And the top news on the global warming front:
As the world’s top-ranked “climate lifestyle coach,” Rue tells clients that global warming simply isn’t happening, or, if it is, humans certainly aren’t causing it, but, well, since it is happening, the thing to do is relax and enjoy it.
Yep, this is crap, and Rue is full of it, but she’s funny as the dickens. And that’s — thank you for asking — what a drag queen has to do with global warming. (Huff & Puff) Continue reading
A while back I would not have believed sun spots could affect the world. That became more credible when I realised that it was not sunspots but magnetic fields associated with the “boiling” bubbles we see as sunspots. To recap: sunspots occur when the sun is active. An active sun increases the magnetic shielding of the earth preventing Cosmic rays arriving. Cosmic rays then cause nuclei which act as centres for cloud formation and so affect the clouds.
[It’s easy to see why this has problems …. Spots, rays, Cosmic … I just can’t help visualising some 1950s cigar shaped rocket with the hero “cosmic” with their ray gun and their dog: “spot”.]
Then I was reading an article on climate etc., and as I began reading about tidal forces on the sun being linked to some solar activity. Continue reading
I was recently trying to find a list of instinctive human behaviour (i.e. based on experiment and not some blogger). The only one that I could find with much authoritative writing was yawning, but I was surprised to find that no one knew why we yawned. So, I was intrigued to read this in today’s Scotsman:
THE glazed eyes and the futile attempt to suppress a yawn as someone rambles on has long been seen as a response to boredom or as a sign the body is in need of a rest. Continue reading
Ayr Race Course Suite £26 pp including lunch and complimentary parking (ground floor so available to all delegates).
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SEVEN scientists and experts are standing trial in Italy for failing to deliver sufficient warning of an earthquake that killed more than 300 people in 2009.
The seven are accused of manslaughter for giving “inexact, incomplete and contradictory information” about whether tremors felt by the residents of the historic town of L’Aquila, in the Abruzzo area of central Italy, were the precursor of a major quake, which hit on 6 April.(The Scotsman)
This is just bizarre in the extreme, Continue reading
Anyone interested in forming a Scottish association to educate our politicians about the exaggerated claims of Global Warming is invited to attend a meeting Near Stirling from 2 – 4pm on Saturday 8th October. Continue reading
I know there is a temptation to see all windmill producers as part of the great evil of “green energy” global warming scam. However, having worked with Proven engineering I can vouch that Proven Engineering was not part of the wind energy scam, at least while I knew them. This was a hard working company built up by one person (and his wife) at a time when wind energy was not at all attractive to the politicians as a photogenic backdrops. Continue reading
Following a few discussions I’ve decided to whittle down the list to the following and I would now like you to indicate your preference, for an organisation which by general consensus is primarily set up to help educate our MSPs.
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WUWT have just published a paper that has found evidence showing that evaporation form plants causes cooling. Let’s go through the implications:
I had the misfortune to agree to meet Neil Craig at the Glasgow Skeptic society last night. I had hoped that by arriving late I would have missed the talk, but unfortunately like all priests before their parishioners, this sermon went on and on and on.
I knew the kind of half truths we were in for as soon as she mentioned the 97% of climate scientists – the ones who had been specially asked to fill in a questionnaire effectively asking whether it had warmed since the little ice age. Even I could answer yes … only idiots or scoundrels would refer to such a disreputable statistic. Continue reading
