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- Cannibalism to save the world? New Scientist opens that door… Sat, 2 Mar 24, 5:59am… By Jo Nova Next step: sustainable human steak? They don’t mention the “sustainable” word, but you know they want to. Right from the start they’re selling us on it: Ethically, cannibalism poses...
- Claim: We’re Closer to 1.5C Global Warming than You Think Fri, 18 Dec 20, 5:00amHow close can scientists adjust us towards the 1.5C global warming bogeyman temperature without people noticing its just not that big a deal?
- Antarctic Sea Ice lowest in 40 years, but no one knows why — “back to drawing board” Fri, 5 Jul 19, 7:19pmPut it in a history book: scientists are sounding like scientists — admitting they don’t understand Antarctic Sea Ice set records in 2014, but then in 2016 it rapidly declined and hasn’t recovered, indeed...
- River map shows which way every river in the US flows Sat, 27 Dec 14, 2:30amAndrew Hill created this mind-blowing map of the rivers of the continental United States, colored according to the direction in which they flow. Hill, of Vizzuality, used the the CartoDB platform and the National Hydrography...
- Scientists-of-PR jump the shark, assign “climate blame” percentage for each event Sun, 31 Aug 14, 3:52pmHere’s the new desperate meme about to turn your weather report into an advertisement for carbon trading. The people are not scared enough. Say hello to scientismic marketing. It sure isn’t science.
- A hilarious view of Climategate I’ve never read before Wed, 27 Nov 13, 1:46amScientific understanding and faith simultaneously on display: ‘For climatologists, the search for an irrefutable “sign” of anthropogenic warming has assumed an almost Biblical intensity.’ –...
- The Marcott gong show – before in the unquestioning press and after the blogosphere review as told by Ross McKitrick Tue, 2 Apr 13, 5:09pmJust last month, these were the claims: We’re screwed: 11,000 years’ worth of climate data prove it. It’s among the most compelling bits of proof out there that human beings are behind global warming, and as...
- NASA Harnessing the Power of Microbes to Create Building Bricks on Mars Sat, 6 Oct 12, 5:00amMars image from Shutterstock Engineers at NASA’s Synthetic Biology Initiative are creating the building blocks of life – or rather, using life to create building blocks...
- Dr. Leif Svalgaard on the New Scientist solar max story Fri, 28 Sep 12, 8:30pmAn article in the New Scientist says: But Dr. Leif Svalgaard, one of the worlds leading solar physicists and WUWT’s resident solar expert has this to say: Solar max is a slippery concept. One can be more precise and...
- The IPCC can’t learn from past mistakes – wants more grey literature Sat, 23 Jun 12, 3:41amYou’d think that after the drubbing they got last time around from the InterAcademy council for citing mentions of climate effects in travel brochures, climbing magazines, and the Himalayan glacier’s melting by...
- Quote of the Week: ‘global warming stunts black holes’ Mon, 11 Jun 12, 12:03amSigh. It isn’t even past coffee on Sunday morning and already we have our winner. This one… is weapons grade stupidity. I would not believe that a scientist from a prominent research institute could utter such...
- No lessons learned from Climategate ? Fred Pearce and the New Scientist attack anti-nuclear book Tue, 3 Apr 12, 2:51amGuest post by Martin Cohe When philosopher and long-standing climate sceptic Martin Cohen, and distinguished energy economist Andrew McKillop published a book on nuclear economics [2], they expected it to arouse the hackles...
- Quote of the Week – what Durban is really about Mon, 12 Dec 11, 4:45amWUWT commenter Cal65 from Hawaii burns away all of the irrelevancy of posturing and pronouncements and gets to the core truth of what the Durban climate deal is really all about...
- Monckton on Paul Nurse’s “anti-science” Sun, 18 Sep 11, 3:34amMonckton submits this rebuttal argument to the piece in the New Scientist Stamp out anti-science in US politics here. He doesn’t expect his rebuttal to be published. Background: Paul Nurse is a Nobel prizewinner and...
- Gavinology Sun, 6 Feb 11, 6:21amBishop Hill writes: Fred Pearce is on the receiving end of the full fury of the warmosphere for his article about the Lisbon conference in New Scientist...