Climate Etc.

If deference to the authoritative opinions of experts is essential to our rationality and knowledge, and if that deference unavoidably rests on trust, not only in the competence, but also in the epistemic and ethical characters of our experts–then it is high time that we get to work on the ethics of expertise. Indeed, it is past time. – John Hardwig

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Posted in Consensus, Ethics

Pope Francis, climate change, and morality

Posted on April 29, 2015 | 191 comments

by Judith Curry

The Pontifical Academy of Science meeting on climate change is raising some interesting issues for Catholics and for humanity.

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Posted in Ethics, Policy

Making (non)sense of climate denial

Posted on April 28, 2015 | 418 comments

by Judith Curry

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I’m wondering how we can inoculate ourselves and broader public from the latest nonsense from John Cook: an online MOOC Making Sense of Climate Denial.

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Posted in Sociology of science