Author Archives: Scottish-Sceptic

Lies, damned lies, and statistical significance of climate trends

Posted on 3 December 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

Today I read another article talking about “statistically significant warming” (link) and I wondered how anyone could know what is statistically significant without knowing the nature of the underlying natural variation. So, let’s introduce a very simple model of some … Continue reading →

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The Green-Blobby

Posted on 3 December 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

The greenblob is a gross overweight uncaring parasite on humanity. Now Jo Nova has gone better referring to the “Green-Blobby” – Spot on! When Owen Paterson ex minister at Defra referred to his concern about the green lobby: I leave … Continue reading →

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If sea ice is back to "normal" what does this imply about global temperature

Posted on 2 December 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

For years whenever someone mentioned the decline in sea ice I would respond “but that’s what we would expect to see after the temperature rise from the little ice age”. In other words, if temperature rises – as we are … Continue reading →

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Wikipedia lies

Posted on 2 December 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

I came across this sentence today: “Without any feedbacks, a doubling of CO2 (which amounts to a forcing of 3.7 W/m2) would result in 1 °C global warming, which is easy to calculate and is undisputed. ” (link) Professor Hermann … Continue reading →

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Scots: more words for rain than Eskimos for snow

Posted on 28 November 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

It is often claimed that “Eskimos have hundreds of words for snow”, but I wondered whether this is true or if there were more Scottish words for rain. First, the truth about the Eskimo or Inuit: David Robson, New Scientist … Continue reading →

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Is the earth expanding? Massively!!

Posted on 27 November 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

I’ve come across this video by chance. It breaks the known principles of science so it must be wrong, but I’m scratching my head trying to work out how to make it fit in with what I know. Have a … Continue reading →

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Proof: cold can be turned into warm.

Posted on 27 November 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

There is a certain vociferous group who refuse to accept that a cold object such as a blanket or the sky can make a warmer object warmer. After a few drinks, I found a very simple way to prove then … Continue reading →

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Simplified atmospheric model

Posted on 27 November 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

I want to examine three extreme models of the atmosphere: entirely transparent, entirely opaque and entirely transparent to visible and opaque to IR. From this I will show that the presumed adiabatic lapse through the atmosphere of “33C” must be … Continue reading →

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Cloud feedbacks

Posted on 27 November 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

When I try to model cloud feedbacks, I start getting some startling figures with likely warming for a doubling of CO2 is as low as 0.1-0.2C. Clearly this is the reason they “can’t” model clouds – because this whole scam … Continue reading →

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In defense of Ramsay

Posted on 26 November 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

I am going to take the highly unusual step (for me) of defending an academic against a blog post on Bishop hill. The issue at stake is carbon 14 dating as used by archaeologists to derive dates. And as I’m … Continue reading →

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