by Judith Curry
And, overarching all this, the tension between emissions reductions and development is complicated by uncertainties in how the climate will change under human and natural influences and how those changes will impact natural and human systems. – Steve Koonin
A hypothetical medical case involving uncertain diagnosis, prognosis, and therapy to explain the wickedness of climate change.
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Posted in Policy
Judith Curry’s recent critical assessment of “L4”, as I’ll call Shaun Lovejoy’s October 20 EOS article, raised the following points:
Posted in Attribution
Posted in Oceans
by Judith Curry
Have you been wondering whether the university’s calling for fossil fuel divestment also accept research funds from fossil fuel companies?
Posted in Ethics
by Judith Curry
The scientific debate is now over; the moment of closure has arrived. – Shaun Lovejoy
Posted in Attribution, Sensitivity & feedbacks
by Judith Curry
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
Posted in Sociology of science
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
Posted in Policy
“Science is an ongoing race between our inventing ways to fool ourselves, and our inventing ways to avoid fooling ourselves.” – Saul Perlmutter
Posted in Scientific method, Sociology of science
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
Posted in Ethics, Sociology of science
by Judith Curry
A British academic wants an international court to declare climate skeptics wrong, once and for all.
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.
Posted in Uncertainty
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
Posted in Consensus, Uncertainty
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.
Posted in Policy
by Judith Curry
A discussion of Section 8.3 of Alan Longhurst’s book Doubt and Certainty in Climate Science.
Posted in Oceans, Polar regions
by Judith Curry
A burning question for the Paris negotiations: Are the INDCs sufficient to prevent 2 degrees of warming?
Posted in Sensitivity & feedbacks
by Judith Curry
The term conflict of interest is pejorative. It is confrontational and presumptive of inappropriate behavior. – Anne Cappola and Garret FitzGerald
Posted in Ethics, Sociology of science
Posted in Ethics, Politics, Sociology of science
by Judith Curry
A discussion of Section 6.1 of Alan Longhurst’s book Doubt and Certainty in Climate Science.
Posted in Uncategorized
by Judith Curry
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Releases Oversight Report: Obama’s Carbon Mandate: An Account of Collusion, Cutting Corners, and Costing Americans Billions
Posted in Politics
by Judith Curry
This thread discusses sections 10.3 and 10.4 in Alan Longhurst’s new book Doubt and Certainty in Climate Science.
Posted in Oceans
by Judith Curry
Doubt and Certainty in Climate Science is an important new book that everyone should read. And its free.
Posted in Attribution, Uncertainty
