Josh writes: With COP21 coming up there is an alternative conference being organised. The Paris Climate Challenge In 2009 we laid down the Copenhagen Climate Challenge, when we asked UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon…
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Friday funny – 97% Pause for a Food fight
Josh writes: The Pause has been in the news this week with the Karl et al paper, the ‘no-you-cant-have-our-emails’ story, and the Meehl paper with comment by David Whitehouse. It looks very much like a food fight to me – cheers again,…
Wednesday Wit – Cheers, Gavin!
Josh writes: Here’s an odd thing. Replying to Tweeter ‘Hot Topic’, who was highlighting this article in the Guardian, Gavin Schmidt said that there are “More than 10x number of English vineyards now…
Thursday thought – US and Them
Josh writes: Business Standard reports that the US is stalling on the $100 Billion Climate Finance: The US also asked that the economic reality at present should be taken into consideration, while asking…
GWPF Annual Lecture by Patrick Moore "Should we celebrate CO2?"
Josh writes: Here are last night’s cartoon notes from a superb GWPF Annual Lecture by Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace. You can read the lecture here. Click the image below for a…
Monday merry – Nursery Rimes
Josh writes: On the eve of the opening of the COP 21 in Paris, a new study published Oct. 12 in the journal Nature Climate Change by an international team of researchers based…
Friday funny – Fiddle me this
Josh writes: Volkswagen has been found cheating on US emissions tests, but with the Green Blob fiddling everything from Renewables to Global Temperatures, it’s no wonder they thought this was ok. Some…
Tuesday tee hee – Desperate Dana by Josh
Josh writes: The Emma Thompson BBC Newsnight interview made it to the Guardian. The writer Dana Nuccitelli (ironically an employee of Tetra Tech who have interests in the Oil and Gas industry) explains that Emma Thompson…
Friday funny – Unbalanced by Josh
Josh writes: On Wednesday the BBC’s Newsnight interviewed Emma Thompson on the newsworthy topic of left wing activists protesting about drilling for oil in the Arctic. And refugees. And voting for Jeremy Corbyn,…
Thursday thought – Josh on 'Why are we waiting?"
Josh writes: Ruth Dixon’s excellent book review of “Why are we waiting?” by Nicholas Stern is well worth reading. You can download a pdf version here. As the cartoon notes, the question ‘Why are…
Wednesday wit – a fruity cartoon from Josh
Josh writes: David Appell, a freelance writer in Salem, Oregon, has been hard at work commenting on BishopHill. Although highly diverting I am not sure anyone learned a great deal except that…
Friday funny – Stern words
Josh writes: BishopHill has a great story on Lord Stern, infamous economist, on how he flip flops from rich nations having to forget about growth to this kind of idea being…
Tuesday titter – Carbon trading by Josh
Josh writes: here’s my take on that well known scam that’s been in the news this week. Astonishing. Cartoons by Josh [Apologies – posted Tuesday not Monday!]
Sunday sketch – BBC splits from the Met Office
Josh writes: In the news today (The Sunday Times “BBC pulls plug on Met Office”) we learn that the BBC is not going to renew the Met Office’s contract to…
Saturday satire – The Strange World of John Cook
Josh writes: As you know John Cook, of Skeptical Science blog, has been impersonating Lubos Motl, read Lubos blog here, but also posted here on WUWT and the Air Vent, here and here. Why John Cook thought this…
Monday mirthness – Debunk alarm from Josh
Josh writes: There’s been a minor kerfuffle of bruised feathers on Twitter today about the speedy way BishopHill debunked the latest paper from the LSE. It does seem that blogs are increasingly agile in spotting…
Saturday satire – Hot spot or not?
Josh writes: It is good to see Christopher Booker writing about the UK’s ‘hottest day of the year’ in the Telegraph again. Paul Homewood’s excellent posts, on which his article is based, are well worth…
Wednesday wit – cartoon by Josh
Josh writes: Last Sunday Christopher Booker wrote a brilliant article “Why are greens so keen to destroy the world’s wildlife?” He says: When Professor David MacKay stepped down as chief scientific adviser to…
Friday funny – a very PC prayer for our times
Dominic Lawson writes in the Daily Mail: Pope Francis’s new encyclical is in stark contrast to the style of his predecessor. While Pope Benedict’s works were in Latin, entirely spiritual in…
Tuesday toon – Mont Doom
Josh writes: There is a hilarious transcript which was posted on BishopHill of a BBC Radio programme on the Lancet’s latest Alarm fest – all, no doubt, part of the run up to Paris in…
Tuesday toon – Cartoona Enciclica
Josh writes: Papal thoughts on the environment have been posted all over the place – here at WUWT, over on Dot Earth, and an excellent Twitter dissection here by JunkScience’s Steve Milloy. You can also read the whole…
Le spin! Cartoon notes by Josh
Josh writes: Last night a few of us sceptics bravely attended the UK’s Walker Institute Annual Lecture given by Sir David King which was titled “The Paris Climate Summit – hopes…
Friday funny – Don't Ever Name It A Lull
Josh writes: Lots of news about science ending The Pause – so what will they call it next? As an extra bonus distraction why not think up what D.E.N.I.A.L. might stand for?…
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