- Bishop Hill blog - SkS quietly withdraws allegation

The idea that comparing mode to mode is "apples to oranges" is pretty strange. To say it is "misleading" is again absolutely extraordinary when one notes that the IPCC doesn't consider means either - it reports medians and modes. This is only natural to do so when considering skewed distributions since the mean is strongly influenced by outliers.

Lilley sticks it to 'Trougher' Yeo – Telegraph Blogs

[Peter Lilley] Criminologists have observed that the victims of confidence tricksters are often willing—indeed, eager—to believe the story to which they fall victim, and the more absurd, fantastic or fabulous the story, the more willing they are to believe it. The report is an example of a confidence trick that has been willingly absorbed by the Government and members of the Committee. It contains all the characteristics necessary for the sort of fairy tale in which one wants to believe: it has a faraway country, mysterious powers that we attribute to ourselves, and pots of gold—green gold—at the end of the rainbow.

The first delusion affirmed by the report is the delusion of power. It is a strange hangover from liberal imperialism that the British intellectual classes believe that they can still dominate the world—that the world is anxious to hear from them, and will jump to attention at their every word and follow their every command.

ICSC MEDIA RELEASE - PRACTICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS MUST DIVORCE THEMSELVES FROM GLOBAL WARMING CAMPAIGNERS

Ottawa, Canada, April 22, 2013: "Earth Day participants must distance themselves from the climate scare or risk the event degenerating into irrelevance,” said Tom Harris, executive director of the Ottawa-based International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC). Noting the intense climate focus in this year’s Earth Day Network advertising, Harris warned, “As the hypothesis that humanity’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are causing dangerous global warming falls into disrepute, all those associated with the climate alarm will also lose credibility.”

Good news for birds: GE warns of sliding wind turbine sales — results aren’t expected to improve | JunkScience.com

“General Electric Co warned of slowing profit growth in its industrial businesses due to weakness in Europe and sliding [wind and gas] turbine sales, unnerving Wall Street and pushing its stock down.”