Category Archives: Climate

Greens give up on Warsaw climate talks

Reuters) – Several major environmental groups, including Greenpeace and WWF, have walked out of U.N. climate talks in Warsaw in protest at what they see as a lack of progress towards an international deal to curb rising global greenhouse gas … Continue reading

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Get rid of the Green Crap

David Cameron has ordered ministers to ditch the ‘green crap’ blamed for driving up energy bills and making business uncompetitive, it is claimed. The Prime Minister, who once pledged to lead the ‘greenest government ever’, has publicly promised to ‘roll … Continue reading

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Where to put effort in Climate Science?

Sceptics and the convinced clearly can’t agree even on very simple things like what to call Prof Salby. So if we can’t agree what we know, can we at least agree on what we don’t. The honest answer is no, … Continue reading

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Do climate scientists have personal indemnity Insurance?

All this talk of sueing the cyber bullies has led onto an interesting subject. In  the good old days when I ran a small business designing off-grid power systems and temperature control equipment, I set the business up as a … Continue reading

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Why do sceptics put up with cyber bullying?

Because sceptics are culturally resistant to seeing themselves as victims. Sceptics are loners … not social loners but intellectual loners. We do not need our views endorsed by our peers. We are resilient, self-reliant we have often worked in time-critical … Continue reading

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The police visited today

Last night in the Independent I spotted several more libellous comments about “deniers”, plus one about “in the pay of oil” Of course I reported these posts. But even after about an hour they were still sitting there. So, I … Continue reading

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Cyber attack on Sceptics

Last night I noticed JoNova’s site was either not responding at all or was very very slow. Then I read that Anthony Watt’s server had been under attack (A note on my cyber attack and communications). Now I’ve read that Andrew … Continue reading

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Report: Lecture by Prof Salby 7th Nov 2013

Climate: What we know and what we don’t downloadable version Professor Salby giving his presentation on 7th November 2013 to the Scottish Climate & Energy Forum. produced by Mike Haseler BSc. MBA Summary In order to understand the importance of … Continue reading

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Hermann Harde: greenhouse effect 30% smaller than IPCC says.

Great news!! Professor Hermann Harde who is a German academic who specialises in gas absorption and thoroughly understands the radiative properties of gases, has used the very latest up to date HITRAN database of gas absorption spectra and discovered that … Continue reading

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Thanks Prof Salby

I didn’t like Prof Murry Salby’s talk – not because it wasn’t thoroughly convincing that the rise in CO2 was unlikely to be man-made, but because it was so convincing. I will admit to starting the day as a CO2 … Continue reading

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