The Reference Frame: Stephan Lewandowsky's incredible blog

Well, if it were a domain about general science, you may expect the domain name to be something like "Understanding the World" or "Making Sense of Nature" or "Predicting the Future". However, their website is about "shaping tomorrow's world". The name itself may be enough for you to notice the not-so-subtle difference between science and political activism. Mr Lewandowsky – sorry, I surely don't respect his doctorate and even "Mr" is a huge euphemism – unquestionably belongs to the category of the political activism.

And when you look at his website, you will notice that he is a very ugly activist, indeed. He never finds or clarifies any mistake done by his foe. There is nothing to learn at that website. It's all about personal attacks against the people who may be inconvenient in his plans to "shape the world of tomorrow".

MET Office: 1981-2010 Averages Released « Tallbloke's Talkshop

However, the multi-decadal oscillation of the Atlantic ocean, upwind of the UK, isn’t mentioned. Nor is the real driver of UK surface air temperature, the underlying ocean heat content of the north Atlantic, which has been dropping since the Sunspot number dropped below the long term equilibrium value in 2004 and cloudiness increased. Warm and wet is the natural consequence of the positive phase natural AMO cycle which has been a feature of the climate for at least the last 8000 years according to this Nature paper.
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From this MET Office report it is at least encouraging that the observational arm of the establishment at least, isn’t banging the man made global warming drum very hard any more.

Twitter / mbeisen: press-release driven marketing ...

press-release driven marketing of science is repulsive; my lab will never issue one again; all papers will go to arxiv w/blog post

The Heretic by Richard Bean at Manchester Library Theatre

Dr Diane Cassell is a leading light in the earth sciences department of a major northern university. She’s also the “heretic” whose research seems to contradict the standard quasi-religious doctrines about climate change. Unfortunately when your daughter is an anorexic eco-warrior and your boss thinks global warming is a cash cow, that’s bound to lead to trouble, not to mention death threats from the Sacred Earth Militia.

Richard Bean’s riotous black comedy The Heretic won the 2011 Evening Standard Award for Best Play...

The politics of science, the idiocy of academia, and the chaos of family life collide in a wonderfully irreverent play about truth, lonely hearts, brilliant minds and blowing yourself up on Top Gear …