Physicist Gordon Fulks discusses the Left’s politicization of science and paganization of religion

Just received this from Gordon J. Fulks (Ph.D., Physics), of the University of Chicago Laboratory for Astrophysics, Mission Research Corporation, Corbett, OR, via email, and he permitted me to publish it here on our blog. It’s right on target. Politics has clearly compromised science via billions of dollars going to those scientists willing to play […]

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Vatican’s secrecy over environmental encyclical may have diminished its value

The Associated Press reports that Vatican officials are very upset over the leak of a draft of the much-anticipated papal encyclical on the environment yesterday. I find the concluding paragraph of the AP report most interesting: In the aftermath of the “Vatileaks” scandal, the Vatican City State updated its criminal code to include severe penalties

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Is NOAA Lying to US (and Us) about US Climate History?

In an article titled “The ‘Trick’ to Controlling the Climate Agenda,” energy physicist Michael W. Brakey accuses the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of systematically falsifying historical temperature data to create the appearance of more warming than has actually happened. His argument: NOAA has applied an algorithm (a bit of computer code that applies itself

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Defense of Climate Models Fails–Just as the Models Do

Critics of CAGW alarmism have for several years had fun pointing out the large and growing discrepancy between computer climate model simulations of global average temperature and real-world observations, with this graph being one of our favorite exhibits: Now Alex Sen Gupta, Senior Lecturer, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences at UNSW Australia, has come

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Why One Conservative, Evangelical Republican’s Case for Climate Alarm Fails—Part 2

Yesterday I began a multi-part critique of a recent blog post by Evangelical Environmental Network board chairman Scott Rodin titled “As a Conservative, Evangelical Republican, Why Climate Change Can’t Be True (Even Though It Is).” In that piece I pointed out that scientific data point the opposite direction from where Rodin thinks they do. I also

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Obviously this Guy’s a Science Denier!

Was it a critic of the IPCC’s notion of dangerous manmade climate change who wrote this? The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for

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Why One Conservative, Evangelical Republican’s Case for Climate Alarm Fails—Part 1

Dr. Scott Rodin, chairman of the board of the Evangelical Environmental Network and a blogger at The Steward’s Journey, posted a piece May 19, 2015, titled, “As a Conservative, Evangelical Republican, Why Climate Change Can’t be True (Even Though It Is).” It has some very interesting reasoning and deserves careful consideration. In this and several

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Alabama meteorologist James Spann hits the nail on the head

In responding to news hype about the flooding in Houston (the tragedies of which we most certainly don’t want to downplay), James Spann, chief meteorologist for ABC 33/40 in Birmingham, Alabama, hit the nail on the head when he wrote, … the entire climate change situation has become politicized, which I hate. Those on the

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Words Matter—and So Does Honesty

Some folks just don’t play fair. Instance? Media Matters and ForecasttheFacts.org have just teamed up to pressure the media to not to characterize scientists who doubt claims of dangerous manmade global warming as “skeptics.” Their preferred term? “Deniers.” Why? Two reasons: First, because skepticism is a scientific virtue, which they don’t want to attribute to

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