Category Archives: Climate Change Debate

The errors and misstatements in “Climate Denialism”

By Andy May The featured image is by Josh, used with permission. There are 20 clearly false statements and three additional problematic statements in Tinus Pulles’ “Climate Denialism.” Most of them stem from disagreements on how to interpret existing data. However, some are due to his lack of understanding of what we wrote or, intentionalContinue reading “The errors and misstatements in “Climate Denialism””

Comment on Cobb, 2024

By Andy May The featured image for this post is from Angela Wheeler at the CO2 Coalition, used with permission. This post is a comment on Cobb, 2024, the paper is entitled “The politics of climate denialism and the secondary denialism of economics.” The paper defines climate denialism, discusses the reasons it exists, and theContinue reading “Comment on Cobb, 2024”

Phoma destructiva’s 2nd Comment on Pubpeer

By Andy May and Marcel Crok Phoma Destructiva’s full comment is shown indented, as a block quote. To see the original go here. To see the abstract of our paper, go here. The official paper is still paywalled, to download the full final submission of our paper, fully peer-reviewed, for free click here or goContinue reading “Phoma destructiva’s 2nd Comment on Pubpeer”

Pubpeer Comment on our recent paper by the anonymous “Phoma destructiva”

A rebuttal to a critique of May & Crok, 2024

Tinus Pulles Critique of May and Crok, 2024

By Andy May Tinus Pulles critique of our paper begins by admitting that, at present there are no adverse effects from climate change, but that we ignored possible future climate change effects. This was deliberate, as we wanted to deal only with established and observed facts and data. Climate model projections of the effects ofContinue reading “Tinus Pulles Critique of May and Crok, 2024”

All things Equal

By Andy May In an interesting linkedin debate between Tinus Pulles and me, two subjects came up that are related to one another and too complicated for a comment. First is Tinus’ question, “Will more atmospheric CO2, all other variables being equal, lead to a higher surface temperature.”

“Bonus” Gets it wrong about May and Crok, 2024

By Andy May Wow! Our new paper “Carbon Dioxide and a Warming Climate are not problems,” in the American Journal of Economics and Sociology has struck a nerve, judging by the traffic about it on twitter. An anonymous twitter troll who calls himself “Bonus @TheDisproof” has published what he (or she) calls a list ofContinue reading ““Bonus” Gets it wrong about May and Crok, 2024”

Climate the Movie, A Debate

By Andy May This discussion took place in the comments to Mallen Baker’s post of the discussion between Tom Nelson and Baker on Climate the Movie: The Cold Truth. The full discussion can be viewed here. My review of the movie can be read here, and an annotated bibliography for the movie can be seenContinue reading “Climate the Movie, A Debate”

The Honest Story of Climate Change: Part 2: With a new course towards a hopeful future

By Guus Berkhout and Kees de Lange In the first part of this article, we argued that there is no climate crisis and politicians, climate researchers and journalists were urgently requested to stop scaring the hell out of the population and citing the results of dubious climate models. In this part, emeritus professors Guus BerkhoutContinue reading “The Honest Story of Climate Change: Part 2: With a new course towards a hopeful future”

The Honest Story of Climate Change: Part I: Weighed down by fear and intimidation.

By Guus Berkhout & Kees de Lange There is no climate crisis, even if politicians, climate institutes, and the media would have you believe there is. Climate change is a fact, but it is a change as in everything changes, both inside and outside our atmosphere. No surprise! We will show that we should notContinue reading “The Honest Story of Climate Change: Part I: Weighed down by fear and intimidation.”