Last week I posted how Miles Allen had pulled off a trick to show warming in the 21st century after that trend had stopped in 1998. According to David Middleton at Watts up with That, the BBC’s Richard Black is using a similar decadal comparison to show that warming has continued. There are two Richard [...]
All posts in category Spin (Propaganda)
Show Warming After it Has Stopped Part 2
Posted by manicbeancounter on July 11, 2011
http://manicbeancounter.com/2011/07/11/show-warming-after-it-has-stopped-part-2/
Oppenheimer – False prophet or multi-layered alarmist?
Haunting the Library has a posting “Flashback 1988: Michael Oppenheimer Warn Seas to Surge 83 Feet Inland by 2020“. Apart from being a false and alarmist forecast in retrospect, even if in 1988 the climate models on which it was based were correct and unbiased, there could still have been less than a 1 in 1000 chance [...]
Posted by manicbeancounter on July 10, 2011
http://manicbeancounter.com/2011/07/10/oppenheimer-false-prophet-or-multi-layered-alarmist/
CAGW – Paralleling Kuhnian Science or New Labour Spin?
A review of Montford’s “Hockey Stick Illusion” suggests that it is an example science described by Thomas Kuhn in “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”. Both the Hockey Stick in particular, and CAGW theory in general, I believe parallel something entirely different. Catastrophic AGW theory is not an example of Kuhnian science. It was swallowed whole by the political establishment [...]
Posted by manicbeancounter on April 25, 2011
http://manicbeancounter.com/2011/04/25/cagw-%e2%80%93-paralleling-kuhnian-science-or-new-labour-spin/
Comparing Politicians to Global Warming Deniers
At CafeHayek, Don Bordeaux has a post that requires careful reading. It is an attack on politicians and overbearing government, couched in a metaphor of global warming deniers. My comment was Using the metaphor of global warming is apt, but like any metaphor breaks down once examined closely. I would claim that a global warming [...]
Posted by manicbeancounter on April 20, 2011
http://manicbeancounter.com/2011/04/20/comparing-politicians-to-global-warming-deniers/
John McDonnell should be cast to the political fringes
John McDonell’s jest that if he could go back in time he would “assassinate Thatcher” has caused some, rightfully, harsh words from Iain Dale. Here is my response. McDonnell should be held up as an extreme element of New Labour thinking. It is OK to say something in jest, no matter how ludicrous, if it [...]
Posted by manicbeancounter on June 8, 2010
http://manicbeancounter.com/2010/06/08/john-mcdonnell-should-be-cast-to-the-political-fringes/
Cameron gets the message on the Legacy of Labour
David Cameron yesterday started blaming the current deficit problems on the last Labour Government. Benedict Brogan on his Telegraph Blog quotes Cameron “I think people understand by now that the debt crisis is the legacy of the last government. But exactly the same applies to the action we will need to take to deal with it. [...]
Posted by manicbeancounter on June 8, 2010
http://manicbeancounter.com/2010/06/08/cameron-gets-the-message-on-the-legacy-of-labour/
Prejudiced economic analysis in South Manchester
Have responded to a letter in the South Manchester Reporter of 3rd June. GM’s letter of last week is prejudiced against a small minority and ignorant of economics. The need to cut is mostly due to the government running up a deficit during the boom years, and then going on a wild spending spree to try [...]
Posted by manicbeancounter on June 7, 2010
http://manicbeancounter.com/2010/06/07/prejudiced-economic-analysis-in-south-manchester/
Please Pray for Gordon Brown
After the events of last week (see here, here and here), I feel quite sorry for there appears to be a divergence between the public and private face of Gordon Brown. Christians attempt to reconcile these differences in their own lives through prayer, studying the bible, public worship and seeking God’s unconditional forgiveness for when they have [...]
Posted by manicbeancounter on May 3, 2010
http://manicbeancounter.com/2010/05/03/please-pray-for-gordon-brown/
Cutting the Deficit – The PR aspect for the Tories.
There is growing recognition that the job of cutting the deficit will destroy the electoral prospects of those carrying out the task for a generation. Capitalists at work, have (very much tongue in cheek) suggested that a war might be needed to save the next government, much as the Falklands boosted the Tories and helped [...]
Posted by manicbeancounter on May 2, 2010
http://manicbeancounter.com/2010/05/02/cutting-the-deficit-the-pr-aspect-for-the-tories/
Labour Totally Loses It
Labour seem to have totally lost any sense of proportion when They talk about less than cuts of 0.5% of GDP sending the UK back into recession when most of that will due to not replacing leavers. When Gordon Brown is angry about other parties proposed Cuts in child Tax Credits and trust funds. Something that [...]
Posted by manicbeancounter on April 27, 2010
http://manicbeancounter.com/2010/04/27/labour-totally-loses-it/
