Cabin fever is bringing out the best in the believalists. As you know, John Ridgway and I reveled, in a recent thread, in the unraveling of a ranting and raving Steven Mosher. (Good reveries, good reveries.) No précis could begin to do justice to the informatically dense skirmish between the Self and the Mosh. So, … Continue reading
So, after being banned from Twitter, I’m working up to a ban from Facebook. I’m getting there, slowly. Having comments wiped off is always a good start. Hayhoe posted this: I replied and she responded: The sheer arrogance and nauseating condescension of her statement, the assumption that because she is a scientist, anything posted … Continue reading
Al Jazeera has a news story on The curious persistence of climate scepticism. The text says Climate scepticism is fringe and unscientific. So why is it that sceptics still manage, in certain countries, to get airtime denying the effects of global warming? Sceptics theories in the news media, such as carbon dioxide doesn’t cause … Continue reading
Lewandowsky Cook and Ecker (who he?) have two new articles at the Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. The first “Beyond Misinformation: Understanding and Coping with the ‘Post-Truth’ Era” “…explores the growing abundance of misinformation, how it influences people, and how to counter it. And outlines “a number of recommendations to … Continue reading
Philosophers are like buses. There’s never one when you want one, and then three come along at once. Thanks to Barry Woods for alerting me to this paper by Catriona McKinnon, Professor of Political Theory at Reading University, and to Ruth Dixon for pointing out this contribution to the Oxford University Press Climate Science … Continue reading
This story is not directly climate-related, but it illustrates the familiar authoritarian behaviour of the thought police within academia and the attempts to promote an agenda and suppress all dissenting views. You can read about the story at the BBC, CBC, the Spectator, Quillette, and many other sources. At a third-rate Canadian university near Toronto called … Continue reading
According to this article at Texas Monthly, climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe is “trying to connect with the very people who most doubt her research”. So I thought I’d have look at how she was trying to connect on twitter: It seems I’m not alone: @tan123 Well… I tried to connect and this is what happened. … Continue reading
The BBC Trust has decreed that a light-hearted Radio 4 programme by Quentin Letts, “What’s the point of the Met Office”, which included a brief section suggesting that global warming might be a bit exaggerated, broke its guidelines on impartiality. Continue reading
Here’s a transcript of an interview with Philippe Verdier, former weatherman on France Télévisions, which was broadcast on the BBC World Service on 16th October 2015. Continue reading
French weatherman Philippe Verdier has been officially sacked by the state television channel. We don’t know the contents of the dismissal letter, but there’s a short video subtitled in English at http://www.skyfall.fr/?p=1679 There’s general agreement in the comments under the above article Continue reading
