Monthly Archives: October 2015

This brief summary of the history of scientific understanding of the impacts of climate change is a peculiar history, as histories of science go. – Spencer Weart

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Posted in Sociology of science

Pink flamingos versus black swans

Posted on October 19, 2015 by curryja | 252 comments

by Judith Curry

American strategists would benefit from a longer-range view of history to better inform force design. Thinking historically about the future means dealing openly with those things we want to avoid or are in denial about. – Frank Hoffman

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Posted in Policy

How scientists fool themselves – and how they can stop

Posted on October 14, 2015 by curryja | 259 comments

“Science is an ongoing race between our inventing ways to fool ourselves, and our inventing ways to avoid fooling ourselves.” – Saul Perlmutter

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Posted in Scientific method, Sociology of science

Conflicts of interest in climate science. Part II

Posted on October 12, 2015 by curryja | 242 comments

by Judith Curry

But when I queried them on various sources of funding – private, industry, government – they deemed all of the sources as suspect. – Dave Verardo

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Posted in Ethics, Sociology of science

Adjudicating the future: silencing climate dissent via the courts

Posted on October 11, 2015 by curryja | 142 comments

by Judith Curry

A British academic wants an international court to declare climate skeptics wrong, once and for all.

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Posted in Consensus, Policy

A perspective on uncertainty and climate science

Posted on October 11, 2015 by curryja | 155 comments

by Marcia Wyatt

This past summer I was asked to give a presentation on science and ethics. The person who asked me was motivated by the Pope’s encyclical, the comments regarding climate change.

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Posted in Uncertainty

Structured expert judgment

Posted on October 7, 2015 by curryja | 176 comments

by Judith Curry

Any attempt to impose agreement will “promote confusion between consensus and certainty”. The goal should be to quantify uncertainty, not to remove it from the decision process. – Willy Aspinall

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Posted in Consensus, Uncertainty

Global climate agreements could be counterproductive

Posted on October 6, 2015 by curryja | 148 comments

by Judith Curry

International climate agreements like the Kyoto Protocol may discourage much-needed investment in renewable energy sources, and hence be counterprodutive, according to new research.

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Posted in Policy