Kate Marvel is one of the new brand of climate evangelists, preaching a message of politics, emotion and rhetoric, who are helping to destroy the credibility of the field. She climbed aboard the climate gravy train from another field only about five years ago, but despite her lack of experience she’s frequently given high-profile platforms … Continue reading
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The Neurobiology of Climate Change Denial
Much work has already been undertaken to establish the cognitive foundation for the irrationality of climate change denial. Of particular note are the studies undertaken by Lewandowsky, Kahneman, Shapiro and O’Conner, identifying the many cognitive biases that invalidate arguments put forward by those who profess scepticism in the face of the scientific evidence. However, it … Continue reading
A Cry For Help: Uncertainty, Risk and Decisions
When Professor Shapiro (of Case Western Reserve University) recently derided sceptics for being unable to grasp the basics of reasoning under uncertainty, he certainly wasn’t the first. The evaluation of the scale, nature and significance of uncertainty is central to understanding climate change, so such accusations are tantamount to refusing sceptics a voice in the … 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
Conversation Climate Conflict Climbdown
One of the many questionable claims made by climate catastrophists is that climate change causes conflict. See, for example, this report in the Independent, this one from Scientific American or these two articles from the Conversation, all trying to link climate change with violence and war. A year ago we reported on a talk given in Oxford … Continue reading
Met Office Chief Scientist Predicts Wetter, Milder UK Winters
Carbon Brief recently ran an interview with the Met Office’s Chief Scientist, Prof Stephen Belcher. The interviewer brought up the subject of the Met Office’s updated UK climate projections, due to be released some time in 2018, known as UKCP18. The last projections were published in 2009 (UKCP09). CB: The Met Office will be … Continue reading
Climate Alarmists Run AMOC The Day After April 11th
April 11th 2018 saw the publication of two studies (here and here) on the supposed ‘slowdown’ of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and what it might mean for the climate of Northern Latitudes in the coming decades (cooling, basically). The Day After Tomorrow being a perennial favourite of climate alarmists, inevitably headlines like … Continue reading
