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Tag Archives: Climate Science
Countering Consensus Calculations
Guest Post by Peter Morcombe (gallopingcamel) The Kyoto Protocol Elites around the world tend to believe that rising levels of CO2 in our atmosphere will cause catastrophic climate changes. Collectively they wield enough power to shape energy policies in many … Continue reading
Spotting every trick in the MOOC
If you haven’t heard of MOOCs you may simply have overlooked them; online advertising for MOOCs seems to be everywhere and, with Google supplying user-relevant advertising, ones related to climate seem to come up frequently (for me anyway). MOOC List … Continue reading
Weather swings and see-saws
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 Arctic, Climate Science, Cold, Met Office, Natural Cycle, snow, Temperatures
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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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Self-esteem and the misplaced fervour of climate scientists
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
Posted in Environmentalism
Tagged Climate Science, environmental fervour, narcissism, psychology
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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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Lead them not into temptation
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
Future Options
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
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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Digging in the Clay 
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 →