One of the things that often emerge from the climate debate is the problem that few people have a sufficient grasp of any aspect of the climate issue to speak with any authority. As far as some are concerned, the fact that we are not climate scientists hangs over...
Warming or Not Warming: You Can’t Decide
It’s a familiar refrain... Without hard evidence to support their claims, climate denialists are attacking the process of climate-change science. This is the line that appears before Bill McKibben’s article, “Climate Change's OJ Simpson Moment“, which is currently...
It’s all in the Head…lines
David Adam in The Guardian, 11 March 2009: Sea level could rise more than a metre by 2100, say experts David Adam, Guardian podcast, 13 March 2009: The scientists, they have been saying it for a while, and we’ve been saying it in the media for a while… but I think the...
IPCC WGI Ch10 – Projecting Alarm
In our previous post, we argued that 'Without WGII and WGIII, there is no grounds for alarm'. Our point being that WGII and WGIII take certain premises for granted in order to be able to talk about the inevitability of Nth-order effects of climate change, especially...
Precaution, Projection & Parthian Shots
It can't be easy being a climate change alarmist just at the moment. In its desperation to keep the ragged flag flying, the Guardian has run a couple of very strange stories today. First up, in What happened when scientists photoshopped climate sceptics, they've...
The Anatomy of Climate Catastrophism
Ben has an article over at Spiked-Online today, For the furore around ‘Glaciergate’, we didn’t actually need to know that Himalayan glacial retreat was exaggerated to know that the disaster story it seemingly produced was pseudo-scientific bunk. The plots of such...
Africagate – Worse than Previously Thought
Africagate – Worse than Previously Thought Richard North picks up from our post here and Ben’s guest post on Roger Pielke’s blog, which revealed the spurious claim in IPCC AR4 WGII report, concerning rainfall in Africa. The Times also covers the story. North searches...
Don’t Blame Collapse of Credibility on the IPCC’s Wobbly Chair
Ben has a brief comment on the credibility of the IPCC and the climate change agenda in The Guardian, today, with a slightly longer version on the Guardian’s site. There are also comments there from some familiar names. However, Ben’s comment was written in about 5...
WWF… WTF?
All eyes are on the IPCC. Although some of it is ugly, and some sceptics – in our view, at least – are making less dignified arguments than they ought to be, this has been a long time coming. The IPCC, by virtue of the argument that 'climate change is the most...
Ball or Aerosol?
[youtube d6IBiR9m3vY] According to the likes of Bob Ward, George Monbiot, Ben Goldacre and Steve Connor, it is a well established fact that the slump in global temperatures over three decades in the middle of the last century is the result of changes in the...