Author Archives: Scottish-Sceptic

Vorsprung Durch Sceptic – German Greens gives up on Global warming!

Posted on 17 November 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

Recently I realised that after WWII a very strange thing happened: the Nazis lost WWII because Hitler was obsessed with rockets, death rays and other “blue-sky” science. In contrast, in good old Blighty and the US we won the war, … Continue reading →

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The Hypocrisy of the Green Mind

Posted on 14 November 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

When Jo Swinson, my MP and Minister for women, equality and a lot of other things we I can’t remember gave a car crash interview to Andrew Neil and in one sentence laughed about her frequent flying and in almost … Continue reading →

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Predicting a downturn

Posted on 12 November 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

I wrote this article on the basis that climate variability is 1/f noise and assumed that as red noise is similar to 1/f noise an upturn is as likely as a downturn. However, as I cleaned my teeth before bed … Continue reading →

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Caesar: the nature of intelligence

Posted on 11 November 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

I was watching the prelude to Planet of the Apes and admiring how chimps which as far as I could see had never seen a lock after being given the “intelligence virus”, could suddenly because they are now intelligent, could … Continue reading →

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The Human Reptile?

Posted on 11 November 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

A long time ago animals were divided into “mammals” and “reptiles” from Latin repere “to crawl, creep”. Reptiles were the cold blooded, scaly creatures who lurked in cold water laid eggs and were basically “not nice” like fluffy furry mammals. … Continue reading →

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Admission: Climate Scientists are Extremists and Alarmists

Posted on 11 November 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

There’s a trailer for another “Trust me I call myself a scientist” videos which is a completely doomed tactic of trying to persuade people that they do good science by taking the shortcut and making a PR movie, rather than … Continue reading →

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Open Thread – test

Posted on 10 November 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

Been doing some changes to the site and commenting. This is a test post to which you are welcome to add comments.

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Phases of a public scare

Posted on 10 November 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

1. Discovery Discovering of a believable threat. In 1910 scientists discovered that Halley’s Coment contained significant levels of cyanide. Or they “discover” that bird flu (like all flu) has caused deaths. The millennium bug is “discovered” as a story which … Continue reading →

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In defence of the alarmist right to free speech

Posted on 8 November 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic
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Nazi Science & Global Warming

Posted on 8 November 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic
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