Category Archives: Skeptics

Part of the heat is coming from beneath our feet.

Posted on September 8, 2020 by | 228 comments

by Judith Curry

A thought-provoking article  from my new favorite blog, The Ethical Skeptic.

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Posted in Causation, Ethics, Skeptics

Legacy of Climategate – 10 years later

Posted on November 12, 2019 by | 387 comments

by Judith Curry

My reflections on Climategate 10 years later, and also reflections on my reflections of 5 years ago.

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Posted in Skeptics, Sociology of science

A philospher’s reflections on AGW denial

Posted on September 11, 2019 by | 304 comments

by Dr. Paul Viminitz

Of the things I care most about, AGW is near the bottom. But because, as George W. Bush put it, either you’re with us or you’re against them, I think I’d rather be interestingly wrong than politically correct. Accordingly I rehearse what I take to be the case for AGW denial, masquerading – so as to continue to get dinner invitations – as tongue in cheek.

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Posted in Skeptics

The latest travesty in ‘consensus enforcement’

Posted on August 14, 2019 by | 379 comments
The latest travesty in consensus ‘enforcement’, published by Nature.

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Posted in Skeptics

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

Top 15 climate scientists: consensus and skeptics

Posted on June 5, 2018 by | 248 comments

by Judith Curry

This is rather astonishing, kudos to Best Schools for putting this together.

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Posted in Skeptics

Innate Skepticism

Posted on February 20, 2017 by | 363 comments

by Andy West

On the origin of public skepticism and its entanglement with science.

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Posted in Skeptics, Sociology of science

Some comments on neoskepticism

Posted on August 14, 2016 by | 197 comments

by Steven E. Koonin

Stern et al. offer “The challenge of climate-change neoskepticism” as a Policy Forum piece in the August 12 issue of Science magazine (hereafter SPSK; paywalled here).

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Posted in Policy, Skeptics

The Denialism Frame

Posted on April 21, 2016 by | 641 comments

by Andy West

An inadequately testable and inappropriate framing.

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641 Comments

Posted in Scientific method, Skeptics

Asymmetry and the power of the 3%

Posted on February 14, 2016 by | 270 comments

by Judith Curry

The minority rule will show us how it all it takes is a small number of intolerant virtuous people with skin in the game, in the form of courage, for society to function properly. – Nassim Taleb

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Posted in Skeptics

On distinguishing disbelief and nonbelief

Posted on January 9, 2016 by | 401 comments

by Judith Curry

It is important to distinguish between disbelief and nonbelief– between believing a sentence is false and merely not believing it true. 

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Posted in Scientific method, Skeptics, Sociology of science

Climate Heretic. Part II

Posted on November 26, 2015 by | 420 comments

by Judith Curry

David Rose has published an interview with me in the Spectator.

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420 Comments

Posted in Skeptics

Why Skeptics hate climate skeptics

Posted on June 3, 2015 by | 397 comments

by Planning Engineer

In recent years many “skeptics” have become vociferously critical of anyone who expresses any doubts toward any part of what they see as a climate consensus (both problems and cures). How did the skeptic community grow to take on this role?

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Posted in Skeptics

What would it take to convince you about global warming?

Posted on May 13, 2015 by | 261 comments

by Judith Curry

If the objective is to change public opinion, then changing elite opinion is a necessary prerequisite. In fact, I would say necessary and sufficient. I don’t think you need to win a war on talk radio to have your impact on right-of-center opinion. – Jerry Taylor

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261 Comments

Posted in Policy, Skeptics

Christopher Essex on suppressing scientific inquiry

Posted on March 26, 2015 by | 624 comments

by Judith Curry

As the issue of bias in climate science heats up, Christopher Essex has written the best defense of freedom of scientific enquiry that I’ve seen emerge from the Grijalva inquisition.

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624 Comments

Posted in Skeptics, Sociology of science

What exactly is going on in their heads?

Posted on September 5, 2014 by | 441 comments

by Judith Curry

Some interesting new research on understanding  why there is a lack of public support for the climate change ‘consensus’, the nature of the scientific consensus, and agendas in characterizing the consensus.

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441 Comments

Posted in Consensus, Skeptics

Institutionalizing Dissent

Posted on August 19, 2014 by | 225 comments

by Judith Curry

As many have argued, rigorous scientific research requires dissent, or what Robert Merton called “organized skepticism”. Yet it is increasingly the case that some forms of dissent in pharmaceutical research are either absent or unheard. – Justin Biddle

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Posted in Skeptics

Exploring controversy: NIPCC versus IPCC

Posted on July 17, 2014 by | 205 comments

by Judith Curry

Who assesses the assessors of climate science research?  A new paper reviews the climate change reviewers by comparing references in the NIPCC and IPCC reports.

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205 Comments

Posted in Skeptics, Sociology of science

Steven Hayward: Conservatism and Climate Science

Posted on June 13, 2014 by | 670 comments

by Judith Curry

Liberals and environmentalists would do well to take on board the categorical imperative of climate policy from a conservative point of view, namely, that whatever policies are developed, they must be compatible with individual liberty and democratic institutions, and cannot rely on coercive or unaccountable bureaucratic administration. –  Steven Hayward

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Posted in Communication, Skeptics

What is skepticism, anyway?

Posted on June 5, 2014 by | 741 comments

by Judith Curry

Two recent essays on skepticism stimulate reflections on both the scientific consensus and the high level of public skepticism.

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Posted in Skeptics

Are climate scientists being forced to toe the line?

Posted on May 24, 2014 by | 901 comments

by Judith Curry

Climate researchers are now engaged in a debate about whether their science is being crippled by a compulsion to conform. They wonder if pressure to reach a consensus is too great. They ask if criticism is being suppressed. No less is at stake than the credibility of research evidence for climate change and the very question of whether climate research is still reliable. – Spiegel

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Posted in Ethics, Skeptics, Sociology of science

Lennart Bengtsson speaks out

Posted on May 3, 2014 by | 381 comments

by Judith Curry

The whole concept behind IPCC is basically wrong. – Lennart Bengtsson

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381 Comments

Posted in IPCC, Skeptics

The Curry factor: 30 to 1

Posted on April 27, 2014 by | 412 comments

by Judith Curry

For balance, for every @curryja you would need 30 from mainstream. – Victor Venema

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412 Comments

Posted in Consensus, Skeptics

In defense of free speech

Posted on April 19, 2014 by | 616 comments

by Judith Curry

If free speech is only for polite persons of mild temperament within government-policed parameters, it isn’t free at all. So screw that. – Mark Steyn

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616 Comments

Posted in Skeptics

Climate change: what we don’t know

Posted on April 17, 2014 by | 297 comments

by Judith Curry

This past week, there have been several essays and one debate that provide some good perspectives on what we don’t know about climate change, and whether we should be alarmed.

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297 Comments

Posted in Skeptics