Saving the earth need not cost us the earth: Tim Worstall

I was one of the first sceptics about man-made global warming and endured pariah status as a result but suddenly my views are fashionable.

C3: Were Roman & Medieval Warming Periods Global? The 'Hot' East China Sea Evidence Confirms They Were 'Global'

From the Okinawa Trough comes evidence from peer-reviewed research that finds East China Sea temperatures being much warmer than those of the second-half of the 20th century. Besides nailing the Medieval and Roman Warming periods, the existence of the Little Ice Age and Dark Ages were also confirmed to have happened on the other side of the world from Europe.

A scientist speaks out | The SPPI Blog

Once again, I thank SPPI for its hard work in opposition to the current trends. One humble scientist will join your efforts to expose the criminal behavior in the name of science that has done so much to destroy scientific credibility, on the basis of a case that has no scientific basis whatsoever.

Scientific Journalism Is Moribund, Dead, Perhaps Alive « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

In hindsight, it should have been clear long ago. It wasn’t going to be pretty, nor it could have been. On one side, journalists with the vaguest notions of the scientific method, mostly convinced that science is what a scientist does (need to remember Piero Manzoni, anybody?).

On the other side, a number of determined bloggers “that have made themselves experts in general climate science“ (in the words of Roger Harrabin), “ordinary people [who] can say [to scientists] ‘look, you said this, you said that, the two don’t match, explain yourself’” (in the words of Richard North).

Of course, it was going to be carnage. The journalists would not and could not survive the confrontation by any stretch of imagination. And so they didn’t.