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Here’s what happens when you try to replicate climate contrarian papers

By Jonathan MS Pearce • • 1 comment

This is so important an article (and paper it is derived from) that I had to share it. The final few paragraphs are powerful. Climate skeptics who claim to be the “real scientists” are so very wrong. It’s about time climate scientists fought back! From the Guardian:

Those who reject the 97% expert consensus on human-caused global warming often invoke Galileo as an example of when the scientific minority overturned the majority view. In reality, climate contrarians have almost nothing in common with Galileo, whose conclusions were based on empirical scientific evidence, supported by many scientific contemporaries, and persecuted by the religious-political establishment. Nevertheless, there’s a slim chance that the 2–3% minority is correct and the 97% climate consensus is wrong.

Australia bottom of the climate pile

By Jonathan MS Pearce • • 3 comments

Australia was the worst performing industrial country in terms of climate change in 2014, a new report has said.

The report by two non-government organisations said the poor ranking was due in part to policy changes made by the current coalition government.

US elections: the worst news

By Jonathan MS Pearce • • 1 comment

From i09:

All together now: Fucking fuck.

Senator Inhofe, who is poised to become the most powerful senator on the environment, is the same man who has compared the scientific consensus over manmade global warming to Adolf Hitler’s conception of the Jewish conspiracy.

Political Libertarianism, Science Denialism, Philosophy and the likes of James Delingpole

By Jonathan MS Pearce • • 7 comments

I am going to look at political libertarianism in this post in the context of morality, ethics and philosophy. This has been brought on by the Any Questions live radio programme on BBC Radio 4 the other day from the Centre for Alternative Technology in Machynlleth, Wales which featured right-wing Conservative, Telegraph blogger, Climate Change (AGW) denier James Delingpole, Secretary of State for the Environment Food and Rural Affairs, Owen Paterson MP (Conservative), left wing Labour politician Peter Hain MP, Leader of Plaid Cymru (The Welsh national party), socialist and republican Leanne Wood.

Population, Peak Oil, and the Most Important Video You’ll see?

By Jonathan MS Pearce • • 12 comments

The video embedded below was sent to me by someone with whom I am in contact with in my work with the Transition Network which is a n organisation that seeks to mobilise local communities to move from oil dependence to a more sustainable future given the idea of Peak Oil. For those who don’t know, Peak Oil is the undeniable fact described as:

New, Overwhelming “Scientific Consensus On Anthropogenic Climate Change”

By Jonathan MS Pearce • • 1 comment

I am a skeptic. I am not a global warming skeptic. That is ideologically-driven anti-scientific nonsense. And in case you were wondering what the evidence for this was, let’s look at what the relevant scientists say:

Science Daily: May 15, 2013 — A comprehensive analysis of peer-reviewed articles on the topic of global warming and climate change has revealed an overwhelming consensus among scientists that recent warming is human-caused.

New Battery Design Could Help Solar and Wind Power the Grid

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I love renewable energy. It fascinates and excites me in all my geekness. But it needs to be competitive. Is the tide turning (get it?)? Science Daily:

Apr. 24, 2013 — Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have designed a low-cost, long-life battery that could enable solar and wind energy to become major suppliers to the electrical grid.