Category Archives: Consensus

Re-evaluating the manufacture of the climate consensus

Posted on August 21, 2019 by | 137 comments

by Judith Curry

A new book by Oppenheimer, Oreskes et al. entitled ‘Discerning Experts: The Practices of Scientific Assessment for Environmental Policy‘ makes a case against consensus seeking in climate science assessments.

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Extremes

Posted on June 13, 2019 by

by Judith Curry Politics versus science in attributing extreme weather events to manmade global warming.

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Hearing on the Biodiversity Report

Posted on May 22, 2019 by | 189 comments

by Judith Curry

The House Natural Resources Committee Subcommittee on Water, Oceans and Wildlife is holding a Hearing today on Responding to the Global Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.

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Posted in Climate change impacts, Consensus

National Climate Assessment: A crisis of epistemic overconfidence

Posted on January 2, 2019 by | 110 comments

by Judith Curry

“You can say I don’t believe in gravity. But if you step off the cliff you are going down. So we can say I don’t believe climate is changing, but it is based on science.” – Katherine Hayhoe, co-author of the 4th National Climate Assessment Report.

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Posted in Consensus, Uncertainty

Manufacturing consensus: the early history of the IPCC

Posted on January 3, 2018 by | 385 comments

by Judith Curry

Short summary: scientists sought political relevance and allowed policy makers to put a big thumb on the scale of the scientific assessment of the attribution of climate change.

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Posted in Attribution, Consensus, IPCC, Sociology of science

Consensus enforcers versus the Trump administration

Posted on June 24, 2017 by | 780 comments

by Judith Curry

Tough days on The Hill for the enforcers of the climate consensus.

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Posted in Consensus, Policy

The Republic of Science

Posted on May 30, 2016 by | 222 comments

by Judith Curry

The professional standards of science must impose a framework of discipline and at the same time encourage rebellion against it. – Michael Polanyi (1962)

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Posted in Consensus, History, Sociology of science