Just a quick post about Fred Pearce’s book “The Climate Files” on Climategate and the Guardian podcast interview with him, in which he discusses some of what he sees as the main issues in the whole saga. First, I was a bit disappointed that the core of the matter wasn’t addressed except tangentially — and […]
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Tricks, Hiding Declines and Other Sleights of Hand
June 14, 2010 
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McI has a new post up about the “trick”. You’d think he’d develop some different material — this bleating on about the “trick” is getting pretty old, but I guess if it feeds the audience (and tip jar) well, why do real science? Besides, there is another trick being played on us all right now […]
Continue readingThe Real Cost
June 8, 2010 4 Comments
Yes, yes and another yes to George Monbiot’s latest blog post, The Money Gusher, in which Monbiot muses on the real cost of extracting fossil fuels. BP and other fossil fuel corporations just do not prepare adequately for exigencies such as the Deepwater Horizon spill or global warming, nor do they charge the real price […]
Continue readingThe Hartwell Paper and Capitulation
May 22, 2010 68 Comments
I haven’t posted for a while. Quite frankly, I’ve been horrified over the BP disaster and have felt that arguing with septics and contrarians is not doing much good in the greater scheme of things. However, I did stumble across the Hartwell Paper and couldn’t restrain myself. I shuddered while I read “The Hartwell Paper: […]
Continue readingOxburgh and Organ Grinders
April 25, 2010 46 Comments
Over at CA, much hay is being made over the comments of Judith Curry about the Oxburgh Report. Curry has become the denialiati and contrarian favorite because she plays right into their hand. It’s sad, really. Here’s McIntyre: The majority of the climate science “community” appear to be so desperate for affection that they’ve proclaimed wind utility […]
Continue readingThe Oxburgh Report
April 14, 2010 19 Comments
The Guardian is reporting that the Oxburgh Inquiry into the methods of the CRU has released its report and has found that the CRU was cleared of malpractice. The scientists at the centre of the row over the hacked climate emails have been cleared of any deliberate malpractice by the second of three inquiries into […]
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