By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Sociologists have invented one or two useful concepts. One is the “negative reference group” – a nonempty set of people to whose advice anyone with half a brain will listen most carefully because one can be sure it is right to do the diametric opposite. Sir David King, the former…
h/t Chris Gilham; Tim Flannery has finally admitted his efforts have all been a big waste of time. The gloves are off: ‘predatory’ climate deniers are a threat to our children September 17, 2019 6.39am AESTTim Flannery Professorial fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne In this age of rapidly melting glaciers, terrifying megafires and ever more puissant hurricanes,…
Guest ridiculing of science “journalism” by David Middleton The blood-red photos accompanying this screed of climate crisis wailing reminded me of the classic Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea episode… In Irwin Allen’s TV adaptation of RCP8.5, the Van Allen Radiation Belt had ignited the atmosphere . This was also the basis of the…
News Brief by Kip Hansen JAMA Network Open, an online open-access journal of the American Medical Association, has published “Climate Change and Health — Call for Papers” from authors Drs. Frederick P. Rivara and Stephan D. Fihn, Editor and Deputy Editor of JAMA Network Open. It is a good thing that they have published…
Reposted from the Fabius Maximus Website By Larry Kummer, Editor / 12 September 2019 Summary: After years of tacit cooperation with climate activists, the first major climate agency may have begun to turn against their misuse of climate science. If so, this would be a big event in the climate debate. As seen in this…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Breitbart; James Cameron, the film director who brought us Avatar and Titanic, is furious people have not “woken up” about climate change. James Cameron on the Climate Crisis: ‘People Need to Wake the F–k Up’ By MATT DONNELLYSEPTEMBER 10, 2019 6:00AM PT This power couple has been championing environmentalist causes…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to New Yorker Magazine we need to stop denying the inevitable imminent end of the world. What If We Stopped Pretending?The climate apocalypse is coming. To prepare for it, we need to admit that we can’t prevent it.By Jonathan FranzenSeptember 8, 2019 “There is infinite hope,” Kafka tells us, “only not…
From Dr. Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. ‘Alarmism enforcement’ on hurricanes and global warming Posted on September 7, 2019 by curryja | 1 Comment by Judith Curry I used to be concerned about ‘consensus enforcement’ on the topic of climate change. Now I am concerned about ‘alarmism enforcement.’ Ever since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, any hurricane…
Climate models predict disaster – but real world evidence shows no such thing Dr. Jay Lehr & Tom Harris Speaking at the 13th International Conference on Climate Change, held July 25 in Washington, DC, Dr. Roy W. Spencer of the University of Alabama in Huntsville said: “There is no climate crisis. Even if all the…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Breitbart; We have all been very naughty. MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESSPOPE FRANCISFOR THE WORLD DAY OF PRAYER FOR THE CARE OF CREATION1 SEPTEMBER 2019 “And God saw that it was good” (Gen 1:25). God’s gaze, at the beginning of the Bible, rests lovingly on his creation. From habitable land to life-giving waters,…