According to an article – itself reporting on the Guardian – an Eu dictator has declared that “Paris is final”. The Dead parrot talks are …well … the end. There is no plan B. When they fail, they fail for good. The parrot will be no one, it has gone to meet its maker. It is deceased.
What is most laughable is that he believes such an empty threat will have any other effect than to make the people of the world all the more keen to see these dead parrot talks fail.

Oh dear, oh dear! Anthers has blown a gasket over the Sun article. He starts:

The Sun appears to have some kind of competition called The Great British Sound Off which aims to find a great Sun columnist. One of the finalists is a 19 year old called George Harrison who’s piece is called give climate hotheads the (ice) cold shoulder …

He ends:

… about 15 minutes and is pretty much all I can be bothered doing. It wasn’t hard, but maybe simply making stuff up is easier than actually doing some background research

Which is a very apt appraisal of global warming research!
Anthers: a little bit of background research
Even for his blog, the comments on the article are boring. But two were notable. There is the disgusting vitriol:

I could never have imagined it back when I was a student and the Sun was a pariah newspaper, but today I cried over this Sun Article.
I’ve been a full time unpaid climate sceptic since around 2007 when I first realised that the science was totally distorted and the public were being told lies about the climate.
When I started I was naive enough to think that a few months campaigning would be enough to highlight the lack of scientific integrity.
For more than 8 years I have endured vitriol and hatred of not just idiots on line but idiots in government like Chris Hume. But despite the huge personal cost I carried on. Because at first there were so few of us sceptics and so I knew that each of us counted and it had to be done. 8 years later I already knew from the overwhelming support for the sceptic view online that we had won. I was confident of victory and it was only a matter of time before the scientific illiterate politicians running our country finally realised they had been conned. So I didn’t expect my reaction today.
All that time & effort I have put in. Those two keyboards I have worn bare engaging in online forums. That time running blogs, writing to (useless) politicians. I now know it has not been in vain
thank you Sun.
Mike Haseler, BSc. MBA
(unemployed)

I have a commeter named Cedric, who appears to see the whole world as one big conspiracy to conspire and keeps talking about Vax machines – which I don’t think is fair on the Vax machines as they were good in their day.
However, I thought if Cedric had the chance to put his thoughts down in one article he might be able to make more sense than he has hitherto. However, this is what he sent me:

For reasons which are quite obvious, whenever I log into the Independent I find I cannot post comments.
However this one was just too good to keep quiet about:

Soon children won’t know what the Met Office is!

For anyone who doesn’t yet this is a reference to the 2000 article in the independent in which a UEA academic said:

Soon children won’t know what snow is!

Note: Oldbrew informs me: “It’s a £3 million contract not £30m so the MetO may just about survive :/”
http://www.thegwpf.com/bbc-pulls-plug-on-met-office/

I must learn to stop saying “we’ve won” – because each time I do, something even better comes along which seems a better point to mark the end.
So, again, it is just beginning to dawn on me that if reports that some £30million of the Met Office budget of £33million are true, it now appears the end of the BBC contract with the Met Office is not only the end of “credible” global warming climate extremism on the BBC (fuelled by the Met office), but quite possibly the end of the Met Office.
And if so, the “head” & much of the body and several arms and legs of the global warming beast will have been removed in the UK. The UK climate extremists will once again be relegated to a few leather-patch-on-elbows pipe-smoking sandal-wearing hi-vis jacket wearing academics, ready to be wheeled out once in a blue moon.
In other words, it now seems likely that it will be the end of the Met Office contract with the BBC that history will mark as the end of the global warming scam in the UK.
And if only I hadn’t already said “we’ve won” – I could now say “we’ve won”.
Moreover, because this came out of the blue in a way that must have been unexpected, it will certainly send a cold shiver of realism down the backs of other government climate extremist organisations, particularly in the US, where similar draconian action against e.g. the EPA, NASA or NOAA looks highly likely when the Republicans win the presidency (even without it still looks probable!)

I’m currently engaged on a very different project. So, if anyone whether sceptic or not, wishes to raise any issue or subject vaguely on climate, science, engineering or Scottishness, then I’d welcome a few paragraphs to raise an issue, interest or question.
Main rules are not to attack individuals and it must be legal and decent.

I have a poster named Cedric who keeps going on about NASA. As his comments were off topic, I removed them from another subject but as he put in the effort to write them, I will reproduce them here:

 
NASA, for example. Continue reading →

When I was at school I seriously thought about joining the Met Office. So, I must admit I have some empathy with the old school weather forecasters who used to run the Met Office who may suffer as a result of the loss of the BBC contract.
But unfortunately, even if I had joined, like so many others with a science background, I would have been sidelined by the new breed of arrogant computer geeks with their £100million (public paid) computers and their (failed) models, marketing consultants and accountants.
Because, in a real sense the Met Office I wanted to join died years ago. Their obsession with global warming was not so much the cause of their decline, but just a symptom of its demise.
Of course, I am delighted that the climate extremists in the BBC will no longer have the succour of the climate extremists that now infest the Met Office. Continue reading →

Dear sceptic (skeptics),
you might know me as “Scottish Sceptic”, in real life I’m Mike Haseler, a father of three, who like so many others felt obliged to fight the non-science in what some called the “climate wars”. I believe I speak for most of us, when I say our aims were modest: to stop the stupidity, arrogance and politicisation that infested academia and those like NOAA from seriously impacting our society, economy and yes … the environment. Because, I sincerely believe that at the heart of most sceptics is not only a passion for honesty and real compulsion to do what we believe is right for society, but also a deep concern for the earth.
And in a real sense we have “won” the climate war, because Green groups are now all but admitting what I call the “Dead Parrot Talks” (as I call them) in Paris will be a “failure”. They are now discussion “how to make people care” about the (lack of) warming. And the reality is that whatever their rhetoric, governments like the UK are starting to dismantle the global warming bandwagon.
But in another sense, the war can never be “won”, because the fight against arrogant stupidity and greed will always be with us. Because so long as there are gullible people, there will always be the profiteering sharks, ready to fabricated crisis to line their pockets. So, there will always be a need for us sceptics!
But like “the Dead Parrot” sketch of Monty python, this parrot (global warming) is dead as more and more the public realise that it was only ever on its perch “because it had been nailed there” as the sketch goes.
So, I think it is time we all gave ourselves a pat on the back,. But unfortunately, we sceptics initially few in number, but now overwhelming in numbers, do not have some leader to stand on some battleship and proclaim “the war is over”. Nor can we cannot award medals of gallantry to those who stood out for their devotion to duty however much they are deserved.
However, I can say without modesty or fear of contradiction (by the facts), never have so many owed so much to so few. Those bloggers who stood up against tyranny in the dark hours of repression, those who supported them in the comments, even just those who read the posts in quiet support, have all been responsible for one of the greatest victories of humanity: not against actual weapons of mass destruction, but instead against false ideas and ignorance. I sincerely believe that if there had not been those few first sceptics willing to take the lead and this global warming hysteria had taken a deeper hold, the impact to our society would have caused a Stalinist type holocaust greater than any war the world has ever seen.
That threat has gone (for now), so as the turmoil of the “climate wars” ebbs away and governments, academics and governmental agencies, begin to wake up to the changing world, I would just like to say “thanks” to each and everyone sceptic.

thanks!

Thank you all the bloggers both big and small, all of whom played a vital role disseminating the truth. Thank you to everyone who has contributed articles and comments both on my blog, here and everywhere else. It has been a pleasure getting know people throughout the world. Thank you wives & husbands, families & friends that have put up with us “enthusiasts”. Thank you the few politicians who listened to us and thank you to those journalists who did their job and ensured the public heard the “other side” of the debate.
But those like me contributing on the internet at least could escape the vitriol and hatred thrown at us by the ignorant and greedy on line. In contrast, in areas like academia, sceptics not only risked their own careers, but in some notable cases lost them. So a particular thanks to them for their personal sacrifice in standing up for real science against the evil of ignorance and political spite.
But last of all one special lady deserves a mention. Without her, none of us would be here. She is without doubt our greatest sceptic who has consistently put up two fingers to all alarmists. She was the original sceptic who was just as sceptical of the global cooling crisis as the 20th century warming. So, let us all, in our own way say:

Thank you mother earth

The Human race’s greatest sceptic!