[This is a lazy, boilerplate response to the even lazier notion that Big Oil is behind climate skepticism. I’m sick of copying and pasting it for their edification. It’s a work in progress and some links are missing. —BK] Dear Oil Linkers, Your Logical Fallacy is: Boring Me. I know you think you’re smearing skeptics, … Continue reading
There’s a new paper out in Nature Climate Change, called Relationships among conspiratorial beliefs, conservatism and climate scepticism across nations, by Matthew Hornsey, Emily Harris and Kelly Fielding from the University of Queensland. Unfortunately, it’s behind a paywall, so I will post some of the results here. Eric Worrall has a post about it at WUWT … Continue reading
Tony Abbott, former PM of Australia, gave the annual GWPF lecture last night. The full text is on their site and Josh’s cartoon can be found at Bishop Hill. He started with some general remarks about world politics and loss of trust in leaders before moving on to some climate-sceptic points. He acknowledged the role … Continue reading
Europe‘s march towards a carbon-free future will be on hold for a month or two while Germany makes up its mind in what direction it is going to lead the European Union. The likely coalition with the fervently anti-coal anti-nuclear Greens, and the Free Democrats, who argue for a “rational” pro-business energy policy, may bring … Continue reading
Over at Pointman’s, he has published another powerful, intense essay around the climate furore, and this time he declares: ‘The war against climate alarmism is over, and we won it. There won’t be a formal surrender, there will be no armistice or cease-fire, there will be no shell-shocked soldiers staggering out of bullet scarred bunkers … Continue reading
Doug McNeall of the UK Met Office wrote an interesting sequence of tweets this morning starting from the perceived threat from Trump, then moving on to the strength of the climate sceptic position and how climate scientists should respond. You can see the sequence of 20 tweets here as a storify. Below is the content … Continue reading
It has to be admitted it would seem unlikely that this 95-year-old retired GP would be the first climate sceptic to be honoured by this blog in the week of his passing. As will I hope become clear, I have my reasons. To make it odder, I only met Alick, briefly, in the last three … Continue reading
Post by Tim Hunter (@Badgerbod on twitter) Years ago my mother used to say to me, she’d say, “In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.” Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me. Elwood P. Dowd, adapted from the film “Harvey” My name … Continue reading
Last month there was a fifty minute debate between a climate sceptic and a defender of the official position on the French radio channel France Culture. Continue reading
The second weekly bulletin of the Collectif des Climato-réalistes is up, with English translation, at http://www.skyfall.fr/?page_id=1660 English-speaking members are welcome to join the collective. There’s no entrance fee. You can follow all the news about the run up to the Paris COP21 conference at “Changement Climatique” http://www.skyfall.fr/ improve your French conversation skills reading the many … Continue reading
