Scottish Sceptic

As a non-American I was pleased to see Ted Cruz make the head of the “Sierra Club” look like an idiot for his denial of the scientific evidence for the pause from the satellites. But we’ve seen 100s of other clips – none of which did much except chip away at the global warming scam so I’ve grown content with slow but steady progress.
So, today when I saw a real preponderance of evidence for scepticism in the global warming news, I was to write another article about the “tide turning” – perhaps speculating on whether the slow progress to victory, would now turn into a rapid retreat for the climate extremists. But then it struck me that the real news was the face on all the top stories:

So, it really looks like it’s Ted Cruz’s day.

Whilst global temperature shows no sign of warming, the “Global warming”(scam) definitely shows signs of warming up as UK newspapers like the Express & Sun come out with all guns blazing  and demoralised climate extremists cling desperately to any straw floating their way – no matter who, what or how long these floaters have been digested.
However, the problem for us sceptics, is that with the demoralisation climate extremists, they just aren’t putting in the effort they used to and so we sceptics can’t get to laugh at their antics as we used to.
And with Mann about to lose his court case, Ricogate (it also looks like heading to court),  climate is becoming far too serious. So we desperately need someone with a proven track record of comedy to give us sceptics a laugh:

The White House is about to ramp up the public relations campaign for its regulations to fight global warming. The renewed PR effort comes just one month before the United Nations climate summit in Paris.
How is it doing this? By bringing on Thomas Reynolds, “a top communications strategist at the Environmental Protection Agency and a seasoned political operative, to a new position dedicated solely to messaging Mr. Obama’s global warming agenda,” according to The New York Times.
Read more:

Below is a “personal” letter I received from Ezra Levant. What I find so interesting is:

1. Globally the “public” media in Canada, UK and Australia all pretend to be “impartial” and no doubt like the BBC they have similar requirements to be impartial. But they are really no different from any other media – pushing their own agenda – except unlike any other media, the only people they have to keep on side are their paymasters in government.
2. Because of new technology, the cost of media is now falling dramatically. Where once it was necessary to have massive broadcasters like the BBC, these days, it’s almost possible for a handful of people to set up start and operate a successful broadcaster. And like the proverbial shrew and the dinosaur – the dinosaurs are never able to contemplate that those shrews will ever drive them to extinction.

Dear Mike,
Have you been watching this federal election campaign? It’s a gong show.
I don’t mean the politicians. I mean the media. Their conduct is outrageous. They’re not even pretending to be neutral. They’ve got a full-blown case of Harper Derangement Syndrome.
I call them the “Media Party”, because they’re campaigning full-tilt. You just can’t trust them to give you the straight news. Continue reading →

The express is a major UK tabloid, which now appears to be joining the stable of sceptic papers openly mocking the climate extremists:

Global warming ‘is FAKE’: Volume of ice caps is INCREASING, claims top geologist

THE WORLD is not heating up, some areas are actually getting colder and the volume of polar ice caps is INCREASING in some places, a leading geologist has claimed.

09:00Monday 14 September 2015
MANY independent scientists have concluded that the global warming scam is based on a flawed computer model, thus your correspondent Len Eyles (Observer August 27) can stop worrying.
NASA reported last year that the ice coverage of both the North and South Poles is the same today as it was in 1979. The Globe and Mail of Toronto reported that February 2015 was the coldest on record.
The myth of man-made climate change has lead to the construction of grossly inefficient wind turbines that blight the countryside, and seascapes, resulting in the loss of employment in electricity dependent industries. For example:
The Tata Steel Company, based in Wales, is mothballing its plant in Llanwern, signalling the loss of 250 jobs. A year ago the steel giant closed its site in Port Talbot, costing 400 jobs.
Read more … http://www.chichester.co.uk/news/letters/letter-climate-change-scam-1-6948785

Over the weekend, there was another massive “splutter” from the media with only four stories even vaguely mentioning “the world’s biggest problem” throughout the whole world over a 10 hour period.
And as this comment today makes clear, the climate extremists have lost almost all media support. Now Global warming is on life support. Like the Dead Parrot it is technically dead but still gives the occasional twitch when prodded by that tiny handful of the heading-toward-bankruptcy green=gullible media:

The only media organization practically that gives a stuff!!! Good on you Guardian!!!
I do feel however on a pessimistic note that it is to[o] late. (marky226)

I’ve noticed an increasing trend of sceptics being reported in the news. So I was intrigued to find an article yesterday in a small Australia paper about the research of “Dr Evans” – not surprised to find he works in Fourier analysis because it was my knowledge in Fourier analysis that was key to making me a sceptic. And not surprised to find he is also an electrical engineer (as engineers understand how to deal with complex systems whereas academics are taught how to ignore all the real world complexity and focus on the bit they can model).
But then I thought I saw a familiar face:

Perth Edition, The Sunday Times

Miranda Devine: Perth electrical engineer’s discovery will change climate change debate

Photo: AustralianClimateMadness

A MATHEMATICAL discovery by Perth-based electrical engineer Dr David Evans may change everything about the climate debate, on the eve of the UN climate change conference in Paris next month.

A former climate modeller for the Government’s Australian Greenhouse Office, with six degrees in applied mathematics, Dr Evans has unpacked the architecture of the basic climate model which underpins all climate science.
He has found that, while the underlying physics of the model is correct, it had been applied incorrectly.
He has fixed two errors and the new corrected model finds the climate’s sensitivity to carbon dioxide (CO2) is much lower than was thought.
It turns out the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has over-estimated future global warming by as much as 10 times, he says…
Jo Nova’s where the series of articles are being published

I was reading today that for the sake an emissions target that was so worthless that no one bothered to check it … VW owners are going to be asked to take their cars to some garage to have them change it so that it uses more fuel, it’s performance is worse, and likely the engine won’t last as long.
Only a complete moron would believe any owner would waste their time on such a pathetic and pointless exercise such for the sake of Eurocrasy.
So, why the billions lost on the VW share price when I can’t believe more than 0.1% (i.e. just complete eco-morons) would ever ask for the change. No! It seems to me, that the only way VW owners will make this change is if they are dragged kicking and screaming to it.
And what will the eco-fascist Eurocrasy do if they refuse? Jail them?
I can’t imagine a better way to show people the madness of eco-fascism.

Following the Volkwagon scandal whereby we found out that car makers cheated to get past their climate “exams”, I now read in the Guardian of all places that UK academics (like anders) who spend their time pontificating at the rest of us about how easy it is to reduce carbon use are now being total hypocrites in their own religion and failing to achieve anything like their own crazy targets. Or as those natural climate change science-deniers in the Guardian put it:

of 127 universities in England … the majority (76%) are due to miss the target of 43% reduction across the sector by 2020, as set by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce) in 2010. … the overall reduction is likely to be closer to just 12% by that date. Some 35 universities were found to have increased their carbon emissions since 2005.

What do the universities say?
‘Energy-intensive scientific research makes it hard to meet targets’
‘Sustainability is part of what we teach’
‘There’s an anomaly in the data somewhere’