Bravo! ABC's balanced report on CLOUD | Australian Climate Madness

Credit where credit is due. I don’t want to knock Auntie just for the hell of it, so I am very happy to shower ABC Science with praise (OK, bit strong perhaps, maybe just a gentlemanly “well done” will suffice) for a balanced and sensible report on the CLOUD experiment at CERN.

No alarmism, no rubbishing the results, no questioning of the funding, no sneering comment from David Karoly or Andy Pitman, no pompous soundbites from Robyn Williams or Bernie Hobbs, no caveat that it’s still “really” all down to CO2 – none of that, just a fair and reasonable reporting of the results. Excellent.

- Bishop Hill blog - Health "co-benefits"

Carefully researched work by Goklany has established a powerful case that climate mitigation policies are already producing large net health co-costs for society, and especially the poor.

Be Skeptical | Climate Nonconformist

In a lecture today, my lecturer told us of the bogus and outdated science of phrenology (using measurements of the skull to determine intelligence), when he randomly busted a myth I had long thought to be true. It is a common misconception that the tongue has defined regions for each type of taste. apparently this came about after an English guy mis-translated a paper from a German scientist and the idea has taken off ever since. So, my lecturer gave us some advice, “don’t believe everything you hear, not even from me. Be skeptical, research, analyse.”

There’s the key. We must me skeptical of anything we’re told, from both sides of the global warming debate. If we’re not being skeptical, we’re being gullible, and that’s not what has taken humanity to this point in our development.

Debunked: the “climate change causes wars” myth | Watts Up With That?

From the Center for Strategic and International Studies The Washington Quarterly, a total takedown of the myth that wars and climate change are linked as claimed by this ridiculous study from Columbia University we covered last week titled: That darned warm-mongering El Niño. Then there’s a book written about the issue as well shown at left.