Just Your Typical Interview on Scientific Issues.. | Climate Skeptic

Can you imagine an interview of, say, James Hansen that asked things like

* Do you have any doubts about the Bush National Guard memo’s publicized by Dan Rather?
* Would you vote for Ralph Nader for president?
* Are you an atheist?
* Who funds you?
* Are you willing to defend every statement Harrison Ford has made about global warming?
* Don’t you feel like you are anti-freedom?

The asymmetry of how skeptics are treated in the media is startling.

$100 Million in Stimulus Funds for Green Tech - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

“The idea is to get a whole ecosystem of innovative technologies,” said Arun Majumdar, director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy, which is managing the program.
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“Wind is sometimes on and sometimes off; you can’t predict it,” he said. “This intermittency is bad for the grid, when you can not fully utilize a renewable source.”

Climate Change and Its Causes, A Discussion About Some Key Issues by Nicola Scafetta | Climate Realists

A phenomenological theory of climate change based on the physical properties of the data themselves is proposed. At least 60% of the warming of the Earth observed since 1970 appears to be induced by natural cycles which are present in the solar system.

A climatic stabilization or cooling until 2030-2040 is forecast by the phenomenological model.

The Hockey Schtick: Gavin Schmidt's "Good Science" Part 2

As the following email shows, the paper Gavin wrote for submission to BAMS (the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society), which was rejected twice by BAMS upon the unanimous recommendation of three peer reviews, was actually written because Gavin needed a single peer reviewed reference on this topic for purposes of debunking Dr. Richard Lindzen on Gavin's blog

IPCC doesn’t do research | CLIMATEGATE

Round of applause for Russia Today. They always seem to feed us the nitty-gritty that most American media is afraid to cover.

In this video, Pat Michaels of the CATO Institute states: IPCC doesn’t do research; it picks and chooses from scientific reports and environmental organizations “in order to create the reports that it wants to create.”