Outside the ‘Consensus’–Notes of a Climate Change ‘Denier’ – by Peter Wood excerpts: In time, scientific controversies get resolved, often by the emergence of new kinds of evidence that no one originally imagined. Views that are maintained, to some degree, by
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That’s a 0.3% consensus, not 97% by Joanne Nova Excerpt: We’ve already found enough flaws, but Christopher Monckton analyzes John Cook’s 97% consensus paper and sharpens the scythe. He finds: It should never have been done, it’s an unscientific method
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Climate Forecast: Muting the Alarm in the Wall Street Journal by Matt Ridley Excerpt: In climate science, the real debate has never been between “deniers” and the rest, but between “lukewarmers,” who think man-made climate change is real but fairly
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from Popular Technology. Net 97% Study Falsely Classifies Scientists’ Papers, according to the scientists that published them Shaviv: “Science is not a democracy, even if the majority of scientists think one thing (and it translates to more papers saying so),
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from A Change fo Climate by Mark Steyn: “Climate Change Not A Top Worry In US,” reports Gallup, deadpan. Washington’s Potemkin parliament can hold as manypajama parties as it wants, but Big Climate absolutism is going nowhere, and the savvier scientists –
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From The National Review Online, Alec Torres writes Global Warming & the Mongolian Empire’s Rise: Now a recent study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences argues that there is a correlation between increasing global temperatures and the rise of the Mongolian
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from Investors Business Daily, Democrats, NASA Scientists And Global Warming: Rather than bash deniers, or fence them into some lepers ghetto as Apple CEO Tim Cook and Virgin CEO Richard Branson seem to want, the senators should have invited the
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From American Thinker, The Dead Parrot of Climate Change Said shopkeeper is exemplified in real life by Prof. Chris Folland, Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research: “The data doesn’t matter. We’re not basing our recommendations on the data. We’re
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From Faith in Science by Glenn Reynolds in the New York Post: Excerpts: In fact, given that Americans have grown broadly more skeptical of institutions in general, it’s not surprising that conservatives are more skeptical of scientific institutions than they
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From Patrick Michaels atForbes Will The Overselling Of Global Warming Lead To A New Scientific Dark Age? Excerpts: Science changed dramatically in the 1970s, when the reward structure in the profession began to revolve around the acquisition of massive amounts
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The utter failure of the ACA website roll out is just a cover for the fact that the real failure is the plan itself. The shitty website does not explain the cancellations and the painfully higher costs. But the disaster
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from Mark Steyn in The National Review Online, Ice Everywhere, But No Hockey Sticks: Global warming will kill us. Global cooling will kill us. And if it’s 54 and partly cloudy, you should probably flee for your life right now.
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James Taylor writes in Forbes: Global Warming Alarmists Caught Doctoring ’97-Percent Consensus’ Claims: Viewing the Cook paper in the best possible light, Cook and colleagues can perhaps claim a small amount of wiggle room in their classifications because the explicit
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In American Thinker, IPCC ‘s Bogus Evidence for Global Warming by S. Fred Singer: Excerpt: In spite of much effort, the IPCC has never succeeded in demonstrating that climate change is significantly affected by human activities — and in particular,
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From National Review Online, Jeremy Carl writes Liberal Denial on Climate Change and Energy. Excerpts: Taken as a whole, the Golden State poll suggests that many liberals have a deeply ideological view of energy and climate and policy, one in
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from the Climate Blog, Watts Up With That, Why Climate Science is Fallible by Anthony Watts, Guest essay by Dr. David Deming: Peer review is a highly unreliable process that produces nothing but opinion. A studyconducted in 2010 concluded that reviewers
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By Donna LaFramboise In The Wall Street Journal Warming Up for Another Climate-Change Report Every six years, a U.N. panel issues its findings, and the media hail them as definitive. Skepticism may be in order. Excerpt: When the IPCC issues
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Latest result of global warming: cooler temperatures by Michael Barone The science is settled, alarmists like to insist. But science is never settled; scientific theories are by definition falsifiable and sometimes are falsified. Recently Interior Secretary Sally Jewell assured an audience
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Andrew Stuttaford write Our Climate Change Cathedral in the National Review. Excerpts: Inevitably, Darwall is unable to resist mentioning earlier doomsayers that have got it spectacularly wrong. These include old Thomas Malthus, the Nixon era’s Club of Rome, and William
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