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Category Archives: Confirmation Bias
James Delingpole is full of sheet
Hi folks. Sorry for the distinct Altman of blog posts over the last 12 months (it’s a long story I will not bore you with). James Delingpole is the reason that I started blogging four years ago. (If this is … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Science, Cognitive Dissonance, Confirmation Bias, Denial, Environment, James Delingpole, Maketplace of Ideas, Merchants of Doubt
Tagged Anglia Ruskin University, Benny Peiser, Christopher Booker, Christopher Monckton, Daily Mail, Fine Art, Ian Wolter, In Memoriam, James Delingpole, Melanie Philips, Philip Foster, Sustainability Art Prize
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Why do our politicians not act on IPCC advice?
I am hereby delighted to invite all my readers to indicate (by voting on a question [on the Survey Monkey website] that I have created) why they think our politicians continue to fail to respond effectively to the increasingly stark … Continue reading
How NOT to be sceptical
In the process of compiling my previous post, I was reminded of this one; and decided it warranted being re-posted in its own right… Originally posted on 7 September 2011, as How to be a climate change “sceptic”, this is … Continue reading
TIME is not on the side of David Rose
Thanks to Greenpeace for this amazing story: Either David Rose has himself used the real (2007) cover to create the fake (1977) cover – or – he has been a little too ready to believe what he so wants to … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Science, Confirmation Bias, Denial, Environment
Tagged David Rose, ideological blindness, Mail on Sunday, willful ignorance
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The ‘threadbare hypothesis’ of climate change
This is the Gospel according to Roger Helmer MEP (and Cambridge graduate in Mathematics) – whose non-expertise in the subject leads him to conclude that the climate is not changing; and to equate people concerned about climate change with those … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Science, Confirmation Bias, Economics, Environment, Junk Science, Politics, Scepticism
Tagged Richard Lindzen, Roger Helmer, Roy Spencer, UKIP
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Past performance is not a predictor of future results
As it says on my About page, “The driver of an accelerating car about to hit a brick wall might well say ‘so far so good’ – but that does not mean that the wall is not there!” — John … Continue reading
My book compared to Merchants of Doubt
In the Preface to my book, The Denial of Science: Analysing climate change scepticism in the UK, I make clear that it was reading Merchants of Doubt, by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, that prompted me to do the research … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Science, Cognitive Dissonance, Confirmation Bias, Economics, Environment, Merchants of Doubt, Politics, Richard Lindzen
Tagged Colin Summerhayes, corruption, Erik Conway, Naomi Oreskes, Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, Scott Polar Research Institute, The Denial of Science
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ACD and AGW – spot the difference
What we know is this: As a whole (including the oceans), on average, over the long term, the Earth is getting warmer; and that it is doing so at a rate equivalent to – or in excess of – that … Continue reading
You know we’re in trouble when…
…The Sunday Telegraph starts advocating polices that will accelerate anthropogenic climate disruption (ACD). Two days ago, one of Britain’s oldest and most-respected broadsheet newspapers decided to shred the last few bits of credibility it might have had by publishing an … Continue reading
Posted in Cognitive Dissonance, Confirmation Bias, Denial, Economics, Environment, Insanity, Intergenerational Injustice, Junk Science, Politics, Populism, Pseudo science
Tagged Benny Peiser, Global Warming Policy Foundation, Insanity, Royal Society, Sir John Beddington, Sir Paul Nurse, Sunday Telegraph
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Try not to be dogmatic about this
‘The Science Delusion’ by Rupert Sheldrake I was rummaging around on the blog of someone who recently re-blogged something of mine, when I found the post below and decided I just had to do the same (i.e. re-blog it). The … Continue reading
Posted in Confirmation Bias, Psychology
Tagged dogma, morphic resonance, paradagm, reality, Rupert Sheldrake, Science
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