There is an article in Edge that poses this question:

The flat earth and geocentric world are examples of wrong scientific beliefs that were held for long periods. Can you name your favorite example and for extra credit why it was believed to be true?

There are dozens of examples given in answer, each by an established scientist.

Methane at the BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9226000/9226604.stm

Not sure if that's any news - but, last weekend, for the first time I saw "The Hockey Stick Illusion" on sale in a bookstore - Foyle's in London.

New climate film being released...should be interesting. Trailer here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZR3gsY98VU

Celebs (?) try and save the world! Of course, if they KNOW it's happening, it MUST be true! I wonder where they get their information from? I often wonder if so called celebs every really do much thinking or simply 'Act' on issues they hear about.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/nov/22/cancun-climate-talks-ian-mcewan-bill-nighy

All is not what it seems to be: - http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/6483548/carbon-omissions.thtml

"Carbon omissions"

"According to the official measure, used to determine performance against the Kyoto agreement, the UK’s emissions have fallen. The UK is set to exceed its Kyoto target of 12.5 percent reduction from 1990 levels. But, in our new report Carbon Omissions, Policy Exchange has estimated that total UK carbon consumption emissions in fact rose by 30 percent between 1990 and 2006."

"The reason is that we import and consume a lot more goods made in countries like China than we did in 1990, and the more imported goods we consume, the more carbon emissions there are in China. (And China’s economy has higher carbon intensity than the UK’s.)"

USA will probably like to have a little chat with Lod Stern re this bit:-

"Similarly, the official measure of carbon emitted within the EU has fallen since 1990. But the EU’s total carbon consumption had shot up by an estimated 47 percent, by 2006. On this consumption-based measure, the EU’s emissions actually rose faster than the United States’ emissions (at 20 percent), albeit starting from a much lower emissions total."

It's a start....

10:10 board member, involved in creating the climate change act, now a labour peer.

http://www.realclimategate.org/2010/11/climate-connections-an-alarmist-in-the-houses-of-parliament/

Pure hypocracy:

http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/press_releases/winter_death_advance_notice_19112010.html

Where does the priority lie?

This evening is for me the anniversary of an extraordinary night which had me just rivetted to my computer. I picked up the vibes of something really big happening around 10pm on 19th, and swapped from blog to blog to work out what was going on. After seeing a number of cautions of possible malware payloads in the 'hack' zip file, I finally downloaded it from the russian server at 01.20 on the 20th. (GMT). I think it was about 4am before I fell into bed. Extraordinary times.

It is also, (via WUWT I think) the anniversary of my finding the Bishop, and joining his congregation. I am tonight toasting his Grace, (and all the associated bloggers) with a healthy dram or three of good scotch, and thanking him for providing such an informative, entertaining and lively blog. I''ll also raise a glass to my fellow congregants (yes, even ZDB) for their wit, wisdom and companionship over the year.

Here's to the Bish.

Delingpole in the Express, for a change.