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The Calculus of Climate Change morality
A couple of days ago Jo Nova highlighted another example of an environmentalist, Jonathan Moylan, who thought that to save the planet they were morally justified in committing criminal acts. My posting...
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Two Comments on Antarctic Ice Accumulation
Jo Nova blogs on a study that claims the Antarctic continent is accumulating ice mass at a rapid rate. I have made two comments. One is opposing someone who claims that Antarctica is actually losing...
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Velicogna 2009 and Chen et al 2009 on Acceleration in Antarctic Ice Melt
This blog post started out as some musings on the different way of measuring the changes in the mass of Antarctic land ice, as a follow up to a couple of comments to Jo Nova’s posting “Antarctica...
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Was the twentieth century warming mostly due to human emissions?
There has been no statistically significant warming for at least 15 years. Yet some people, like commentator “Michael the Realist”, who is currently trolling Joanne Nova’s blog, are claiming otherwise....
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Answering Michael the Realist
The summary conclusion I reach from this posting is Cherry-picking is being selective, to confirm one’s prejudices. To use all the available data is (according to Michael) the sign of a true skeptic....
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UK Energy Research Centre (UKREC) doubly misleads
Yesterday the GWPF and Joanne Nova point to an article in Thursday’s Daily Express which declared A report from the UK Energy Research Centre also shows the number of those who resolutely do not...
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Stephan Lewandowsky – a self-confessed danger to democracy
Australian Climate Madness takes a swipe at Stephan Lewandowsky’s latest taxpayer-funded polemic. This is an extended version of my comment. Lewandowsky’s sneaky request “to mention only my assistant’s...
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Understanding the role of Peer Review
In “Newton, Einstein, Watson and Crick, were not peer reviewed“, Jo Nova questions whether peer review is valid at all. I think the answer is somewhat more nuanced. This is an extended version of a...
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Using 15 year trends to replicate GISTEMP average surface temperature anomalies
At Jo Nova’s Unthreaded on 22/06/14, Philip Shehan posted some GISTEMP temperature trend figures that caused a good deal of controversy. In 15 year steps they are 1924/39 Trend: 0.142 ±0.148 °C/decade...
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Carbon Capture and Storage Loses another £100m but saves up to £10bn
Last week the National Audit Office published a report Carbon Capture and Storage: the second competition for government support. The main headline was “The Department has now tried twice to kick start...
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