20 Scientists Call for Prosecution of CAGW Critics—Judith Curry Puts them to Shame

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Recently 20 scientists, firm believers in CAGW and proponents of policies to reduce it, sent a letter to the White House supporting a call by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) for criminal prosecution under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) act of scientists who disagree with them. Hello?! Anybody ever heard of the First Amendment—you […]

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Having Fun at the “Moral Action on Climate Justice” Rally on the National Mall

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The Earth Day Network hosted what it touted as a major rally for action to stop “climate change” today (timed to coincide with Pope Francis’s visit with President Obama yesterday and his address to Congress) on the National Mall in Washington. Only it wasn’t. It was reported that organizers said beforehand they expected “up to 200,000

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Obama in Alaska: He Didn’t Let Kivalina’s Crisis Go to Waste

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The Arctic, like the rest of the world, experiences natural cycles, and some of them can be pretty radical. While most of the world enjoys a pretty stable 24-hour cycle of sunrise and sunset, with the sun visible roughly half of each day, a little longer in summer, a little shorter in winter, the Arctic

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Curry Deals Another Blow to Climate Consensus

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Georgia Tech climatologist Judith Curry dealt a serious blow to the appeal to consensus on climate change in her paper “Climate Change: No Consensus on Consensus,” three years ago. She pointed out (among lots of other valuable things) that, whatever value consensus might have in science (as opposed to politics), consensus is significant only if

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Climate Change Industry Doesn’t Live on Chicken Feed

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For all those climate alarmists who are up in arms about what they consider the billions of dollars supposedly supporting CAGW skeptics, here’s a bit of reality therapy: The money supporting alarmism amounts to about $1.5 TRILLION a year, according to an expensive 200 page report on the climate change consulting market that came out

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The News that Didn’t Fit—What I Told a New York Times “Reporter,” and He Didn’t Report

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On June 16, 2015, I received an email from New York Times “reporter” Justin Gillis, who has written much highly critical of those who are skeptical of claims of catastrophic, anthropogenic global warming—people like me. Because I had taken the lead in producing An Open Letter to Pope Francis on Climate Change, Gillis posed some questions

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Is John Cook, 97% Consensus Author, an Identity Thief?

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As “everybody knows”—hey, even President Obama lectured us on the fact!—97% of all scientists agree: global warming is real and dangerous, and we must take drastic steps to stop it. The “researcher” behind that claim is University of Western Australia psychology postgraduate John Cook, whose “study”  has been torn to shreds for bad data handling,

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IPCC’s Hypersophisticated Forecasts vs. Scott Armstrong’s Super-Simple Forecast: Who Wins?

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The essence of science is testing predictions by comparison with real-world observations. Al Gore and the IPCC have been saying for years that human emissions of CO2 would cause global warming at a rate of 3C per century. But IPCC’s forecasts violated 72 out of 89 relevant principles of scientific forecasting. In 2007, Scott Armstrong,

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