- Bishop Hill blog - Sheer heart attack

...In this case -- taking estrogen post-menopause -- there wasn't much scientific opposition to the government's advice. But the consensus was very wrong indeed.

In contrast, with global warming, there is a huge amount of scientific opposition. The opposition isn't to the notion that CO2 warms the atmosphere, but rather to the amount and the effects. All of us understand that if a doubling of CO2 causes an increase of 1 degree C, there are far different policy prescriptions than if it causes an increase of 3 degrees. The IPCC is on shaky ground here.

So please, give it a rest on this appeal to authority.

Final proof: business no longer believes in “low carbon” future. | ScottishSceptic

UNLIKE CLIMATE “SCIENTISTS” ELECTRICITY COMPANIES KNOW WHAT THEY DON’T KNOW, and they know what they do know. And they do know that global warming is just a political fad that is near its end and is no longer an important consideration when deciding future investment in power plant.

Errors in IPCC climate science » Blog Archive » Somali pirates could be causing the BoM inaccurate seasonal Outlooks

Just saw this news at ABC online. “Pirates disrupting climate change research”
Note at the end – “….so right now half the tropical Indian Ocean is out of bounds for us so it’s a big problem, both for weather forecasting but also for that longer term climate seasonal forecasting.”