Climate scientists’ pre-traumatic stress syndrome

Posted on July 8, 2019 by | 165 comments

by Judith Curry

It’s getting worse.

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Posted in Sociology of science

Week in review – science edition

Posted on June 29, 2019 by | 276 comments

by Judith Curry

A few things that caught my eye this past week.

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Posted in Week in review

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

Hearing on climate change and natural disasters: Today

Posted on June 25, 2019 by | 144 comments

by Judith Curry

The House Oversight and Reform Environmental Subcommittee in a Hearing on Recovery, Resilience and Readiness – Contending with Natural Disasters in the Wake of Climate Change begins at 2 pm EDT.

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Posted in Climate change impacts, Policy

Hearing on climate change & extreme weather

Posted on June 23, 2019 by | 85 comments

by Judith Curry

On Tuesday June 25, I will be testifying before the House Oversight and Reform Environmental Subcommittee in a Hearing on Recovery, Resilience and Readiness – Contending with Natural Disasters in the Wake of Climate Change.

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Posted in Climate change impacts, Policy

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