Category Archives: Sociology of science

Reviewing the Climate Science Special Report

Posted on August 20, 2017 | 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

Stealth advocacy: a survey of weathercasters’ views on climate change

Posted on July 19, 2017 | 346 comments

by Mike Smith

For a decade, the weathercaster and broadcast meteorology communities have been subject of a focused campaign to force them to cover global warming in a manner acceptable to the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union and other advocacy groups.

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Posted in Sociology of science

Alarm about alarmism

Posted on July 15, 2017 | 222 comments

by Judith Curry

The climate change debate has entered what we might call the “Campfire Phase”, in which the goal is to tell the scariest story. – Oren Cass (twitter)

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Posted in Communication, Sociology of science

Framing the challenge for the climate red team

Posted on July 9, 2017 | 298 comments

by Judith Curry

There is an opportunity to steer the proposed red team exercise in a useful direction.  The first step is to frame the problem to be addressed.

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Posted in Policy, Sociology of science

What is red teaming?

Posted on July 3, 2017 | 330 comments

by Judith Curry

Last week, Scott Pruitt, EPA Administrator, stated he intended to form a ‘red team’ to debate climate science.  What exactly is ‘red teaming’, and how can this be implemented in a way that is useful for climate science and for policy makers?

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Posted in Policy, Sociology of science

National Climate Assessment and the Trump administration

Posted on June 21, 2017 | 352 comments

The National Climate Assessment must be redirected or terminated

by Patrick J. Michaels

Periodic National Assessments of the effects of climate change on the U.S. are mandated by the 1990 Global Change Research Act. The next Assessment Report is scheduled to be published in late 2018.

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Posted in Policy, Sociology of science

The radically fragmented and decentralized age of information

Posted on June 20, 2017 | 121 comments

by Judith Curry

Why real nobodies are more powerful than repressed somebodies.

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121 Comments

Posted in Communication, Sociology of science