Monthly Archives: May 2016

The Republic of Science

Posted on May 30, 2016 by | 222 comments

by Judith Curry

The professional standards of science must impose a framework of discipline and at the same time encourage rebellion against it. – Michael Polanyi (1962)

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Posted in Consensus, History, Sociology of science

Coral bleaching debate

Posted on May 24, 2016 by | 432 comments

by Jim Steele

Is bleaching the legacy of a marvelous adaptation mechanism or a prelude to extirpation?

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Posted in Adaptation, Oceans

Is much of our effort to combat global warming actually making things worse?

Posted on May 23, 2016 by | 227 comments

by Judith Curry

Humanity is owed a serious investigation of how we have gone so far with the decarbonization project without a serious challenge in terms of engineering reality. – Michael Kelly

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Posted in Energy, Policy

Another Antarctic Sea Level Rise False Alarm

Posted on May 22, 2016 by | 116 comments

by Rud Istvan

Aitken et. al. in Nature newly comports to confirm 2015 fears about instability of the Totten Glacier in Eastern Antarctica. This could ‘suddenly’ raise sea level as much as 4 meters! (Or, based on the abstract, maybe only 0.9 meters in ‘modern scale configuration’, but over 2 meters [2.9-4] in unspecified other configurations).

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Posted in Polar regions

New presentation: Society of Petroleum Engineers

Posted on May 9, 2016 by | 327 comments

by Judith Curry

Climate Change Science: Fact, Fiction & the Unsettled

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Posted in Communication

Science into agitprop: “Climate Change is Strangling Our Oceans”

Posted on May 2, 2016 by | 314 comments

by Larry Kummer, from the Fabius Maximus website

The public policy debate about climate science shows the dysfunctional nature of the US media. Here’s another example of how propaganda has contaminated the news reporting of this vital subject, looking at stories about a new study of our oceans.

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Posted in Communication, Oceans

Climate Hustle

Posted on May 1, 2016 by | 268 comments

by Judith Curry

Are they trying to control the climate . . . or you?

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Posted in Communication