Category Archives: Consensus

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

The paradox of the climate change consensus

Posted on April 17, 2016 by | 513 comments

by Judith Curry

In our view, the fact that so many scientists agree so closely about the [causes of the] earth’s warming is, itself, evidence of a lack of evidence for [human caused] global warming. – D. Ryan Brumberg and Matthew Brumberg

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New AMS members survey on climate change

Posted on March 24, 2016 by | 349 comments

by Judith Curry

The American Meteorological Society has issued a draft report on the results from a survey of the views of their membership on climate change.

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History and the limits of the climate consensus

Posted on January 22, 2016 by | 339 comments

by Judith Curry

Acknowledging the science of global warming does not require accepting that it is immune to criticism.

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Posted in Consensus, History

What is there a 97% consensus about?

Posted on December 20, 2015 by | 388 comments

by Frank Hobbs (franktoo)

At the Senate Hearing on “Dogma and Data”, dogma about the 97% consensus went unchallenged. Democratic Senators constantly recited the phrase “97% consensus”, but it is not clear whether they – or their Republican opponents – had the slightest idea what the phrase meant: 97% of what group support a consensus about exactly what?

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