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- When Models Masquerade as Oceans: The Latest Adventure in Simulated Stirring Mon, 1 Dec 25, 1:00amThis is the circular fortress of modern climate science: models validate models, statistical significance is computed on synthetic data, and uncertainty is waved away with phrases like “robustness” and “consistency.”
- The Zika Scare That Turned Out to Be a False Positive Debacle – and the ‘Congenital Zika Syndrome’ Backup Lie That’s Replaced It Sun, 30 Nov 25, 5:00pmThe human cost of this prolonged fiction is measured not in disability-adjusted life years of uncertain provenance, but in the children never conceived, the young families who postponed dreams, and the enduring chill on Northeast...
- Rebuttal: When “Coastal Climate Retreat” is just a Narrative – Why Nightlights Don’t Tell the Whole Coastal Story Sun, 30 Nov 25, 9:00amThe study itself if paywalled at Nature Communications, and I'm not going to throw good money at bad science. Fortunately, the press release itself provides enough clues to see the cracks in the narrative.
- Fraud Hunters: Sniffing Out Bogus Science Thu, 27 Nov 25, 1:00am“We can tweak regulations and make investigators more rigorous, but this is fundamentally an ethical issue,” said Mark Barnes, a lawyer and prominent expert on misconduct investigations...
- Modeling Manufactured Vulnerability: Why the Maldives Refuse To Sink Despite the Headlines Tue, 18 Nov 25, 9:00amThe narrative is predictable: a single unusual event is simulated, extrapolated, and then turned into a headline-worthy forecast of future doom.
- The Church of Climate Semiotics: When Graphs Become Heresy Fri, 7 Nov 25, 1:00amThe irony is almost poetic: a study accusing others of aesthetic manipulation while itself performing the very act it condemns — turning dissent into pathology through rhetorical theater.
- The Technocrats Are Falling as Their Ideology Fails Tue, 14 Oct 25, 4:00amThe story of Lysenkoism is a warning from history: when science serves ideology, catastrophe follows. The 20th century paid that price in blood and famine. The 21st has flirted with a softer, subtler version — one that...
- Trump Reloads an ‘America First’ Energy Agenda While Reasserting Sound Science Sat, 11 Oct 25, 12:00amEliminating the Endangerment Finding remains a heavy lift, and there is complicated legal terrain. But the economics and the science are on our side. Let’s also not forget that the complexion of the U.S. Supreme Court has...
- The Doughnut Delusion: A Case Study in How to Turn Data into Ideology Fri, 10 Oct 25, 4:00amAfter nearly two decades of “Doughnut” development, the grand insight remains: we must stop growing, stop consuming, and start obeying the moral geometry of academics who draw circles in PowerPoint...
- CLAIM: Climate change is supercharging Europe’s biggest hail Sun, 28 Sep 25, 3:00pmAnything is possible when you use a flawed climate model to generate craptastic, er, speculative output.
- National Academies Go Preposterous on CO2 Wed, 24 Sep 25, 11:00pmYou would think the National Academy of Sciences understands science, but you would be wrong. Their President just approved a report the conclusion of which is scientifically impossible!
- Wrong, The Guardian, Oil Company Operations Aren’t Making Heatwaves Worse Tue, 16 Sep 25, 3:00pmThe piece frames the research they reference as a legal turning point, arguing that oil producers could now face liability for specific extreme weather events.
- CLAIM: North Atlantic faces more hurricane clusters as climate warms Wed, 13 Aug 25, 3:00amAnalyzing the historical observation of tropical cyclones, the authors found that during the past few decades, the chances for tropical cyclone cluster decreased in the Northwestern Pacific basin, while increased in North...
- Turns Out Major Climate Study Peddled By Media Relied On Bunk Data Mon, 11 Aug 25, 3:00amThe study’s inclusion of Uzbekistan’s faulty GDP figures skewed its results and cast doubt on its conclusion that global GDP could be roughly 62% lower by 2100 due to climate change than it otherwise would be, according...
- Rebuttal to: ‘2023 Marine Heatwaves Unprecedented and Potentially Signal a Climate Tipping Point’ Sun, 27 Jul 25, 3:00amMarine heatwaves might “portend an emerging climate tipping point”. That’s a phrase straight from the climate playbook of fear.
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