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Sep 22 2024
26 mins
Unlike the renewables industry, its green rent-seekers and Chris Bowen, numbers tell the truth
Sep 22 2024
4 mins
Before Ian Fleming and all the other authors who have made heroes of the wrongly accused there was John Buchan's urbane Richard Hannay
Sep 21 2024
12 mins
Climate clarity or climate blather?
Debating climate
Peter Smith argued:
There is no substitute for clarity of thought and communicating the results plainly and consistently. The sceptics are not doing that. They might have truth on their side. It is being lost in the blather.
Bob Carter and Alex Stuart disagreed.
Bob Carter:
If losing the debate means that the UK adopts a sensible policy of adaptation to climate change, Canada rejects emissions limitation legislation, and the Cancun meeting ends in disarray, then I for one shall be quite happy to keep right on blathering.
Alex Stuart:
We know that the high temperature of early 2010 was also caused by an El Nino event – so the two peaks should be comparable: if one is an outlier, so is the other; but both are data, so if one is either included or excluded, the other should be treated in the same way.
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Peter Smith wrote "Sceptics losing clarity"
Bob Carter responded in "Science is about testing hypotheses"
Alex Stuart responded in “Debating physics”
Peter Smith replied in “Climate riposte”
Academics and others who dare to question the majority view are brutally told the science has been settled. Many such dissenters from catastrophist orthodoxy have lost their jobs, been denied promotion, or subjected to constant harassment and ridicule. This not the way science should be done
Aug 25 2024
3 mins
There's a veritable industry of academics raising alarm about how global warming and a polluted, dying planet will leave humanity and the animal kingdom in such a state that cannibalism will be a matter of survival. I'll spurn schoolyard puns and cheap gags except for one, and that by way of good advice: don't give them a big hand
Aug 09 2024
13 mins
I thought initially that this topic was a bit of fun. But it turns out that entomophagy, as the eating of insects is called, is an essential component of the Western lemmings' race to net-zero. Need it be said that one of the biggest and most enthusiastic lemmings is our very own climate crazies at the CSIRO?
Jul 31 2024
15 mins
