Author Archives: Scottish-Sceptic

Presentation at Liverpool University

Posted on 25 August 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

Last Friday, I finally gave my presentation to Liverpool University. Not on climate as you might expect, but on the famous battle of Mons Graupius between the Caledonians and Romans which as the evidence of 1st century dating of the … Continue reading →

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Israel a pariah State

Posted on 3 August 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

If any other country had stolen the land on which it exists, had then incarcerated the previous inhabitants in a huge prison and then killed thousands of them for daring to resist their detention, the world would rightly have reacted. … Continue reading →

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Home to an earful on climate.

Posted on 1 August 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

On my return from a holiday in Brittany, Paris, and canoeing down the Wye, I was catching up with an old friend when I experienced the strangest phenomenon: someone going on at length to tell me how absurd the idea … Continue reading →

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Global warming trends

Posted on 24 July 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

Every so often I go and have a look at the global warming search term trends to see how things are going. This time I’ve collected them together. The general overview of searches Below is an overview of the trend … Continue reading →

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Analysis of Scottish Power Outage

Posted on 21 July 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

The power outage In response to the news on bishop hill that MSP Alex Johnstone (Conservative, North East Scotland) was tabling the following question: ‘whether it has undertaken any further investigation into whether an over reliance on wind turbines as … Continue reading →

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Lewandowsky: those believing in global warming are gullible.

Posted on 21 July 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

Summary Based on the ethics application, Lewandowsky’s known views on skeptics and comments he made about “the pause” it appears this project was set up with the expectation that it would show that skeptics changed their views depending what they … Continue reading →

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Rise and Fall of wikipedia

Posted on 18 July 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

Wikipedia were one of the earlier websites on the internet launching in 2001. Like other big sites, they saw rapid growth in user participation from 2001 till 2006 and then very suddenly, as the graph to the right shows, the … Continue reading →

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Change of site address to scottishsceptic.co.uk

Posted on 13 July 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

I’ve finally decided to provide this Scottish Sceptic blog its own url: scottishsceptic.co.uk If there are any teething problems please add your comment here.

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Why climate engineers beat the climate academics

Posted on 13 July 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

There is no doubt that skeptics have a proven track record on predicting the inability of climate academics to predict the climate. After nearly 18years without warming which none of the academics predicted (even after it started), they are looking … Continue reading →

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The Toad goes rowing – TheEndofPhysics laments those "insisting on validation of models"

Posted on 13 July 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

I nearly thought about posting on this, where the Toad (aka Connolley) has finally decided that 8minutes of watching him rowing is more important than anything else. However, then I noticed people were commenting and I couldn’t help wondering what the … Continue reading →

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