Author Archives: Scottish-Sceptic

The evolution of the present CO2 desert

Posted on 26 June 2015 by Scottish-Sceptic

After yesterday’s article on the carboniferous desert (350-250million years ago), I’ve added a section to the article suggesting why we had the second drop in CO2 from around 150million years ago to the current “2nd CO2 desert”. See: http://scottishsceptic.uk/2015/06/25/lignin-and-the-carboniferous-co2-drop/

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Is Scotland experiencing a cooling of the climate?

Posted on 25 June 2015 by Scottish-Sceptic

This May I started checking our beech hedge for signs of it coming into leaf because I had noticed that much of the hedge came out of bud within a day and had recorded the date last year as May … Continue reading →

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Lignin and the carboniferous CO2 drop

Posted on 25 June 2015 by Scottish-Sceptic

If one looks at the graph of CO2 over the last 600million years there is a noticeable drop in CO2 levels in the carboniferous – a period when the world experienced it’s first “CO2 desert” with very low levels of … Continue reading →

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Josh Cartoon: I see no Caterpillar

Posted on 25 June 2015 by Scottish-Sceptic

I’ve been struggling to get facebook to show Josh’s wonderful cartoon which I published in More Caterpillars: The Leaky Atmosphere Hypothesis – is global pressure a proxy for global temperature? Hope this works!

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More Caterpillars: The Leaky Atmosphere Hypothesis – is global pressure a proxy for global temperature?

Posted on 25 June 2015 by Scottish-Sceptic

Most of this article was written before Roger Tallbloke pointed out that the suggestion the earth’s global temperature is controlled by the earth’s pressure was suggested by Nikolov & Zeller before 2011 (but on longer timescales). This means key point … Continue reading →

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Threat of court action must bring this scam crashing down!

Posted on 24 June 2015 by Scottish-Sceptic

Most public scares tend to come to public attention amid a mass of publicity but die in obscurity. And this is how politicians like their scares, they like to take the credit of ordering anti-viral drugs when there’s a flu … Continue reading →

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Big fall in sun's output would slow global warming in Europe, US -study shows

Posted on 23 June 2015 by Scottish-Sceptic

OSLO, June 23 (Reuters) – A fall in the sun’s heat output to levels last felt 300 years ago would slow temperature rises in the eastern United States and Europe, This just shows we sceptics were right. It was the … Continue reading →

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Greece's exit from the Euro – within a year!

Posted on 23 June 2015 by Scottish-Sceptic

I heard about the Greek bail out and as I wrote in “Just as Earthquakes are inevitable so is Greece’s exit from the Euro” it’s pretty naff as I see absolutely no sign of the necessary transfer of money into … Continue reading →

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When will the Guardian go bankrupt?

Posted on 23 June 2015 by Scottish-Sceptic

Tony Heller at RealScience has another good article: Today’s Featured Climate Criminals – The Guardian. Reading the comment by Gail Combs: “Of course they are also losing paying customers by the droves” backed up with this link:  Guardian CEO: my newspaper … Continue reading →

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The health benefits of geological fuels and CO2

Posted on 23 June 2015 by Scottish-Sceptic

I woke up to hear a really crazy “doctor” on the radio this morning (who else but the Biased Broadcasting Company). He must have been dipping into the medicine cabinet as I’ve not heard anyone so delusional for quite some … Continue reading →

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