Category: Global Warming
YouTube warns us against questioning consensus science
| August 20, 2018 | Posted by News under Climate change, Culture, Global Warming, Intelligent Design, Media, Science |
Further to kairosfocus’s thoughts yesterday on the digital empire suppressing the free flow of ideas: Buzzfeed reported August 7 that “YouTube Is Fighting Back Against Climate Misinformation.” As of July 9, “YouTube is now adding fact checks to videos that question climate change … as a part of its ongoing effort to combat the rampant […]
Climate change: Significantly limiting the right to be considered a “skeptic”
| August 9, 2018 | Posted by News under Climate change, Culture, Global Warming, Intelligent Design, Media, Science |
As opposed to a denier: I propose a basic test to determine who has earned the benefit of the doubt on whether to be labelled a denier or not. Does the person have an academic or professional background in atmospheric science or climatology? If the answer is yes, then they earn the benefit of the […]
Breaking: Prominent science journal offers rational assessment of an unhinged climate claim
| February 21, 2018 | Posted by News under Climate change, Culture, Global Warming, Intelligent Design, Media, Science |
Specifically, the claim that global warming promotes violence. From the editors of Nature: Such retrospective analyses raise two questions related to cause and effect: did climate change alter the weather? And did the change in the weather provoke the conflict? Only a solid yes to both can justify bold statements that global warming promotes violence […]
At the Guardian: A big problem with murky science journals is that they publish climate deniers
| January 29, 2018 | Posted by News under Climate change, Culture, Global Warming, Intelligent Design, Peer review |
Oh? From Graham Readfearn at the Guardian: Deniers have found a platform in emerging publications that publish without rigorous review Journals that are “open access” make their money by charging academics or institutions a fee for peer reviewing and checking submitted academic manuscripts, and then publishing them. There are many reputable publishers working this way. […]
Evolution is a Fact; So is Climate Change
| December 29, 2017 | Posted by PaV under Climate change, Evolution, Global Warming, Intelligent Design |
For those of us who have been critiquing evolutionary theory for a long time, and hence, long-time observers of the kind of reasoning evolutionists/Darwinists employ, you can’t help but see the absolute parallel that exists between evolutionary theory and the “science” behind “global warming.” [N.B. If you have to change the name of the ‘science’ […]
Conformists: Why dissent is bad for science
| July 28, 2017 | Posted by News under academic freedom, Climate change, Culture, Global Warming, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, Science |
Pos-Darwinista writes to call our attention to several preprints on why dissent is bad in science. Okay, okay, there is good dissent, which is accepted by the Establishment, and then there is bad dissent, which is not accepted by the Establishment. Text Galileo. 1. Climate Skepticism and the Manufacture of Doubt: Can Dissent in Science […]
Christian Scientific Society tackles global warming controversy
| April 11, 2017 | Posted by News under Climate change, Global Warming, Intelligent Design |
From David Snokes at Christian Scientific Society: Kevin Birdwell gave a general overview of the issue of global warming and humans’ contribution to it. On the scientific side, one of his main points was that carbon dioxide is not the whole story; there are many other considerations, possibly the greatest of which is the warming […]
Similarities Between the Debates Over Evolution and Global Warming
| March 1, 2017 | Posted by Eric Anderson under Climate change, Culture, Darwinist rhetorical tactics, Evolution, Global Warming |
For years I have closely followed both the evolution debate and the global warming debate.* There are some important differences between the two debates, which may be the subject of a subsequent post. However, the number of similarities is striking. Enough so that for some time I have seriously considered writing a book detailing the parallels. […]
New Scientist: EU green energy policies making global warming worse
| February 26, 2017 | Posted by News under Climate change, Culture, Global Warming, Intelligent Design, News, Science |
We didn’t realize it was still legal to say so. From Michael Le Page at New Scientist: Countries in the EU, including the UK, are throwing away money by subsidising the burning of wood for energy, according to an independent report. While burning some forms of wood waste can indeed reduce greenhouse gas emissions, in practice […]
BTB: Induction, falsificationism, scientific paradigms and ID vs Evo Mat
In the Induction thread, we have continued to explore inductive logic, science and ID vs Evolutionary Materialism. Among the key points raised (with the help of Hilary Putnam) is the issue that while Popper sees himself as opposed to induction, it is arguable that instead he has actually (against his intent) brought it back in […]
The trouble with peer review is the peers…
| July 29, 2016 | Posted by News under academic freedom, Climate change, Global Warming, News, Peer review |
From Climate Audit: n 2012, the then much ballyhoo-ed Australian temperature reconstruction of Gergis et al 2012 mysteriously disappeared from Journal of Climate after being criticized at Climate Audit. Now, more than four years later, a successor article has finally been published. Gergis says that the only problem with the original article was a “typo” […]
Being Green Means Never Saying You’re Sorry for Killing Millions
| May 27, 2016 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Climate change, Global Warming, Intelligent Design |
Robert Tracinski tells us why the greenies will never admit that they were dead wrong (pun intended) about DDT, even though their mistakes have led to the death of millions: So why not just admit that the hysteria whipped up over DDT was wrong? Because this was the founding issue of the environmentalist movement. Rachel […]
Liberal Fascists Strike Again
| May 23, 2016 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Climate change, Global Warming, Intelligent Design, science education |
This time they are burning books in Portland. Read the last paragraph of this resolution adopted by the Portland School Board. Because the suppression of doubt or skepticism is the foundation of any good science education. Right? As Robert Tracinski reports: Actually, the story is even worse than what conservative news sites have reported. It’s not […]
Bill Nye Is A Huckster
| May 12, 2016 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Climate change, Global Warming, Intelligent Design, science education |
See here. Bill Nye fashions himself a voice of rational thought and scientific inquiry. His shtick has gotten him into classrooms and on an endless loop of evangelizing TV appearances. Yet nearly every time he speaks these days, Nye diminishes genuine science by resorting to scaremonger-y nuggets of easily dismissible ideologically-motivated nonsense.
Jimmy Kimmel vs. Sarah Palin on climate change: my take
| May 3, 2016 | Posted by vjtorley under Climate change, Global Warming, Intelligent Design |
Late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel has attacked former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for questioning the existence of a scientific consensus on global warming and for promoting a documentary called Climate Hustle, whose aim is to expose the myths about global warming. Climatologist Judith Curry has written a review of the film, which she found to […]
Climate Hustle: Armageddon-free look at climate change
| April 29, 2016 | Posted by News under Climate change, Global Warming, Intelligent Design, News |
From Paul Driessen at Townhall: I saw Climate Hustle April 14, at its U.S. premiere on Capitol Hill in Washington. The film is informative and entertaining, pointed and humorous. As meteorologist Anthony Watts says, it is wickedly effective in its using slapstick humor and the words and deeds of climate alarmists to make you laugh […]
Bill Nye the authority guy
| April 22, 2016 | Posted by News under academic freedom, Climate change, Global Warming, News |
Following on: Bill Nye open to jail time for climate change skeptics, from The Federalist: But Nye isn’t just speculating about putting people in jail. He is referring to a specific attempt to use the model of those old tobacco lawsuits to prosecute any company that has ever funded research or advocacy skeptical of claims […]
Something else everyone should know about climate alarmism
| April 20, 2016 | Posted by News under academic freedom, Climate change, Global Warming, News |
A thought re Barry Arrington’s thread, MIT Atmospheric Physicist Explains What Everyone Should Know about Climate Alarmism: Maybe we are missing the real problem: In itself, global warming is just the latest a-crock-alypse by which green daycare moms compete in the middle class virtue stakes. And swindlers get rich. But what’s new there? We can […]
MIT Atmospheric Physicist Explains What Everyone Should Know about Climate Alarmism
| April 19, 2016 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Climate change, Global Warming, Intelligent Design |
Richard Lindzen, an MIT atmospheric physicist and one of the world’s leading climatologists, summarizes the science behind climate change. Here.
Why the fight against AGW must become a tyranny
| June 12, 2015 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Global Warming, Intelligent Design, News |
Give the premise that humans are merely evolved animals (the 99% chimpanzee schtick*), it is hard to see how a fight against global warming (if it exists and however caused) would not devolve into a morass of oppression. After all, our behaviour is ruled by selfish genes which mechanically replicate themselves. That process creates the […]
