Category Archives: Academia

what more is there for sceptics? – I'm not a pyschiatrist and I'm no priest!

Posted on 25 September 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

As I was writing a note today I explained why I felt there was little more for the sceptic to do because “Scepticism is about basing your views on the evidence and the evidence is now very very clearly in … Continue reading →

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Why Mann must be stopped

Posted on 24 September 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

Doing things outside climate for a while has given me a new perspective. So it was interesting reading the post on Bishop Hill. I’ve never doubted that Steyn would win in a fair courtroom. And when I saw the appalling … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, Fails | 9 Comments

The global warming rout

Posted on 15 September 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

From the very first headline: “There Are Now 52 Explanations For The Pause In Global Warming” (Daily Caller), it was obvious that things are not going the zealot’s way. A quick scan now shows that the biggest story in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, Fails, Goat Toads | 2 Comments

Mann versus reality

Posted on 11 September 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

After reading the WUWT, I wanted to summarise the my thoughts on Mann’s chances of wining the court case and how I think he’s either lost hold of reality and/or is surrounded by fair weather friends who don’t have his … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, Climate, Fails | 21 Comments

Corruption Of Academic Journals For Profit and Climate Change Propaganda

Posted on 13 July 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

A long time ago, I recognised that the climate signal was far too short a time period to be able to say anything at all about it – and so it was fraudulent to say much at all. But academics … Continue reading →

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Another academic shows they are clueless on climate.

Posted on 9 July 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

Over at “The End of Physics” we find a gem of a piece from this academic who says: This one is particularly irritating because it’s essentially a silly circular argument. “Yes, we’ve warmed. However, we can’t tell, using a statistical … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, Climate | 9 Comments

You must explain the warming

Posted on 28 June 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

**Note since posting Richard has commented to say the quote (which I couldn’t find myself) referred to something else. So apologies Richard and thanks, because it was about time I wrote an article on this. So even if it doesn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, Climate, Fails | 5 Comments

Academics reject scientific method

Posted on 27 June 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

The physicist who runs a blog he should call “AndThenIGaveUpScience” has a blog post on: consensus, the appeal to authority, and how we counter manufactured doubt, And the video (at end) is a real laugh. In the talk we hear … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, Climate, science | 8 Comments

What really annoys climate academics about the public critique of their work.

Posted on 26 June 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

The Guardian have some interesting comments from climate academics (I refuse to call people who don’t practice real skeptic science “scientists”). This really needs a detailed response to each one – something that is impossible on the Guardian, and something … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, Climate | 13 Comments

Scotsman: Mike Haseler: No place for name-calling in debate

Posted on 4 March 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

In The Scotsman A recent survey of those participating in online forums showed that most of the 5,000 respondents were experienced engineers, scientists and IT professionals, most degree-qualified and around a third with post-graduate qualifications. The survey, carried out by … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, Climate, Funding Imbalance, History, Sceptics, Survey | 17 Comments