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Category Archives: Quotes
A New Kind of Rain
Environment Agency chief says ‘weather is unpredictable’. In an article published in the Sunday Telegraph (and also covered by the Daily Mail – link image right), Lord Smith, chairman of the Environment Agency, perpetuates the ‘extreme weather’ meme. Referring to … Continue reading
Posted in Quotes, Weather
Tagged "new kind of rain", Environment Agency, Extreme weather meme, rain
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Climate Scientists’ Road to Hell
If some of Michael Mann’s followers think that prominent skeptics belong in a special circle of hell (see ‘Mannte’s Inferno‘), here’s news for them. The Nine Circles of Scientific Hell*, as proposed by Neuroskeptic blogspot, are likely to be well … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Quotes, What if...
Tagged AGW, Climate 'sins', Climate Science, Dante's Inferno, Hell, Hockey Stick, punishment
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Climate change ‘not difficult to explain’
From The Telegraph – Scientist and broadcaster Lord Robert Winston accuses the BBC of dumbing down its science programming. Interviewed for the Times Educational Supplement, Prof Winston said BBC managers were reluctant to commission programmes on complicated issues like climate … Continue reading
Nature – more consensus than credibility
Christopher Booker in the Telegraph yesterday points out how the authority of Nature is used and abused in the climate debate: Whenever some landmark event in the story is approaching [...] Nature can be relied on to come up with … Continue reading
Posted in Comment, Quotes
Tagged AGW, Christopher Booker, Climate Science, IPCC, sceptics
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Thank You Peter Gleick
An open letter to Peter Gleick following his admission of dishonesty and potential crime. Dear Dr Gleick, Your recent actions have caused a lot of anguish to those affected, however, I find to my own surprise that I am somewhat … Continue reading
Grants and pants…
Found today by Kevin – Lord May, the Government’s former Chief Scientific Adviser has a theory. It would suggest that climate scientists might be overcompensating for certain insecurities
How to seem impartial while promoting your own views
Christopher Booker’s report this week for the GWPF, The BBC and Climate Change: A Triple Betrayal, paints a damning picture of the BBC’s bias and activities. Sir Antony Jay, who wrote the foreword and spoke at the launch is a … Continue reading
Six Lessons from a Climate Heretic
Bravo! Matt Ridley – The Rational Optimist Bishop Hill posted the text of his Angus Millar Lecture at the RSA in Edinburgh in full. I found it inspirational. In fact what came to mind was the St Crispin’s Day speech … Continue reading
Give ‘Em Enough Rope….Tim Flannery
Australian Broadcaster ABC’s Show “Enough Rope” interviewed Professor Tim Flannery in 2008. (h/t Scarlett Pumpernickel in Tips & Notes on WUWT). In interview with host Andrew Denton the eco-wiseacre (an apt label from his fellow countryman Clive James) certainly did … Continue reading
Lamb’s science to the slaughter
In David Archibald’s post over at WUWT Premonitions of the Fall (in temperature) there was a comment from Dr Tim Ball that seemed worth giving a bit of separate life. The full comment is here but I’ve excerpted most of it: the … Continue reading →