Scottish Sceptic

This now includes the suggestions below. Thanks to those who made suggestions. Inevitably it is still going to have missed people like e.g. the journalist Delingpole and the many contributors in WUWT – sorry if you are one. Please add suggestions to the comments.

John Harrison, was the person who created the modern world, almost literally. He is the person who invented a clock that was accurate enough to measure longitude (distance West-East). It was accurate enough to map the globe. Better still, the royal society hated him. They wanted this other person who was using the small change in position of the moon to get the prize. But just like the climate, they might have believed in the theory, but it would not work in practice.

We all laugh at climate scientists for jumping to entirely the wrong conclusion and seeing conspiracies where there are none.
Well. For the last few days I’ve been noticing that emails have been disappearing from my inbox. It all started when I was clearing out my various email accounts which had grown to several hundred megs what with all the pictures (No! Archaeology sites & maps!). So I was busy selecting emails by subject, by sender, etc., and deleting them and suddenly I realised that my inbox was empty. Continue reading →

I’ve been having a spot of bother with the law. No! I mean it literally. It is said (I say it this way because I don’t believe it) that the law in Scotland is based on an ancient concept called Bona Vacantia that anything without an owner belongs to your lord and master the King. Which in a daft sop to sexism means queen.
Now, on principle I’m nobody’s servant. In a modern society we are all equals. We may have different jobs and different skills, and some may be experts etc., but underneath we are all equal before the law. Continue reading →

FEBRUARY 19 — The Heartland Institute has sent legal notices to numerous Web sites, blogs, and publications asking them to take down the stolen and forged documents and what it views as malicious and false commentary based on them.
The following statement by Heartland Institute President Joseph L. Bast may be used for attribution. For more information, contact Director of Communications Jim Lakely at jlakely@heartland.org or 312-377-4000. (NOTE: The Heartland Institute’s first response to the posting of stolen and faked documents can be found here.)
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The big problem for anyone who published any material, is that there is no public defence. So, I shall no go and check my own comments and see if they are fair comment or spreading stolen information.

Obviously we all know the Guardian reports blatant lies** so it is not surprising that when all other papers have cut down on their non-science over global warming, the Guardian like some tantrum toddler continues to rant and scream.
So, having been banned from the Guardian for saying that the UEA broke the law (just like that), when I felt like a bit of fun pointing out to eco-zealots the lie about BIG-OIL, the continuous diarrhoea from the Guardian was …. irresistible? …. no! The last resort, because there’s almost no warmists left posting anywhere except the Guardian (and a few US backwaters).
But, what did I find when I looked through all their recent global warming non-science?
NO COMMENT!
Clearly, even the Guardian comments, where the most blatant double standards applied (anyone could delete anything sceptic … but no one could delete anything pro … and it was filled with lurking trolls who worked as teams to provoke the sceptic into getting banned) even the Guardian is now so filled with sceptics that they’ve had to ban comment or risk having their junk journalism continuously shown up for its hypocrisy and economy of truth.
**In faked documents.

For the last couple of years (since swine flu) I’ve visualised the ending of the non-science of global warming as being the same kind of growing lack of interest that appeared at the end of swine flu, and that appears after most media scares.
But I’m increasing worried by this analysis. I know civil servants and public officials will never declare an end (voluntarily) and so they will go for the head in the sand approach hoping it will go away. Continue reading →

Note. The following has been reproduced without permission from this site: http://climatechange.mensnewsdaily.com/2012/02/17/big-oil-money-for-me-but-not-for-thee/ who I have not been able to contact as yet to ask permission.

The Sierra Club takes fossil fuel money. So does the Nature Conservancy and Rajendra Pachauri’s sustainability conference. So why is the Heartland Institute being torn to pieces for the same behaviour? Continue reading →

Note: I’m having problems getting the table formatting to display the internal grid, but I’m going to post now, rather than wait to work out how to get around this.
The following is a comparison of the climategate and Heartland document release. I chose to compare them using the criteria provided by the PCC.  As far as I can see this is a pretty well open and shut case. The publication of information stolen from the Heartland Institute is against PCC code of conduct because there is no public interest and it breaks numerous sections whereas the release of climategate emails was fully justified by public interest.

As I sat down to read the latest gossip before doing something more useful, little did I realise that today would reveal the story that is the final nail in the Global warming scandal.
Deniergate started when someone released a number of documents of which some appear to be genuine Heartland Documents and one clearly isn’t (and there’s no way a professional organisation would produce something like that).
Like climategate there has been a scandal, there may even have been some law breaking (but what was the release of the UEA emails?) But the real scandal is that so many journalists from the Guardian to the Black Propaganda at the BBC were ready and willing to print this story without checking the facts. Continue reading →