by Planning Engineer
Power System Planners do not have the expertise or knowledge to say whether or not the benefits of reducing carbon emissions are worth the costs. However they should be respected as experts for obtaining a better understanding of what the implications and costs of such programs are.
Posted in Energy
by Judith Curry
Last month I attended a Workshop on The Ethics of Communicating Scientific Uncertainty: Understanding How Scientists, Environmental Lawyers, and Journalists Treat Uncertainty.
Posted in Communication, Ethics
by Judith Curry
I’ve just returned from China, the first thing I did in the U.S. airport on my layover back to Atlanta was to check twitter.
Posted in Policy, Sensitivity & feedbacks
Posted in Polar regions
by Judith Curry
We are also told of general catastrophes and a succession of deluges, of the alternation of periods of repose and disorder, of the refrigeration of the globe, and of the sudden annihilation of whole races of animals and plants, and other hypotheses, in which we see the ancient spirit of speculation revived, and a desire manifested to cut, rather than patiently to untie, the Gordian knot. – Charles Lyell
Posted in Scientific method
by Judith Curry
Some reflections on my recent travels, speaking engagements, and workshops.
Posted in Week in review
by Judith Curry
I was invited to submit an op-ed regarding the recent Lewis/Curry paper on climate sensitivity. Continue reading
Posted in Policy, Sensitivity & feedbacks
by Judith Curry
New research suggests that the upper layer of the ocean has warmed more than had been thought previously while the deeper ocean has cooled rather than warmed in recent years.
Posted in Attribution
by Judith Curry
“Without significant cuts in emissions by all countries, and in key sectors, the window of opportunity to stay within less than 2 degrees [of warming] will soon close forever.” – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon
Posted in Climate change impacts, Policy
by Judith Curry
Mark Steyn’s latest blog post, and the ensuing tweets, prompts some reflections on norms of behavior for scientists versus political commentators.
Posted in Ethics
by Judith Curry
I’ve been invited by several venues to write an op-ed related to my recent presentation at the National Press Club.
Posted in Communication, Policy
by Judith Curry
We shed new light on the epistemic struggle between establishing consensus and acknowledging plurality, by explicating different ways of consensus-making in science and society and examining the impact hereof on their field of intersection. – Laszlo Kosolosky and Jeroen Van Bouwel
Posted in Consensus
Posted in Adaptation
by Judith Curry
I have just returned from my engagement at the National Press Club, sponsored by the Marshall Institute Roundtable.
Posted in Adaptation, Attribution, Policy
by Judith Curry
“Just how charitable are you supposed to be when criticizing the views of an opponent?” – Daniel Dennett
Posted in Ethics, Sociology of science
Posted in Week in review
Posted in Ethics, Sociology of science
by Vitaly Khvorostyanov
Some replies to and comments on the remarks by WebHubTelescope and others, written in response to the blog post Thermodynamics, Kinetics and Microphysics of Clouds.
Posted in Communication
Posted in Week in review
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.
by Judith Curry
The second installment in Kirk Engelhardt’s series of interviews on climate science communication is with Kevin Trenberth.
Posted in Communication
by Judith Curry
UPDATE: comments on McKitrick’s paper
With 39 explanations and counting, and some climate scientists now arguing that it might last yet another decade, the IPCC has sidelined itself in irrelevance until it has something serious to say about the pause and has reflected on whether its alarmism is justified, given its reliance on computer models that predicted temperature rises that have not occurred. – Rupert Darwall
Posted in Attribution, Data and observations
