- Bishop Hill blog - The Beddington challenge

It's pretty interesting to see Sir John Beddington, Sir Paul Nurse and rest of the scientific establishment, as well as most of the sci-bloggers in the UK, all lining themselves up on the side of pseudoscience on the Climategate issue and Hide the Decline in particular. I wonder how long they can sustain the charade that everything is well in UK climatology?

Skeptic's Corner: Evil Fruit

I would probably have gone through life believing this and have remained blissfully unaware of the the greatest scientific scandal in history had I not stumbled upon a blog over at the Weather Underground site and become interested in the debate. What began to change my attitude from benign acceptance to complete "denial" of the theory of catastrophic man made global warming was the attitude of the proponents of the theory. What grated me the most as I became interested in the debate was the utter contempt proponents of AGW displayed towards those who questioned their narrative. Had it just been childish bloggers it would probably not have gotten on my nerves, but it was the so called consensus community that promoted this abrasive and dismissive approach that they displayed towards those who dared question the narrative. Nowhere was this more grating to me than the way they treated the people who should have been at least listened to in the climate science community but instead were ridiculed and mocked.

Response to UCS’ Kevin Knobloch-head… « Green Hell Blog

Below is a recent commentary by Union of Concerned Scientists president Kevin Knobloch. A reader requested a review of the piece, so here’s a quick one. My comments in [[bracketed bold]].