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Category: Bad science
Expect Soon Another PIK Paper Claiming Warming Leads To Cold Snaps Over Europe
So, you see warming also leads to unusual cold and harsh winter events across Europe
When Everything Is a Heat Wave and Every Change Is Climate
In the end, the paper offers a compelling story, but not a disciplined causal argument. A loosely defined marine heat wave is paired with a loosely defined ecological baseline, and…
New Climate Guilt Trip: Don’t Enjoy Food During the Holidays
“Real Science” by somebody without a clue.
UK Office of Budget Responsibility’s Latest Climate Fear Mongering Claims Based on Junk Findings From Retracted Nature Paper
The Nature retraction has been long (too long!) in coming since it has been obvious for some time that the paper was riddled with fatal flaws. The authors had admitted that the…
Climate Doomsday Prophecy Peddled By Academia Retracted In Disgrace
A widely-referenced 2024 study that predicted massive global economic damages due to climate change has now been retracted, The New York Times (NYT) reported on Wednesday.
When Models Masquerade as Oceans: The Latest Adventure in Simulated Stirring
This is the circular fortress of modern climate science: models validate models, statistical significance is computed on synthetic data, and uncertainty is waved away with phrases like “robustness” and “consistency.”
The Zika Scare That Turned Out to Be a False Positive Debacle – and the ‘Congenital Zika Syndrome’ Backup Lie That’s Replaced It
The human cost of this prolonged fiction is measured not in disability-adjusted life years of uncertain provenance, but in the children never conceived, the young families who postponed dreams, and…
Rebuttal: When “Coastal Climate Retreat” is just a Narrative – Why Nightlights Don’t Tell the Whole Coastal Story
The study itself if paywalled at Nature Communications, and I’m not going to throw good money at bad science. Fortunately, the press release itself provides enough clues to see the…
Fraud Hunters: Sniffing Out Bogus Science
“We can tweak regulations and make investigators more rigorous, but this is fundamentally an ethical issue,” said Mark Barnes, a lawyer and prominent expert on misconduct investigations. “Institutions need to…
Modeling Manufactured Vulnerability: Why the Maldives Refuse To Sink Despite the Headlines
The narrative is predictable: a single unusual event is simulated, extrapolated, and then turned into a headline-worthy forecast of future doom.
The Church of Climate Semiotics: When Graphs Become Heresy
The irony is almost poetic: a study accusing others of aesthetic manipulation while itself performing the very act it condemns — turning dissent into pathology through rhetorical theater.
Trump Reloads an ‘America First’ Energy Agenda While Reasserting Sound Science
Eliminating the Endangerment Finding remains a heavy lift, and there is complicated legal terrain. But the economics and the science are on our side. Let’s also not forget that the…
The Doughnut Delusion: A Case Study in How to Turn Data into Ideology
After nearly two decades of “Doughnut” development, the grand insight remains: we must stop growing, stop consuming, and start obeying the moral geometry of academics who draw circles in PowerPoint.…
CLAIM: Climate change is supercharging Europe’s biggest hail
Anything is possible when you use a flawed climate model to generate craptastic, er, speculative output.
National Academies Go Preposterous on CO2
You would think the National Academy of Sciences understands science, but you would be wrong. Their President just approved a report the conclusion of which is scientifically impossible!
Wrong, The Guardian, Oil Company Operations Aren’t Making Heatwaves Worse
The piece frames the research they reference as a legal turning point, arguing that oil producers could now face liability for specific extreme weather events.
CLAIM: North Atlantic faces more hurricane clusters as climate warms
Analyzing the historical observation of tropical cyclones, the authors found that during the past few decades, the chances for tropical cyclone cluster decreased in the Northwestern Pacific basin, while increased…
Turns Out Major Climate Study Peddled By Media Relied On Bunk Data
The study’s inclusion of Uzbekistan’s faulty GDP figures skewed its results and cast doubt on its conclusion that global GDP could be roughly 62% lower by 2100 due to climate change than…
The Technocrats Are Falling as Their Ideology Fails
The story of Lysenkoism is a warning from history: when science serves ideology, catastrophe follows. The 20th century paid that price in blood and famine. The 21st has flirted with…