Wishing all my readers a very merry Christmas, and a happy and prosperous New Year. On the other hand, Professor Richard Parncutt hopes “deniers” will be sentenced to death. Feel the Christmas spirit flow…! UPDATE: Prof Parncutt posts an apology here…. Read More ›
Archive for December 2012
ABC: Mark Scott's response to bias charge "defies belief"
I have to admit I read Mark Scott’s piece in The Australian last week with increasing bewilderment. Comments such as this: The panel [on Q&A] includes some of the most outstanding political correspondents in the nation: Phil Coorey, Annabel Crabb, George Megalogenis,… Read More ›
Equating climate sceptics with paedophiles is fine at the ABC
You will recall the story recently where ABC “science” presenter Robyn Williams opened a programme on climate “denial” with the following: “What if I told you that paedophilia is good for children, or that asbestos is an excellent inhalant for… Read More ›
Lewandowsky on IPCC leak
UPDATE: A commenter jokingly suggests below that Lew should “see a shrink”, but the strange thing is that he ticks several of the boxes for the psychological characteristic of narcissism, including: Magical thinking: Narcissists see themselves as perfect, using distortion and illusion known as magical… Read More ›
Quote of the Day: IPCC AR5 leak
UPDATE: The headbangers have all made up their minds too. Un-skeptical Pseudo-Science, the ABC, who wheel in a tame alarmist to hose the story down (see comment below). From the It’s the Sun, stupid Department, a startling acknowledgement that the… Read More ›
Doha's climate justice: will China now pay the rest of the world?
One result of Doha is to allow the dumbest countries on Earth to continue poisoning their economies by extending the pointless Kyoto Protocol (which no longer includes Japan, New Zealand, Russia and Canada, and has never included the US, or… Read More ›
Freedom of Information Update
Lewandowsky – Universtiy of Western Australia Graham Readfearn complains at DeSmogBlog that climate bloggers including myself are: “using FOI to rifle through scientists’ daily emails. … [FOI] is a law which appears to have been hijacked by climate science sceptics… Read More ›
Photograph high tides 'to prepare for climate change'
Just the latest in a long line of initiatives to prepare us all for the impending armageddon. This time it’s the “Witness King Tides” project, which describes itself thus: We need coastal communities around Australia to take a photo or… Read More ›
UK Climate Madness: Two billion pounds just pissed up the wall
Words. Fail. Me. Britain yesterday pledged almost £2 billion in “climate aid” to help finance foreign projects including wind turbines in Africa and greener cattle farming in Colombia. Each household will contribute £70 to schemes to tackle climate change in… Read More ›
ABC's Doha climate-gasm
It’s that time of year again. The climate wonks all disappear on a carbon-fuelled jolly to a six-star hotel to work out how to save the planet, and the leftard media spew out acres of climate alarmism to help The… Read More ›