Scottish Sceptic

The story is too confused and is too likely to be all hot air … or maybe not. So I’ll leave it to you to decide and just post the link:
http://news.yahoo.com/apnewsbreak-arctic-scientist-under-investigation-082217993.html
 

Two reports have or are coming up with I believe is the nail in the coffin of global warming. There will always be idiots who believe this nonsense, but the evidence against the ridiculous “it’s got to be CO2 as nothing else explains warming” and “there are massive positive feedbacks, there’s got to be because CO2 did it”. They are now dead.
CERN is about to come out with a report which from the gossip will say that solar activity does cause cloud formation from which it is pretty obvious that “it was the sun what did it”.
Now Roy Spencer has direct observational evidence that the atmosphere is not retaining the heat it needs to retain if the necessary massive positive feedbacks were in place. Forbes Continue reading →

Bill Giles has got himself into the Daily Mail trying to explain why its been a terrible summer (I thought England had done OK and it was just Scotland). So, what does he say: basically its all the fault of the deluded British public for expecting warmer weather due to the doomsday global warming:-

“Our beloved planet is certainly getting warmer, but because of the poor way the message has been put across, a lot of people believe this means hot, dry summers and milder, wetter, stormier winters.” (Bill Giles 2011 Mail) Continue reading →

David King former chief scientist having realised that Kyoto, his former folly was dead, now wants to build another.
So, let’s start with the basics. There are something like 6 or 7 billion people on the planet. If there were only 3billion, we’d all be able to consume as much carbon as we are now, but we would reduce CO2 emissions by half. It’s quite painless, just a bit of simple birth control and problem solved. No one goes without fossil fuels, indeed, we may even be able to increase standards of living without increasing CO2. Continue reading →

In retrospect I think we have a lot to thank the Jones report to the BBC. The assumption must have been that if you took an impartial scientist, and asked them to look at the coverage, they would give a meaningful impartial analysis etc. etc.
Instead, almost no one except Jones and a few zealots will be fooled by this report. The reason they asked for the review was concern that there was bias. And far from an impartial assessment, they were told: “the BBC is biased … but not against the sceptics … but in their favour”. Continue reading →

Amid the disgust at the BBC’s “from now on we will only cover the views of the experts because their view in unequivocally correct cannot be denied and Saddam did have WMD anyway … it’s just that everyone stopped looking” … amid the stupid hypocrisy of the BBC and the stifling rise of pro-warmist stories in the news.
I missed the fact that global warming stories (both pro and anti) may well have fallen to an all time low. Or at least google news count is(?) at an all time low (which now I think about it may mean that Google in it’s desire to spread the truth have decided that anti-global warming news isn’t “news”?) Continue reading →

According to the Daily Telegraph, a Genetic professor who clearly had an axe to grind about “biased” coverage of genetics has decided has “cleared the BBC of any suggestion of bias in its programming.” … “Climate change sceptics should get less BBC coverage and be challenged ‘more vigorously’, corporation body will rule” (Daily Mail) Continue reading →

This is the month I thought I would get grumpy over fuel prices which continue to rocket due to idiotic policies from our gullible politicians who couldn’t spot a con if it flaps its arms and said: “I’m a con”.
But no. I went to Asda last night and suddenly the price of everything has gone up. £17 for a joint of lamb. Even mince at £4 is on the high side compared to the “normal” price. And cereal packets were overwhelmingly over the £2 and even into the £3 bracket. If this continues, I’m going to be feeding my kids on chocolate (joke – it’s probably gone up as well). Continue reading →

In the 20th century “science” was without doubt incredibly successful. Everything from microchips to antibiotics. As a result “science” became a reputable brand giving authority to those who called themselves “scientists”. It was such a great brand that everyone with any cause wanted to adopt it to boost their credentials, but at first it had certain standards: proof via evidence from experimentation. Asserting only what can be proven from the facts (not opinion polls).
But then certain subjects began running out of things to research. Continue reading →