Posted 23 April 2015
"The [climate] debate must go on, even as the atmosphere for dialogue gets increasingly polluted. The sacralization of climate is being used as a great loophole in the rule of law, an apology for bad science (and even worse economics), and an excuse to do anything and everyth...
Posted 22 April 2015
"The controversy over man-made global warming is far from settled. Despite claims that 'the science is all in' and 'there is no room for debate', the scientific method, with repeatable and falsifiable hypotheses, cannot really work when applied to the environment. Instead, sc...
Posted 16 April 2015
"Anthropogenic climate change is a theory in which the basic mechanism is well understood, but the potential magnitude is highly uncertain. We know that the climate changes naturally on decadal to century time scales, but we do not have explanations for as number of observed...
Posted 15 April 2015
Posted 12 April 2015
Highly informative, if scientifically complex, answers to the question why why and by how much the atmospheric CO2 (carbon dioxide) budget is increasing were contained in a lecture just given in London by Professor Murry Salby. The lecture has been very well captured on vide...
Posted 7 April 2015
We are constatntly bombarded by politicans with claims that 97% of the world climate scientists agree that humans are responsible for dangerous global warming. In this post on his blogsite, Richard Tol explains why the claim doesn't stand up. "The 97% refers to the number of...
Posted 4 April 2015
All you ever wanted to know about the origin of so-called "fossil fuels", where they came from, where they are now, and where will they take us in the future, is explained and illustrated in this monumental research lecture by Dr Gerrit J Van Der Lingen, a Dutch-born, now New...
Posted 4 April 2015
The leading role played by the American Government and President in trying to impose on the world the grossly inflated costs of "renewable energy" is led by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). It is important for other countries to understand the politics being played o...
Posted 4 April 2015
"Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas. When you put more of it in the atmosphere, the radiation budget will respond appropriately. It's just that what we found with the real data is that the way the earth responds is to shed a lot of heat, not keep it in which the climate models...
Posted 2 April 2015
"Whatever agreement may be reached [in Paris] in December, fulfilling targets will be much more difficult than setting them, without some technological breakthroughs. Otherwise, without some sort of climate dictatorship, the early peaking and then steep reduction in emissions...
Posted 1 April 2015
"If you thought science involves scientists challenging each other’s ideas and struggling to see who can best explain the facts, you were wrong—according to a cabal of left-wing activists, politicians, and their media friends. They have launched a crusade to intimidate scienti...
Posted 1 April 2015
"In fact, a more realistic assessment of our energy and environmental situation suggests that, for decades to come, we will continue to rely overwhelmingly on fossil fuels that have contributed so dramatically to the world's prosperity and progress. In 2013, about 87% of the e...
Posted 31 March 2015
"All scientists are skeptics" - Professor Bob Carter
"Whenever someone asserts that a scientific question is 'settled', they tell me immediately that they don't understand the first thing about science. Science is never settled." - Dr David Deming
"Perhaps the most frus...
Posted 31 March 2015
"The scientific theories promoted by the global warming advocates are soft targets. Their science is lousy. But critical scientific arguments are highly technical and only of use in getting authoritative scientists to join the skeptical side. To influence the vast majority of...
Posted 29 March 2015
Getting a hand on Climate Crisis Inc.'s fear and money machine in USA is not easy - and few people understand just how enormous, interlocking and self-perpetuating it is. This article by Paul Driessen presents an overview that will hopefully begin to open people's eyes. It su...
Posted 28 March 2015
"Let me begin with a simple, and surely and incontrovertible, proposition. It is that the abundant availability of fossil fuels, combined with the wit that has allowed human beings to exploit them, is the greatest blessing ever to have been visited on the species. After all,...
Posted 27 March 2015
"Accusing scientists of venal motives when they raise questions about climate has come to be what passes for scientific debate...This follows brazen political-style attacks on scientists because of their views on climate. In particular there has been an aggressive assault qu...
Posted 27 March 2015
"Nearly all governments currently view climate change and energy supply as closely related policy issues. Yet climate change issues are concerned with environmental hazards, whereas energy policy is concerned with supplying cheap, reliable and secure electricity supplies to i...
Posted 26 March 2015
"Why do advocates of the dangerous warming hypothesis resort to ad hominem attacks? Is it to protect science? If so, it is misguided. Progress in science depends heavily on research by skeptics. Or might the attacks be motivated by fear that people read skeptics' research an...
Posted 26 March 2015
"Another such favorite theory, mistakenly offered as a fact , speculates we are now witnessing increasing anthropogenic ocean acidification, despite never determining if current pH trends lie within bounds of natural variability. Claims of acidification are based on an 'accep...