The below elucidates Dr Ivar Giaever’s question about the American Physical Society (APS) attitude to global warming, at the time of his resignation: In the APS it is ok to discuss whether the mass of the proton changes over time and how a multi-universe behaves, but the evidence of global warming is incontrovertible? In a [...]

According to basic physics bread cakes and bricks don’t exist. The water in the mix boils at 100C so when the oven door is opened only the original powdery substances will remain. This is based on elementary physics discovered by Ur-Arrhenius in the XX millennium BC. The consensus is multiversal and if you eat bread [...]

That’s the only explanation for SkS to tweet about “Doonesbury cartoon on climate deniers http://bit.ly/xNSUsx“. Here’s the strip: Obviously, John Cook and friends are completely unaware of a few things about their own site: It’s built to reach out to climate newbies It’s where believers in (catastrophic) anthropogenic climate change go in desperate search of “evidence” [...]

Seems like everybody who’s ever mentioned the 97% figure to shut down debate is now a certified idiot. So what made this fabled “climate change consensus”? Here is what I’ve reconstructed from James Painter’s “Poles Apart“: Global temperatures are warming, and The anthropogenic contribution (burning fossil fuels) to global warming or climate change is not [...]

Nobody’s killed as many Communists as Stalin. Nobody’s killed as many Muslims as Osama bin Laden. That’s why whenever somebody wants to save me, maybe I don’t reach for a gun, but I surely prepare for self-defense against the saviors. As I wrote some time ago in “History, a Murderous Farce“: Napoleon, the Emperor of [...]

THE UNKNOWN SKEPTIC – Journalism, awaiting to be freed AN ESSAY ON JAMES PAINTER’S “Poles Apart” If I choose a side, It won’t take me for a ride – paraphrasing Peter Gabriel, 1975 Table of Contents Introduction The Quasi-Discovery Of the Natures of Skepticism Limitations Silent Sorrows In Dubious Sources In The Cage The Unconnected [...]

THE UNKNOWN SKEPTIC – Journalism, awaiting to be freed AN ESSAY ON JAMES PAINTER’S “Poles Apart” If I choose a side, It won’t take me for a ride – paraphrasing Peter Gabriel, 1975 Table of Contents Introduction The Quasi-Discovery Of the Natures of Skepticism Limitations Silent Sorrows In Dubious Sources In The Cage The Unconnected [...]

THE UNKNOWN SKEPTIC – Journalism, awaiting to be freed AN ESSAY ON JAMES PAINTER’S “Poles Apart” If I choose a side, It won’t take me for a ride – paraphrasing Peter Gabriel, 1975 Table of Contents Introduction The Quasi-Discovery Of the Natures of Skepticism Limitations Silent Sorrows In Dubious Sources In The Cage The Unconnected [...]

THE UNKNOWN SKEPTIC – Journalism, awaiting to be freed AN ESSAY ON JAMES PAINTER’S “Poles Apart” If I choose a side, It won’t take me for a ride – paraphrasing Peter Gabriel, 1975 Table of Contents Introduction The Quasi-Discovery Of the Natures of Skepticism Limitations Silent Sorrows In Dubious Sources In The Cage The Unconnected [...]

THE UNKNOWN SKEPTIC – Journalism, awaiting to be freed AN ESSAY ON JAMES PAINTER’S “Poles Apart” If I choose a side, It won’t take me for a ride – paraphrasing Peter Gabriel, 1975 Table of Contents Introduction The Quasi-Discovery Of the Natures of Skepticism Limitations Silent Sorrows In Dubious Sources In The Cage The Unconnected [...]

THE UNKNOWN SKEPTIC – Journalism, awaiting to be freed AN ESSAY ON JAMES PAINTER’S “Poles Apart” If I choose a side, It won’t take me for a ride – paraphrasing Peter Gabriel, 1975 Table of Contents Introduction The Quasi-Discovery Of the Natures of Skepticism Limitations Silent Sorrows In Dubious Sources In The Cage The Unconnected [...]

THE UNKNOWN SKEPTIC – Journalism, awaiting to be freed AN ESSAY ON JAMES PAINTER’S “Poles Apart” If I choose a side, It won’t take me for a ride – paraphrasing Peter Gabriel, 1975 Table of Contents Introduction The Quasi-Discovery Of the Natures of Skepticism Limitations Silent Sorrows In Dubious Sources In The Cage The Unconnected [...]

From People Like to be Fooled – interview by Peter Moon – translation by Michael Silva – just out in eSkeptic: ÉPOCA: Why do people insist on believing that those allegations are true? Shermer: Because mediums say they are true. All mediums, witchdoctors and saints have to say is that they have visions and can [...]

Comment of mine at Judith Curry’s Climate Etc about the Dec 2011 entry in the “45 Beacon: Letter from Headquarters” column of the “Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS)”, written by Keith Seitter, Executive Director of the AMS: Judith – I don’t think you’ve read what he’s written. And I am not sure he read [...]

Infamous Soviet scientist Trofim Lysenko has become topical again after the recent WSJ “Don’t Panic (about global warming)” letter (read about it also here and here). In the interest of historical record, I am posting here the recovered text of “Lysenkoism And ‘Global Warming’” written some years ago by Professor Cliff Ollier and mentioned in this [...]

Solar Cycle 25 will peak somewhat lower than the current one (SC24) but far higher than the nothingness currently predicted (see here). My prediction is based on the fact that predictions are hard especially about the future and doubly especially when they imply a wholesale change compared to the present. Filed under: Climate Change, Cooling, [...]

(I have left this comment at Andy Revkin’s “A Legal Defense Fund for Climate Scientists”) Andy – I’m very surprised by the phrasing of your FOI question. So what if there is “fishing” involved? The important bit about FOI is that it applies no matter what the intentions of the requester are. Otherwise every Government [...]

Letter sent to the IHT- Dear Editors So you’ve finally realized there’s a set of simple innovations that could save the lives of millions right now, help the environment and perhaps even slow down global warming (see John Tierney’s “A renegade climate idea that could work“, IHT, Jan 18, 2012). The fact that those actions [...]

The Law Of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (CAGW) Decay predicts how the number of the not-debunked claims by a given media-active warmist decreases in the course of time. Half-life rates vary: 2 minutes in the case of a claim appearing on Skeptical Science, 10 minutes for a Romm blog, 15 minutes for a Gore “Truth”, [...]

Ungracious loser James Annan couldn’t wait posting about the new all-singing all-dancing HadCRUT4 dataset, showing “that reports of the death of global warming have been somewhat exaggerated“. It’s really really hard to avoid laughing when adjustments come out of thin air but anyway…let’s consider HadCRUT4 less of a joke for a moment. Since temperatures go [...]