I was thinking of calling this post, A Tale of Two Bullies with Over-sized Egos. But I decided that discretion was the better part of valour. My “thesis” has long been that Michael Mann is the David Irving of “climate science”. Some evidence in support of my thesis …
What does the United Nations do with a scandal-tainted former Secretary General? A Nobel Peace Laureate, no less, who succeeded in failing to bring peace to Syria. They hand him a script and off he goes to preach impending catastrophe due to … you guessed it … climate change!
I had concluded my previous post on UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s declarations regarding the “great partnership” of a “global dynamic duo” i.e. the UN and the International Olympic Committee (IOC), by asking: When considering the foundations, legacies and values of the UN (and its offspring, particularly the IPCC) and those of the IOC, do we…
The United Nations and the International Olympic Committee: “great partners”. A “global dynamic duo” with a pact: ‘You keep silent about our scandals and hypocrisy, and we’ll keep silent about yours’.
In my previous post, I had commented on a recently produced (and, as of Feb. 12, twice updated 29 page “briefing” from a “jewel in the crown, of British science and global science” (aka the U.K. Met Office) entitled The Recent Storms and Floods in the UK – in which I had asked a few…
Hot off the virtual presses from a “jewel in the crown, of British science and global science”, aka the U.K. Met Office (MO), in this instance in partnership with the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)’s Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, is a 29-page “briefing” paper, entitled The Recent Storms and Floods in the UK (pdf).…
An excellent interview of Donna Laframboise by Ben Pile Sorry, Vimeo doesn’t seem to be very “shareable” via WordPress’ “Reblog” (well, at least not for me:-() So try: http://vimeo.com/86212225 Or view it from Donna‘s or Ben‘s. Next time, I’ll try to remember to use “Press this” instead. UPDATE, Feb. 10 11:26 AM PST WordPress appear…
Writing in Spiked, the U.K.’s Ben Pile has an excellent essay on the latest shoot-from-the-lip pronouncements emanating from the keyboard of the government’s “Chief Scientific Advisor”, Sir Mark Walport (and/or perhaps that of his ghost-writer!) Some excerpts from Pile’s assessment: Sir Mark Walport’s demand that climate-change sceptics ‘grow up’ only reveals his ignorance about the…
The View From Here 