I don’t follow media in my native country, but by all accounts David Attenborough makes great documentaries. So did Leni Riefenstahl. Any errors of appreciation she may have made in making films of Nazi propaganda were compensated for by her later photographic work among the Nuba of Sudan. She was 98 when she suffered broken … Continue reading
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Seen Elsewhere…
Judith Curry has two recent posts on the sorry state of climate science, Climate science’s ‘masking bias’ problem and Climate scientists’ motivated reasoning. Matt Ridley writes about the madness of the 2050 net zero target. Ben Pile has an article at Spiked on the eco-signalling frenzy of the Tory leadership candidates. There’s a video of … Continue reading
The Climate Jamboree Comes To The UK
The Graun reports that the next ‘critical’ summit on the ‘climate crisis’ is to be held in the UK. Apparently, we beat the Italians to it. We are indeed truly blessed. The world will be watching. The UK is to host a critical global summit on the climate crisis at the end of 2020, at … Continue reading
Merchants of Drought
A journal called Scientific American (or ScAm for short) hosts the latest blog from Kate Marvel, claiming that the “Hot Planet” is “Creeping toward permanent drought.” The subtitle is “Both trees and climate models are telling us the same frightening story”. Most of the text is her usual substance-free emotional wittering: “The smell—a peppery sweetness, … Continue reading
Rice and Mosher In Defence of Happy-Slappy Severe Weather Attribution at ATTP
I promised myself I wouldn’t do it, that it wasn’t worth the grief and the nasty taste left in the mouth afterwards, but I did it – I commented over at ATTP on the post on severe weather attribution. I regret it of course, but regret is a two way thing. It turned personal … Continue reading
When Marxist Physics Professors do Climate Scepticism
We quite often quote physics professors here, but not often physics professors discussing “the key role of maintaining dollar hegemony and the importance of the petrodollar to US global dominance,”or who argue that “the US has an existential interest to ensure that opioid drugs are traded in US dollars” and who quote Albert Camus, professor Mike … Continue reading
When Philosophers Attack
I had promised myself that I would waste no further time writing about the misconceptions and controversies surrounding the application of risk management within the climate change context. The evidence would suggest that I have said all I have to say on the subject, and folk are now getting a bit fed up of hearing … Continue reading
