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Saturday's Science Show was on the AAAS Symposium on climate change scepticism. Speakers are Riley Dunlap, William Freudenburg, Naomi Oreskes and Stephen Schneider. Hat tip Bernard J.

I don't think I need to add much to Deep Climate's dissection of McKitrick's claims that one of his papers has been unfairly rejected, so I'll just make three quick points. McKitrick claims: There was some excitement when a blogger found a minor error in our computer code (we had released the code…

John Mclean has a reply to Lewandowsky at the Drum where he proves once and for all that he has no clue, with comments like: If the SOI accounts for short-term variation then logically it also accounts for long-term variation. and We show a relationship going back to the 1950s. Isn't that long…

Time to spool out more thread.

The House of Commons report on the emails stolen from CRU has vindicated Phil Jones -- he has "no case to answer": The focus on Professor Jones and CRU has been largely misplaced. On the accusations relating to Professor Jones's refusal to share raw data and computer codes, we consider that his…

Well, now we know why McLean's Reply to the demolition of their paper was rejected. In a response being published by SPPI (was it rejected by even Energy and Environment?), they claim this was because of a vast conspiracy against them. But they make the mistake of including the rejected Reply, so…

I have uploaded my debate with Monckton to youtube. I had to cut it up into 15 parts which I've put in a playlist. My presentation is part 3 and 4, embedded below.

BusinessGreen reports: The renewable energy industry is this morning considering lodging a complaint with the Press Complaint Commission (PCC) over reports in the Sunday Times yesterday accusing "feeble" wind farms of failing to deliver as much power as expected. A misleading story in The Sunday…

Simon Lewis has made an official complaint to the Press Complaints Commission about Jonathan Leake's dishonest reporting on the Amazon rainforests. David Adam reports: Lewis said: "There is currently a war of disinformation about climate change-related science, and my complaint can hopefully let…

I imagine that by now almost everyone on the planet with an email address has received at least one email from Nigeria offering you a handsome fee to help retrieve millions of dollars that have been tied up somehow, so the returns from this scam are likely declining. The scammers are now turning…

Bill Brown, who was a District Commissioner in pre-independence Papua New Guinea reviews a memoir from Michael O'Connor who was a patrol officer then: O’Connor rails against the “clever people … those academics, bureaucrats and others drawn from their experience of a sophisticated…

James Annan writes that their paper debunking McLean, De Freitas and Carter has been published and: Amusingly, the comment will be published alone, without the customary Reply. Why? Because...McLean et al couldn't muster a reply that was publishable (and not for want of trying, either - it was…

There have been lots of new developments in the scandal surrounding the paper by Samanta et al misrepresented by a Boston University press release. Simon Lewis, in a guest post at RealClimate, explains how the paper strengthens the IPCC conclusions about the Amazon, rather than weakening them as…

Deep Climate covers the latest in the IOPgate scandal The controversy over the Institute of Physics biased submission to the U.K. Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee's investigation of the stolen emails from East Anglia's Climate Research Unit is about to get a whole lot hotter. Of…

Time for a new open thread.

Maurice Newman, the chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation has come out as a global warming denier in a speech to the ABC. Michael Ashley replies here: Scientists are fairly measured in their public statements. Years of training instils a care with words, and avoidance of value…

Peter Sinclair's latest video, debunking the "no global warming for 15 years" and "sea levels are not rising" memes:

The Australian has been conducting an uncompromising and unrelenting war on science, scientists and the scientific method, but if anyone criticises them for it, they react like scalded cats. So you could predict that they would whine when John Quiggin, in his column in the Australian Financial…

Two contradictory stories describing the same adjudication: The Sunday Times Ed Miliband's adverts banned for overstating climate change vs The Guardian Climate change adverts draw mild rebuke from advertising watchdog One way to determine which story is more accurate is to do what anarchist does…

Back in 2007 a paper, Amazon Forests Green-Up During 2005 Drought, was published in Science: Coupled climate-carbon cycle models suggest that Amazon forests are vulnerable to both long- and short-term droughts, but satellite observations showed a large-scale photosynthetic green-up in intact…

Such shameless fishing for links by Ataraxia Theatre will not go unrewarded.

An anonymous person at The Australian writes: In serious debates, nothing demolishes credibility as readily as inconsistency and exaggeration. Indeed, which is why The Australian has no credibility on science. Many Australians, therefore, will find it baffling that six state governments are…

JAMA/Archives has issued a special notice: SPECIAL NOTICE: The embargo on the Archives of Internal Medicine paper (see below) was broken by Jonathan Leake of The Sunday Times of London. In response to this violation, reporters and editors at The Sunday Times will no longer have pre- or post-embargo…

Randy Olson (maker of Sizzle) has an interview with Mark Morano. RO: Are you an anti-evolutionist? MM: Haha, not at all. In fact, you know it's not an issue. The implication of your question is that somehow the skeptics are aligned with creationists. In all my years of dealing with Senator…

Tamino writes It has now been independently confirmed, by multiple persons, that my results regarding the impact of station dropout on global temperature are correct. Your claims, in your document with Joe D'Aleo for the SPPI, are just plain wrong. ... If you have any honor at all, you'll set the…

You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! the British journalist. But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to. -- Humbert Wolfe

BigCityLib catches the IOP using the memory hole. William Connolley is not impressed: What a bunch of slimy little toads: they pretend to believe in openness, they won't tell us who wrote their statements, then they silently airbrush out embarassing words afterwards.

Via Resilience Science, a talk by Naomi Oreskes on her new book, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

Institute of Physics refuses to say who wrote submission calling for more openness.

Last week I got an email from Amy Turner of the Sunday Times: Dear Tim, I'm writing a piece about Science bloggers and would love to talk to you about yours. Are you free to talk to me today or tomorrow? Hope to hear from you. Turner usually writes celebrity puff pieces rather than about science,…