The Unscientists 2010 awards



Shamelessly stealing the Festival Of Idiots central theme and with no proper credit given to its originator, The Rugbyologist, the Chatter Box proudly announces

The Unscientists 2010 Awards.


The rules, hereinafter known as 'the rules':

Now be it known that:

Arctic News Or Science Abuse?


As I write these words, media reporters and bloggers are gleefully reporting the recovery of the Arctic ice.

There has been snow in many parts of the northern temperate zone recently, and, predictably, there have been cries of "what happened to global warming?"

It is Spring.  The evidence of global warming is all around for anyone who has eyes to see it.  But there are none so blind as those who will not see.

Propaganda

South Dakota Exempted From Laws of Science


The South Dakota Legislature thinks that scientific laws are made up by people to suit agendas.
Accordingly, they have invented some agendist stuff to make a political declaration that climate change is a myth.  Presumably, any of the good citizens of Dakota who believe this science nonsense about photographic records of ice melting must be deluded.

Now, why does the sub-text remind me of the creationist / I.D. agenda?

Is this what students are learning in South Dakota?

How deluded will the voters be come election time?

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State of South Dakota 

Freedom Of Information And UK Law



The UK's Freedom Of Information Act 2000 - FOIA - has been much in the news and public debate of late, mainly in connection with allegations that the University Of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit has acted in breach of the FOIA.

Before I go further in my analysis of what law is, and what the relevant law means in the context of the allegations against the CRU, I have some important points to make.

Faint Young Sun - No Paradox


The faint young sun paradox is no paradox, according to a recent paper in Nature.


The faint young sun paradox is that the earth didn't freeze over when the sun was weaker at the time when the oceans formed.  Earth's climate has been fairly constant during the approx. 4.6 billion years of earth's existence, despite the fact that radiation from the Sun is believed to have increased by 25-30 percent over that time.

Professor Minik Rosing, from the Natural History Museum of Denmark, and Christian Bjerrum, from the Department of Geography and Geology at University of Copenhagen, together with American colleagues from Stanford University in California claim that there is no paradox.

Fossilized Weather


If you want to know what the weather is doing you can do as the candlelight fisherman in the song did, and "open the pane and pop out the flame and see how the winds do blow".  Or you could look at the nearest weathervane.  They come in all sort of designs, shapes and sizes.