Author Archives: Scottish-Sceptic

Met office 15% chance of Jan-Feb-March being wettest

From Jo:Nova: UK Met Office in December predicted a 15% chance of Jan-Feb-March being the wettest category SUMMARY – PRECIPITATION: Latest predictions for UK-precipitation show a slight signal for near or just above average rainfall during January-February-March as a whole. … Continue reading

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Caption Competition

After Mr Connolley’s outrageous behaviour I got a few emails in sympathy amongst which was this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJho5cHvjJY Normally I wouldn’t have posted it. But why not? It is hilarious and it so neatly sums up all climate propaganda “science”. … Continue reading

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I'll be back.

I need to take some time away from blogging to prepare some material. So, unfortunately, blogging and commenting will be light for the next few weeks. I’ll be back!

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Climate debate: Lord Monckton vs HRH Prince Charles

I noticed this letter From Lord Monckton to Charlie on Tallbloke. Interestingly we had a discussion in the Scottish Climate & Energy Forum which divided between monarchists and republican tendencies or polite and not so, and finally decided not to … Continue reading

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IPCC: not science, just dishonest!

I was reading the evidence on the IPCC inqury and Peter Lilley made an excellent point worth repeating: Q13 Mr Lilley: … The point I am trying to make is the point you make and particularly the points in the … Continue reading

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A reply to Mike Hulme

Two articles appeared in uClimate.com almost together: The infamy of John Cook Science can’t settle what should be done about climate change Whilst Andrew Montford tends to be a moderate, in this case his comments did not seem appropriate for what … Continue reading

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January top climate sites & articles from uClimate.com

The following are the top sites and articles according to the number of clicks they have received on uClimate.com. Top 50 sites

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The journal of citizen science

After reading about the likely relaunch of “Patterns Recognition in Physics” on Jo Nova (which I thoroughly endorse) I was reminded that there is a glaring hole in the list of journals, which is stopping many good papers from getting … Continue reading

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Noah's Ark – what does it mean?

According to a new translated Cuneiform tablet, Noah’s Ark was round. Reading the Daily Mail Comments I read : Cardiff supporter: Noah was a farmer who built a larger version of the locally used coracle. An earlier earth quake warned … Continue reading

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Ruminations on Eggsperts

There’s a post on Climate Etc. “Death of Expertise“. I’m not  commenting on this directly. Instead, I have a very simple question: what is an expert? Two scales come to mind, the first is that in any given subject the … Continue reading

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