Warming or Not Warming: You Can’t Decide

It’s a familiar refrain... Without hard evidence to support their claims, climate denialists are attacking the process of climate-change science. This is the line that appears before Bill McKibben’s article, “Climate Change's OJ Simpson Moment“, which is currently...

It’s all in the Head…lines

David Adam in The Guardian, 11 March 2009: Sea level could rise more than a metre by 2100, say experts David Adam, Guardian podcast, 13 March 2009: The scientists, they have been saying it for a while, and we’ve been saying it in the media for a while… but I think the...

IPCC WGI Ch10 – Projecting Alarm

In our previous post, we argued that 'Without WGII and WGIII, there is no grounds for alarm'. Our point being that WGII and WGIII take certain premises for granted in order to be able to talk about the inevitability of Nth-order effects of climate change, especially...

Let’s pick apart this politics of doom

Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/debates/copenhagen_article/8057 A sixth of the world’s population – the billion or so people who live downstream of Himalayan glaciers and depend on them for water – must surely be relieved. Just a...

Precaution, Projection & Parthian Shots

It can't be easy being a climate change alarmist just at the moment. In its desperation to keep the ragged flag flying, the Guardian has run a couple of very strange stories today. First up, in What happened when scientists photoshopped climate sceptics, they've...

The Anatomy of Climate Catastrophism

Ben has an article over at Spiked-Online today, For the furore around ‘Glaciergate’, we didn’t actually need to know that Himalayan glacial retreat was exaggerated to know that the disaster story it seemingly produced was pseudo-scientific bunk. The plots of such...

Africagate – Worse than Previously Thought

Africagate – Worse than Previously Thought Richard North picks up from our post here and Ben’s guest post on Roger Pielke’s blog, which revealed the spurious claim in IPCC AR4 WGII report, concerning rainfall in Africa. The Times also covers the story. North searches...