Gilbert Burnham on the revelation that the British government's scientific advisors told them not to criticize the Lancet study: We never had any doubt that the study would stand the test of time, it was designed with a lot of...
The BBC used a Freedom of Information Request to find out what the scientific advice to the British government about the Lancet study was: The British government was advised against publicly criticising a report estimating that 655,000 Iraqis had died...
Jonathan Chait analyses the reasons why Republicans deny anthropogenic global warming: As the evidence for global warming gets stronger, Republicans are actually getting more skeptical. Al Gore's recent congressional testimony on the subject, and the chilly reception he received from...
Sylvia S Tognetti rounds up commentary on Broad's hit piece and puts it an a wider context: The reason Al Gore has become a polarizing figure is not for any of the reasons given by Broad, who makes a crude...
This is a guest post by Matt Daws. I'm a mathematician at St John's College in Oxford, and so having seen a number of posters around for a conference on climate change in my own college, I decided to head...
Over at ClimateAudit Steve McIntyre complains that Al Gore loving Google has dropped ClimateAudit from their search results: I've noted from time to time that climateaudit.org ranked extremely high on many google searches. One of the ways to find articles...
The Australian's War on Science has continued. Fortunately, I am able to outsource the refuting. First, Nexus 6 takes apart a Tuesday editorial where the Australian foolishly allows itself to be swindled by a British TV show. (Mind you the...
McKitrick and Essex have managed to get their "no such thing as average temperature" stupidity published in a journal! In their paper they add some new stupid to go with the old stupid from Taken by Storm. Can they take...
Last November Ray Pierrehumbert at RealClimate was very disappointed in a New York Times article by William Broad: The worst fault of the article, though, is that it leaves the reader with the impression that there is something in the...
Daniel Davies comments on the attempted disproof by incredulity of the Lancet numbers: I am curious as to why anyone is bothering with this debate any more (in some of the discussion on Dr Madelyn Hsiao-Rei Hick's comments, it has...
The Australian doesn't just make war on climate science, they don't like epidemiology either, printing Anjana Ahuja's hatchet job on the Lancet study. Greta at Radio Open Source has posted a response from Les Roberts:...
From episode 2 of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Narrator: The Encyclopaedia Galactica defines a robot as "a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man". The Marketing Division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot...
Anjana Ahuja has written an extraordinarily one-sided article attacking the Lancet study. She drags out the same criticisms that were covered in the Nature story, but even though she cites the Nature piece, she carefully avoids mentioning the Lancet authors'...
I only wrote my last post on the Australian's War on Science a couple of days ago and already there's more attacks on science from them. First we have this news article: Professor Henderson said yesterday the report by the...
One conclusion of the recent IPCC report, produced by some 600 scientists and 620 expert reviewers, was: Most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic...