Ken Perrott • Oct 05, 2014 •
Michael Mann: The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars – TAM 2013. Have a look at this video for an excellent description of the history and science of climate change. It’s presented by one of the central figures. Michael Mann … Continue reading → … Read More
Gareth Renowden • Feb 23, 2014 •
John O’Sullivan — the pseudosceptic who is serially and persistently wrong about almost everything he chooses to write about, and who has made a career out of misrepresenting his own abilities and qualifications — is at it again. In a “review” of a new book by Canadian denier Tim Ball (left), O’Sullivan1 writes: The courage […] … Read More
Gareth Renowden • Feb 10, 2013 •
The National Business Review (NBR) is New Zealand’s biggest selling business weekly. This weekend it published a profile of Steve McIntyre, the ClimateAudit blogger and amateur statistician who has long had an unhealthy obsession with hockey sticks. Here’s how it introduced him on the web version of the article1: A man who has become the [...] … Read More
Ken Perrott • Oct 16, 2012 •
Here’s a relatively short (26 min) video of a lecture by Michael Mann. I think it gives a very concise and accurate picture of the current science of climate change and the political attacks on climate scientists (Mann calls this … Continue reading → … Read More
Ken Perrott • Sep 19, 2012 •
Once again legal action by climate change deniers/contrarian/cranks has failed. In the US attempts by the American Tradition Institute, a climate change denial think tank, to obtain personal emails and documents from the University of Virginia. These documents belong to … Continue reading → … Read More
Ken Perrott • May 22, 2012 •
The last few years the climate change denier organisations have fooled themselves into thinking they are on a roll. (I am talking about deniers – not contrarians or sceptics). What with the “climategate affair,” the resulting investigations (which didn’t go … Continue reading → … Read More
Bryan Walker • Feb 21, 2012 •
It was clearly never Michael Mann’s wish to be embroiled in the public controversy that has been manufactured by the denial industry around his and his co-authors’ work. He’s a scientist first and foremost, the nine-year-old who wanted to know what it meant to go faster than the speed of light, the high school student [...] … Read More
Ken Perrott • Feb 19, 2012 •
The US “Think Tank,” The Heartland Institute has been getting some mail since some of its documents revealing plans to undermine climate change science and its teaching were leaked to the media. These documents also details some of the payments … Continue reading → … Read More
Ken Perrott • Feb 17, 2012 •
The blogosphere has been humming over the last few days with revelations contained in document leaked from the US Heartland Institute. Documents outlining strategy for the promotion of climate denial – both through the media and through educations programmes. Have … Continue reading → … Read More
Ken Perrott • Jan 26, 2012 •
Here’s another book to look out for – The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines. It will be published at the beginning of March . The author, Michael Mann, has been a central figure in … Continue reading → … Read More