I finalised my IPCC review comment, and am now soliciting signatures. See it at CCC.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) produces reports which review and summarize the science of climate change. These reports are then used by inter-governmental treaties, bodies, conferences, and national governments, as the basis for international and national policies on climate change. In other words, it is vitally important ( Read more... )

There is a debate on alcohol pricing in the UK, based on the notion that high levels of drunkenness are fuelled by cheap alcohol ( Read more... )

The answer which should be given to any question about the present circumstances of Jon Venables is surely:That individual was given a new identity. I have no further comment.
And all the vile muck-raking parasites in the media should be banged up for contempt of court, or similar. Starting with the editor and proprietors of the Mail and the ( Read more... )

I pack my bags in haste, it's not too soon ( Read more... )

To the Independent Climate Change Email Review Committee,

I am making this submission with regard to the discussions of software in the hacked CRU emails, and to the small amounts of software source code also published in the same incident. I am a software expert with long industrial experience. I also have some expertise in climate science ( Read more... )

Roger Helmer MEP and Godfrey Bloom MEP made almost identical submissions to the science and technology select committee inquiry about the CRU emails. The submissions were full of the usual blogosphere borderline libelous nonsense about "hide the decline" and about the Hockey Stick: the kind of stuff which is common currency among the ignorant, the ( Read more... )

Although I do not hope to turn again ( Read more... )

Since certain sceptics don't like my attempts to correct some of the misapprehensions in their blog postings and comment threads, and refuse to allow my comments, I have tried to clarify some issues relating to computer arithmetic in a post on the project blog instead. I'd appreciate any numerate friends having a quick look, and commenting here.

Begin, believe me, take this tangled ten, vainly ( Read more... )