What a fool I’ve been. What a handsome, persuasive fool. Don’t feel too bad if I fooled you too (which I did). Heck, I’m so charismatic I even fooled myself. But first, some basic definitions. The Science is the mythical evidence for the urgent net dangerousness of man-caused climate change. If males continue emitting … Continue reading
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Fake News is for amateurs; the real money is in Fake History
Think the global-warming wars are boring? Think climate science is a low-ante, “academic” debate? Think the never-ending, ever-impending trials of Rajendra Pachauri and Steyn/Simberg don’t really matter? Then the following post is for you. It doesn’t mention any of that stuff. Scepticus Augustus the Self-Introducing, Unique of my Name, King in the South-Southeast known … Continue reading
SHOCKA! In wake of terror, Oreskes bemoans “anti-Muslim racism and bigotry” of post-9/11 era
Not 24 hours after children in Manchester were blown to bloody shreds by believers in the fundamental teachings of Islam Islamic fundamentalists, a cell-phone recording of Harvard lecturer Naomi Oreskes is raising questions about her fitness to mentor the next generation of America’s leaders. Continue reading
Honouring IIAWAM: ‘A social history of fear and loathing’
Welcome to International Islamophobia Awareness Week Awareness Month proper. Without any ado: a story that already had an introduction. Oh, and don’t let the masthead put you off. Give it a chance and we think you’ll agree that—for a Guardian article—this is 6-sigma, ‘I-Can’t-Believe-It’s-Not-Brad!’ good. Not great, but… you know. ■ “Fear and loathing: a … Continue reading
You can always depend on the kindness of “Daily Kos” [sp?]
As none of you would be aware, a belligerently believalist blog by the name of Daily Kos (or was it The Daily Kos?) once sacrificed hours of its time to give yours truly a free writing workshop. As soon as their post—ostensibly on the topic of how much they were ignoring CliScep—was drawn to my … Continue reading
SICK! Butchering little kids to save the planet
Words fail. The following TIME article, which an American relative sent me today, is strictly for the strong of stomach. Most distressing, for me, is the association of Prof Mark Maslin with this story. It breaks the heart that such a great scientist—and human being—would sully himself with this pure, Unsullied eco-snuff reality-porn. I … Continue reading
Do They Know It’s Climate Change?
It has come to our attention that those two well known environmental charities, Climate Aid and Save the Climate Data, have joined forces with various celebrities for a Christmas Charity Concert in support of urgent action on climate change, to be aired by the BBC apparently in the slot usually reserved for Carols From Kings. … Continue reading
Carry On Up The Wazoo
You can stop checking your shoes, readers. Wonder no more how that subtly stercoraceous fragrance that permeates the climate literature got there. (Answer infra.) Like apples? You may have noticed these apples in your Twitter feed-bag this morning: Gavin: "All of these things are peer reviewed up the wazoo" #BwaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaSnortHaHa https://t.co/MlX93vKDPX — Tom Nelson (@tan123) … Continue reading
Trump and the impact of social media
In her excellent summary of the lessons of Donald Trump’s victory in the US election that morning, on 9th November 2016, Judith Curry wrote: Apart from the obvious political/policy implications of the election, there are massive social implications: • a triumph for U.S. democracy, in spite of those that have tried to break it … • … Continue reading
Escalating Matters: the Peculiar Mental Scotoma that Afflicts Hillary Fans
Perhaps the thing most commonly misunderstood by pollsters, mainstream journalists and other trotsko-izquierdistas is the difference between short-term noise (green) and their own febrile delusions of political relevance (blue). Continue reading