“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…
Category: Bad science
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…
Rebuttal to: ‘2023 Marine Heatwaves Unprecedented and Potentially Signal a Climate Tipping Point’
Marine heatwaves might “portend an emerging climate tipping point”. That’s a phrase straight from the climate playbook of fear.
Mann’s Hockey Stick – Still Crap After All these Years
Using Mann’s technique, “I created global warming from a bunch of meaningless casino numbers, pure noise.”
A 485-million-year history of bad science
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach, with thanks to Charles The Moderator for the above image. A few days ago I published another analysis of mine, called pHony Alarmism. Take a…
DOUBLE GROAN: Another “new normal” nonsense paper
Another “garbage in, garbage out” modeled doomsday prediction. But it’s PEER REVIEWED, so it must be true. /sarc
Nature Paper Claims to Pin Liability for ‘Climate Damages’ on Oil Companies
“Unlike every other branch of climate science or science in general, event attribution was originally suggested with the courts in mind.”
Wrong, Phys.org, Climate Change Isn’t Causing a Rise in Lost School Days
This article is a textbook example of shoddy research dressed up as urgent policy insight. By stretching an already weak climate claim—about worsening cyclones—into an even more tenuous social consequence—missed…
A Simple, Factual, and Sensible Rebuttal to the Chemtrail Conspiracy Theory
The chemtrail conspiracy theory alleges that aircraft contrails are chemical agents deliberately sprayed for sinister purposes. This theory is unsupported by scientific evidence and contradicts well-established atmospheric science, logistical realities,…
The Science of Scapegoating: Nature’s Farcical Case for Climate Litigation
And while the authors may hope their citations are someday read aloud in court, they may want to prepare for another reality: being footnoted in future textbooks as a cautionary…
Greening Without CO2? More Selective Science
While this allocation of credit is intriguing, what’s truly shocking is what’s not mentioned at all: CO2 fertilization.
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…