For four days this week, March 13 – 16, the IPCC has been congratulating itself on its 30th birthday, in a lavish celebration in Paris. Apparently the premises were beautiful and the hospitality generous. A number of deep scientific insights were provided at the meeting, such as “We must put climate solutions in the context … Continue reading
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Global Warming: a case study in groupthink
Video above, written report here, Josh cartoon below. Take your pick or enjoy all three. Continue reading
BBC doubles down on fake climate news
On January 18th, the BBC 6pm Radio 4 news started with a completely false headline, as I reported here the next day. I wrote a complaint to the BBC, using their online complaints form. Here is my complaint: Complaint Summary: Completely untrue statement in headline radio news Full Complaint: The 6pm Radio 4 News on … Continue reading
BBC allows a sceptic on every year or two, complains Chairman Leo
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
Polar bear attack paper invalidated by non-independent analysis
Cross-posted from Shub Niggurath Stephan Lewandowsky has co-authored (yet another) paper attacking climate skeptics. His colleagues-in-arms this time are long-time climate consensusite Jeff Harvey , Bart Verheggen, and a cohort of ecologists along with Michael Mann. First author Harvey is well-known to climate commenters as a rant-prone passionate bulldog for the climate cause. The … Continue reading
Polar-Bear-Gate
The story of the Harvey et al smear paper (previous posts here and here and here) continues to grow rapidly. It’s hard to keep up. The latest news is from a new blog post by Susan Crockford that includes two points of considerable interest – her letter of complaint to the journal, and a release of … Continue reading
Climate Updates from The Royal Society (AKA The Alarmists’ Inventive Inventory of More Bad News)
The Royal Society has produced a new report to try to maintain the climate scare, providing an update on the last IPCC report (AR5) that came out in 2013. It’s in two parts, a document that summarises their main points in a non-technical way, starting off with “Climate change is one of the defining issues … Continue reading
