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Category Archives: Hockey Stick Illusion
Occam’s Razor works for me!
‘The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches From The Front Line’ by Dr Michael Mann, Professor of Meteorology at Pennsylvania State University, was recently published in paperback. I decided to purchase a copy. Here is my review of the … Continue reading
Montford – forget Hockey. Stick to maths!
This is re-posted from my old Earthy Issues blog on the MyTelegraph website last year. ——— Andrew Montford, the author of Hockey Stick Illusion, is a Chemistry graduate of St Andrews University, a practicing professional Chartered Accountant, and the creator … Continue reading
Fables about climate change?
Continuing my review of Paul and Anne Ehrlich’s Betrayal of Science and Reason (1996), we come to Chapter 8 – regarding (what they called) the “brownlash’s” fables about the Atmosphere and Climate. Given that the Ehrlichs acknowledge that climate change … Continue reading
Posted in Betrayal of Science and Reason, Climate Science, Computer Models, Environment, Hockey Stick Illusion, James Hansen, Mass Extinctions, Modernity, Politics, Richard Lindzen, Storms of my Grandchildren, Sustainable development
Tagged Paul Ehrlich, Sir Nicholas Stern, William Nordhaus
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Questions for Dr Richard A Muller
In publishing his animation of 1800-2009 surface temperatures, and the associated data and graphs, Muller has inadvertently demonstrated that the blade of the MBH98 Hockey Stick is real and, in point of fact, the situation is worse than previosuly thought… … Continue reading
An open letter to Anthony Watts
Dear Anthony, In your post today, you make a very valid point about the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) team publicising their findings before completing their normal PR process (and you may be right that their haste is due to … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Science, Climategate, Cognitive Dissonance, Confirmation Bias, Economics, Environment, Financial Crisis, Hockey Stick Illusion, IPCC, Politics, Scepticism, UNFCCC
Tagged Andrew Montford, Anthony Watts, Atlas Network, Climategate, IPCC, Occupy Wall Street, Richard Muller, Wattsupwiththat?
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Graham Stringer MP is no Watermelon
In my recent posts, I examined Roger Scruton’s timely reminder that it is no accident that Conservatism and conservation sound so similar; Marcel Wissenburg’s attempt to claim that Liberalism is not the evil genius behind our environmental crisis; and Mary … Continue reading
Benny Peiser fruitcake
As promised, here is the second of two personal profiles of the founders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). Benny Peiser is a social anthropologist who, while at the UK’s Liverpool James Moore University, admitted in 2006 that “… … Continue reading
The Global Wonky Policy Foundation
The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) is actually a very appropriately-named organisation; because it is advocating policies that will ensure global warming is maximised. The GWPF was founded by former Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson (now formally known as … Continue reading
With apologies to C S Lewis
“Anthropogenic Global Warming, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” Why do I say this? I say this, not because AGW is my new religion but, … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Science, Environment, Hockey Stick Illusion, IPCC, Scepticism
Tagged 9/11, Andrew Montford, Clive Hamilton, IPCC, Requiem for a Species
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To all who say AGW is junk science
What qualifies you to judge what is “junk” and what is “sound” science? Or have you, in fact, just borrowed this facile method of debunking real science from the tobacco companies that tried for so long to convince us smoking … Continue reading
Anthropocene Reality 