Just wondering, did anyone catch the opening to the Brits last night? The award has been changed and is now a blank canvas for a designer to decorate each year. This year the award was designed by Vivienne Westwood.

When James Corden announced the award upon opening the Brits, he announced the award as the "Stop! Climate Change" award. Luckily, that was all you heard about it all night, but I still found it repugnant. Bloody Celebs.

Here's a link with info.

http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/columns/belinda-white/TMG8255694/BRIT-Awards-trophy-gets-a-high-fashion-makeover-courtesy-of-Dame-Vivienne-Westwood.html

matthu said

Serious questions have been raised about the quality, accuracy and political motivation driving the Australian temperature records

Please give us a break. These are not serious questions nor are they addressed to any competent authority. They are a typical drive-by attack with no substance and full of empty words like 'audit'. Steve McIntyre does real technical audits. These guys just sling mud with no technical basis whatsoever. Their main expected outcome is more publicity.

Any competent questioner would have a detailed analysis and verifiable criticism.

Hilary

The Doran survey fails to disclose the full poll results. See my post Feb 15, 2011 at 9:38 PM on the Beddington on Warpath thread. I wonder if any of the original participants 10,000 plus still has all of the questions on the poll request in their email archives?

On your opinion survey, I would suggest that the Denizens thread on Judith Curry's Climate Etc is a good recent resource, giving individuals background and views.

Speaking of Anderegg, Doran & Zimmerman ... and surveys ...

I wonder if I might ask folks to take a look at a brief survey I'm conducting in which I seek the responses of scientists (of any and all persuasions). I’m interested in learning about the views of scientists regarding the role of human generated CO2 - and in how scientists would communicate their views on climate change to the general public. Background and link to the survey can be found at:

Calling all scientists - an invitation to speak for yourself!

Your Grace ... if you're reading this and if you deem it to be worthy of elevation to post-hood, perhaps you would be kind enough to mention it in your next round of climate clippings.

Thanks,
Hilary

Copner and John Hewitt, Strangely enough. I got exactly the same response from the BBC too!

Serious questions have been raised about the quality, accuracy and political motivation driving the Australian temperature records. Recent research as reported in several new articles show that the bulk if not all of the recently recorded temperature data being used by policymakers and being supplied to the media could contain serious flaws and bias.

A team of skeptical scientists, citizens, and an Australian Senator have now lodged a formal request with the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) to have the BOM and CSIRO audited.

(The NZ equivalent to the Australian BOM is already currently under official review.)

http://joannenova.com.au/2011/02/announcing-a-formal-request-for-the-auditor-general-to-audit-the-australian-bom/#more-13221

I remember that from Eric Steig. The faithful were going on and about the paper, but things calmed down a bit after Spencer Weart and Steig shot the PNAS paper down.

Copner

The response I got from the BBC was identical to yours. I guess we have made our point and have to take the response at face value. Credit to the BBC for doing it quickly - that might reflect the volume of complaint.

I've just discovered The Survival of Civilization. Published in 1982, it collects together the papers of one John D. Hamaker. And it's a sparkling diamond in the jewel-encrusted crown of alarmist insanity. Chapter 4, for example, is called The Role of CO2 in the Process of Glaciation and explains how increasing CO2 is leading to a new ice age. Chapter 3 is called Worldwide Starvation by 1990. Chapter 7 proposes amendments to the US constitution that, inter alia, would nationalise land and (largely) confiscate wealth at death. Also worth a glance are the prefatory section, Quotes From Readers of The Survival of Civilization, which contains book jacket puffs from various luminaries including Buckminster Fuller, and the message from the editor of the 2001 edition, Don Weaver, who seems to think that "Hamaker may have been correct in his general analysis of human, ecological and climatic degeneration, even if his chronological predictions have proven somewhat inexact .. the evidence powerfully supports his general analysis, and .. his chronological predictions are proving to be not so very far off."

[This is Haunting the Library's territory but there have been no posts there for a fortnight.]

BSE is dead (well in cows anyway, humans have to wait another 50 years) note the bit about Pirons existance being frowned upon.

The whole idea, however, still challenged a central orthodoxy about the nature of the disease. Because of this, and the slender evidence base, a perception hardened that Prusiner’s big idea was closer to insanity than genius. “The personal attacks of the naysayers at times became very vicious,” he would later remark.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/8323784/The-end-of-BSE.html