Category Archives: Media
Exposed: climate change doubter with PhD only in spin
Looking to a statistician or economist for expert guidance on complex scientific matters makes about as much sense as consulting a neurosurgeon or a hairdresser for advice on investing in some arcane corner of the derivatives market. However, when it … Continue reading
Posted in Global Warming, Media, Sceptics
Tagged Bjorn Lomborg, Climategate, CRU, deception, denial, Howard Friel, skeptic
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Heavy weather for climate science
You would think that people whose business is the weather would be pretty informed about climate change. The reality is a great deal more complex. In the US, weathermen, for many the very public, trusted face of science, are split … Continue reading
Posted in Global Warming, Irish Focus, Media, Sceptics
Tagged forecast, John Coleman, Met Eireann, meteorology, Pat Kenny, sceptics, Sunday Times
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Attack on climate science has its OJ Simpson moment
Bill McKibben has been at the forefront of efforts to alert the public to the dangers of climate change for more than two decades. Today he fronts 350.org, a website dedicated to setting a global CO2 ceiling of 350ppm. Below, … Continue reading
Posted in Global Warming, Media, Sceptics
Tagged bill mcKibben, China, Coal, Energy, Monckton, sceptics
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Now there’s an App to zap the sceptics
The always useful site Skeptical Science, with its handy list of the most common arguments used by climate change sceptics and detailed rebuttals of them, is now available as an iPhone app. So next time a discussion occurs and one of … Continue reading
Posted in Global Warming, Media, Sceptics
Tagged climate, climate change, climate hoax, sceptics
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OMG, what if the deniers are actually right?
Fat chance, of course, that the climate change deniers/liars from the assorted propaganda factories will, in the end, miraculously turn out to know more about climate science than, well, all of climate science. But hey, when we’re told that natural … Continue reading
Plimer vs Monbiot
From the website of Australian TV network ABC. Click here to view the debate. Transcript TONY JONES, PRESENTER: Here is some background notes to tonight’s debate. When Professor Ian Plimer’s outright denial of man-made global warming was championed in the … Continue reading
Posted in Global Warming, Media, Sceptics
Tagged climate change, climate debate, climate science, George Monbiot, Ian Plimer, Media, sceptics
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Repeat after me: Weather is NOT climate!
Oh dear, here we go again. An editorial in the Irish Times yesterday was headlined ‘Global cooling’. It began: “So much for all of that guff about global warming! Are world leaders having the wrong debate? We are experiencing the … Continue reading
Posted in Global Warming, Irish Focus, Media, Sceptics
Tagged climate, Daily Express, deniers, Media, sceptics, snow, weather
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Latest recruit to Confederacy of Climate Dunces
One by one, they’re coming out of the woodwork. Occasional climate sceptic William Reville was the latest to re-surface, this time in his weekly Irish Times column. I read it with dismay; I genuinely have no problem with him having … Continue reading
Posted in Global Warming, Irish Focus, Media, Sceptics
Tagged climate, climate hoax, Climategate, CRU, Phil Jones, Reville, sceptics, UCC
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A sceptic on the couch
I’ve had my say on KennyGate, as have a good many other people (to my new cadre of hate-mailers, sorry for not posting all your anonymous spleen. Life’s a bitch, eh? Give my regards to Elvis). Meanwhile, a regular correspondent, … Continue reading
Posted in Global Warming, Irish Focus, Media, Sceptics, Sustainability
Tagged Media, Pat K, Pat Kenny, RTE, sceptics
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John The Apostle Walks The Plank
Hell, it seems, hath no fury like a broadcaster scorned. After my recent adventures with RTE’s Pat Kenny, it was only a matter of time before the veteran broadcaster would try to even the score for what he no doubt … Continue reading
Posted in Global Warming, Irish Focus, Media, Sceptics
Tagged climate, climate hoax, climate sceptic, Holford, Ian Plimer, Pat Kenny, RTE
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Full steam ahead!
While the mud flies to the left and to the right, now, with just 12 days to the opening of the COP15 climate conference in Copenhagen, looks like it’s all hands on deck, women and children first, etc. etc. as … Continue reading
Posted in Global Warming, Irish Focus, Media, Sceptics
Tagged climate, Ireland, Media, sceptics, Titanic
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Nothing new under the sun?
Around seven years ago, I read a history of the planet in the 20th century, entitled ‘Something New Under The Sun‘, by Georgetown University professor, JR McNeill. The book examined the biosphere, slice by slice, and concluded that, whatever else, … Continue reading
Posted in Global Warming, Irish Focus, Media, Sceptics
Tagged climate sceptic, JR McNeill, Pat Kenny, RTE
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Now we’re getting somewhere
Earlier today, at a very well attended press conference in Leinster House, the all-party Oireachtas Committee on Climate Change and Energy released their report, ‘The case for a climate change law’. Committee rapporteur, Liz McManus likened the position we now … Continue reading
Posted in Global Warming, Irish Focus, Media, Sustainability
Tagged Climate law, EPA, ESRI, Labour, Liz McManus, Media, Rachel English, radio, Richard Tol, RTE, Sunday Times
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A smart tax, on so many levels
James Tobin had a very, very good idea. So good, in fact, they named it after him. And that’s the Tobin Tax. It’s a small tax with very big potential. And best of all, it’s a damn good idea, in … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Global Warming, Irish Focus, Media, Sustainability
Tagged bankers, banks, foreign currency, Germany, greed, speculation, tax, Tobin tax
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