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JCU caves in to badgering and groupthink — blackballs “politically incorrect” Bob Carter

So much for “higher” education. James Cook University (JCU) has blackballed Professor Bob Carter, not because of any flaw in his scientific reasoning, but because he speaks outside the permitted doctrine. His views on climate science do not fit with the dominant meme (or the grant applications). And then there were pesky complaints and emails from disgruntled fans of the prophets-of-doom. (Quite

100+ JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax / by Joanne Nova / 3d

Starships, cultish non-science and exciting advances

Another potpourri of science wonders! After an announcement or two... and a brief re-look at METI.First - announcing: a first round of videos are now up from the Starship Symposium at the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination, with speakers Peter Schwarz, Freeman Dyson, Patti Smith, Geoffrey Landis, Neal Stephenson, Robert Zubrin and Chris Lewicki… all about the prospects for some child b

84 Contrary Brin / by David Brin / 6d

Australia’s Big Science Vision – an eco-green form of sustainable mediocrity.

Where is the vision? The Australian Government have reissued their research priorities for science. Sadly it’s infected with the eco-virus. There are seven “sustainables”, and ten aspects of “change”. When it comes to maximizing our competitive advantage, the first point is the development of “reliable, low cost, low emission energy.” Say no more. After applying a wheel-clamp to the economy, we’r

68 JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax / by Joanne Nova / 4d

Flat Earthers believe in climate change

Flat circle, wall of ice around the edge. Hmm Let it be known, the next time you are called a “Flat Earther” you can point out that the Flat Earth society (or at least their President) is on the same side as Al Gore and James Hansen. It’s a piece of useless trivia that’s good for useless conversations. I did not believe there was such a group so I scoped out their site expecting it to be a joke. B

32 JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax / by Joanne Nova / 2d

Climate scientists move to atom-bomb number system, give up on exponentials

POSTED in the Satirical Tomes: News that could have been, but wasn’t. Climate modelers announced today that in future they would report everything in Hiroshima-atom-bomb-equivalents, or Habe. The President of Climate-Scientists-Anonymous said the old system of joules was boring, and no one understood what ten-to-the-twenty-two meant anyhow. “We leave that stuff to the computers” he said. “The pl

20 JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax / by Joanne Nova / 5d

Australia’s Angry Hot Summer was hot angry hype– satellites show it was average

Lewis and Karoly 2013: climate change is “likely” to blame for the hottest angry summer. Did your air-conditioner make Australia the hottest angry summer ever? Could be. If we apply mystery-black-box-techniques to data from a few sparse thermometers averaged over thousands of square kilometers we can find a “record”. If we compare that “record” to models that are known to be wrong, voila — then

8 JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax / by Joanne Nova / 7h

The old new Rudd: tinkering with useless schemes while ignoring the coal reality

4 JoNova: Science, ... / by Joanne Nova / 1d

Brad on RT America's Abby Martin Show: 'BP Sucks' & Other Climate Change Realities

The BRAD BLOG / by Brad Friedman / 9h