Telegraph: Climategate is no problem! Just ask those under suspicion!

By: Frederick (Diary)  |  December 2nd at 06:41 PM  | 

The London Telegraph was so profoundly upset by the news that the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (CRU) had allegedly falsified data that they felt compelled to issue a press release: Sceptics claim the emails show climate change data was being manipulated. Prof Jones, director of the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU), has said he “absolutely” stands by | Read More »

The Religion of Pseudo-Science

By: Frederick (Diary)  |  October 12th at 06:24 PM  | 

In Monty Python’s The Life of Brian, the main character named Brian has been mistaken for the Messiah. This was a not-altogether farcical premise, as there were many would-be Messiahs (or as I and other Christians believe, false Messiahs) in Judea in the many centuries of Roman occupation. In any event, Brian has been mistaken for the Messiah and despite his protests has already built | Read More »

Back-Checking the Hockey Stick

By: Frederick (Diary)  |  October 2nd at 05:22 PM  | 

(H/T the Talkmaster) Take a look at the following graph and see if you can tell what it is and what it means: If you couldn’t tell the above graph, linked from Climate Audit, is the now famous “Hockey Stick” graph that depicts global temperatures over the last roughly 2,500 years. The data comes from tree-ring data, which is considered by climatologists to be among | Read More »

Warmers Believe in Aliens

By: Frederick (Diary)  |  May 16th at 12:00 PM  | 

Okay, perhaps that’s a bit of an overstatement, but it has its basis in fact. See, most Global Warming/Climate Change enthusiasts base their opinion that Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW or “man-made global warming”) on computer models.  These are computer models that use complex equations developed from the limited amount of data in an attempt to model the behavior of the Earth’s atmosphere.  These complex models | Read More »

Even History…

By: Frederick (Diary)  |  January 9th at 09:42 PM  | 

I’m watching the History Channel as I blog and comment, and the channel is presenting various ways in which human beings might go extinct or the world might end.  I wait and wonder why I’m not seeing Anthroprogenic Global Warming/Climate Change.  The reason is that it’s their “Number One Threat” to human survival, and so saved for last. And here they start talking about how | Read More »