Category Archives: Silliness

Pattern obfuscation of ocean pH

Posted on 18/09/2017 by richard telford

I noticed that my blog had been cited by a couple of papers, so I went to have a look. Albert Parker has a paper in Nonlinear Engineering. I’m sure this journal wasn’t chosen for the relevant expertise of the … Continue reading →

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Albert Parker hides the acceleration

Posted on 20/03/2016 by richard telford

Albert Parker doesn’t want (you) to believe that the rise in sea-level is accelerating (spoiler – it is) so he hides it. In a post at WUWT, he shows maps of trends in sea-level for the period 1900-1975 and 1900 … Continue reading →

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Dissembling with graphs: Murry Salby edition

Posted on 29/04/2015 by richard telford

Perhaps the easiest way to mislead your audience, or indeed yourself, is to generate deceptive graphics. Murry Salby is to be saluted for his mastery of this art, with several fine examples in his recent London lecture. Here are the … Continue reading →

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The most interesting part of Murry Salby’s lecture

Posted on 28/04/2015 by richard telford

I watched Murry Salby’s London lecture: it was awful. Salby addresses what he calls the core issue of climate change (0:2:30) “Why is atmospheric CO2 increasing?” The answer is obvious – because of CO2 emissions from fossil fuel burning and … Continue reading →

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The Sun’s apparent orbit is not an icosikaitetragon

Posted on 11/03/2015 by richard telford

The Sun appears to go around the Earth. Round that is, like a circle, not jumping every hour from one side to the next of a 24-sided polygon. Despite this, it is convenient to represent the Sun’s position in climate models as if … Continue reading →

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Willie Soon at Heartland: “The sun is big”

Posted on 23/02/2015 by richard telford

Dr Willie Soon is in the news again. His recent paper with Monckton et al ended with the conflict of interest statement The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. A statement seeming at odds with his long … Continue reading →

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The lure of underwater volcanoes

Posted on 04/01/2015 by richard telford

If there is a hierarchy of climate sceptics, those who deny that the observed increase in atmospheric CO2 concentrations is driven by burning fossil fuels and land use change will be near the bottom. Only those who deny that CO2 concentrations are increasing … Continue reading →

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Not pHraud but pHoolishness

Posted on 26/12/2014 by richard telford

By a curious coincidence, many climate sceptics are also ocean acidification sceptics. Some, for whom a rose by any other name would not smell so sweet, try to hide their rejection of reality behind semantics, arguing that ocean acidification should … Continue reading →

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Private prosecutions as an alternative to publications

Posted on 09/12/2014 by richard telford

When you read a paper you disagree with, you have a number of options. The easiest is to shrug one’s shoulders and mutter darkly that nothing better could be expected from that lab. More productively, one can write a blog … Continue reading →

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Q: Why are there no intra-annual patterns in global temperature anomalies?

Posted on 12/11/2014 by richard telford

A: because they are anomalies. Climate sceptics want to be taken seriously. They want to hold joint conferences with climate scientists. It is not impossible for climate sceptics to do good research, though whether the odds are better than a monkey … Continue reading →

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