Author Archives: Scottish-Sceptic

There are some letters which are written not expecting to get a reply – but merely to ensure that it is a matter of public record that the government have been informed. This is one of those letters: {address} 18/2/2016 … Continue reading →

A bit of personal forward planning As far as public interest is concerned, global warming peaked in 2007 (google trends). As far as academic (aka “scientific”) credibility is concerned it peaked in 2009 with climategate, not so much for the … Continue reading →

There are many reasons to believe the temperature trend is much cooler than the corrupt figure given for surface data. 1. The data is massively adjusted (equivalent to all the warming since 1940) 2. The stations just happen to have … Continue reading →

I’m sure that sooner or later the legal profession is going to realise that with some $trillion in value being made from this scam – that there’s an awful lot of ways they can make a huge amount of money … Continue reading →

In WUWT Tim Ball asks a simple question: Long -Term Climate Change: What Is A Reasonable Sample Size? And the answer is fairly simple. For a reasonable degree of certainty (~75% – but see end) One needs around 10x the … Continue reading →

Two apparently contradictory headlines caught my attention today: Some types of trees may make climate change worse, not better Forestry practices have negative climate effects, researchers say To which my response was “of course trees cause climate change” – that … Continue reading →

When I joined industry, one of the first things I was told was “always look busy” – because any department that didn’t look busy was bound to be the target of any redundancy. Obviously climate researchers in Australia never got … Continue reading →

After my last post, musing that I cannot hope to ever discern the human influence of CO2 on the climate – I started thinking about the chances of such stupid scares occurring by pure chance because the climate always has … Continue reading →

  I would just like to share with you a thought. Having calculated that there should have been around 0.6C warming during the pause, I was just musing what the chances of getting this warming be coincidence would be. And … Continue reading →