Quote on Openness in Government
The Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) Inquiry, United Kingdom “Our experience over this lengthy Inquiry has led us to the firm conclusion that a policy of openness is the correct approach. When...
View ArticleProf Nir Shaviv Presentation
A couple of blogs (Bishophill and Jo Nova) direct you to a short 30 minute presentation by Prof Vincent Courtillot. The proceeding presentation by Prof. Nir Shaviv on cosmic ray theory, though more...
View ArticleBritish-Irish Council taken over by Climate Alarmists?
The Irish Times has carried a report that THE BRITISH government could massively subsidise the Irish wind energy industry under proposals to be considered in London today. Would that be the same...
View ArticleKeynes, Hayek and Global Warming
Jo Nova points to the excellent Keynes versus Hayek rap videos and compares with global warming views. My own observations are more to do with the nature of theory. To compare Keynes & Hayek, I...
View ArticleOutflanking Al Gore & other alarmists
At Wattupwiththat there is a proposal to build a database by Find(ing) every false, misleading, scary, idiotic, non-scientific statement they have made in the past twenty years. Create an index by name...
View ArticleTamino on Australian Sea-Levels
Tamino attempts a hatchet-job on a peer-reviewed paper on Australian Sea Levels. Whilst making some valid comments, it gives the misleading impression that he has overturned the main conclusion. The...
View ArticleEvangelical Christians and Climate Change Skepticism
Wm Briggs reports on a “forthcoming Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society paper “Making the climate a part of the human world”, in which University of British Columbia geographer Simon Donner...
View ArticleStern’s flawed opinion of Energy Stock Valuations
There is an interesting response by Profs Richard Tol and Roger Pielke Jnr on the latter’s blog to an article in the FT by Lord Stern on energy companies being overvalued Have Markets Misvalued Energy...
View ArticleAre Climate Change and Obesity Linked?
Judith Curry has a (somewhat tongue-in-cheek) look at the links between climate change and obesity. One of the two references is to the care2 website. Consider the three alleged “links” between climate...
View ArticleTung and Zhou claim of constant decadal anthropogenic warming rates in last...
Bishop Hill reports on A new paper in PNAS entitled ‘Using data to attribute episodes of warming and cooling in instrumental records’ looks important. Ka-Kit Tung and Jiansong Zhou of the University of...
View ArticleBjorn Lomborg on Climate Costs in the Australian
Australian Climate Madness blog points to an article, “Wrong way, go back“, in the Australian Newspaper by Skeptical Environmentalist Bjorn Lomberg on Australia’s climate policies. This is my comment....
View ArticleConspiracist Ideation Falsified?
Summary A recent paper, based on an internet survey of American people, claimed that “conspiracist ideation, is associated with the rejection of all scientific propositions tested“. Analysis of the...
View ArticleDixon and Jones confirm a result on the Stephan Lewandowsky Surveys
Congratulations to Ruth Dixon and Jonathan Jones on managing to get a commentary on the two Stephan Lewandowsky, Gilles Gignac & Klaus Oberauer surveys published in Psychological Science. Entitled...
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