stickman's corral

NOTE: The code and data used to produce all of the figures in this post can be found here . Having forsworn blogging activity for several ...

Note: Slight edits to graphs and text to make things clearer and more comparable. Richard Tol is a man who likes to court controversy. I ...

I used to be an avid reader of Joe Romm's " Climate Progress " blog. However, my enthusiasm has waned dramatically over the ye...

Even if you're only vaguely aware of the climate change debate, then you will probably have heard of the " hockey stick ". You...

I've tried to emphasise the importance of relative concepts many times on this blog. However, there are occasions when relative measures...

This was the title of a post I wrote last week for the Recon Hub. It may seem like I am merely trolling for viewer hits here. However, the...

The latest furore to erupt in the climate blogosphere concerns  whether climate scientists undermine their credibility by engaging in advoca...

Any group that successfully manages to perpetrate a hoax involving tens of thousands of individuals from all over the world... would sure be...

I should perhaps have mentioned this last Friday when it was published, but my new post for The Energy Collective is up: Bridging the Gap? ...

Some exciting news for yours truly is that I'll be writing a series of articles for the excellent energy and climate website, The Energy...

Extreme Environment (hereafter EE ) is a book written by South African journalist, Ivo Vegter. I have mentioned Vegter before  on this blog...

Following what I hope is my last written exam ever earlier this month, I must apologise for the sporadic posting of late. You see, I've ...

It might be difficult to keep track of things in my previous post , because the lengthy discussion involves numerous claims and counterclaim...

[NB: See the UPDATE at the bottom of this post.] Following our previous tête -à- tête on the Heartland Affair , here's a response to ...

Bob Murphy's whole spin on the Heartland / Peter Gleick affair really bothered me . At first, I just dove straight into the responses wi...

Bob Murphy is probably the one "Austrian" school blogger that I make a sincere effort to follow. I don't agree with everythin...

But keep it quiet. I spent some time last week with the Dutch economist, Johannes Bollen , who was visiting my university to present his ...

Below is a video of the late climate scientist, Stephen Schneider . Please watch it and tell me that scientists are the ones trying to polar...

Drowning in university work here, so no time for any blog posts. In the meantime, read this article by Gernot Wagner , who has a new book o...

Freeman  leaves a comment under an older post , regarding my statement that "[...] there are uncertainties in climate science - as any ...