Curry’ed Tripe and other recipes

BPSDB MENU Linguiça Hodge Podge Curry’ed Menudo (Tripe) Jumped Shark Fin Soup Carbonnade à la Flamande Hash Banh Tieu Chiffonade Dog(ma) Imbottito con Ideologia Trockenbeerenauslese Trifle Lemon Curry Fool A recipe for Ms Curry Curry şiş Kebabs I have finally gotten around to reading Judith Curry‘s contributions to the climate change debate and I have [...]

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Global Warming by any other name

BPSDB Global Warming? or Climate Change?   Peter Sinclair’s latest addition to the Climate Denial Crock of the Week debunks the idiotic “they changed it to “climate change after 1998” meme … “they” being the IPCC … which apparently the paranoid delusionals (aka climate change Deniers) thought stood for ‘Intergovernmental Panel on Coerced Collectivization’ As [...]

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Climate change and scientific malpractice

BPSDB Scientific malpractice isn’t Scientific malpractice is Principles of scientific work The controversial part It’s not a bloody shovel One of the most scrutinized and stringently regulated common professions is medicine. Just becoming a medical practitioner is a long and arduous process with strict standards, reviews and licensing. Despite this system of oversights and checks [...]

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Climate Change: the bigger the lie

BPSDB FABIAN:  If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. SIR TOBY BELCH : His very genius hath taken the infection of the device, man. Twelfth Night Act III, Scene 4 . It is a perverse fact that often the sheer idiocy of many of the climate [...]

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Climate change – how can I be sure?

BPSDB One of the most difficult problems communicating science to the public is how to convince someone who does not have a scientific background and cannot take the time to look at the science itself. For someone who is legitimately uncertain and wants to know the truth regardless of what it is, what can one [...]

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Climate Change Deniers are “Not Even Wrong”

BPSDB Not even wrong … refers to any statement, argument or explanation that is so at odds with reality that it is considered uncorrectable. 2 + 2 = 4  … is correct 2 + 2 = 5 … is wrong 2 + 2 =  ‘§’ … did not understand the question (2 + 2)/ zebra [...]

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Wut evah

In an attempt to have the comment threads be reasonably worth reading (ie relevant to the post, coherent, relatively spam free) I first created two pages, one that was to be “Mostly Open” and the other for “Challenging the Core Science.” As Deniers do not read it became necessary to create the “Dunce’s Corner” as [...]

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Double the CO2, half the literacy

BPSDB Double the CO2 – Half the literacy – 1/10th the coherence ‘Doubled CO2 means just 1.64 degrees of warming…’ or maybe not. Potholer54 is back with another good one, this time debunking the “not much warming for two centuries” nonsense. Potholer pretty much covers it all, so I’ll leave it to him. Half the [...]

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Albert the Knowledge Penguin

BPSDB If you haven’t seen it yet, head over to “Darryl Cunningham Investigates” and check out his climate change comic. Maybe a “comic” is not your preferred way of learning, but for some it is far more effective, so this is a great tool to have at hand and share. Cunningham is still working on [...]

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Hallelujah! … Bjorn again

BPSDB Bjorn Again Resistance is futile! The Piper’s Price Elmer Gantry 2.0 and again and again and …   .. Bjorn Again In August and September much was made of the”conversion” of Danish economist Bjorn Lomborg from climate change Denier to climate rationalist: Climate change voice who changed his tune How will right-wing media react [...]

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*New* *Improved* Climate Skeptic List Fraud

BPSDB What it isn’t: What it is Condensed overview (still painful though) Too many Kooks spoil the … – Shredding the “climate consensus” myth: More Than 1000 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims – Challenge UN IPCC & Gore WattsUpMyButt Climate Despot has dropped  a “321-page ‘Consensus Buster’ Report” (bet that cow won a [...]

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The other Wegman ironies

BPSDB The Wegman Controversy (VERY briefly) The original Wegman irony Innocent until proven “Alarmist” Wegmania —- The Wegman Controversy (VERY briefly) In 2006 statistician Edward Wegman headed a small committee at the request members of the US House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee to review the work of climatologists with reference to the “Hockey [...]

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