public to … Continue reading
CRU and Me: A Doomed Relationship
I arrived at UEA in 1989 from Canada as an infant in swaddling clothes, babbling incoherently, knowing little about climate. At Toronto, climate change had barely come into my orbit. Instead, the big environmental scare story was acid rain and those diabolical Yankees spewing raw sulphuric acid onto eastern Canada’s “wonderful virgin” forests (and the … Continue reading
Climate Delay the Comic Book
While browsing Twitter in incognito mode, a comic book style rendering that looked like Judith Curry caught my eye: It’s from a comic book called Discourses of Climate Delay that looks like it was just published by a German artist named Céline Keller. She has a Twitter account and likes to tweet a lot about climate … Continue reading
Saving the Planet by Trashing it
I have been concerned about the environment for as long as I can remember (to the extent that I once almost voted for the Green Party, before they became obsessed with climate change). I have been perplexed for some time by the state of environmentalism, where concern about “carbon” (as they insist on calling CO2) … Continue reading
A Climate Sceptic in the Court of Environmentalism
Almost a decade ago (December, 2011) I was viciously outed. My life changed irrevocably and I succumbed to the trauma of close-combat blogging. It was amusing to many that I had sung from a different hymn sheet at one of the hearts of climate alarmist manufacture. Climategate had taken place two years earlier and although … Continue reading
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
