There is a concept in philosophy that posits that the universe will repeat itself, in an endless cycle of recurrence. This means that everything in your life will be repeated again and again and again… All your hard work trying to arrive at some vestige of truth, some facts you can rely on, some firm […]
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Of Toast, Porkies, Amazongate and Denialist Donkey Braying
January 25, 2010 
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So, we had climategate, which in my estimation — and that of others — amounted to a hill of beans. Even Chylek admits that nothing in the emails destroys the main pillar in the AGW paradigm — the globally averaged temperature record. AGW, which is not premised on the hockey stick, or solely on model […]
Continue readingOn Pillar Toppling
January 25, 2010 15 Comments
I have a day off today and have been surfing a number of websites looking at elements of the skeptic criticism of AGW theory. Chylek’s letter got me thinking about these pillars he sees as being undermined by the CRU emails and why I have been so little moved by all the evidence skeptics have […]
Continue readingWhat did it for me?
January 24, 2010 13 Comments
The last couple of weeks have been a watershed for me in terms of my own thinking about AGW. I entered into the post-climategate world with a willingness to see if the emails turned up evidence of a quality and quantity necessary to undermine the foundations of AGW, which I take to be the dominant […]
Continue readingCriticism of the IPCC Reports: A New IPCC Calculus?
January 20, 2010 2 Comments
Paul M has a list of criticisms and flaws in the IPCC reports that I’d like to explore in greater detail. Here is the first criticism: A “new IPCC calculus”: A new form of calculus has been invented by the authors of the the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), in order to create the false […]
Continue readingA Former AGW Supporter Turns Skeptic
January 16, 2010 69 Comments
As promised to Ron Cram, I am creating this post to discuss Allegre’s skeptic turn and the reasons for it. Here is an excerpt from the NP article: Fifteen years ago, Dr. Allegre was among the 1500 prominent scientists who signed “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity,” a highly publicized letter stressing that global warming’s “potential […]
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