Double Standards: BBC seminar on impartiality in Economics Reporting vs the Climate TwentyEightGate Affair

Well now, here’s something worth flagging up. A fortnight ago, the BBC held a seminar on impartiality in economics reporting. Here’s Trust Vice Chair Diane Coyle’s comment on it, followed by the list of participants and an excerpt from the document describing the seminar. I invite readers to compare and contrast that excerpt with the […]

TwentyEightGate: How the BBC justified breaking its charter commitment to impartiality

This is a followup to yesterdays post on 28gate, an emerging scandal at the BBC   The BBC is in crisis. Revelations over ex-employee and paedophile Jimmy Savile, and its false accusations of child sex abuse against top tory benefactor Lord McAlpine have led to the resignation of the Director General George Entwhistle after 54 […]

Joe Smith: Dangerous News – TwentyEightGate begins to hot up

The BBC recently won its case against Tony Newbery, denying him his FOI request for a list of attendees at the infamous BBC Seminar. The list has now been found on the wayback machine by talkshop regular Maurizio ‘omnologos’ Morabito, who got Anthony to break the story over at WUWT. Maurizio says This is for […]

The Climate Debate Twenty Years Later

H/T The GWPF Still going round in circles it seems: long on assertions but short on credible evidence of the claimed alarming human effects. “Better climate knowledge about natural versus anthropogenic forcing seems to be a decade away”, quotes Master Resource. That was the major takeaway from a major 1999 climate conference in Houston, Texas […]

Twenty-five industrial wind energy deceptions – Master Resource

This is an updated version of an article that’s appeared before, but as it covers quite a lot of ground is worth airing. TRYING to pin down the arguments of wind promoters is a bit like trying to grab a greased balloon, writes John Droz, Jr. . Just when you think you’ve got a handle […]

BBC promotes ‘Anthropocene’ hype: #38gate begins

The idea of lending the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) conjecture an air of scientific legitimacy by defining the period since the spread of agrarianism and industrialisation as a new geological age called the ‘Anthropocene’ has been bubbling along in the background for a number of years. In fact, it’s now got it’s own grand ‘working group’ consisting […]

Fred Pearce: Climategate and Credibility

Fred Pearce has been attending a ‘ Carbonundrums: From Science to Headlines’ conference in Norway on media and the presentation of climate science to the public. He has some interesting things to say about the climategate scientists. In relation to the email captured in this image, Fred’s presentation included the word “criminal”. Stitch that Neven.

Spain, Portugal dryness ‘unprecedented’ in 1,200 years – or maybe not, say critics

Some scientists contacted by Carbon Brief have their doubts about the reasons given for the reported expansion of the Azores high. An assistant professor at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, warns that “the title statement is not justified by the study”. Another assistant professor, at the University of Dartmouth, told Carbon Brief ‘that changes […]

China continues to laugh at Western “Green Energy” foolishness

Bigger energy bills and decreasing reliability of energy supply are the only guaranteed results of climate-obsessed policies. – – – With an energy cost crisis now striking Europe and to a lesser extent the U.S., some cracks have begun to appear in the “net zero” utopian dreams being pursued almost universally by Western politicians, says […]

Flawed Climate Models? Arctic Ocean Started Getting Warmer Decades Earlier Than Thought

Twenty six ‘COP’s and much of the world still claims to believe in, and frames its energy and various other policies according to, flawed climate models? If ‘rapid’ Arctic warming was already happening 120 years ago at an early stage of industrialisation what was, or were, the cause(s)? – – – The Arctic Ocean has […]

Study of giant viruses frozen in ice for millennia

Since viruses – and not much else – are in the news these days, here’s a reminder that they’re nothing new. If anything they’re less scary than in the distant past, judging by this story. – – – Giant viruses known as “Girus”, frozen in the permafrost from the remote landscapes of Siberia and the […]

James Annan, Syd Levitus and the 35% exaggeration of Ocean Heat Content rise

I ran across this interesting exchange recently. In it, James Annan, one of the IPCC authors who got Pattern Recognition in Physics shut down after we published our findings on the solar-planetary theory in it because he thought it was wrong, doesn’t seem as bothered to deal with errors by his fellow oceanographer Syd Levitus. […]

Antony van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723)

. . . my work, which I’ve done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly from a craving after knowledge, which I notice resides in me more than in most other men. And therewithal, whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it […]

MET Office: Little ice age ahead – re-arrange deck chairs now!

Via Benny Peiser at the GWPF Britain could be on the verge of a mini Ice Age as the Sun enters a cooler phase, the Met Office warned yesterday. The last big chill was felt hundreds of years ago when Frost Fairs were held on the frozen River Thames. However the Met Office said the […]

H.C. Russell: Periodicity of Good and Bad Seasons – Part 2

Thanks to commenter ‘psc3113’ for finding the concluding part of HC Russells’ paper on a lunar 19 year cycle in drought records, taken from The Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld. : 1866 – 1939)  Saturday 4 July 1896. At the conclusion of the article, the probably cause of the 19 year cycle identified is elucidated. Periodicity of Good […]

Why the BBC needs pushing off the taxpayers teat

Today, MP’s vote on whether it should cease to be a criminal offence to buy and watch a TV without paying a hefty fee for the production their propaganda, whether or not you choose to watch it. Nearly 10% of all court cases in the UK are for non-payment of this extortionate impost. Which of course […]

Anthropogenic Global Warming propaganda faces new opposition in Wyoming legislature

From Arstechnica: Over the past several years, a number of states have worked with organizations including the National Research Council, National Science Teachers Association, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science to develop new standards for teaching science in public schools. The result, termed the Next Generation Science Standards, provides states with a […]

Peer Review Debacle: Friends and Foes in the Fog of Battle

  There’s nothing like a good strong ethics controversy to sort out friends from foes, and the last five days have been decisive in laying out the battle lines. The trouble started when James Annan whipped up an email campaign directed at science publisher Copernicus, complaining about our Special Edition of Pattern Recognition in Physics. […]

BBC responds to complaint #2: Different day – Same old #GreenCrap

I recently sent another complaint to the BBC, which they have now replied to. Their reply fails to address my main point, which is that all available scientific evidence shows extreme weather events have not increased in frequency or intensity since records began. Their utterly lame justification is that NGO’s and aid agencies say they […]

BBC propaganda machine moves into overdrive on MET’s cooler forecast

The ‘Today’ news programme dealt with the talkshop revelations about the MET Offices new cooler decadal forecast in tones insufficiently reverent to the ears of high priestess of global warming, Julia Slingo, the BBC enviro-wonks have been working overtime to redress the problem. First, David Shukman deliberately mislead the public with his numbers only write-up […]