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.
Posted in Communication, Sociology of science
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
Posted in Communication, Sociology of science
by Judith Curry
Well this has been a really interesting week for hearing about what climate scientists think and feel about potential future impacts of climate change.
Posted in Communication
by Andy West
Lewandowsky and Oreskes raise the prospect that via the agency of memes, the climate Consensus with its high certainty of danger, could be a socially generated artifact and not a scientific fact.
Posted in Communication, Consensus, Sociology of science
by Judith Curry
“People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.” – Blaise Pascal
Posted in Communication
by Judith Curry
I’m attending an interesting conference in Nottingham: Circling the square: universities, the media, citizens and politics.
Posted in Communication, Policy, Uncertainty
by Judith Curry
A decades’ experience shows that “Consensus messaging” doesn’t work. – Dan Kahan
Posted in Communication, Consensus
by Judith Curry
A new report from The University of Nottingham looks at whether climate scientists threaten their own scientific credibility when trying to make their research accessible to members of the public.
Posted in Communication, Uncertainty
Posted in Communication, Consensus, Sociology of science
by Judith Curry
Bjorn Stevens has published two interesting and important papers in the last few weeks, which have placed him squarely in the cross-fire of both the scientific and public debates on climate change.
Posted in Communication, Sensitivity & feedbacks
by Judith Curry
The battle over the American Physical Society draft Statement on Climate Change is heating up.
Posted in Communication, Policy
by Judith Curry
People seem to want to discuss blog discussions/comments, so here’s a thread to deflect such conversation from other threads.
Posted in Communication
by Judith Curry
Naomi Oreskes’ new movie Merchants of Doubt has recently been released. Does this movie provide the seeds for ending the ‘merchants of doubt’ meme?
Posted in Communication, Sociology of science
by Judith Curry
At its recent Winter Meeting, The National Associated of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) asked the following question: You’re Still Not Sure Global Warming is Real?
Posted in Communication
pby Judith Curry
Some reflections on the east coast U.S. snowstorm: the forecasts, their communication and the response.
Posted in Communication, Extreme events
by Judith Curry
Seeking once again to clarify the problems in communicating the IPCC climate change attribution statements.
Posted in Attribution, Communication, IPCC
by Judith Curry
In response to the tragic shootings at the headquarters of satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, there have been a number of provocative essays on freedom of speech.
Posted in Communication, Ethics
by Judith Curry
This is definitely among the most interesting interviews that I’ve done.
Posted in Communication
by Judith Curry
How has the terrain of the climate blogosphere changed over the past 5 years?
Posted in Communication
by Judith Curry
Some new books that I’ve been reading, by Roger Pielke Jr., Rud Istvan, George Marshall and James Gleick.
Posted in Communication, Policy
by Judith Curry
Last month I attended a Workshop on The Ethics of Communicating Scientific Uncertainty: Understanding How Scientists, Environmental Lawyers, and Journalists Treat Uncertainty.
Posted in Communication, Ethics
by Judith Curry
I’ve been invited by several venues to write an op-ed related to my recent presentation at the National Press Club.
Posted in Communication, Policy
by Vitaly Khvorostyanov
Some replies to and comments on the remarks by WebHubTelescope and others, written in response to the blog post Thermodynamics, Kinetics and Microphysics of Clouds.
Posted in Communication
