Category Archives: Climate

Why better theories fail – and why academia needs to change.

I wrote this in reply to James McGinn who has come up with some ideas about the way water behaves as a gas (which are not totally absurd) who had said: “It’s funny, but when I first set out to … Continue reading

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The doctored science of global warming

There was an article in the Washington time (also Climate Change Dispath). The title and thrust of the article is: “The doctored science of global warming ” detailing Lamar’s committee’s continued investigation into “NOAAgate”. I didn’t think much of it … Continue reading

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When even good news is bad news for climate extremists

With the current El Nino pushing up the only credible global temperature measurement from the satellites, I expected to see a bit more excitement from the (once) mainstream media … but no! I must admit I’m very much just dipping … Continue reading

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A theoretical explanation as to why: "Theory ≠ Practice"

≠I’ve been engaged in a long term conversation with a particularly stupid academic who can’t understand why we sceptics can be so certain we are right – when after all he is the academic who knows everything. So, I was … Continue reading

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Any bets on the month of "peak global warming"?

The indications are that we’ve now seen the peak of El Nino. Some alarmists (clutching at straws) told me that the peak comes a “few months after” the El Nino peak, and true enough in recent El Nino’s in the … Continue reading

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Gullible Greens "Hang on why isn't anyone doing anything about real pollution"?

I note in the Guardian there’s a piece finally grasping the reality that has been obvious to every sceptic: Paris was a failure and the Global warming scam is just a way for BIG OIL and other similar interests to … Continue reading

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UK Independent tabloid – RIP

The UK Independent was set up as an independent Newspaper – which most people would expect meant it supported independent views – like us sceptics. In reality, like so many things of the “global warming” types in society – what … Continue reading

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Letter to First Minister of Scotland

There are some letters which are written not expecting to get a reply – but merely to ensure that it is a matter of public record that the government have been informed. This is one of those letters: {address} 18/2/2016 … Continue reading

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Peak Global Warming

A bit of personal forward planning As far as public interest is concerned, global warming peaked in 2007 (google trends). As far as academic (aka “scientific”) credibility is concerned it peaked in 2009 with climategate, not so much for the … Continue reading

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8 Reasons why global surface temperature is crap

There are many reasons to believe the temperature trend is much cooler than the corrupt figure given for surface data. 1. The data is massively adjusted (equivalent to all the warming since 1940) 2. The stations just happen to have … Continue reading

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