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“Climate Change -the Facts” My complaints and BBC Replies
Case Number CAS-5417171-25S56H 1. My Complaint Stage 1 1. Most “facts” quoted false, some irrelevant or misleading in context. Examples: 2. There are no “Greater storms, greater floods extreme sea-level rise.” according to the IPCC, nor, according to the IPCC, is this “happening … Continue reading
theConversation
On May 13th, John Cook, PhD student at the University of Queensland, published this article at the Conversation http://theconversation.com/the-things-people-ask-about-the-scientific-consensus-on-climate-change-59243 There were 414 coments in the next few days. 257 of them have since been removed by moderators On 17th May … Continue reading
New Blog: cliscep.com
Most of my blogging activity is being transferred to a new blog – a co-operative effort which we hope will expand to fill the space left by our previous individual blogs. I explain why at http://cliscep.com/about/ According to the gas … Continue reading
Ubu President
President Hollande has just given a 25 minute speech to launch December’s COP21 Paris Climate Conference. It was such a monument of scientific, economic and geopolitical stupidity that I thought I’d preserve it for posterity here. Here are some extracts, … Continue reading
Keep the Coal in a Black Hole and the Gas up Rusbridger’s Wassname
I was idly surfing the English language TV news channels looking for reactions to the Greek crisis, and came across two science items. In the first the presenter was interviewing a science correspondent who was holding a cuddly furry toy … Continue reading
CO2 – the Opera; by Giorgio Battistelli
The long-awaited opera based on Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” plays at La Scala, Milan from 16 to 29 May, though Gore’s name no longer appears. Instead, credit is given to James Lovelock, Richard Mabey, and the environmentalit periodical “Resurgence”. Tickets … Continue reading
Are We Downhearted?
Since deciding to renounce blogging on climate science a week ago, I see that Alex has come to a similar decision https://alexjc38.wordpress.com/2015/03/01/pause-button/ I’ve continued to stalk at theConversation, for instance at http://theconversation.com/is-it-time-to-take-science-out-of-the-climate-change-debate-36371 but also on articles about jazz http://theconversation.com/the-forgotten-voices-of-race-records-pullman-porters-the-rev-tt-rose-and-the-man-with-a-clarinet-37907 and … Continue reading
..and Thanks for the Fish
Thanks to all commenters at my antepenultimate post for their kind words. As you can see, my final curtain call was about as final as that of any “Grande Dame du théatre”. Three things persuaded me that I couldn’t go … Continue reading
‘Allo ‘Allo
Hello again. Just to let you know about the launch of an “Association Francophone des Climato-Optimistes” (AFCO). You can read about it at http://www.skyfall.fr/?p=1490 and their manifesto is at http://www.climat-optimistes.com/ Membership costs 50 euros, which I find a bit steep. … Continue reading
Geoffchambers's Blog 
Rusbridger: “This is the most Terrible Campaign”
Alex Cull has just published a transcript of the latest episode of the Graun’s Podcast of Doom at https://sites.google.com/site/mytranscriptbox/2015/20150327_gn The original podcast can be found at http://www.theguardian.com/environment/audio/2015/mar/27/podcast-biggest-story-climate-change-campaign-episode3-audio A million thanks Alex. These documents are truly amazing. It’s like listening to … Continue reading →