Climate Etc.

Week in review – politics edition

Posted on October 28, 2016 | 39 comments

by Judith Curry

11 more days . . .

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Posted in Politics, Week in review

Advocacy research, incentives and the practice of science

Posted on October 27, 2016 | 79 comments

by Judith Curry

There is a problem with the practice of science. Because of poor scientific practices, and improper incentives, few papers with useful scientific findings are published in leading journals. The problem appears to be growing due to funding for advocacy research.

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Posted in Scientific method, Sociology of science

Tamino’s adjusted temperature records and the TCR

Posted on October 26, 2016 | 176 comments

by Frank Bosse

Separating out the impacts of internal variability on evaluations of TCR.

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Posted in Data and observations, Sensitivity & feedbacks

Politics and the Changing Norms of Science

Posted on October 25, 2016 | 123 comments

by Lucas Bergkamp

“The politician is sometimes tempted to encroach on the normal territory of the scientific estate. In such issues the problem is less often whether politics will presume to dictate to science than it is how much politics is to be influenced by the new findings of science.”[1]

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Posted in Sociology of science