Tag Archives: Climate Science

Weather swings and see-saws

Posted on April 1, 2013 by

The contrast of the current March weather to Spring last year could hardly be a greater swing (Daily Mail: What a difference a year makes: Mother’s Day daffodils delayed by the cold weather…) to the coldest March in 50 years … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Cycles, Weather | Tagged , , , , , , | 13 Comments

Climate Scientists’ Road to Hell

Posted on December 27, 2012 by

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 →

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Self-esteem and the misplaced fervour of climate scientists

Posted on September 30, 2012 by

It is not a new idea, but it was a surprise to see the ‘environmentalism is the new religion’ meme in a popular psychology book.  In Willpower – Why Self-Control is the Secret to Success, Roy  F. Baumeister and John … Continue reading →

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The Boy Who Cried Warming | Global Warming Initiative

Posted on August 29, 2012 by

A new film that’s about to upset a few people (h/t to Pierre Gosselin at NoTricksZone who has watched it and gives it a big thumbs up – ): The Boy Who Cried Warming | Global Warming Initiative. The feature … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate, CO2 | Tagged , , , , | 4 Comments

Lead them not into temptation

Posted on June 18, 2012 by

Climatologist; I have a system of undetermined complexity and undetermined composition, floating and spinning in space. It has a few internal but steady state and minor energy sources. An external energy source radiates 1365 watts per meter squared at it … Continue reading →

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Lamb’s science to the slaughter

Posted on May 21, 2012 by

 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 →

Posted in Climate, Comment, Quotes | Tagged , , | 12 Comments

Future Options

Posted on April 28, 2012 by

Reading an article Black-Scholes: The maths formula linked to the financial crash on the BBC website today, the oft-mentioned link between prosperity and global temperature came to mind (from William Herschel’s 1801 observation that when there were fewer spots, wheat … Continue reading →

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Nature – more consensus than credibility

Posted on April 15, 2012 by

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 →

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More Unwelcome Light

Posted on March 24, 2012 by

From what was begun back in December with a blaze of unwelcome light, Gallopingcamel (Peter Morcombe) has emailed with some output from his AR5 Zero Order Draft (ZOD) review. Before getting to the opinions, here’s a bit of the backstory: … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate, Comment, Review | Tagged , , , , | 6 Comments

Competition in the meme pool

Posted on February 5, 2012 by

Climate change activism has relied heavily on memes to spread its message – ‘the greenhouse effect’; ‘Polar Bears are in peril’; ‘Global warming will reach a tipping point then were doomed’.  As well as direct climate memes there are also … Continue reading →

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