Category: Miscellaneous

Michael Economides, RIP

University of Houston professor, climate skeptic, EnergyTribune.com editor and JunkScience.com friend Michael Economides passed away over the weekend. Economides was the first to expose the practical impossibilities of carbon capture and storage. Remember him as a champion of science. Help defeat warmism and carbon capture and storage in his memory.

Revisiting IPCC Official’s “North Pole Melts after 50 million-year Freeze”; That’s Not his Only Problem.

James McCarthy, a senior IPCC official between 1997 and 2001, made a statement about Arctic ice melt in 2000 so erroneous that the New York Times needed to write a major retraction about its mention of it. Later in 2004, McCarthy was part of an ‘expert’ press briefing about “Global warming likely to continue spurring more outbreaks of intense hurricane activity”. In Donna Laframboise’s 2011 blog, she tells how that press briefing is tied straight to the infamous resignation of Chris Landsea from the IPCC. As many know, the predictions for hurricanes haven’t worked out so well lately. More recently, we are told McCarthy was involved in the origins of the idea that skeptic climate scientists are ‘paid shills working for the fossil fuel industry’. Continue reading Revisiting IPCC Official’s “North Pole Melts after 50 million-year Freeze”; That’s Not his Only Problem.

No Loss: Science reporters becoming an endangered species — But almost all are dodos, anyway

“Without journalists to uncover stories and speak to authoritative sources, the public loses,” says an editor. But science is not received wisdom. Virtually all science reporters have yet to figure that out. Who-says-what isn’t important. What’s important is how they know what they claim. Continue reading No Loss: Science reporters becoming an endangered species — But almost all are dodos, anyway

NYTimes goes skeptic on end-of-climate-by-2047 study: Based on models with ‘acknowledged problems’ and uncertain accuracy

The NYTimes reports: Continue reading NYTimes goes skeptic on end-of-climate-by-2047 study: Based on models with ‘acknowledged problems’ and uncertain accuracy

Excuse us: NIH researchers squeal about shutdown — Sorry, reining in government excess more important than temporary break in wishful research

Listen to the greedy piggies squeal when the trough is removed. Continue reading Excuse us: NIH researchers squeal about shutdown — Sorry, reining in government excess more important than temporary break in wishful research

Quack Psychologist: ‘Redskins’ name a ‘public health’ not ‘political correctness’ issue

About the President Obama’s effort to deflect negative attention from the shutdown to the owner of the Washington Redskins, the WaPo reports: Continue reading Quack Psychologist: ‘Redskins’ name a ‘public health’ not ‘political correctness’ issue

Disgusting: Race-baiting WaPo columnist likens tea party to cross-burning, white citizens councils of old South

Courtland Milloy (no relation, thank God) writes: Continue reading Disgusting: Race-baiting WaPo columnist likens tea party to cross-burning, white citizens councils of old South