Also by Graham Thompson

Mail's top climate journalist confesses...

Posted by Graham Thompson - 18 September 2013 at 2:05pm - Comments

The Mail on Sunday has withdrawn claims made by journalist David Rose in last weekend’s edition of the newspaper. Rose wrote that IPCC climate scientists had predicted warming of 0.2^oC per decade, but that actual warming was 0.12^oC per decade since 1951. Thus, his original headline read: “World’s top climate scientists confess: global warming is HALF what we said”. Except, the IPCC never claimed 0.2^oC of warming for that period, they claimed a 0.13^oC trend, meaning they were only out by a statistically insignificant 0.01^o. Rose got his numbers wrong, he was exposed across the internet and now he’s been forced to retract the claim. Rose regards himself as the great climate truth-teller, sniffing out all and any errors and omissions in the data before splashing them across the pages of the Mail in his own hyper-ventilating style.

So we wondered how David Rose would report on the revelation that he got his own climate story wrong....

Article tagged as: climate deniers, David Rose, Mail

A squinty glimpse through Rupert Murdoch’s climate denial toilet roll

Posted by Graham Thompson - 16 September 2013 at 2:01pm - Comments

There's only one way to make Rupert's sea ice logic make sense...

Dear old grandpa Rupert has found a cherry in some climate data, and has been excitedly pointing at it on twitter and demanding that Al Gore explain it to him. Al’s not biting, but it would probably be good news for everyone if the world’s biggest newspaper mogul understood the world’s biggest news story, so here goes.

Let's do the Time warp again!

Posted by Graham Thompson - 28 June 2013 at 1:06pm - Comments

Thanks to petepassword for this Time Magazine spoof cover

So why did David Rose put a forgery of a Time Magazine cover in the Mail on Sunday? Well, the simple answer is that there weren't any real Time covers which supported his point, otherwise I'm sure he would have used one of them. His point was, to quote Michael Crichton, "in the 1970′s (sic) all the climate scientists believed an ice age was coming.”

The subtext being that climate scientists are slightly hysterical doom-mongers who were wrong then and so can be wrong now. I'm sure you can guess who really has the monopoly on wrongness in this debate.

Article tagged as: climate change, climate sceptics

Dear Mail on Sunday, Time is not on your side

Posted by Graham Thompson - 28 June 2013 at 7:00am - Comments

Once in a while, roughly every month or two, Daily Mail journalist David Rose likes to focus his laser-like mind on the twisting swindlers of the so-called scientific community, and write a big exposé of the Great Climate Hoax. He's an expert on hoaxes, and so would never be caught out by one himself. You would think.

Article tagged as: climate change, climate sceptics, David Rose, mail on sunday, time magazine

On a clear day you can see the future

Posted by Graham Thompson - 24 June 2013 at 4:19pm - Comments

Borisconi and his chief climate advisor

Borisconi's leadership campaign has struck again, and the Telegraph's somewhat battered reputation for science reporting is again the first casualty.

Article tagged as: boris johnson, climate change, climate sceptics

Oil companies: evil or stupid? Lawson weighs in

Posted by Graham Thompson - 19 June 2013 at 3:44pm - Comments

Lord Lawson: expert witness in the defence of Big Oil

On Tuesday, the Energy Bill we’re all so exercised about (oh yes you are) went for its second reading in the Lords. Their lordships Teverson, Deben, Prescott, Oxburgh and others spoke well. Stern and Worthington are actually worth reading.

Article tagged as: big oil, climate change, climate sceptics, lord lawson

The anti-wind Blobby

Posted by Graham Thompson - 17 June 2013 at 4:49pm - Comments

One of John Constable's colleagues

The Telegraph is yet again trying to pretend that Noel Edmonds’ anti-wind lobby, the cosmically ordered Renewable Energy Foundation, is a reliable source of data. In case you don’t remember, this is the organisation which produces nonsensical made-up ‘reports’ attacking wind power, whilst claiming on their home page to be in the business of promoting renewable energy.

Article tagged as: climate change, climate sceptics, energy, REF, renewable energy, telegraph

What does REF stand for? Not renewable energy...

Posted by Graham Thompson - 17 May 2013 at 5:08pm - Comments

Poll results on reasons for the rise in energy bills

Question: What do you think is the main reason for the increases in consumer gas and electricity prices over the last 12 months?

Polling conducted for Carbon Brief shows that the public primarily blame profiteering by energy companies for recent increases in energy bills. Only 7% of those polled blamed ‘green’ taxes, despite a concerted campaign by certain newspapers to persuade them this was the culprit.

Climate and Euroscepticism: leftwing, rightwing and wrongwing

Posted by Graham Thompson - 10 May 2013 at 5:35pm - Comments

Lord Lawson, chairman of the sceptic tank GWPF

Lean, mean budgeting machine Lord Nigel Lawson is back in the news, still resolutely sceptical but, for a change, not about climate science. He’s returned to his old stamping ground, the European Union, and is now being resolutely sceptical about that. These two positions, climate scepticism and euroscepticism, are complementary.

Article tagged as: climate change, climate sceptics, eurosceptics, james delingpole, nigel lawson, politics

Buzz killers: UK blocking bee-killing pesticide ban

Posted by Graham Thompson - 25 April 2013 at 12:47pm - Comments

You don't have to be Einstein to work here...

In a shock to the scientific community, neonicotinoids, - or neurotoxic agricultural insecticides - have been shown in laboratory tests to cause brain damage in bees.

Actually, it wasn’t that much of a shock. There’s never been any doubt over the potential of these chemicals to harm bees - the recent controversy has been over dosage.

Article tagged as: agriculture, bees, DEFRA, insecticides, neonicotinoids, owen paterson, pesticides, toxic chemicals

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