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Tag Archives: AGW
Balanced analysis?
Some grudging kudos is due to the BBC for a detailed airing of the sceptical viewpoint on the Today programme on Radio 4 this morning. They even interviewed ‘Sceptical Blogger’ Andrew Montford (Bishop Hill) – who made a great contribution. … Continue reading
Posted in Climate
Tagged AGW, Andrew Montword, BBC, Roger Harrabin, sceptics, Sir John Houghton, Today programme, uncertainty
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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
25 Comments
The Boy Who Cried Warming | Global Warming Initiative
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 AGW, Climate Science, Documentary, Film, The Boy Who Cried Warming
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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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Needing Scary Scenarios
There is a concept in risk theory termed the “social amplification of risk”. Normally this takes the form of a minor risk being blown out of all proportion by public reaction to it. One of the most perplexing problems in … Continue reading
A Tipping Point Reached
Events this week make me wonder if we have reached a tipping point in climate change. The trouble with tipping points is that you can only see them with any certainty well after the fact – which is something that … Continue reading
Posted in CO2, Environmentalism, News, Opinion
Tagged AGW, Climate, Climate Science, MSM, sceptics, social media, Warming
33 Comments
Quantifying CO2 Mitigation
Update (1st April 2012) Latest versions of files added below. Update (13th January 2012) Latest versions of files added below. Update (26th October 2011) New summary and spreadsheet added – see below Ed Hoskins, since emailing me last November, has been … Continue reading
Man on a train
I was on an early train on Friday. Normally I try to work, or doze; occasionally it is nice to fall into conversation with fellow passengers. There’s something about trains that seems conducive to such behaviour. About an hour from … Continue reading
Unprecedented Warming?
I’m Confused Update: I’ve now added the speliothem data sent to me by Charles earlier in the week. Guest Post by Charles Duncan The claim is often made that the rate of temperature change the Earth has experienced over the … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Cycles
Tagged AGW, Anomalies, Climate, Greenland, Ice core data, Natural Cycle
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Digging in the Clay 
All’s fair in love, war and the climate debate… or is it?
Update added below. Is Heartland’s Global Warming advert “experiment” an own goal or have they simply achieved their aim? “This billboard was deliberately provocative, an attempt to turn the tables on the climate alarmists by using their own tactics but … Continue reading →