Friday, March 12, 2010

The case against the hockey stick « Prospect Magazine
Andrew Montford’s The Hockey Stick Illusion is one of the best science books in years. It exposes in delicious detail, datum by datum, how a great scientific mistake of immense political weight was perpetrated, defended and camouflaged by a scientific establishment that should now be red with shame. It is a book about principal components, data mining and confidence intervals—subjects that have never before been made thrilling. It is the biography of a graph.
As IPCC stumbles, sceptics gain ground- Hindustan Times
“I am offended that science is being perverted in the name of global warming — today’s environmental cause celebre,” Ralph B. Alexander, a PhD in physical from Oxford University and a climate sceptic, said.
Senator Inhofe: “Defeating Barbara Boxer Is Not a Victory, It’s a Contribution to Humankind” (Audio)
On Non-existent Global Warming—
I was the only one to say this was the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. It all started at the United Nations. Then is was joined by MoveOn and George Soros and all the bad guys out in Hollywood.

On Al Gore—
(7:20 mark) Don’t feel sorry for Al Gore. We don’t know how many hundreds of millions of dollars he’s made on this but there’s some speculation that he might very well be the first environmental billionaire. So Al Gore will be fine don’t worry about him.

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