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Shellenberger Drops the Mask
I started responding to an interview by ‘soft’ climate science denial personality Michael Shellenberger (he’s an environmentalist, see) on the YouTube page for his interview with the Epoch Times, itself a far right conspiracy-friendly publication founded by the Falun Gong religious organization, whose founder Li Hongzhi claims that by age eight he had acquired supernatural…
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Spotify playlists – waxoid
* – top recommendations✨ – newer Building playlists is a hobby going way back; sharing here in the hope that you find new tracks or stations you like. Services like Spotify use their leverage to extract money out of artists to be featured in Spotify’s radio rotations or generated playlists; one way to both blunt…
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Censorship and a Criminal Conspiracy Cheat Sheet
White nationalist ‘influencer’ Nick Fuentes may have dined with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, but he turned on the former President recently after Trump admitted he lost the 2020 election: “He’s admitting… ‘I lost by a whisker’. So what was the point of any of it if you lost in 2020? Seriously? What are we even…
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2024 Update on Ongoing Global Loss of Coral Reefs
[2025 update: Final tallies from the 2024-2025 bleaching events confirmed levels of new devastation across the Great Barrier Reef. While pro-pollution activists continue to (falsely) claim that coral cover is at record highs, the latest die-off event also confirmed biologists’ catch phrase characterizing the young, fast-growing weedy coral as “fast to grow, first to go”…
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The Logical and Factual Case Against Alex Epstein
An analysis of Alex Epstein’s comments claiming to support a “moral case for fossil fuels” – unfortunately a lot more flourishing of tired culture warfare than any novel focus on the flourishing of humans.
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On ‘Coral Alarmism’
Even pretty staggering changes in the natural world can struggle to compete for attention amid the cacophony of modern media and cage-fighting politics (which of course can concern many other topics relevant to human well-being, on top of a near-infinite capacity for distraction). In our window of time here and on our watch, we’re observing the…
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Breakdown of an anti-science hit piece in National Review
Apologies for the title, but it’s a sign of the times. Accusing major scientific agencies of altering data for politics – without any supporting evidence, even when your own “whistleblower” source emphasizes “no data tampering” – is obviously and squarely anti-science activity in my book. Readers are of course free to draw their own conclusions on that point. So I had a…
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Yes, UKIP politician Roger Helmer rejects the science of anthropogenic warming
Another response to a recent blog article here. This one is by Roger Helmer, a member of European Parliament since 1999 and leader of a UKIP delegation. Kudos to Mr. Helmer for taking the time to explain his views in a public forum. He is taking issue with a Guardian article that talks about how “climate science deniers…
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Foreign Policy Journal starts the year with Nobel Laureate Ivar Giaever on Climate Change
Here. The FPJ editor asked for a substantive reply to Giaever’s points, so I thought I’d take a stab – I’m afraid the response got long, but at least it’s something of an interesting tour of popular criticisms of climate science and climate change action. Ivar Giaever won the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics (I like the hairstyle!) for “experimental discoveries…
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Warming isn’t “missing”, it’s “hiding” in the oceans in plain sight
Another reply to a climate-related blog post here: IPCC claim – The missing warming is hiding in the deep oceans! This is another popular vein of commentary among those resistant to the idea of anthropogenic global warming (AGW). The claim is that AGW is not playing by the proper rules of science, because when the evidence doesn’t line…
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