Category Archives: post-normal science

The numbers on “bad science”

Posted on February 7, 2012 by

This infographic from www.clinicalpsychology.net is interesting. It speaks to President Eisenhower’s second warning in his famous farewell speech. More below.

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Paging Mike Mann – your dendrochronologist will see you now

Posted on January 3, 2012 by

Tom Nelson has another Climategate 2 email well worth reading Dendrochronologists get spanked by guy with expertise in tree physiology and wood anatomy ClimateGate Email 1738 “However, there are bounds to dendrochronology, as there are to every field of investigation, … Continue reading →

Posted in Michael E. Mann, paleoclimatology, peer review, post-normal science | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 148 Comments

Hiding the decline down under – inconvenient papers censored

Posted on December 1, 2011 by

UPDATE: An Australian science paper I located from 1990 says that century scale sea level trends are 1-1.1 mm per year, and Sydney was 0.54 mm/ year. See below. UPDATE2: a graph of the current SLR for Sydney is now … Continue reading →

Posted in Government idiocy, post-normal science, sea level | 142 Comments

Hump day hilarity: Chris Mooney’s abby-normal post modern science

Posted on November 9, 2011 by

Chris Mooney has come up with new book to explain why people like you and I are “abby-normal” for not unthinkingly and uncritically accepting all aspects of global warming climate change climate disruption. I haven’t read it, though the cover … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Humor, politics, post-normal science, satire | Tagged , , , , , , , | 184 Comments

The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project puts PR before peer review

Posted on October 20, 2011 by

UPDATE: see this new story BEST: What I agree with and what I disagree with – plus a call for additional transparency to prevent “pal” review ======================================================= Readers may recall this post last week where I complained about being put in … Continue reading →

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Turbo post normal science by press – peer review optional

Posted on October 15, 2011 by

Imagine, if you will, that you are given a complete draft copy of a new paper that has just been submitted to a journal, and that paper cites your work, and it was provided as a professional courtesy before it … Continue reading →

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Hansen’s admission – “skeptics are winning”

Posted on October 11, 2011 by

Like what Judith Curry saw recently at NCAR’s seminar, he seems to think it is all about communication. Part of the problem, he said, was that the climate sceptic lobby employed communications professionals, whereas “scientists are just barely competent at … Continue reading →

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Congratulations to Alan Carlin on vindication

Posted on September 30, 2011 by

While the GAO issues a report today saying that the US Historical Climatological Monitoring Network has real tangible problems (as I have been saying for years) the Inspector General just released a report this week saying that EPA rushed their … Continue reading →

Posted in politics, post-normal science | Tagged , , , , | 138 Comments

That darned warm-mongering El Niño

Posted on August 25, 2011 by

From the warm-mongers at The Earth Institute at Columbia University, a study that says El Niño drives civil war. Perhaps we can get Bob Tisdale to plot temperature anomalies along the Mason-Dixon line. It seems however that these warm-mongers at … Continue reading →

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Friday Funny- Gavin Schmidt on: Polar Bears, Martha Stewart, and Me

Posted on July 8, 2011 by

Oh, I found some comedy gold posted on the NASA website What on Earth is That? It features a talk by NASA GISS warmist Gavin Schmidt, who apparently took a trip to understand that all important metric of the Arctic … Continue reading →

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The plot thickens – The IPCC and ideological green money-laundering

Posted on June 16, 2011 by

After the revelations yesterday of the latest IPCC self destructing FUBAR, we now have at Bishop Hill,  a guest post by Ben Pile. In it he outlines what he has found about the millions of Euros that are being spent … Continue reading →

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Science Is Not Being Corrupted — Scientists Are

Posted on June 7, 2011 by

Story submitted by John Droz. Today I received an email from an editor, who was saying that “Science” depends on what your political persuasion is. I dispute that opinion and answered as follows — Briefly, what has happened is that: … Continue reading →

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CO2 deafens “Nemo” – or, how many ichthyologists can you fit in that car?

Posted on June 4, 2011 by

We’ve already had a “climate craziness of the week” so I’ll just file this bit of blather under another category. First, this article in The Independent, which aims to scare the children. Now here’s the press release from the University … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, peer review, post-normal science, ridiculae | Tagged , , , , , | 122 Comments

What climate science has come to: a rap music video with expletives

Posted on May 11, 2011 by

While not as bad as the horrid 10:10 video exploding children, I have to wonder this about the actual scientists that participated in this farce: what were you thinking ? Of course, it does seem some circles in climate science … Continue reading →

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“Science has been sitting on his critique of Dessler’s paper for months”

Posted on April 2, 2011 by

On Recent Criticisms of My Research By Dr. Roy Spencer One of the downsides of going against the supposed “consensus of scientists” on global warming — other than great difficulty in getting your research funded and published — is that … Continue reading →

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Clarification on BEST submitted to the House

Posted on March 31, 2011 by

UPDATES: A number of feckless political commentators have simply missed this response I prepared, so I’m posting it to the top for a day or two. I’ll have a follow up on what I’ve learned since then in the next … Continue reading →

Posted in politics, post-normal science, weather_stations | Tagged , | 225 Comments

A plea for a return to science on the nuclear power issue

Posted on March 20, 2011 by

I get mail: German physicist Peter Heller wrote a passionate plea for a return to science on the nuclear power issue, published in German here: http://www.science-skeptical.de/blog/fukushima/004149/ With Dr. Heller’s permission, I’ve translated it in English. But having gone over the … Continue reading →

Posted in media, Opinion, post-normal science, Science | Tagged | 386 Comments

New IPCC lead author, one word: strange

Posted on March 18, 2011 by

And you thought railroad engineer Pachauri was odd… Donna Laframboise of “No Frakking Consensus” does some digging, and what she turns up about the new IPCC lead author is to say the least, strange. Some excerpts: In 1994, Kovats was … Continue reading →

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Friday funny? Google to take on climate skeptics

Posted on March 18, 2011 by

I’m not sure whether to laugh or not, but is this just one more reason to use Bing as a search engine without a climate agenda? Maybe we should make it the official search engine of climate skeptics worldwide? Full … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, post-normal science, satire | Tagged , | 131 Comments

Post Normal Ravetz Rumpus

Posted on February 25, 2011 by

Reply from Jerome Ravetz As usual I am nearly overwhelmed by these replies, and I only wish that I could respond to each of them. Let me try to handle some issues that came up repeatedly. First, we can find … Continue reading →

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More from Jerome Ravetz: Response to Willis

Posted on February 24, 2011 by

Guest Post by Jerome Ravetz First, let me respond to Willis. I owe him a huge apology. Yes, I was reading his mind, when I had a vivid memory of some strong statements he made about Judith. Checking those, I … Continue reading →

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Ravetz on Lisbon and leading the way

Posted on February 21, 2011 by

Guest post by Dr. Jerome Ravetz While the micro-bureaucracy of the Lisbon workshop bureaucracy grinds its way towards the release of a statement, I realise that the time is long overdue for me to touch base at WUWT. After all, … Continue reading →

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Quote of the week: Genghis Khan should have driven a Prius

Posted on January 20, 2011 by

Ok that headline is not exactly what was said, but it is the flavor of the absurdity. The quote itself from the Carnegie Institution, distributed via  AAAS’s Eurekalert news service, is actually even more absurd. Here’s the quote:

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Twittering Heights and Knife Fights

Posted on January 20, 2011 by

One of the bloggers over at ScienceBlogs, this happy looking guy at left, seems to have a real problem with people (me) interpreting Twitter feeds in ways that perhaps the originators didn’t intend (or like). I don’t follow Twitter feeds, … Continue reading →

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AAAS withdraws “impossible” global warming paper

Posted on January 19, 2011 by

Complaints over “impossible conclusions” cited as the reason. from CTV: EurekAlert withdraws climate change paper A study warning that the planet would warm by 2.4C by 2020, creating deadly consequences for the global food supply, is being debunked as false … Continue reading →

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