“Immaturity is the inability to use one’s own understanding without direction from another. This immaturity is self-incurred if its cause is not lack of understanding, but lack of resolve and courage to use it without another’s guidance.” — Immanuel Kant What do you believe gives you confidence in your confidence? For a lot of people, the … Continue reading
Tag Archives: IPCC
The Sound of Bob Ward Clapping
The latest IPCC report has provoked the inevitable articles, and the inevitable articles have been as predictable as they have been inevitable. Bob Ward, at the Guardian tells us that: The dangers if governments ignore efforts to limit warming to 1.5C are more grave than the summary makes out.. There is no mention in the report’s … Continue reading
Apocalypse delayed
Ben Pile has another article up at Spiked, Apocalypse Delayed: The IPCC report does not justify climate scaremongering. We should all be dead by now, thanks to overpopulation and resource depletion. The few of us remaining should be scavenging a landscape denuded of life by acid rains and UV rays. Thankfully, we are not. Also still standing … Continue reading
IPCC Chap.1: Verse 1: Commentary
This was going to be a comment on Jaime’s excellent article https://cliscep.com/2018/10/09/sr15-under-the-looking-glass-part-i-ipcc-claims-all-warming-is-now-anthropogenic/ but it got out of hand. Here are some quotes from the Executive Summary of Chapter 1 of the report, with comments: Depending on the temperature dataset considered, 20-40% of the global human population live in regions that, by the decade 2006-2015, had … Continue reading
#SR15 Under The Looking Glass, Part I: IPCC Claims All Warming is Now Anthropogenic
Much has been written about the newly released IPCC Special report on global warming of 1.5C, in the media and on blogs ranging from sceptical, to not so sceptical, to climate consensual, to downright alarmist. Much more will be written I am sure. This is just a short(ish) post on my initial impressions … Continue reading
Breaking: Final Draft Of IPCC Key Climate Alarmist Report Is Not Alarmist Enough!
Yes, it’s true. The forthcoming IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5C has been formally accused of ‘pulling its punches’ in order to let polluters off the hook by none other than Bob Ward, policy wonk at the Grantham Institute. The Graun, of course, has the story. Warnings about the dangers of global … Continue reading
AR6: Shared Socio-Economic Pathways Make Climate Models Increasingly Redundant
Climate models were supposedly the future of climate change research. Their use heralded a new golden age of scientific understanding according to former Met Office chief scientist Dame Julia Slingo: I think today the incredible complexity and power and skill of these models that we use . . . . they are one … Continue reading
