Piece By Piece – The AGW Side
The questions in the public sphere — which is my natural subject matter — are whether we’re facing a meltdown or whether it’s all a big hoax. I’m not claiming these are the right questions — I’m...
View ArticleOrigins of the IPCC or Houston, we have a problem…
My primary interest in this is to know what is correct regarding global warming, but as a policy analyst and someone with a background in social science and the history and logic of science, I can’t...
View ArticleTrenberth on the real travesty
Over at “A Few Things Ill Considered” Coby posts about Trenberth’s recent article in The Daily Camera on the travesty that is the way his email commenting on the “travesty” of being unable to account...
View ArticleA Former AGW Supporter Turns Skeptic
As promised to Ron Cram, I am creating this post to discuss Allegre’s skeptic turn and the reasons for it. Here is an excerpt from the NP article: Fifteen years ago, Dr. Allegre was among the 1500...
View ArticleCriticism of the IPCC Reports: A New IPCC Calculus?
Paul M has a list of criticisms and flaws in the IPCC reports that I’d like to explore in greater detail. Here is the first criticism: A “new IPCC calculus”: A new form of calculus has been invented by...
View ArticleWhat did it for me?
The last couple of weeks have been a watershed for me in terms of my own thinking about AGW. I entered into the post-climategate world with a willingness to see if the emails turned up evidence of a...
View ArticleOn Pillar Toppling
I have a day off today and have been surfing a number of websites looking at elements of the skeptic criticism of AGW theory. Toppling Pillars Chylek’s letter got me thinking about these pillars he...
View ArticleOf Toast, Porkies, Amazongate and Denialist Donkey Braying
So, we had climategate, which in my estimation — and that of others — amounted to a hill of beans. Even Chylek admits that nothing in the emails destroys the main pillar in the AGW paradigm — the...
View ArticleThe Eternal Return or: The Unbearable Wrongness of Spencer and Braswell
There is a concept in philosophy that posits that the universe will repeat itself, in an endless cycle of recurrence. This means that everything in your life will be repeated again and again and again…...
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