Tag: Global warming
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Polar vortices and climate change
The recent cold snap in the United States was, apparently, seen by many as undermining the claims of a majority of climate scientists that human activity was gradually – but potentially catastrophically – warming the climate. But, according to this article from the Associated Press, the most remarkable things about the cold was that […]
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What not to say about the bad weather
The last six weeks has seen the UK hit by a number of storms and surely climate change is to blame? Well, no, you cannot say that. Not because climate change is not to blame. But because we just cannot definitively pin down a weather event to a change in climate. (Of course, this does […]
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Mail on Sunday forced to admit its climate change article flawed
The Mail on Sunday has published this “clarification” over last week’s claims about global warming: An original version of this article sought to make the fairest updated comparison with the 0.2C warming rate stated by the IPCC in 2007. It drew on the following sentence in the draft 2013 summary: ‘The rate of warming […]
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Regression to the mean and climate change stupidity
The figure above is from one of the most important and most influential scientific papers ever published: Regression Towards Mediocrity in Hereditary Stature in volume 15 of “The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland” (in fact JSTOR claims it is copyright to them from 1886, but I am betting that the copyright […]
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Mail on Sunday 92% wrong on climate change
Sadly, I increasingly fear, in future decades our children and their children are likely to look back on this second decade of the twenty-first century as a wasted opportunity to put the findings of science into action. The scientific consensus on climate change is clear and stable. The only “argument” is about just how rapidly […]
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Heartland Institute claim anti-science document is a fake
The Heartland Institute, reports the Guardian, are claiming that the internal memo which appears to show that they are working on plans to “dissuade teachers from teaching science” is a “total fake”. Heartland had earlier admitted that other documents published alongside the memo were genuine, but later backtracked on that. They then went on to […]
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Climate change deniers aim to scare teachers off science
The usual claim from the climate change deniers is that they are merely pointing out that climate science is controversial or disputed. But their internal documents reveal what this is really all about (emphasis added): Principals and teachers are heavily biased toward the alarmist perspective. To counter this we are considering launching an effort to […]
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The truth is not democratic
A group reportedly funded by oil and coal interests in the United States has launched a truly shocking attempt to stop a noted and respected climate scientist from delivering a lecture because they say his views are “extreme” and part of a “radical agenda”. In reality the views of Michael E. Mann are consensus science […]
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Can science ever win the argument?
The UK is enjoying a very unseasonal heatwave at the moment and, supposedly, today is set to be the warmest ever October day. I am writing this in the garden (see photograph) and the heat is high and the humidity higher – and it will be warmer yet. All the global warming deniers who crowed […]
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