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“I think this should be the way forward, translating [overarching climate goals] into ‘policy portfolios’ and then asking policymakers if they are going to do it or not.” — Oliver Geden

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Posted in Policy

House Science Committee Hearing – Climate Science: Assumptions, Policy Implications and the Scientific Method

Posted on March 22, 2017 | 424 comments

by Judith Curry

Witnesses: John Christy, Judith Curry, Michael Mann and Roger Pielke Jr.

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Posted in Policy, Politics

Discussion thread – improving the interface between climate science and policy

Posted on March 20, 2017 | 376 comments

by Judith Curry

I’m looking for ideas and discussion on ways to improve what I regard to be a broken interface between climate science and policy.

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Posted in Policy

Will the Oroville Dam survive the ARkStorm?

Posted on March 17, 2017 | 271 comments

by David Hagen

Should California plan for permanent drought or climate persistence?

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Posted in Climate change impacts

Exactly what are scientists marching ‘for’?

Posted on March 5, 2017 | 556 comments

by Judith Curry

The smartest people on the planet want to oppose Trump & the best they can come up with is a march in support of themselves? – Roger Pielke Jr

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Posted in Sociology of science

What’s wrong with ‘alternative facts’?

Posted on February 26, 2017 | 322 comments

by Kip Hansen

‘Alternative facts’ is a term in law to describe inconsistent sets of facts put forth in a court given that there is plausible evidence to support both alternatives. The term is also used to describe competing facts for the two sides of the case. – Wikipedia

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Posted in Sociology of science

Brussel declaration on principles for science & policy making

Posted on February 25, 2017 | 186 comments

by Judith Curry

In this age of politicization of science and activist scientists, the Brussel Declaration offers some very good advice and deserves to be widely read and discussed.

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Posted in Policy, Sociology of science

Innate Skepticism

Posted on February 20, 2017 | 363 comments

by Andy West

On the origin of public skepticism and its entanglement with science.

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Posted in Skeptics, Sociology of science

Nature Unbound II: The Dansgaard- Oeschger Cycle

Posted on February 17, 2017 | 227 comments

by Javier

Dansgaard-Oeschger (D-O) events are the most dramatic and frequent abrupt climate change events in the geological record. They are usually explained as the result of an Atlantic Ocean salinity oscillation paced by internal variability. Available evidence however supports that they are the result of an externally paced oceanic-sea ice interaction in the Norwegian Sea. A lunisolar tidal cycle provides an unsupported hypothesis that explains all of the known evidence for the 1470-year pacing and the triggering mechanism for D-O oscillations.

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Posted in Attribution

Discussion: JC’s ‘role’

Posted on February 11, 2017 | 767 comments

by Judith Curry

In view of recent controversies, numerous criticisms have been made about my ‘role,’ with expectations of things that I ‘should’ be doing.

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Posted in Sociology of science

The new ‘climate denial’

Posted on February 10, 2017 | 393 comments

by Judith Curry

Interesting article in The Atlantic, but I’m still trying to figure out what is being ‘denied.’

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Posted in Policy, Sociology of science

Response to critiques: Climate scientists versus climate data

Posted on February 6, 2017 | 803 comments

by Judith Curry

Not surprisingly, John Bates’ blog post and David Rose’s article in the Mail on Sunday have been receiving some substantial attention.

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Posted in Data and observations, Ethics

Climate scientists versus climate data

Posted on February 4, 2017 | 761 comments

by John Bates

A look behind the curtain at NOAA’s climate data center.

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Posted in Data and observations, Ethics

Conflating the climate problem with the solution

Posted on February 3, 2017 | 181 comments

“one of the real tragedies that totally distorted the debate over climate change was that it got tied into the solution in a way that if you accepted the first you had to accept the second. And I think that was profoundly wrong.” – Newt Gingrich

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Posted in Policy, Politics

Ozone attainmnent

Posted on January 29, 2017 | 56 comments

by Roger Caiazza

At this time there is quite a bit of noise about potential problems if Scott Pruitt is confirmed to head EPA because he would “hamstring EPA’s authority to set nationwide environmental standards”.

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Posted in Policy