Category Archives: science

Some ‘splaining please

Posted on 21 May, 2012 by

Over on WUWT last week Frank Lansner took a closer look at temperature records from the Netherlands versus the ‘official’ temperature record put out by our own intrepid KNMI. What he found was that the official KNMI record (CNT KNMI … Continue reading →

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And now…

Posted on 11 December, 2011 by

… for something completely different.Modern-day mainstream cosmology (that branch of physics trying to understand why our universe is the way it is) holds that 80% of the total mass present in the universe is so-called ‘dark matter’. It is a … Continue reading →

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The consensus is not

Posted on 16 September, 2011 by

First there was prominent physicist Hal Lewis who resigned his membership of the American Physical Society over the global climate change scam. It is the greatest and most successful pseudo-scientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a … Continue reading →

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The math that killed the economy

Posted on 25 August, 2011 by

The above formula may be responsible for the onset of the financial crisis and our long slide into double-dip recession (or is it a Depression after all?). It is a Gaussian Copula. In finance it was used to model the … Continue reading →

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Climate changes causes space alien invasion

Posted on 19 August, 2011 by

No, really. A pre-emptive strike [from extraterrestrials] would be particularly likely in the early phases of our expansion because a civilization may become increasingly difficult to destroy as it continues to expand. Humanity may just now be entering the period … Continue reading →

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This geek wants to know

Posted on 2 August, 2011 by

What do we make of this? The following I got via Climate Science, which to me is a solid resource for climate related news. Today it featured a post by a Harry Dale Huffman, apparently showing the greenhouse effect is … Continue reading →

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Not so global

Posted on 18 July, 2011 by

The Inconvenient Skeptic did an interesting analysis of the the UAH temperature data:  Temperature trends by latitude. Instead of looking at the grand, global picture, he looked at temperatures by region: Northern, Tropics and Southern. As it turns out, only … Continue reading →

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Preparing for White X-masses for a decade to come

Posted on 14 June, 2011 by

This just in from WUWT. The American Astronomical Society meeting in Austin has just made a major announcement on the state of the sun. Sunspots may be on the way out and an extended solar minimum may be on the … Continue reading →

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Another one bites the dust

Posted on 18 January, 2011 by

As the CO2 scare is becoming less and less effective in capturing the imagination and attention of the people, the AGW crowd are emphasizing the role of that other horrible green house gas: methane. But the Deepwater Horizon disaster in … Continue reading →

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Nothing out of the ordinary

Posted on 12 January, 2011 by

The graph depicted above shows a new northern hemisphere temperature reconstruction by Fredrik Ljungqvist, Stockholm University’s Department of History: A new reconstruction of temperature variability in the extra-tropical Northern Hemisphere during the last two millennia. This new study of Ljungqvist … Continue reading →

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