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John Quiggin details how the ABC made lemonade from the lemon that is the Great Global Warming Swindle. You can see the video of Tony Jones' questioning of Martin Durkin here, or read the transcript here. Durkin was unable to...
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Posted on July 17, 2007 1:30 PM • 38 Comments
Hey, remember how all the global warming skeptics used to say that warming wasn't happening because the satellite data didn't show a warming trend. Until in 2005 when they found a mistake in the satellite data and what do you...
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Posted on April 10, 2007 2:56 PM • 52 Comments
John Baez invented the crackpot index, a simple method for rating potentially revolutionary contributions to physics: A -5 point starting credit. 1 point for every statement that is widely agreed on to be false. 2 points for every statement that...
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Posted on April 3, 2007 2:29 PM • 15 Comments
Earlier I wrote about Khilyuk and Chilingar their mistake is so large and so obvious that anyone who cites them either has no clue about climate science or doesn't care whether what they write is true or not. So who...
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Posted on January 26, 2007 9:48 PM • 21 Comments
The Stern Review: A Dual Critique was published in an economics journal and critiques climate science. Not surprisingly, as Nexus 6 reports, peer review was grossly inadequate. The critique slams Stern for, get this, ignoring Khilyuk and Chilingar. That's the...
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Posted on January 17, 2007 12:16 PM • 27 Comments
Today's Australian has a Bob Carter opinion piece attacking the Stern report. Carter lets fly with his usual over-the-top rhetoric: the Stern review is destined to join Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb and think tank the Club of Rome's manifesto,...
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Posted on November 2, 2006 1:15 PM • 64 Comments
Matt Drudge recently linked to a web site claiming that climate experts disagreed with Al Gore about global warming. Hundreds of blogs uncritically swallowed the claim. One of the few skeptics was Bruce Perens who wrote We ran a pointer...
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Posted on June 15, 2006 3:00 PM • 66 Comments
In the olden days to become a leading climate scientist you had to work hard, do lots of research and publish it in good journals. Now there's a quicker method. Put out a press release....
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Posted on May 9, 2006 2:03 PM • 12 Comments
One favourite tactic of creationists is that of "quote-mining", using out-of-context quotes from scientists that appear to support the creationists' position. Global warming skeptics play this game as well and a recent Calgary Herald column Tim Ball is a good...
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Posted on May 2, 2006 11:45 AM • 22 Comments
James Annan writes about two programmes on the BBC. First, a good one on overselling climate change. I think that what gave the programme credibility was that they didn't talk to any of the global warming skeptics. RealClimate also...
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Posted on April 23, 2006 2:44 PM • 15 Comments
Bob Carter's fraudulent claim that global warming ended in 1998 seems to have been swallowed uncritically by lots of gullible global warming skeptics. Jim at Our Word is our Weapon plays whack a mole with a couple of them, Madsen...
Posted on April 16, 2006 1:38 PM • 35 Comments
Bob Carter has a piece in the Telegraph where he claims: For many years now, human-caused climate change has been viewed as a large and urgent problem. In truth, however, the biggest part of the problem is neither environmental nor...
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Posted on April 9, 2006 11:44 AM • 157 Comments
Six Australian business leader reckon that the debate is over and climate change is real: Six business leaders yesterday stepped into the greenhouse debate, and blew the whistle. Game over, they said: climate change is real, it's going to...
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Posted on April 8, 2006 2:11 PM • 156 Comments
Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
