Category Archives: Causation

Part of the heat is coming from beneath our feet.

Posted on September 8, 2020 by | 220 comments

by Judith Curry

A thought-provoking article  from my new favorite blog, The Ethical Skeptic.

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Posted in Attribution, Causation, Ethics, Skeptics

Is climate change the culprit causing California’s wildfires?

Posted on December 13, 2017 by | 107 comments

by Larry Kummer

We’re told that climate change caused or intensified California’s wildfires — and that such fires are getting worse. As usual for such scary stories, these claims are only weakly supported by science — except for the ones that are outright fabrications.

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Posted in Causation, Climate change impacts

Predictions of climate change impacts on fisheries can be a mirage

Posted on April 14, 2013 by | 116 comments

by Judith Curry

A novel method for causal inference has been motivated by .  .  .  sardines.

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Posted in Causation, Climate change impacts, Policy

Systemic thinking on causation

Posted on November 5, 2012 by | 225 comments

by Judith Curry

George Lakoff has just thrown  a big can of worms into the global warming debate:

Yes, global warming systemically caused Hurricane Sandy — and the Midwest droughts and the fires in Colorado and Texas, as well as other extreme weather disasters around the world. Let’s say it out loud, it was causation, systemic causation. 

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Posted in Attribution, Causation