Search Results for: 97%

What is there a 97% consensus about?

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 – … Continue reading

‘Deniers,’ lies and politics

by Judith Curry House Science Committee Hearing:  where the so-called ‘deniers’ behave like scientists and the defender of the establishment consensus . . . lies.

The new ‘climate denial’

by Judith Curry Interesting article in The Atlantic, but I’m still trying to figure out what is being ‘denied.’

Untangling the March for Science

by Judith Curry Pondering some thorny issues regarding science, its place in society and its relationship to politics.

Nature Unbound IV – The 2400-year Bray cycle. Part B

by Javier In Part A, we established the existence of a ~ 2400-year climate cycle, discovered in 1968 by Roger Bray. This climate cycle correlates in period and phase with a ~ 2400-year cycle in the production of cosmogenic isotopes, … Continue reading

The real war on science

by Judith Curry The Left has done far more than the Right to set back progress. – John Tierney

The paradox of the climate change consensus

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 … Continue reading

Reactions on the Senate hearing

by Judith Curry I’ve been traveling; first chance I’ve had to collect some reactions to the Senate Hearing.

Week in review – science edition

by Judith Curry A few things that caught my eye this past week.

Asymmetry and the power of the 3%

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

Nature Unbound II: The Dansgaard- Oeschger Cycle

by Javier Dansgaard-Oeschger (D-O) events are the most dramatic and frequent abrupt climate change events in the geological record. They are usually explained as the result of an Atlantic Ocean salinity oscillation paced by internal variability. Available evidence however supports … Continue reading

The conceits of consensus

by Judith Curry Critiques, the 3%, and is 47 the new 97?

Week in review – science edition

by Judith Curry A few things that caught my eye this past week.

Week in review – science edition

by Judith Curry A few things that caught my eye this past week.

Abnormal climate response of the DICE IAM – a trillion dollar error?

by Nic Lewis Last week, a U.S. federal court upheld the approach that the government uses to calculate the social cost of carbon when it issues regulations [link].  The models appear to have seriously overestimated the social cost of carbon.

Against ‘consensus’ messaging

by Judith Curry A decades’ experience shows that “Consensus messaging” doesn’t work. – Dan Kahan

Scientists & identity-protective cognition

by Judith Curry Dan Kahan has an interesting blog post on scientists and motivated reasoning.

Adjudicating the future: silencing climate dissent via the courts

by Judith Curry A British academic wants an international court to declare climate skeptics wrong, once and for all.

Week in review – science edition

by Judith Curry A few things that caught my eye this past week.

The 97% feud

by Judith Curry An academic feud swirls around how best or even whether to express the scientific consensus around climate change.  

Deep de-carbonisation of electricity grids

by Peter Lang J. P. Morgan recently published an excellent report ‘Deep de-carbonisation of electricity grids‘. Below are excerpts from the report and some comment added by me.

Stalking the uncertainty monster

by Judith Curry Its time to check in with the Climate Uncertainty Monster.

Which climate change papers ‘matter’?

by Judith Curry A recent series of posts by Climate Brief has some interesting answers and raises some important questions.

Open thread

by Judith Curry It’s your turn to introduce topics for discussion

Making (non)sense of climate denial

by Judith Curry See update I’m wondering how we can inoculate ourselves and broader public from the latest nonsense from John Cook: an online MOOC Making Sense of Climate Denial.