Excellent speech by Senator Malcolm Roberts at last climate scepticism has a platform.
Senator Malcolm Robert's Maiden Speech - September 13
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae-Eegw61Rw&feature=youtu.be

ACK, some people are intent on making new errors for future generations to learn from. For reasons of personal vanity and greed, they are rarely prepared to admit errors until their catastrophic errors prove worse than the catastrophes they thought they were trying to prevent.

Paul Mason, in an interesting opinion piece in today's guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/19/its-time-to-junk-the-flawed-economic-models-that-make-the-world-a-dangerous-place

discusses Romer's attack on today's theoretical economists. I was struck my just how Romer's (repeated by Mason) critique corresponds to climate scepticism.

"Comparing the economics elite with its equivalent in theoretical physics, Romer notes the same problems: over-confidence, “an unusually monolithic community”, near-religious group loyalties, a tendency to disregard results that don’t match the theory – and too little consideration of the risks of being wrong."

"Romer says the parallels between bad physics and bad economics suggest there might be a “general failure mode” in any discipline that becomes over-reliant on maths. Basically, the kudos goes to people at the cutting edge of designing mathematical models, not to those whose models match reality."

This supports a view that I have often tried to suggest here - that the behaviours many climate scientists exhibit are common elsewhere.

An update on Tallbloke's Talkshop
Footage from our recent London Climate Conference

https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2016/09/19/footage-from-our-recent-london-climate-conference/

Another minor dig at the NT. When we visited Acorn Bank a year or two ago, Mrs H headed straight for the "Irish linen tea towels" in the shop, at the end of our visit, only to find they were made in China. On closer inspection, many of the other items for sale also originated in China. Shouldn't we expect the UK National Trust to be pushing UK, rather than Chinese, products?

Pcar
I think I've mention this here before. Until the late 1990s my mother lived in a house without electricity, these days she'd have wind, solar and batteries but that's another issue, with Calor Gas lights and paraffin lamps etc.

At some point the the BBC lTV license lot got hold of her address as not having a license. A long correspondence ensued, my mother enjoyed that sort of thing so I imagine she did her best to confuse the issue. After a while one of the operatives visited and as a townie born and bred was somewhat surprised that anyone could manage with electricity and particularly without TV. Nothing further was heard.

I'd rather not try it again.

PCar FYI.
I have never posted as "Alan"
For a very limited period I posted as "Supertroll" after an idiot claimed that single-handed I had destroyed BH
I used to post with my full name but got fed up with having it mispelt, so changed it to "AK".
I changed to "ACK" when I discovered that someone else, over at CE, was using "AK".

I have not stopped posting but have been doing that on a discussion thread, as well you know because you followed me there to continue your quarrel with me.