Sounds familiar. Wonder who is getting similar support? Interesting question. They mention “Bob, Randy, Walter, Sallie and Dave”? Could it be? No, surely not. Of all the climate deniers, one scientist has been particularly closely involved in the campaign against the … Continue reading
STEPHAN LEWANDOWSKY ABC DRUM Much confusion and spin infects current public discussion of “peer reviewed” research: first we had Maurice Newman, the Chairman of the ABC, who suggested that “distinguished scientists” challenge the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change by … Continue reading
The following was recently posted by shock jock Andrew Bolt who has just been given his own TV program by Australia’s richest person, mining billionaire Gina Rinehart. For those overseas – Greg Combet is our Federal Minister for Climate Change. For those … Continue reading
A very interesting episode of Media Watch screened tonight which threw a spotlight on the waves of climate skepticism that are the norm across Australian talk back radio. Apart from recently chastising the Prime Minister for being 10 minutes late to a … Continue reading
I have just returned from a series of off-campus meetings to find that there has been little excitement in my absence. Apparently, I have been portrayed as some sort of hothead who tried to interfere with the “Watts up with … Continue reading
I was sent this insightful article by ANU academic Andrew Glikson about denialism written by two medical scientists, Pascal Diethelm and Martin McKee. Whether it is the belief that the world is only a few thousands of years old, that … Continue reading
Following this weeks earlier revelations of data fudging, the authors (John McLean, Chris de Freitas and Bob Carter) have responded to the debunking of their paper by Foster et al (Grant Foster, James Annan, Phil Jones, Michael Mann, Jim Renwick, Jim Salinger, … Continue reading
Still waiting for John McLean and Bob Carter to comment on the Foster et al response published in JGR outlining exactly how they manipulated their dataset to give a false conclusion. According to McLean’s website, although the authors were well … Continue reading
Nope, it isn’t Phil Jones or Michael Mann. It is Bob Carter, a co-author on McLean et al. 2009 “Influence of the Southern Oscillation on tropospheric temperature”. Last year, Bob claimed “We have shown that internal global climate-system variability accounts … Continue reading
Here is Part 5 of Clive Hamilton’s excellent series of articles on ABC unleashed: The sustained assault on climate science, detailed in this series, spread from the loonier corners of the internet first into certain media outlets with an ideological … Continue reading