Tag Archives: Bishop-Hill

The BBC’s lack of balance

Posted on March 17, 2019 by ...and Then There's Physics

Just discovered that a new BBC Scotland news programme (The Nine) decided that it would invite Andrew Montford on to discuss the Youth Strike for Climate. Fortunately, no one else was willing to appear with him, so the segment didn’t … Continue reading →

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ECS ~1K?????

Posted on May 13, 2016 by ...and Then There's Physics

There is a new paper that is being somewhat uncritically accepted at the new Climate “Skepticism” site (and, yes, the inverted commas are necessary) and at Bishop Hill. It’s by someone called J. Ray Bates and claims to estimate climate … Continue reading →

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A little surprised it took this long

Posted on February 27, 2016 by ...and Then There's Physics

After writing about the Terence Mills affair I popped across to Bishop Hill to point out that Mill’s ideas were mostly nonsense. This then lead to a rather lengthy exchange about me posting comments during working hours (I think it … Continue reading →

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Science communication: an illustration in irony?

Posted on February 7, 2016 by ...and Then There's Physics

There’s a new paper on public understanding of science called Communicating science in public controversies: Strategic considerations of the German climate scientists. Andrew Montford has already concluded that: scientivists have so completely corrupted the field that it is now largely … Continue reading →

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Sensitivity to cumulative emissions

Posted on December 2, 2015 by ...and Then There's Physics

Something I’ve mentioned here quite regularly is the idea that warming depends roughly linearly on cumulative (total) emissions. This is slightly counter intuitive, in that warming depends logarithmically on atmospheric CO2 concentration. The reason is essentially that it incorporates climate … Continue reading →

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A (stupid) $100000 bet

Posted on November 20, 2015 by ...and Then There's Physics

I was going to ignore this, but since this is a blog and I’ve nothing better to write about, I thought I would comment on Doug Keenan’s $100000 challenge. If you want some insights into Doug Keenan, Richard Telford’s blog … Continue reading →

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Drawing down atmospheric CO2 – part 1

Posted on October 10, 2015 by ...and Then There's Physics

A few days ago, I was somewhat less than civil in response to a comment by Nic Lewis, which then lead to a typically juvenile post on Bishop Hill. It was, though, quite amusing to have Anthony Watts complaining about … Continue reading →

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Emma Thompson

Posted on September 5, 2015 by ...and Then There's Physics

Emma Thompson’s interview on newsnight has caused a bit of a Twitter storm because she got some things wrong. For example she said if they take out of the earth all the oil they want to take out, you look … Continue reading →

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A better comparison

Posted on August 1, 2015 by ...and Then There's Physics

I thought I might briefly highlight the recent Cowtan et al. paper Robust comparison of climate models with observations using blended land air and ocean sea surface temperatures. As Ed Hawkins points out, it’s really an attempt to do an … Continue reading →

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Things I thought were obvious – part 2

Posted on April 6, 2015 by ...and Then There's Physics

I know this is a little old, but Judith Curry had a post a week or so ago about whether or not climate change is a ruin problem. I wasn’t wanting to discuss it detail, but there was something in … Continue reading →

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