- Bishop Hill blog - End of the CMEP road

My long struggle to find out who attended the BBC's seminar on climate change has come to an end (if you are not familiar with the story, see here). Readers here will recall that the seminar appears to have been attended by a bunch of NGO people, who decided that there was a consensus on climate change that meant that sceptics could be sidelined in the corporation's output. The BBC Trust then falsely reported that the decision had been made by leading scientists.

Peter C Glover: Whatever Happened to Peak Oil? | JunkScience.com

Why are peak oil-ers like Jehovah’s Witnesses? Answer: When the definitive JW prediction of the ‘Day of Wrath’ failed in 1914, they did what false prophets have done in every generation: shifted the goalposts (to 1975 in the case of JW’s – and wrong again). It’s what false prophets do to save face, enabling them to keep fleecing the inherently gullible. Peak-oilers do likewise.

Gravesend-Broadness mystery of the hot Met Office station « Tallbloke's Talkshop

There are no international climatic stations in the area which is a strong implication the Met Office know there are major station problems.

Lomborg: Paul Krugman is wrong to say that climate change causes extreme weather. - Slate Magazine

Climate models don't work like that, but that doesn't stop proponents from making such claims. And that's dangerous.