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The Grip of Culture: The Social Psychology of Climate Catastrophism
by Andy West My book ‘The Grip of Culture’, subtitled ‘The social psychology of climate change catastrophism’, is now published. “Climate change catastrophism is a cultural disease haunting Western society. Andy West’s excellent study of this problem explains the different … Continue reading
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Climate Uncertainty and Risk: in press
by Judith Curry My book Climate Uncertainty and Risk has now been accepted for publication, following peer review and submission of my revised manuscript.
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The yin and yang of climate science
by Judith Curry How the duality of yin-yang can illuminate the climate debate and enlighten transformational research.
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Climate Uncertainty and Risk: Table of Contents
by Judith Curry A preview of the contents of my forthcoming book Climate Uncertainty and Risk. Plus an update on the publication process and availability of the paperbook version for pre-orders.
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Climate bookshelf 2023
by Judith Curry 2023 was a banner year for the publication of interesting climate-related books. Some excellent books for Xmas stockings, providing scientific insights, policy sanity and optimism for the 21st century.
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Misperception and amplification of climate risk
by Judith Curry “Something frightening poses a perceived risk. Something dangerous poses a real risk.” – Swedish physician Hans Rosling et al.[i]
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How epidemiologists try to fool us with flawed statistical practices
by S. Stanley Young and Warren Kindzierski Climate Etc. recently carried several insightful posts about How we fool ourselves. One of the posts – Part II: Scientific consensus building – was right on the money given our experience! The post pointed out that… ‘researcher degrees … Continue reading
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JC’s expert report
by Judith Curry Here is the text of the expert report on Mann v. Simberg/Steyn in 2020 that I prepared at the request of Mark Steyn’s counsel.
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Can religiosity predict cultural climate beliefs?
by Andy West Probing the relationship between religiosity globally, and cultural beliefs in the narrative of imminent / certain global climate catastrophe: Post 1 of 3.
Posted in Sociology of science
Climate scientists’ pre-traumatic stress syndrome
by Judith Curry It’s getting worse.
Posted in Sociology of science
Week in review – science edition
by Judith Curry A few things that caught my eye this past week.
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Climate science’s ‘masking bias’ problem
by Judith Curry How valid conclusions often lay hidden within research reports, masked by plausible but unjustified conclusions reached in those reports. And how the IPCC institutionalizes such masking errors in climate science.
Posted in Scientific method, Sociology of science, Uncertainty
Legacy of Climategate – 10 years later
by Judith Curry My reflections on Climategate 10 years later, and also reflections on my reflections of 5 years ago.
Posted in Skeptics, Sociology of science
Climate scientists’ motivated reasoning
by Judith Curry Insights into the motivated reasoning of climate scientists, including my own efforts to sort out my own biases and motivated reasoning following publication of the Webster et al. (2005) paper
Posted in Scientific method, Sociology of science
Energy Security and Grid Resilience
by Judith Curry Diversifying and securing energy supplies nationally and locally.
Posted in Energy
The perils of ‘near-tabloid science’
by Judith Curry A remarkable essay by esteemed oceanographer Carl Wunsch.
Posted in Sociology of science, Uncertainty
National Climate Assessment: A crisis of epistemic overconfidence
by Judith Curry “You can say I don’t believe in gravity. But if you step off the cliff you are going down. So we can say I don’t believe climate is changing, but it is based on science.” – Katherine … Continue reading
Posted in Consensus, Uncertainty
Sea level rise: what’s the worst case?
by Judith Curry Draft of article to be submitted for journal publication.
Posted in Oceans, Uncertainty
Innate Skepticism
by Andy West On the origin of public skepticism and its entanglement with science.
Posted in Skeptics, Sociology of science
The troubled institution of science
by Judith Curry “Is the point of research to make other professional academics happy, or is it to learn more about the world?” —Noah Grand, sociology professor, UCLA “Science, I had come to learn, is as political, competitive, and fierce a … Continue reading
Posted in Sociology of science
Climate Heretic: to be or not to be?
by Judith Curry On experts, lukewarmers, and unhappy heretics.
Posted in Sociology of science
Week in review – science edition
by Judith Curry A few things that caught my eye this past week.
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Climate psychology’s consensus bias
by Andy West Climate psychologists have for years now puzzled over public inaction on climate change and also what makes skeptics tick (or sick), apparently making little progress on these issues.
Posted in Consensus
The Denialism Frame
by Andy West An inadequately testable and inappropriate framing.
Posted in Scientific method, Skeptics
Scientists & identity-protective cognition
by Judith Curry Dan Kahan has an interesting blog post on scientists and motivated reasoning.
Posted in Sociology of science