Author Archives: Scottish-Sceptic

A complete description of factors affecting global temperature

Following yesterday’s article about lapse rate I was frustrated by what I left out. So as a mental exercise, I set myself the challenge of putting down something about all the major things that affect climate and particularly global temperature. … Continue reading

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Can variations in lapse rate & cloud cover explain ice-age temperature changes and the inter-glacial "hard stop"?

I woke up this morning thinking about the most fundamental issue of climate: If the temperature of the earth is set by the blackbody radiation temperature of the earth … and that is fixed in turn by the sun … … Continue reading

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Wanted: an average woman (in the nude with hands up)

For reasons too daft to admit in public, I am engaged in some pretty water breaking research from the Roman period. However, I have run into problems (and whilst my PC repairs itself from a crash) I thought I’d take … Continue reading

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Why better theories fail – and why academia needs to change.

I wrote this in reply to James McGinn who has come up with some ideas about the way water behaves as a gas (which are not totally absurd) who had said: “It’s funny, but when I first set out to … Continue reading

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The doctored science of global warming

There was an article in the Washington time (also Climate Change Dispath). The title and thrust of the article is: “The doctored science of global warming ” detailing Lamar’s committee’s continued investigation into “NOAAgate”. I didn’t think much of it … Continue reading

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When even good news is bad news for climate extremists

With the current El Nino pushing up the only credible global temperature measurement from the satellites, I expected to see a bit more excitement from the (once) mainstream media … but no! I must admit I’m very much just dipping … Continue reading

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A theoretical explanation as to why: "Theory ≠ Practice"

≠I’ve been engaged in a long term conversation with a particularly stupid academic who can’t understand why we sceptics can be so certain we are right – when after all he is the academic who knows everything. So, I was … Continue reading

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Any bets on the month of "peak global warming"?

The indications are that we’ve now seen the peak of El Nino. Some alarmists (clutching at straws) told me that the peak comes a “few months after” the El Nino peak, and true enough in recent El Nino’s in the … Continue reading

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Gullible Greens "Hang on why isn't anyone doing anything about real pollution"?

I note in the Guardian there’s a piece finally grasping the reality that has been obvious to every sceptic: Paris was a failure and the Global warming scam is just a way for BIG OIL and other similar interests to … Continue reading

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UK Independent tabloid – RIP

The UK Independent was set up as an independent Newspaper – which most people would expect meant it supported independent views – like us sceptics. In reality, like so many things of the “global warming” types in society – what … Continue reading

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