Category Archives: Proposals

A Scottish Panama Canal

Posted on 13 April 2017 by Scottish-Sceptic

The panama canal is 48 miles cuts through land rising to nearly 100m above sea level is about 35m wide and has 6 locks. It carries a 1000 ships each year and is supposedly one of the seven wonders of … Continue reading →

Posted in Proposals, transport | 2 Comments

My perfect polical party manifesto

Posted on 2 January 2017 by Scottish-Sceptic

After my experience in UKIP, I’ve realised that there are huge issues with all the present political parties as none of them represent my views. So, I was wondering what a political party would look like if it had a … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, General, Politics, Proposals | 4 Comments

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 theory of non-causality

Posted on 6 August 2015 by Scottish-Sceptic

In logic, there is a requirement the world is structured such that A->B which can be read “if A then B”, but is often assumed to mean: “A causes B”. As a physicist, I was indeed taught that the whole … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, Climate, My Best Articles, Politics, Proposals, Sceptics, science | 4 Comments

Proposed Scottish Motorway System

Posted on 28 May 2015 by Scottish-Sceptic

Below is an outline suggestion for a series of new Scottish roads on which I would welcome comments. But first, by “Motorway” I mean a major road suitable within a Scottish context of long-distance driving at relatively low densities and … Continue reading →

Posted in Proposals, transport | 9 Comments

Simplified atmospheric model

Posted on 27 November 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

I want to examine three extreme models of the atmosphere: entirely transparent, entirely opaque and entirely transparent to visible and opaque to IR. From this I will show that the presumed adiabatic lapse through the atmosphere of “33C” must be … Continue reading →

Posted in Advanced Greenhouse Theory, Climate, My Best Articles, Proposals | 14 Comments

Cloud feedbacks

Posted on 27 November 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

When I try to model cloud feedbacks, I start getting some startling figures with likely warming for a doubling of CO2 is as low as 0.1-0.2C. Clearly this is the reason they “can’t” model clouds – because this whole scam … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate, Proposals | 6 Comments

A scientist's guide to greenhouse warming.

Posted on 24 November 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

Over the years I have seen many people arguing about how the Greenhouse effect works and from these discussions it is clear that most people misunderstand it. That is not to say that adding a greenhouse gas like CO2 to … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate, My Best Articles, Proposals | 47 Comments

The Human Reptile?

Posted on 11 November 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

A long time ago animals were divided into “mammals” and “reptiles” from Latin repere “to crawl, creep”. Reptiles were the cold blooded, scaly creatures who lurked in cold water laid eggs and were basically “not nice” like fluffy furry mammals. … Continue reading →

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PDO and El Nino: resonant response to natural variation?

Posted on 31 October 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

In a recent article by Kevin Trenberth amongst his silly comments he mentioned El Nino and Pacific Decadal Variability as one of many “the dog ate my warming” type excuses to deny the scientific fact of the pause. In my … Continue reading →

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