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Reviewing the Climate Science Special Report
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.
Posted in Scientific method, Sociology of science
A ‘Red Team’ Exercise Would Strengthen Climate Science
by Judith Curry Put the ‘consensus’ to a test, and improve public understanding, though an open and adversarial process. – Steve Koonin
Posted in Policy, Scientific method
Nye’s Quadrant
by Judith Curry The scary emergence of Nye’s Quadrant in dominating the public discourse on climate change.
Posted in Scientific method, Sociology of science
Untangling the March for Science
by Judith Curry Pondering some thorny issues regarding science, its place in society and its relationship to politics.
Posted in Policy, Sociology of science
Science needs reason to be trusted
by Judith Curry Two excellent articles about science, facts, and post-factualism.
Posted in Scientific method
Innate Skepticism
by Andy West On the origin of public skepticism and its entanglement with science.
Posted in Skeptics, Sociology of science
King Canute versus the climate planners
by Judith Curry On sea level rise, President Obama and King Canute.
Posted in Policy
Electricity in Texas. Part II: the cost of a 100% renewable grid
by Peter Davies While onshore wind generation has been relatively inexpensive for some time, solar PV and lithium ion battery storage costs have recently shown dramatic reductions. So can Texas, with excellent onshore wind and solar resources, be powered economically … Continue reading
Posted in Energy
New book: Doubt and Certainty in Climate Science
by Judith Curry Doubt and Certainty in Climate Science is an important new book that everyone should read. And its free.
Posted in Attribution, Uncertainty
Some comments on neoskepticism
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).
The Uncertainty Monster: Lessons From Non-Orthodox Economics
by Vincent Randall A perspective on economists’ grappling with the ‘uncertainty monster.’
Posted in Economics, Uncertainty
How hurricanes replenish their vast supply of rain water
by Makarieva A.M., Gorshkov V.G., Nefiodov A.V., Chikunov A.V., Sheil D., Nobre A.D., Li B.-L. New questions and ideas about hurricanes and their power.
Posted in Hurricanes
Improving climate change communication: moving beyond scientific certainty
by Judith Curry A new report from The University of Nottingham looks at whether climate scientists threaten their own scientific credibility when trying to make their research accessible to members of the public.
Posted in Communication, Uncertainty
Balance and the Grid
by Planning Engineer and Jill Tietjen The power system is a matter of extreme importance relating to economic development, quality of life as well as health and safety. In order to best meet the needs of any given area, it … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Twilight of the Climate Change Movement
by Judith Curry Don’t be fooled by the post-Paris fanfare: The climate change movement faces big trouble ahead.
Posted in Policy
Climate scientists versus climate data
by John Bates A look behind the curtain at NOAA’s climate data center.
Posted in Data and observations, Ethics
Science into agitprop: “Climate Change is Strangling Our Oceans”
by Larry Kummer, from the Fabius Maximus website The public policy debate about climate science shows the dysfunctional nature of the US media. Here’s another example of how propaganda has contaminated the news reporting of this vital subject, looking at … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Oceans
Ocean acidification discussion thread
by Judith Curry This thread discusses sections 10.3 and 10.4 in Alan Longhurst’s new book Doubt and Certainty in Climate Science.
Posted in Oceans
A perspective on uncertainty and climate science
by Marcia Wyatt This past summer I was asked to give a presentation on science and ethics. The person who asked me was motivated by the Pope’s encyclical, the comments regarding climate change.
Posted in Uncertainty
Structured expert judgment
by Judith Curry Any attempt to impose agreement will “promote confusion between consensus and certainty”. The goal should be to quantify uncertainty, not to remove it from the decision process. – Willy Aspinall
Posted in Consensus, Uncertainty
A key admission regarding climate memes
by Andy West Lewandowsky and Oreskes raise the prospect that via the agency of memes, the climate Consensus with its high certainty of danger, could be a socially generated artifact and not a scientific fact.
Posted in Communication, Consensus, Sociology of science
Climate culture
by Andy West A frequent topic at Climate Etc. is the ‘consensus.’ An argument is presented here that the climate consensus is as much about culture as it is about climate science.
Posted in Consensus, Sociology of science
Week in review – science edition
by Judith Curry A few things that caught my eye this past week.
Posted in Week in review
Kiribati crisis: the blame game
by Judith Curry Small atoll islands may grow, not sink, as sea level rises.
Posted in Oceans
