Settled science

A few things relating to climate change have wandered across my radar of late so thought about time I should pull some of them together. Starting with another still from the video linked to in my last post. This still shows what affected popular opinion and what affected the “science”: The thing that leaps out at me from this is how little affects the science, well how could it the science is settled. Heavy snow falls despite the predicted death of snow, no impact on the science, the models are true so reality must be at fault for the science … Continue reading

The endarkenment

With the dumbing down of education and politics and the rise of the new priests of the green god, the god of offense and the god of “health” – who have all demanded that the scientific method, facts and truth be perverted and sacrificed upon their altars the endarkenment is surely upon us. What is the endarkenment I imagine I hear you cry, why I shall tell you, it’s the undoing of the progress we’ve made since the enlightenment, the slow dimming and putting out of the lights of scientific rigor, debate and truth. What value truth if it offends, … Continue reading

The stupidity it burns

Having spent the day in a management training course, which invovled going to the office and thus trains and thus news papers I got exposed to above normal levels of stupid. So I thought I’d do the only “decent” thing and share the pain, so here is the Wednesday stupidity round up. ( I won’t mention Gordon Brown saying “told you so” and that te world needed to bail out the Euro). Starting with the Metro and following up from yesterday it seems that the Government has announced reforms to the drive for renewable energy (wind farm subsidies for rich … Continue reading