The BBC’s latest climate insanity is a four minute video in their series “Ideas” entitled “Are you suffering from climate change anxiety?” consisting of interviews with three anxious young people, and comments by a psychologist. Paul Homewood was first off the mark (he always is) with this article, but I thought it might be useful to enquire … Continue reading BBC Talking out of its Exit Point Again
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March 27, 2019 at 07:18PM
Reposted from Climate Etc. by Judith Curry ” ‘I believe in science’ is an homage given to science by people who generally don’t understand much about it. Science is used here not to describe specific methods or theories, but to provide a badge of tribal identity. Which serves, ironically, to demonstrate a lack of interest…
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March 27, 2019 at 04:05PM
Day 2: Jennifer Marohasy gives us an update on Peter Ridd’s battle for free speech
Today, Judge Vasta asked how it could be that James Cook University – a recipient of so many billions of dollars over the years – could leave no stone unturned in its disciplinary process against Peter Ridd, while doing absolutely nothing to address his complaints about the lack of quality assurance of its research.
Not once in court today, or yesterday, was there any defense by the James Cook University Team of “the science” that Peter Ridd has been so critical of. The university is simply arguing that he doesn’t have a right to speak-out.
Let’s remember how important “quality control” is to JCU: One researcher at JCU was found guilty of fabricating results by Upsalla University. Peter Ridd reported the same researcher has presented photos of 50 fish that contained manipulated, flipped duplicates. These are serious allegations in science. In response JCU took a whole year to even name the people on the investigation panel, let alone start investigating. As I said at the time:
James Cook has done what any ambitious, money-hungry grant troughing institute would do, a […]
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March 27, 2019 at 02:42PM
By Paul Homewood
Guido readers will remember Lord Deben from the ongoing inquiry into his multiple conflicts of interests over £600,000 payments funnelled to his family business. The scandal-hit Climate Change Committee Chair has been dealt another blow with the BBC publicly admitting that he misled viewers of the Today Programme with his daft claim that there was a ban on onshore wind power. Which there isn’t. Obviously.
But the BBC Executive Complaints Unit made an embarrassing mistake themselves over Deben’s claim on the same programme that onshore wind was the cheapest form of generating electricity. They say that according to a BEIS formula, onshore wind is the cheapest form of electricity today. The actual government tables clearly show that gas turbines are cheaper. A pretty shoddy mistake to make after two rounds of BBC investigations…
https://order-order.com/2019/03/27/bbc-admits-scandal-hit-lord-deben-spread-fake-green-news/
Guido has picked up the fact that the BBC have finally got round to logging the error on their complaints website.
However, he could have been much faster off the mark, if he had been reading Notalot last October!
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March 27, 2019 at 02:16PM
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