Category Archives: My Best Articles

Enerconics: The Relationship between Energy and GDP

Posted on 18 October 2013 by Scottish-Sceptic

This is a write up of a presentation I gave which Neil Craig has been badgering me to put on line. It was written for a Scottish audience, but the argument and conclusion are valid worldwide. An Energy Policy to … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, Enerconics, Energy, My Best Articles | 37 Comments

sceptics vs. academics

Posted on 3 October 2013 by Scottish-Sceptic

This is part of a long term project to try to understand why the “two sides” in the climate debate look at pretty much the same information and come to very different conclusions. Having met both sides, and tried to … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, My Best Articles, Sceptics, science, Survey | 236 Comments

Climate scientists are Nazi Paedophiles?

Posted on 14 September 2013 by Scottish-Sceptic

If I had actually said “Climate scientists are Nazi Paedophiles” how long would it be before the BBC and the whole warmist chatterarti of academia would be condemning me? So, why do government ministers and BBC broadcasters feel they can … Continue reading →

Posted in Fails, Funding Imbalance, Goat Toads, greenblob, Humour, Media, My Best Articles, Politics, Sceptics | 11 Comments

The Sceptic View (Rev. 0.5)

Posted on 6 May 2012 by Scottish-Sceptic

Thank you for all those who have contributed. I’ve read all the comments and have tried to take account of what everyone is saying. Comments have ranged from “broadly agree” to “there is no sceptic view” to “the whole theory … Continue reading →

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Cosmic rays & the late 20th century temperature data: a smoking gun?

Posted on 8 September 2011 by Scottish-Sceptic

The graph on the left shows cosmic ray flux (dark line) and reconstructed climate. (dotted) from 1850 to 2003. It does show an upward trend for most of the time with a reasonable correlation between ups and downs on cosmic … Continue reading →

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How to Boil a Frog

Posted on 21 April 2011 by Scottish-Sceptic

“The title is based on the premise that if a frog is placed in boiling water it will jump out but, if it is placed in cold water that is slowly heated, it will not perceive the danger and will … Continue reading →

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Scientists discover why wet soil is dark

Posted on 1 April 2011 by Scottish-Sceptic

In a major breakthrough Associate Profession William Philpot of Cornell School of Civil & Environmental Engineering has cracked the secret of wet soil. He has now produced a simple theoretical model describing the reflectance from wetted soils which describes the … Continue reading →

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