Author Archives: Scottish-Sceptic

Survey: How often do you read convinced blogs

Results from survey “Professional Background & Attitude to Climate” undertaken in Spring 2014 Field summary for I002 How often do you read blogs that are in general convinced that manmade warming is a problem such as Skeptical Science, Real Climate, … Continue reading

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Questons from survey

A copy of the questions   Professional Background & Attitude to Climate Welcome. This survey is being undertaken by the Scottish Climate & Energy Forum to understand more about those engaged in the climate debate. The majority of questions are … Continue reading

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Should I publish the survey data?

For months since getting a deluge of responses to the survey on sceptics I’ve been trying to find some way to get funding to hire in the necessary resources to do the funding and/or work with a group who have … Continue reading

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Why academics should pay the cost when Global warming fails

If you offer advice to government and claim that advice should be followed, then you are taking on the role of a normal private sector consultant who is legally liable for the costs incurred by those to whom they give … Continue reading

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Survey: how often do you read Sceptic blogs

To give an idea of the output, this is the data from the first question as displayed on the summary report. Results of survey “Professional Background & Attitude to Climate” undertaken in Spring 2014 Results Number of records in this … Continue reading

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"funding is a primary driver" of activists

In an article referring to Global Warming activists Randal SimonettiĀ  a consultant in reputational management spells out the truth we sceptics know, the activists are primarily driven by money:- “you must first consider the driving motive that supports the attacker’s … Continue reading

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uBurns.com

I’ve now updated uBurns.com which gives a simulated 100 year forecast of climate assuming a simple 1/f noise model to display the distribution frequency. Contents: Graph showing equivalent of individual global temperature data scaled -1 to 1. A smoothed graph … Continue reading

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Lima: the straw that breaks the Green's back?

Back in 2012 when the Kyoto Commitment came to an end, I thought the greens would take a few months to realise what had happened, wake up, smell reality, and know that world governments are just stringing them along. Two … Continue reading

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Inhofe: finally the big guns are firing!

For years, we sceptics have faced a hostile press, hostile government politicians, hostile “in-the-trough” academics and worst of all, the hostile idiotic celebrities – jumping on the bandwagon – most of whom wouldn’t know at atom if it hit them … Continue reading

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The real difference between alarmists and sceptics

There’s a post on a blog that is not any way connected to physics which when I asked for racist comments to be removed asked me not to comment. And that is something I am happy to comply with as … Continue reading

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