Young Greens Say the Darndest Things
Students in the fossil fuel divestment movement employ venom and vitriol, but little persuasive argument.
The Royal Society’s Joyride
In recent years the world’s oldest science academy has been taken for a joyride. Three centuries of neutrality have been impulsively abandoned – in the name of fighting climate change.
Kevin Anderson: The Ration Card Man
Kevin Anderson says additional nuclear power plants are unnecessary because climate change can be easily dealt with. Instead, he wants to establish a costly, intrusive, liberty-restricting bureaucracy to ration your access to energy.
UN Style Empirical Research
First, UN researchers conduct a climate change survey. Second, they release a report that fails to provide even an overview of the results, never mind detailed evidence of the assertions being made. Next the report gets cited as though it were gospel by Canada’s Library of Parliament.
Cutoff Dates, What Cutoff Dates?
When the IPCC flouts its own rules outrageously – yet insists it has followed them religiously – its credibility evaporates.
The Stern Review Scandal – IPCC Breaks 3 of Its Own Rules
Ten months after the official cutoff date, and well after the expert reviewers were out of the picture, climate bible authors inserted references to the Stern Review into 12 different chapters.
What’s Left if We Disregard Non-Peer-Reviewed Claims?
The chairman of the IPCC has said that non-peer-reviewed research is so undeserving of the IPCC’s attention it should be thrown “into the dustbin.” Yet on one page of the climate bible, only 17% of the text is backed-up by peer-reviewed research.