University Of Virginia Doesn’t Want To Release Their Robust Publicly Funded Research | Real Science

The quality of the hockey stick data is too high to let the public get their hands on it.

Addendum to Skeptic’s Dictionary: Hidden Persuaders Of Anthropogenic Global Warming « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

ad hoc hypothesis: An ad hoc hypothesis is one created to explain away facts that seem to refute one’s belief or theory. Ad hoc hypotheses are common in paranormal research and in the work of pseudoscientists. It is always more reasonable to apply Occam’s razor than to offer speculative ad hoc hypotheses.

AGW example: The discovery that aerosols have cooled the Earth just when the Earth was cooling, miraculously declining their action exactly when the Earth was warming due to CO2 emissions.

AGW example: The discovery that heavy (winter) snow and cold temperatures are exactly caused by temperature increases

Monbiot Jumps The Shark and Other Stories – Telegraph Blogs

His piece the other day – spotted by Ed West: damn you, Ed, I’m so jealous I didn’t get there first – in which he urged government intervention to solve the housing crisis by forcing rich home owners to take in lodgers was a classic. It was, indeed, the moment when he finally jumped the shark!

Thank you, George! Thank you! You are the gift that goes on giving!

Met Office continues to hide inconvenient facts « Autonomous Mind

So this begs the question, were there other wildly inaccurate short term forecasts in other areas that have also been conveniently left off the table to make the Met Office’s accuracy appear better than it actually was? T