Current Events, Climate change
Articles about scientific matters (especially climate change) refer to studies with “peer reviewed” papers. Most readers assume that this means that the findings have been endorsed by qualified scientists and that they can be considered reliable.
The reality is that this is actually a low standard and is not an accurate guide to the reliability of the results. Continue reading “What Does “Peer Reviewed” Mean?”
To decide how to deal with climate change we have to first look at the affects it will have. The effects which have been discussed fall into three groups.
These are:
My conclusion is that the only aspect that poses a real threat to humanity is a rising sea level.
In this blog I shall look at all three aspects and explain the reasoning behind the conclusion. Continue reading “Towards a Rational Approach to Climate Change”
The Wikipedia entry on “Global Cooling” dismisses the idea that it was the prevailing view in the 1970’s by showing the numbers of papers on cooling versus the number on warming. Does this truly support the author’s claim?
In this post, I describe a fictitious experiment and then draw up a non-complete list of papers that could be produced from the experiment.
I then show a real-life example of this sort of “paper-churning”. Continue reading “Is the Number of Papers on a Topic a Good Indicator of its Importance?”
It is frequently quoted, that the “Science is Settled” when it comes to climate change. However, the nature of science is that it is never really settled – with good science, each question that is answered leads to three or more new questions. It is perhaps more accurate to say “the Politics is Settled”. As skeptics ruefully acknowledge, they may be winning the skirmishes, but the alarmists are winning the war.
Some examples of intellectual dishonesty from the climate change propagandists are:
With Climate Change, there are four related, but separate questions, each of which will be addressed in future blogs:
The “dishonesty” claimed in the title is clear in the climate change propagandists rather than the scientists. The propagandists include:
Continue reading “Climate Change – The Intellectual Dishonesty of the Climate Alarmists”
I am starting this blog because I believe I have insights, views and opinions which are not expressed elsewhere, whether in the media or by other commentators. My main items of interest are:
Future topics on this blog include:
The following describes my attitudes and credentials on the main topics: Continue reading “INTRODUCTION”