Category Archives: Opinion

Quote of the week – “The Noble Savage”

Posted on February 14, 2012 by

Dr. David Deming has an interesting essay on the logical flaws in modern environmentalism that are rooted in a meme known as “The Noble Savage”. Excerpt (with my bolded quote) below:

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German skeptics Lüning and Vahrenholt respond to criticism

Posted on February 13, 2012 by

Foreword: Dr Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt, authors of a new controversial skeptic book now hitting German bookstores, have asked me to post their response to comments made by climate scientist Georg Feulner of the Potsdam Institute for Climate … Continue reading →

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N&Z reply to Willis at Tallbloke’s

Posted on February 9, 2012 by

This is a note to point out that Nikolov and Zeller have written a rebuttal to Willis Eschenbach’s Mystery of Equation 8. They submitted the manuscript to me two days ago, there were some very angry passages in it, and … Continue reading →

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Biased climate survey sent to all NOAA employees

Posted on February 5, 2012 by

UPDATE: It appears NOAA has realized the folly of this survey and has taken it offline. The satirical Question #16 (posted by a commenter) parodies the survey. The responses (which probably aren’t far from that) they got to it from … Continue reading →

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Editorial – In support of Dr. Michael Mann and open debate

Posted on February 4, 2012 by

UPDATE: Lubos Motl has a poll running on whether this is the right stance to take or not. Feel free to take it here – Anthony This is an editorial that I never thought I’d be writing and I expect … Continue reading →

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Sixteen prominent scientists publish a letter in WSJ saying there’s “No Need to Panic About Global Warming”

Posted on January 27, 2012 by

This is quite something. Sixteen scientists, including such names as Richard Lindzen, William Kininmonth, Wil Happer, and Nir Shaviv, plus engineer Burt Rutan, and Apollo 17 astronaut Dr. Harrison Schmidt, among others, write what amounts to a heretical treatise to … Continue reading →

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It’s “dead heat” – Americans rate global warming last

Posted on January 23, 2012 by

It appears that only the zealots care much about global warming anymore, yet it doesn’t stop them from making grand pronouncements of gloom and doom or taking fossil fueled publicity stunt boat trips to Antarctica. The Pew Research Center released … Continue reading →

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Thought Provoking words for the BBC and the Guardian – from a Podcast by the BBC’s Michael Buerk

Posted on January 3, 2012 by

Guest Post by Barry Woods The respected BBC journalist, Michael Buerk has a short podcast entitled Michael Buerk on the Climate Summit at a new blog that I have just come across called The Fifth Column. It has some thought-provoking and challenging concerns for … Continue reading →

Posted in Current News, media, Opinion | Tagged , , , , , , , | 91 Comments

Sustainability runs amok in my town, part 3

Posted on December 9, 2011 by

Readers may recall my first and second entry on my town’s “sustainability task force” a couple of years ago. It has gotten so bad here that I made it an April Fools Joke in 2010. This editorial in the Chico … Continue reading →

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FOIA is not enough. Why not legally mandate transparency in climate research? A Modest Proposal…

Posted on December 2, 2011 by

Guest post by Professor Robert G. Brown of Duke University. Not all scientific research is equal, in terms of its probable impact on humanity.  If one is studying poison dart frog species in tropical rain forests, getting a number wrong … Continue reading →

Posted in FOI, Opinion | 184 Comments

Open letter to Dr. Erickson, President of Penn State University

Posted on December 1, 2011 by

(Reader Reed Coray submits this letter) I have to admire Penn State’s chutzpah. Smack dab in the middle of one of the biggest ethical scandals in recent collegiate history, Penn State schedules an “ethics seminar” entitled “An Ethical Critique of … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate, Opinion | Tagged , , | 50 Comments

The Steve Zwick Guide to Defending the Indefensible

Posted on November 29, 2011 by

Guest post by James Padgett There have been several “defenses” to the rather damning emails in the latest release from FOIA. Some, having taken the lead from the CRU itself and cherry-picked their own emails to defend – and then … Continue reading →

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An Open Letter to Dr. Phil Jones of the UEA CRU

Posted on November 27, 2011 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Dear Dr. Jones: You and I have been interacting, albeit at a distance, since I first asked you for your data some five years ago. I asked for your data in part because I was … Continue reading →

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Dr. James Hansen’s growing financial scandal, now over a million dollars of outside income

Posted on November 18, 2011 by

It seems esteemed NASA astronomer turned climatologist turned paid activist Dr. James Hansen of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) has not been reporting some income that he is required by law to do. How long will NASA continue … Continue reading →

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Help settle the Renewable Energy Debate at The Economist

Posted on November 16, 2011 by

Guest post by Robert Bradley, Master Resource I have been studying the global warming debate from a physical scientific and political economy basis for 20 years. And I remain amazed at how the energy/climate alarmists will not concede (are ‘in … Continue reading →

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Singer’s letter to WaPo on BEST

Posted on October 25, 2011 by

The scientific finding that does not settle the climate-change debate S. Fred Singer      Letter to WashPost  Oct 25, 2011** Before you write off Bachmann, Cain, and Perry as cynical diehards, deniers, idiots, or whatever, [WashPost Oct 24] consider this: Why … Continue reading →

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On “Skepticalscience” – Rewriting History

Posted on October 11, 2011 by

At Shub Niggurath Climate blog, he’s done a follow up to his first essay on the ongoing issues with integrity that the oxymoronically named blog “skepticalscience” has. Excerpts are posted below. I’ll point out the John Cook has not responded … Continue reading →

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Thanks to Michael Mann’s response, a newspaper censors a letter to the editor ex post facto

Posted on October 2, 2011 by

UPDATES below – some confusion afoot by differing newspaper versions has been discovered. The print version appears to be online. ================================= Letters to the editor are one of the oldest free speech venues for public opinion in the United States. … Continue reading →

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Over-cooked or well done?

Posted on September 22, 2011 by

Bishop Hill has yet another amusing entry on the post facto revisionism going on over at the oxymorinically named Skeptical Science blog run by John Cook. Add to that, Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. also has an entry where he says … Continue reading →

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CBS News – New York Times Poll shows the public has mostly given up on global warming and the environment

Posted on September 17, 2011 by

Got some vikes, AB, and a nap for my ear infection, decided to check email, found a link to this poll so figured I’d better pass it on. I was surprised. Here’s question 88: 88. Which statement comes closest to … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore, global warming, Opinion | Tagged , , , | 123 Comments

Monckton on Paul Nurse’s “anti-science”

Posted on September 17, 2011 by

Monckton submits this rebuttal argument to the piece in the New Scientist Stamp out anti-science in US politics here. He doesn’t expect his rebuttal to be published. Background: Paul Nurse is a Nobel prizewinner and Royal Society president. Stamp out anti-science … Continue reading →

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Brits Question Global Warming More Than Americans & Canadians

Posted on September 13, 2011 by

From Angus Reid Public Opinion: Half of respondents in the two North American countries think climate change is a fact and is caused by emissions—fewer Britons concur. While Canadians continue to be more likely than Americans and Britons to blame … Continue reading →

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Journal Deliverance: The True Story of the Climate Hillbillies

Posted on September 5, 2011 by

Guest post by Les Johnson (With apologies for lifting the Daily Bayonet tag line multiple times below). “Interconnected” is the theme of this post. It starts of course, with the resignation of Wolfgang Wagner, from the journal called Remote Sensing, … Continue reading →

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The science is scuttled: Abraham, Gleick, and Trenberth resort to libeling Spencer and Christy

Posted on September 4, 2011 by

NOTE: This will be a “sticky”  top post for awhile, new posts appear below this one. UPDATE: Josh weighs in with a new cartoon. I was hoping to have a quiet holiday weekend away from WUWT doing some household chores. … Continue reading →

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NIPCC, Gleick, heads, sand, water bottles, and all that

Posted on September 1, 2011 by

I’m sure Bishop Hill won’t mind if I pinch this, it shows a rather head in the sand attitude that pervades the people who get money to study global warming, such as the Pacific Institute’s Dr. Peter Gleick. I agree … Continue reading →

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