Climate change the unravelling

I tend to avoid commenting on climate change as there are excellent blogs out there written by people that understand the science a hell of a lot better than I do. However in this case I feel I ought to draw your attention to a recent development, and apologies if you’re attention has already been drawn to it. I must state out right that as I was given a somewhat traditional science training, I can’t help but be a “climate change skeptic”as the science is never settled, I also remain a relativity skeptic and consider pretty much everything else I’ve … Continue reading

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

Leveson calls for more pointless legislation

There’s been an awful lot written about the Leveson report, and I’m sure you’ve already read a fair chunk of it, so I don’t intend to say that much. The pointlessness of the whole investigation was summed up for me by this tweet from “The bard: The Bard (@TwitTwotBard): “Can anybody name one press wrongdoing identified by Leveson that wasn’t covered by existing laws? A law to say the press must obey the law?” As far as I’ve been able to determine, there’s not a thing the press are in trouble for that wasn’t already covered by existing laws. So … Continue reading