Category Archives: Scientific method

Truth(?) in testimony and convincing policy makers

Posted on June 27, 2019 by | 155 comments

by Judith Curry

Some reflections, stimulated by yesterday’s Congressional Hearing, on the different strategies of presenting Congressional testimony.

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Posted in Politics, Scientific method, Sociology of science

Climate science’s ‘masking bias’ problem

Posted on June 21, 2019 by | 117 comments

by Judith Curry

How valid conclusions often lay hidden within research reports, masked by plausible but unjustified conclusions reached in those reports.  And how the IPCC institutionalizes such masking errors in climate science.

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Posted in Scientific method, Sociology of science, Uncertainty

Climate scientists’ motivated reasoning

Posted on June 19, 2019 by | 147 comments

by Judith Curry

Insights into the motivated reasoning of climate scientists, including my own efforts to sort out my own biases and motivated reasoning following publication of the Webster et al. (2005) paper

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Posted in Scientific method, Sociology of science

Climate uncertainty monster: What’s the worst case?

Posted on October 11, 2018 by | 330 comments

by Judith Curry

On possibilities, known neglecteds, and the vicious positive feedback loop between scientific assessment and policy making that has created a climate Frankenstein.

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Posted in Scientific method

Reviewing the Climate Science Special Report

Posted on August 20, 2017 by | 319 comments

by Judith Curry

Calling on CE Denizens to review the Climate Science Special Report:  nominate an official reviewer, or participate in the CE Crowdsourced Review.

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Posted in Scientific method, Sociology of science

Reviewing the CCSR: Discussion thread

Posted on August 20, 2017 by | 119 comments

by Judith Curry

This post is running parallel to the post Reviewing the Climate Science Special Report (a technical post), to accommodate general discussion on the topic

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Posted in Scientific method

Nye’s Quadrant

Posted on May 2, 2017 by | 521 comments

by Judith Curry

The scary emergence of Nye’s Quadrant in dominating the public discourse on climate change.

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Posted in Scientific method, Sociology of science