Category Archives: My Best Articles

The use of conspiracy theories to hide the truth

Posted on 21 February 2017 by Scottish-Sceptic

When Lewandowsky tried to attack climate sceptics as “moon landing conspiracists”, it opened my eyes to the possibility of using what he called “conspiracy ideationism” to attack groups and the possibility that it can be used to hide the truth. … Continue reading →

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The Caterpillar Effect: Now with second confirmation it must be rock solid science

Posted on 3 February 2017 by Scottish-Sceptic

[Note: This post reports confirmation that the theory I presented a while back on tectonic plate movement has been confirmed and is sound science. However, given the deafening silence I will make it sticky for a while.] Back in 2015 … Continue reading →

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The Post-Internet-Revolution society

Posted on 16 December 2016 by Scottish-Sceptic

I’ve been watching the tweets of every MSP and MP for the last fortnight – and whilst I had a pretty dim opinion of our “pro-oil anti-fossil-fuel) Holyrood MSPs before I’ve started, I’ve gone from thinking they’re deluded to thinking … Continue reading →

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The death of the political elite

Posted on 18 November 2016 by Scottish-Sceptic

WUWT found an interesting video in which Obama and Merkel talk about the role of the internet in changing politics: To be totally frank: Obama and Merkel must find it incredibly difficult to understand politics where many people have given … Continue reading →

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A discussion proposal for the future

Posted on 18 November 2016 by Scottish-Sceptic

Whether you believe in global warming or not, few can doubt that the system of climate monitoring is broke and that public trust is at an all time low. Having observed the “system” from outside for over a decade now, … Continue reading →

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The Physics of falling over

Posted on 16 May 2016 by Scottish-Sceptic

The physics of falling particularly related to rough ground appears to be one of those areas which for some reason hasn’t had a lot of research. This article sets out the various issues and is an initial stab at trying … Continue reading →

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The Academic Ape: Instinctive aggression and boundary enforcing behaviour in academia

Posted on 31 March 2016 by Scottish-Sceptic

Published on  Amazon in Kindle version. The Academic Ape: Instinctive aggression and boundary enforcing behaviour in academia

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The theory that will bring down global warming

Posted on 20 March 2016 by Scottish-Sceptic

The way global warming works is complex and multifaceted, and no single model will encompass all the effects neatly into one package. However there are two simplifications in common use. One (the heat trapping model) presents a view of a … Continue reading →

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A complete description of factors affecting global temperature

Posted on 10 March 2016 by Scottish-Sceptic

Following yesterday’s article about lapse rate I was frustrated by what I left out. So as a mental exercise, I set myself the challenge of putting down something about all the major things that affect climate and particularly global temperature. … Continue reading →

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Can variations in lapse rate & cloud cover explain ice-age temperature changes and the inter-glacial "hard stop"?

Posted on 9 March 2016 by Scottish-Sceptic

I woke up this morning thinking about the most fundamental issue of climate: If the temperature of the earth is set by the blackbody radiation temperature of the earth … and that is fixed in turn by the sun … … Continue reading →

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