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Monthly Archives: April 2015
Skepticism vs Denial
I’m probably a bit late to this, but I thought I would briefly promote the University of Queensland MOOC on Making sense of climate science denial. It’s essentially being run by the Skeptical Science team, and aims to address how … Continue reading
Matt Ridley on fossil fuels!
Matt Ridley had an article in The Times called Africa needs to be rich – rather than green, in which he essentially argues that Africa needs fossil fuels, including coal. Admittedly, he did acknowledge his own coal interests. I realise … Continue reading
How many times do we have to do this?
I’ve just discovered that the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) have enlisted top scientists to examine adjusted global warming figures. Their justification seems to be two articles by Christopher Booker, which just goes to show that when I think that … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, Global warming, Science
Tagged Christopher Booker, Climate change, Global Warming Policy Foundation, GWPF, Marotzke & Forster, Nic Lewis, Petr Chylek, Roger Pielke Sr, Roman Mureika, Temperature adjustments, Temperature records, The Global Warming Policy Foundation
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Lomborg science
I was going to write a post about the whole Lomborg saga, but I really can’t be bothered writing too much. If you want to read about his many errors, you could read Graham Readfearn’s Guardian article. If you want … Continue reading
Testing the IRIS Hypothesis
I thought I might revert back to a bit of physics and discuss a recent paper that aims to try and test the Iris hypothesis. The Iris hypothesis originates with Lindzen &Chou (2001) and proposes that as we warmed, there … Continue reading
The Avoidance of the Intellectual
I came across a quote that I found quite compelling, and so thought I would also post it here. I first saw it on this site, which got it from here, but I think it’s actually out of this book. … Continue reading
Ecology and the environment
I was thinking a little more about the Ecomodernist manifesto and I realised that one problem I have is that I’m simply a physicist. I don’t really understand ecology, or how we can look after the environment while also having … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Personal
Tagged Aliwal shoal, Cape Town, Durban, Ecology, environment, sharks, snakes, South African, The environment, whales
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