Art Robinson is a rare man. He’s risen above and laid bare the creeping failure in the infrastructure of modern science over the last 50 years. He describes how the control of the quest for knowledge itself has been usurped from individuals and private industry and taken over by the government.
At the end of the [...]
How do you tell a scientist from a non-scientist? Where does science end, and propaganda, politics, and opinion begin? You only need to know one thing:
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Straight away, this sorts the wheat from the weeds. We don’t learn about the natural world by calling people names or hiding data. We don’t learn by chucking out measurements [...]
A big news day. It appears Steve McIntyre (volunteer unpaid auditor of Big-Government-Science) has killed the Hockey Stick a second time…
The details are on the last three days of Steve McIntyre’s site Climate Audit, and summed up beautifully on Watts Up.
The sheer effrontery and gall appears to be breathtaking.
The Briffa temperature graphs have been widely [...]
The scientific process has become distorted. One side of a theory receives billions, but the other side is so poorly funded that auditing of that research is left as a community service project for people with expert skills, a thick skin and a passionate interest. A kind of “Adopt an Error” approach.
Can science survive the [...]
Science based ideas are falsifiable, whereas religious ones are not (thanks Karl Popper). The acid test for climate scientists: “What evidence would convince you that carbon was not significant?”
Evidence means observations, made by people at some time and place. Things you can see, hold, hear and record. Computer models are not, and can never be evidence.
A freelance science presenter, writer, professional speaker & former TV host; author of The Skeptic's Handbook (over 200,000 copies distributed & available in ten languages).
The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is the Obsession with "Climate Change" Turning Out to Be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder in History?
Christopher Booker 
The Bad Science and Bad Policy of Obama's Global Warming Agenda, Roy Spencer, 2010, $5.99
The Hockey Stick Illusion: Climategate and the Corruption of Science, A.W Montford
The Great Global Warming Blunder, Roy Spencer
Climatism, Steve Goreham, Just out! The full compendium: the science, the ideology, the UN, & the history.
Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians and Misguided Policies That Hurt the Poor
Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Fred Singer
Climategate The CRUTape Letters, Steven Mosher
The Deniers: The World Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud, And those who are too fearful to do so, Lawrence Solomon.
Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science, Ian Plimer
CO2, Global Warming and Coral Reefs, Craig Idso. The science of CO2 and the oceans. It's an intense review with 23 pages of references. Many mythical fears debunked.
Red Hot Lies, Christopher Horner
The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don't Want You to Know About--Because They Helped Cause Them, Iain Murray
Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them, Steven Milloy
Eat the Rich, PJ O Rourke. It's old, but it's one of the funniest books I ever read. Sure beats learning economics from text-books.
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression (Paperback), Amity Shlaes. Economic and political history, well told.
The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy. Ahead of it's time in 1995, if you haven't read Thomas Sowell, it's a good place to start.
The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve (Paperback), G Edward Griffin. Possibly the most chilling book I ever read.
An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming, Nigel Lawson
Air Con: The Seriously Inconvenient Truth About Global Warming, Ian Wishart
Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don't Want You to Know
The Chilling Stars, Henrik Svensmark & Nigel Calder. The puzzle pieces come together despite the resistance.
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