Author Archives: Scottish-Sceptic

Just watched the headlines on BBC news at ten after pope’s encyclical. Not mentioned at all in headlines. What’s happened to the BBC?

I’m seeing a lot of headlines which are going to be causing really sleepless nights for those who understand government security and intelligence services. It’s ones like this: Pope urges revolution to save Earth, fix ‘perverse’ economy Pope Francis Calls … Continue reading →

Looking at the news coverage, a very profound realisation has occurred and it is this: most governments will be horrified by at least some aspect of this encyclical. Basically it is nuts. And to be frank it seems many governments … Continue reading →

There is a fundamental rule of politics that you try to unite people. But reading the Reuter’s article released a few minutes ago, I see so many red flags to so many bulls that many who never paid any interest … Continue reading →

There’s been a whole raft of articles on the web preceding the pope’s proclamation. Unfortunately, a small but obvious minority have resorted to the same childish name calling of “denier”. However, as I tried to comment on these articles and … Continue reading →

A while back I published a consensus document called “the sceptic view“. With so many new journalists now coming to the issue of climate as a result of the encyclical, I started thinking: “what would I want them to know … Continue reading →

There’s a general rule that anyone with any sense doesn’t make predictions based of very short runs of data. So it would be crazy for me to start getting excited on what is after all just the first day of … Continue reading →

Pope-gate** has started to get the feel of the Eurovision song contest. We’ve already had a series of monotonous contributions and now there’s some dreadful singer dressed in an appalling costume singing a song that no doubt was humorous in … Continue reading →

Pope-gate** the “heinous act” of leaking a daft sorry draft copy of the Pope’s proclamation may have been an insider job according to “Newser“. “[it] may have been designed to steal some thunder from Thursday’s official launch, Vatican observers say—and … Continue reading →