Category Archives: Communication

Eco-anxiety

Posted on May 6, 2021 by | 268 comments

by Judith Curry

The damaging effects of generating eco-anxiety in children. Climate Etc. as an antidote.

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Posted in Communication, Uncategorized

Five rules for evidence communication

Posted on November 21, 2020 by | 361 comments

by Judith Curry

“Avoid unwarranted certainty, neat narratives and partisan presentation; strive to inform, not persuade.”

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Posted in Communication, Uncertainty

The toxic rhetoric of climate change

Posted on December 14, 2019 by | 443 comments

by Judith Curry

“I genuinely have the fear that climate change is going to kill me and all my family, I’m not even kidding it’s  all I have thought about for the last 9 months every second of the day. It’s making my sick to my stomach, I’m not eating or sleeping and I’m getting panic attacks daily. It’s currently 1 am and I can’t sleep as I’m petrified.”  – Young adult in the UK

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443 Comments

Posted in Communication

Reflections on energy blogging

Posted on October 21, 2019 by | 175 comments

by Planning Engineer

Five years ago today I started guest blogging on Climate Etc., focusing on energy related issues.

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Posted in Communication, Energy

Child prophets and proselytizers of climate catastrophe

Posted on July 29, 2019 by | 541 comments

by Andy West

The role of children in the culture of climate catastrophism

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541 Comments

Posted in Communication, Sociology of science

Rebelling against the Extinction Rebellion

Posted on May 4, 2019 by | 168 comments

by Larry Kummer

The Extinction Rebellion and the Green New Deal arouse fears of extinction for other species, and humanity. Only the complicit silence of climate scientists makes this possible. Compare the alarmists’ claims with what scientists said in the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). Too bad that journalists don’t.

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Posted in Climate change impacts, Communication

CAGW: a ‘snarl’ word?

Posted on November 26, 2018 by | 283 comments

The term ‘CAGW’  has both appropriate and inappropriate usage.

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283 Comments

Posted in Communication

The catastrophe narrative

Posted on November 14, 2018 by | 421 comments

by Andy West

A narrative propagated by emotive engagement, not veracity.

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421 Comments

Posted in Communication, Sociology of science

The debate: my presentation

Posted on June 12, 2018 by | 460 comments

by Judith Curry

My presentation  is provided here.  This is being posted at the start of the event.

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Posted in Communication, Skeptics

The debate

Posted on May 28, 2018 by | 238 comments

by Judith Curry

On June 12, I am scheduled to appear in a debate that includes Michael Mann

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238 Comments

Posted in Communication

Alarm about alarmism

Posted on July 15, 2017 by | 222 comments

by Judith Curry

The climate change debate has entered what we might call the “Campfire Phase”, in which the goal is to tell the scariest story. – Oren Cass (twitter)

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222 Comments

Posted in Communication, Sociology of science

The radically fragmented and decentralized age of information

Posted on June 20, 2017 by | 121 comments

by Judith Curry

Why real nobodies are more powerful than repressed somebodies.

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Posted in Communication, Sociology of science

NYTimes & Zika: a brief case study on climate change hype

Posted on September 20, 2016 by | 134 comments

By David Wojick

The folks who make their living by hyping the supposed threat of runaway global warming use a lot of scary language in the process. Here the ever creative New York Times has set what may be a new standard in scary climate change hype, by tying it to the Zika outbreak.

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Posted in Communication

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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268 Comments

Posted in Communication

Controversy over comparing models with observations

Posted on April 5, 2016 by | 326 comments

by Judith Curry

My draft talk elicited an interesting conversation on twitter, that deserves some wider discussion.

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326 Comments

Posted in Communication

(Mis) communicating science in public controversies

Posted on February 7, 2016 by | 330 comments

by Judith Curry

Bringing uncertainty to the public debate or putting the credibility of climate science at risk matters less to them than interest groups misusing or the public misinterpreting their results. – Senja Post

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330 Comments

Posted in Communication, Uncertainty

A War Against Fire

Posted on January 1, 2016 by | 395 comments

by Judith Curry

The most savage controversies are those as to which there is no good evidence either way. -Bertrand Russell

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395 Comments

Posted in Communication, Uncertainty

Bill Gail: Don’t let climate debate hinder the economy

Posted on December 4, 2015 by | 155 comments

by Judith Curry

Nature’s deviations disrupt our lives and businesses more than we should accept. – Bill Gail

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Posted in Communication, Policy

Lukewarming

Posted on November 5, 2015 by | 199 comments

by Judith Curry

Two new books on lukewarming have recently been published.

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199 Comments

Posted in Attribution, Communication, Policy

Industry funding: witch hunts

Posted on August 18, 2015 by | 525 comments

by Judith Curry

There is a remarkable and disturbing story playing out in the biotechnology academic community over industry  funding related to genetically modified food.

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525 Comments

Posted in Communication, Ethics

Mark Steyn’s new book on Michael Mann

Posted on August 13, 2015 by | 735 comments

by Judith Curry

A Disgrace to the Profession: The World’s Scientists – in their own words – on Michael E Mann, his Hockey Stick and their Damage to Science – Volume One

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735 Comments

Posted in Communication, Ethics

Assessments, meta-analyses, discussion and peer review

Posted on July 29, 2015 by | 440 comments

by Judith Curry

There is an unfortunate knowledge monopoly in climate science and policy – the IPCC and UNFCCC.  As a result there is insufficient intellectual and political diversity in assessments about climate change.  To break this monopoly, we need identify new frameworks for encouraging, publishing and publicizing independent and interdisciplinary ideas and assessments.

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Posted in Communication, Sociology of science

The Siddhartha heuristic

Posted on July 13, 2015 by | 286 comments

by Judith Curry

Siddhārtha Gautama was a prince who was only told good news, and protected from seeing suffering and death. But he finally realised that he was not seeing the world as it really was, and so he left his palace to first take on the life as a wandering ascetic, and eventually to become the Buddha. – David Spiegelhalter

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Posted in Communication, Sociology of science