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Category Archives: Comedy
Propagation of nonsense
A couple of years ago, I had a guest post about Pat Frank’s suggestion that the propagation of errors invalidate climate model projections.. The guest post was mainy highlighting a very nice video that Patrick Brown had produced so as … Continue reading
The Black Knight
I’ve been engaging in some discussions with people I shall politely call climate “skeptics”. It struck me that it’s a bit like the classic Black Knight scene from Monty Python. Start off being polite and complimentary. The resonse is unpleasant … Continue reading
Posted in ClimateBall, Comedy, Global warming, Satire
Tagged climate skeptics, Monty Python, Online climate debate, The Black Knight
523 Comments
Between conflation and denial
I’m on my way back from Cambridge, where I had a very pleasant evening with our Stoatness. I also happened to have a look at Climate etc., where Judith is promoting a new paper by Peter Tangney, a Lecturer at … Continue reading
Posted in ClimateBall, Comedy, Policy, Politics, Pseudoscience, Research, Satire
Tagged Climate policy, Flinders University, Judith Curry, Matt Ridley, Peter Tangney, STS
340 Comments
Sea level rise
There’s a bizarre article in the Wall Street Journal by Fred Singer called, The Sea Is Rising, but Not Because of Climate Change. It’s actually so bonkers that it’s quite hard to know where to start. I’ll give it go, … Continue reading
The Virial Theorem
I had another brief Twitter discussion with Ned Nikolov, whose paper I discussed in this post. Ned seems to think that there is no atmospheric greenhouse effect and that the enhanced surface temperature is due to atmospheric pressure somehow enhancing … Continue reading
Climateball, GWPF style
I came across a Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF) post called climate scientists shoot the messenger. That it’s from the Forum, rather than the Foundation, may be relevant. It discusses the recent Millar et al. paper (that I discussed here … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, Comedy, Scientists
Tagged climate scientists, Global Warming Policy Forum, GWPF, Millar et al., Own Goal
41 Comments
Seems OMICS International will publish anything
A new paper in the Environment Pollution and Climate Change journal (published by OMICS International) claims to have provided a refutation of the climate greenhouse theory. It’s, of course, utter nonsense, so I’m not planning on saying much. What is … Continue reading
