Professor Lewandowsky, who tweets under the name of @STWorg, has just opined on Twitter: The former Conservative party is now a fascist-enabled white-nationalist outfit and not much more. And yet, so many people close their eyes to that transformation. It’s in plain sight and broad daylight. To which Ben Pile has replied: Really? “a fascist-enabled … Continue reading
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Remembrance season
This short post with lots of embedded tweets starts with a quiz. Don’t cheat by reading further down before answering, at least in your head. What are the six key anniversaries, four with rather pleasing round numbers attached this year, that we have been in the process of remembering or at least perhaps vaguely … Continue reading
Laying To Rest The Ghost Of Climategate
On November the 19th 2009, the first batch of emails and other files hacked from the University of East Anglia’s (Climatic Research Unit) servers were distributed across the internet from a server in Russia. Climategate – a term first suggested by a commenter at WUWT and subsequently popularised by James Delingpole – was born and … Continue reading
The doom cult and Kevin Anderson’s memory lapse
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
Inherit the Wind
Please click here for the whole story 7th November 2019 Comments (0) Tony Thomas It’s good to know that wind turbine blades are a bird’s best friend, or something like that. I’m citing “fun facts” on the website of Synergy, Western Australia’s state-owned electricity generator. Synergy operations include half a dozen WA wind farms, mostly … Continue reading
Met Office’s New Flagship CMIP6 High Sensitivity Climate Model “does a great job at everything other than its primary function”
This is a supplement to Paul’s post on this subject which I have just noticed on site. It seems we both got the same idea! I think it’s different enough from what Paul wrote to merit publishing too, so here it is with apologies to Paul where it overlaps. It’s an important … Continue reading
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