AGW is a religion
Science based ideas are falsifiable, whereas religious ones are not (thanks Karl Popper). The acid test for climate scientists: "What evidence would convince you that carbon was not significant?"...
View ArticleAttempting to Intimidate a Skeptic?
Leo Elshof from Arcadia University in Nova Scotia* has written to me asking that I put a comedy disclaimer on the Skeptics Handbook, and otherwise threatens to ridicule me at international conferences...
View ArticleThe skeptic who wasn’t
Supplement: Our Email exchange ……Ref: Skeptico on “Global Warming Denial” What’s the most embarrassing thing that could happen to a skeptic? Could it be worse than being exposed for believing anything...
View ArticleSchool president censors science
In a spot of unwitting self-parody Michael Kundu states: "...we need to have the ability to tell fact from fiction. This last mailing is an excellent example of ‘fiction’." Thus Michael Kundu, whale...
View ArticleGlobal politics is being influenced by the climate fawners
More muddy thinking. Once again, a politico-journalist writes about science and misses the point. Science is not like law, politics or sport: there is no umpire, no judge, no boss who sets the rules...
View ArticleGlobal bully Rudd fights for foreign committee, against citizens
The world is considering a new financial market larger than any commodity, it’s “based on science”, but if you ask for evidence, you’re called names—“Denier”, and by our Prime Minister, no less. This...
View ArticleThe rise of the unskeptical scientist
I’ve done it, I’ve finally solved the dilemma of how to refer to scientists who actively promote a crisis due to carbon, but can’t provide the evidence that carbon causes major warming. Not Team-AGW,...
View ArticleThe debate continues: Dr Glikson v Joanne Nova
Dr Andrew Glikson (an Earth and paleoclimate scientist, at the Australian National University) contacted Quadrant offering to write about the evidence for man-made global warming. Quadrant approached...
View ArticleLearn how not to reason at the University of Western Australia
Picasso-Brain-Strikes-the-Climate-Debate: Can't think. Can't reason. Tomorrow night the University of Western Australia (UWA) is hosting “Climate change scepticism under the spotlight”, where people...
View ArticleMüller lite: Why Every Scientist Needs a Classical Training
Müller lite: Why Every Scientist Needs a Classical Training By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley About 18 months ago, as soon as I heard of Dr. Richard Müller’s Berkeley Earth Temperature project, I...
View ArticleProf Fiona Stanley jumps on climate-pulpit, says skepticism “is like child...
It’s another pious scientist. Sigh. Why do good researchers sometimes throw their professional standards to the wind (or in this case, just blow them right up?) Fiona Stanley has done great work in the...
View ArticleClimate science hopelessly politicized. Geological Society of Australia gives...
So much for the consensus. In 2012 The Geological Society of Australia (GSA) was one of the few associations to make a slightly skeptical position on climate. For poking their heads above the parapet...
View ArticleImaginary hottest “fingerprints” found in extreme weather by failed models
Finally, for only the 87th time, climate modellers have uncovered the definitive proof they’ve been finding in different forms every year since 1988. ARC extreme unscience – corrected at no cost to the...
View ArticleGoogle Engineers give up on renewables fixing the climate (but they still...
Today’s renewable energy technologies won’t save us. So what will?“ Two engineers who worked on the Google RE<C project admit with candour that they used to think that renewable technologies could...
View Article2013 heatwave “virtually impossible” without logical errors and broken...
The Climate Council calculate the “odds” that one warm year could be as hot as it was. But those “odds” depend on a logical fallacy, major, inexplicable adjustments and models we know are broken. There...
View ArticleThe bureaucratic science-machine broke science, and people are starting to...
Science is broken. The genius, the creative art of scientific discovery, has been squeezed into a square box, sieved through grant applications, citation indexes, and journal rankings, then whatever...
View ArticleA Socratic approach on climate change
(Click for the full advert) The Climate Study Group is trying a new approach with an Advert in The Australian on page 7 today. Or rather, you might say this is a very old approach…: Socrates Nice to...
View ArticleModern Astrology in NY Times: Justin Gillis says Eclipses show all Scientists...
Verily. Eclipses do weird things to people. Justin Gillis, writer for The New York Times used the recent eclipse to sell something I’d call Sciencemagic. Essentially, if some Scientists™ can calculate...
View ArticleGlobal politics is being influenced by the climate fawners
More muddy thinking. Once again, a politico-journalist writes about science and misses the point. Science is not like law, politics or sport: there is no umpire, no judge, no boss who sets the rules...
View ArticleGlobal bully Rudd fights for foreign committee, against citizens
The world is considering a new financial market larger than any commodity, it’s “based on science”, but if you ask for evidence, you’re called names—“Denier”, and by our Prime Minister, no less. This...
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