Monthly Archives: October 2014

The Decline and Fall of the British University

Posted on 21 October 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

I found this at: Here The email given has bounced so I publishing it without permission. The goal of widening access to education is a noble one and very much in line with the motivations of the post-war British governments. … Continue reading →

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Power resilience

Posted on 20 October 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

Hearing this morning of the major fire at the Didcot B Power Station, and learning that due to several other problems on the UK grid, we are already likely to have problems if there is a cold spell in January, … Continue reading →

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Why do academics get involved with policy?

Posted on 8 October 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

I was reading an article and came across this: Sid Richardson College senior Maddie Camp said she thinks it is important to examine skeptics’ viewpoints to make progress on climate policy. Why is this academic getting involved with policy at … Continue reading →

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A view inside the public sector academic mind

Posted on 8 October 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

For all Tolkein’s good points, he like so many of his generation of public-sector academics shared a hatred of industry. And this is easy to see in his portrayal of “Mordor” above. Compare that to the typical portrayal of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, UK | 8 Comments

The dog's been sick – but no heat!

Posted on 6 October 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

When you use the excuse that the dog ate your homework, the last thing you want is for some smart alec to pump the dog’s stomach looking for it or worse, for the stupid mut to spew up all over … Continue reading →

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The limits of Climate Hysteria

Posted on 6 October 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

Answering a post today, I realised that I no longer cared about trying to educate the nutters in academia, not because they don’t need educating, but simply because nothing we sceptics have done has ever been listened to – so … Continue reading →

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Review of the state of Climate "Science"

Posted on 5 October 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

Even after all these years, the academics who work on climate, still have no idea about natural variation. They are still looking to things that are clearly part of natural vartiation and saying “look its now warmer than it has … Continue reading →

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Scientists and sceptics suspend hostilities? NO!

Posted on 3 October 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

Because scientists and sceptics were never  at war! We just wanted the academics who were not working to the standards of science to either start working to those standards or stop calling what they did science. That wasn’t a big … Continue reading →

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Renewables cause HIGH INFLATION!!

Posted on 3 October 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

There’s a quite astonishing admission in a civil service report mentioned on Bishop Hill. I am just reading from the Report, which is an agreed Report. It says, and the Chair has already quoted this, “consumers are thought to be … Continue reading →

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What Now, do we shake hands?

Posted on 3 October 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

‘these professors at the University of California, San Diego say environmentalists need to stop pitching or trying to persuade people of global warming by focusing on the temperature of the earth, ’cause it isn’t rising.  Temperatures aren’t going up.  They … Continue reading →

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