Category Archives: climate change

Climate sceptics the new Wikileakers?

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Via the ever well informed Katabasis my attention has been drawn to the rather worrying seizure of computers owned by UK climate sceptic bloggers. Apparently at the behest of the U.S. Department of Justice as other climate bloggers have received nasty grams (cache) from our friends across the pond. Last I checked the climategate e-mails where mainly (allegedly) pilfered from UK sources, and even ignoring that the emails are widely available so the US Department of Justice could just download their own copy. All in all a quite worrying development, state funded “scientific” research into climate change wasn’t a matter … Continue reading →

Wind turbine adds to global warming

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Having just finished reading a a missive to Mr Huhne about his windmills over at the < ahref="http://foggy-mirror.blogspot.com/2011/12/and-then-little-inconvenient-science.html">Foggy Mirror I was rather relieved to see that wind turbines can make a positive contribution towards the fight against the next ice age. As they say in the popular* story “A game of thrones” – winter is coming Update: I suppose I should link to the

Recycling press releases

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The ever diligent Katabsis has a rather wonderful article up dissecting how the investigative main stream media recycles press releases from the environment agency – terribly green of them. As a taster….. The data shows several clear patterns: – The so called “quality press” are the worst offenders for churning Environment Agency press releases – whilst there were many entries from the tabloids and local papers, their cutting and pasting was less egregarious than the “quality press”. Now stop wasting your time here and go read it :) 0-1