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Category Archives: Richard Lindzen
AGU continues complicit support for Merchants of Doubt
This is not surprising given the AGU’s failure to discipline Richard Lindzen for academic misconduct, hypocrisy, and the denegration of fellow AGU members, but, as reported via DeSmogBlog recently: Scientists are being asked to boycott the next major meeting of … Continue reading
Polite suggestion for Bjorn Lomborg and Tony Abbott
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has announced that Australian taxpayers are now going to finance attempts to disprove the need to decarbonise our global power generation systems as fast as possible (see yesterday’s article on the Guardian website). However, Lomborg’s … Continue reading
Why Table 12.4 of IPCC AR5 should not be trusted
At the end of September, Working Group 1 (WG1) of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published the first part of its Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). This report, entitled ‘Climate Change 2013: Physical Science Basis’, now has its own … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic, Climate Science, Environment, IPCC, Richard Lindzen
Tagged AR5, cherry-picking, data mining, Greenland, ice sheet, IPCC, melting, misrepresentation, Table 12.4, WG1
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To mark Australia’s return to the anti-science wilderness!
It looks like Australia is just about to elect the most anti-science government outside of North America: ‘Tony Abbott to win Australian election, final polls show’ (i.e. on UK’s Telegraph website). To mark this latest ‘victory’ for those duped by … 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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Lindzengate – one year on
Today is the first anniversary of my trip to London to hear a certain Professor Richard S. Lindzen give a talk to an invited audience of climate change “sceptics” in a Committee Room inside the Palace of Westminster. Having sat … Continue reading
The Sceptics’ Creed
For this spoof of the Anglican version of the Nicene Creed I apologise to all those who Altman a sense of humour: ———- [All stand] We believe in some gods, like Professor Ian Plimer, writer of ‘Heaven and Earth’, of … Continue reading
And then there were three…
Back in January this year, an Op-Ed appeared in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), entitled “No Need to Panic About Global Warming”, signed by sixteen prominent scientists (of which only 4 are climate scientists, and one of those is Richard … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Science, Denial, Economics, Environment, Junk Science, Merchants of Doubt, Politics, Richard Lindzen
Tagged Wall Street Journal, William Happer
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Esteemed Prof may regret citing College drop-out
In his written submission to the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works earlier this week, John Christy (PhD) describes himself as the “Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science, Alabama’s State Climatologist and Director of the Earth System Science Center … Continue reading
Are you negligent, incompetent or complicit?
This was a question posed to former Barclays CEO Bob Diamond this week, when he appeared before a Parliamentary Select Committee of MPs on Wednesday. It is a question that I would like to ask Dr Richard Lindzen… In fact, … Continue reading
