Happy Eaarth Day?
BPSDB (hat tip to Quark Soup and Climate Progress) Maybe you celebrated Earth Day, maybe you ignored it. Maybe you share the cynicism that has been becoming overt on more than a few environmental...
View ArticleRichard Muller is a well bad tosser
BPSDB Knowledge is a deadly friend When no one sets the rules. The fate of all mankind I see Is in the hands of fools. Let me begin by saying I have enormous respect for William M. Connolley (aka...
View ArticleAre you disrespectin my family?
Does this face look bovvered? BPSDB Sometimes it takes a cartoon character to help understand a cartoon. Recently I was introduced to the comic character Lauren Cooper, a fictitious character created...
View Article“Hide the decline”… in Denier intelligence
OK, make that “Highlight the decline” BPSDB Almost a year and a half after the CRUde Hack incident (“Climategate” to Fox News fans) the scientifically illiterate (aka climate change Deniers) are still...
View ArticlePausing for fun in DenierLand
XKCD always! BPSDB hat tip to MindofDan (how many climate change Deniers will actually get it?) Rabett Runs Eli has a totally fun flow chart in Rejection is fungable . We have a winner “AGW is a Hoax“...
View ArticleTornadoes and Earthquakes and Storms, oh my!
BPSDB The recent tornadoes in the United States have lead to a resurgence of articles talking about the link between extreme weather, natural disasters and climate change. If you are an interested...
View ArticleMethod without Science, tactics without strategy
BPSDB Method without Science, or method … “Opps!” Seeing the recent “Science without method” post at Climate Etc I opted to first read the Nicol paper it was discussing before reading Dr Curry’s...
View ArticleThe media, you get what they paid for
BPSDB Recently Joe Romm was very impressed with Dave Roberts’ “Policy in an age of post-truth politics” where “the referees have left the building” and for the most part I have to agree (hint, read...
View ArticleChamberGate, some points to ponder
BPSDB On April 29th a person using the twitter account “@septscelles” released a large file to Barrett Brown that purportedly contained secret US Chamber of Commerce documents. ~ Muskegon Critic If...
View ArticleDer, den du am meisten nährst!
BPSDB Fuddle Duddle Chamberlain, Trudeau or … ? Flotsam A couple of weeks ago Michael Tobis shocked the delicate, refined sensibilities of the climate change Deniers by stating unambiguously what is...
View ArticleRotFL! too funny! “The Truth About Greenfyre”
ALERT! The climate change Deniers have acquired a powerful new skill! Apparently they are now able to actually use a search engine! What do you suppose tipped them off? the pictures on my FaceBook...
View ArticleHigh Praise for Greenfyre’s from Judith Curry
BPSDB Yes, yes, naturally I realize that it isn’t actually meant as praise, it is clearly meant to be an insult. However, Dr Curry really needs to actually read what she praises and what she condemns...
View ArticleThis is what Demockracy looks like
As long as we’re on the topic (for the last time, at least for a good long while) I decided to move this post up (and several others still to appear). The context is this video by Katie Goodman of...
View ArticleMedia Strategy for the Tyndall Gas Effect
BPSDB Nothing New Under the Sun Science in the days of John Tyndall, the man who in the mid 19th century identified the greenhouse gases (the greenhouse effect itself was discovered by Joseph Fourier...
View ArticleRap Attack: I’m A Climate Scientist
BPSDB . Hat tip to Magnus and Gareth The F-bomb again, sigh. Maybe Tobis really has fundamentally altered the tone of climate science discussion? OK, they are climate scientists, there are actual facts...
View ArticleObservable, dramatic, immediate!
BPSDB Disempowering ourselves again “It’s unlikely that the U.S. is going to take serious action on climate change until there are observable, dramatic events, almost catastrophic in nature, that drive...
View ArticleVery brief comment
I have just taken my last exams, so I have got some time for the next few months. It will take me a while to catch up with all the dross in the inbox, but when I’ve caught up with it I’ll find another...
View ArticleGlobal Warming is real (according to Dellingpole)
Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) are a team of independent scientists who have released of their temperature record. The team was led by Richard Muller, a physicist at the University of...
View ArticleDan Pangburn
Dan Pengburn has been commented several times, so I think that he deserves a post of his own. anom(Y) = calculated temperature anomaly in year Y N(i) = average daily Brussels International sunspot...
View ArticleDan’s constant
BPSDB Following from Dan Pangburn: Dan commented on this, helpfully providing links to several pdfs showing where he derived his constant. So I took a look at them. Dan uses the First Law of...
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