http://www.paulmacrae.com Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:11:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By Paul MacRae, August 5, 2010 The recent report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration claims that surface temperatures have increased in the past decade. In fact, the NOAA report, "State of the Climate in 2009," says 2000-2009 was 0.2° Celsius [1]  warmer than the decade previous. However, the report's ... http://www.paulmacrae.com/?p=111 Climatologist Dr. Stephen Schneider died this week. Although he was one of the leading promoters of climate change fears (in the 1970s he warned against global cooling[1], more recently against global warming), Schneider could also be remarkably candid about what was going on behind the scenes of what is supposed ... http://www.paulmacrae.com/?p=108 False Alarm is finally out, under a revised title: False Alarm: Global Warming—Facts Versus Fears. The previous subtitle was "Why Almost Everything We've Been Told About Global Warming is Misleading, Exaggerated, or Just Plain Wrong," but that was a bit unwieldy. False Alarm will be in bookstores in Canada sometime in ... http://www.paulmacrae.com/?p=102 Tom Pederson, director of British Columbia's Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, got some cheap laughs at the expense of Rex Murphy and Murphy's journalistic reputation at a University of Victoria panel on climate and the media in April. The panel members were Pederson, Lucinda Chodan, editor of the Victoria Times Colonist, ... http://www.paulmacrae.com/?p=97 . The evidence ... however properly reached, may always be more or less wrong, the best information being never complete, and the best reasoning being liable to fallacy." —Thomas Huxley, Science and Christian Tradition, p. 206 Thomas H. Huxley (1825-1895) was one of the first and most vigorous promoters of modern scientific thinking. ... http://www.paulmacrae.com/?p=91 Paul MacRae February 13, 2009 Do not knowingly mislead, or allow others to be misled, about scientific matters. Present and review scientific evidence, theory or interpretation honestly and accurately. --Proposed scientific code of ethics For one giddy, almost magical moment, I thought the "consensus" climate science community, or at least a small portion of ... http://www.paulmacrae.com/?p=86 Paul MacRae, July 30, 2008 The determinants of complex processes are invariably plural and interrelated. -- David S. Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, p. 517 Most of what "consensus" climate science tells the public about human-caused global warming is, I believe, misleading, exaggerated, or plain wrong. But what are the consensus ... http://www.paulmacrae.com/?p=78 Paul MacRae, July 11, 2008 Mystification is the process of explaining away what might otherwise be evident. -- John Berger, Ways of Seeing Britain's Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research is in a spot of bother at the moment. On the one hand, the Hadley Centre is a firm believer in the hypothesis ... http://www.paulmacrae.com/?p=74 Paul MacRae, July 9, 2008 In proportion as religious sects exalt feeling above intellect, and believe themselves to be guided by direct inspiration rather than by a spontaneous exertion of their faculties -- that is, in proportion as they are removed from rationalism -- their sense of truthfulness is misty and ... http://www.paulmacrae.com/?p=73 Paul MacRae, June 24, 2008 Most geologists aren't part of Al Gore's "100 per cent consensus" of scientists that humans are the principal cause of global warming and that we have to take drastic steps to deal with it. For example, in March 2008, a poll of Alberta's 51,000 geologists found that ... http://www.paulmacrae.com/?p=62