Monthly Archives: November 2013
Lives of the Climate Bloggers (3): Robert E. Phelan
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/ctpost/obituary.aspx?n=Robert-Phelan&pid=159079832#fb “Robert E. Phelan, Jr., age 63, of West Haven, CT passed away on August 10, 2012. […] Robert graduated from Notre Dame High school and continued his education at Providence College and Indiana University where he received two masters’ … Continue reading
Lives of the Climate Bloggers (2): Michael H. Kelly
Update Apologies to Michael Kelly for not linking properly to his site, which is at http://michaelkelly.artofeurope.com/ Thanks Paul Matthews _______________________ [One of the joys of a work like Vasari’s “Lives of the Artists” or Aubrey’s “Brief Lives” is the prominence … Continue reading
Gods, Saints, Nudes and Knights
Hope no-one was too shocked to see a load of naked women suddenly appear on this site yesterday, only to disappear again. They belong on my other site which I’m in the process of setting up. http://godssaintsnudesandknights.wordpress.com/ I’ve mastered … Continue reading
Lives of the Climate Bloggers (1) John L. Daly
This is the first of a series I promised at https://geoffchambers.wordpress.com/2012/09/24/coming-attractions/ when I first started this blog over a year ago. * * * When the Climategate story broke in late 2009, Wattsupwiththat led with … Continue reading
Lew’s Thinking
I’ve submitted a paper “Lysenko was Wrong: therefore Lewandowsky should be Sectioned” to “New Frontiers in Psychological Science” and they’re considering it for publication. Only joking. The real title is “Ideational Conspiracism among Theorisers of Conspirationist Ideation: A Meta-Study”. (Note … Continue reading
Bright Spark in the Flame Wars
[No-one in the world wastes as much time as I do reading pointless comment threads on pointless articles. This one is a classic, a ready-made sketch for the first comedian to realise the humour potential in global warming hysteria. It … Continue reading
Stephen Emmott in Italia: Dieci Miliardi
Googling “stephen emmott” + “ten billion” yields 56,300 results, though no recent articles, as far as I can see, about the book that was published in July in Britain and in early September in the USA by two of the … Continue reading
The Great Psychological Conspiracy Theory Conspiracy
Imagine if the government announced that those who disagreed with its policies or who refused to accept everything it said as the gospel truth were irrational creatures suffering from persecution mania. Imagine if there was a group of scientists who … Continue reading
In Praise of (French) Ecologists
French politics is complicated, and I’d more or less sworn off discussing it, but recent events involving a new Eco-tax make the subject irresistible. The Marxist historian E.P. Thompson once remarked that the British love affair with Europe was largely … Continue reading
Of Cavemen, Connoisseurs, and Climate Scientists
Paul Matthews has an excellent blog devoted entirely to analysis of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report. His latest article https://ipccreport.wordpress.com/2013/10/14/a-question-of-attribution-2/ is about the attribution of climate change to human influence. It takes its title from a TV play by Alan … Continue reading
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