UPDATE: It’s a double feature, Mann will be there too, see below
From the University of Bristol: Dogma vs. consensus: Letting the evidence speak on climate change
19 September 2014, 6 pm Victoria Rooms, Queens Road, Bristol, BS8 1SA
In this Cabot Institute public lecture, we are pleased to present John Cook, Global Change Institute, University of Queensland and owner of the Skeptical Science blog, in what promises to be a fascinating talk.
In 2013, John Cook lead the Consensus Project, a crowd-sourced effort to complete the most comprehensive analysis of climate research ever made. They found that among relevant climate papers, 97% endorsed the consensus that humans were causing global warming. When this research was published, it was tweeted by President Obama and received media coverage all over the world, with the paper being awarded the best article published by the journal Environmental Research Letters in 2013. However, the paper has also been relentlessly attacked by climate deniers who reject the scientific consensus. Hundreds of blog posts have criticised the results while newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal and Boston Globe have published negative op-eds. Climate denial organisations such as the Global Warming Policy Foundation and Heartland Institute have published critical reports and the Republican Party organised congressional testimony against the consensus research on Capitol Hill. This sustained campaign is merely the latest episode in over 20 years of attacks on the scientific consensus on human-caused global warming. John Cook will discuss his research both on the 97% consensus and on the cognitive psychology of consensus. He will also look at the broader issue of scientific consensus and why it generates such intense focus from climate deniers.
Registration
You must register for this event. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dogma-vs-consensus-letting-the-evidence-speak-on-climate-change-tickets-12288231431?ref=ebtnebregn
This event is free to attend and open to all. Please contact cabot-enquiries@bristol.ac.uk if you have any accessibility requirements.
The event will run from 6 pm – 7.30 pm. Please ensure you are seated by 6 pm.
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Note: I registered since I’ve always wanted to come to England anyway, and this was as good as an excuse as any…plus I have many questions to ask. Note also that while the event is free, there are a limited number of tickets available.
All that is required is an email address and name. The ticket was delivered by email as a printable PDF – Anthony
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UPDATE: Guess I’ll be staying longer. I just registered for this one too:
Cabot Institute Lecture: The Hockey Stick and the climate wars – the battle continues
23 September 2014, 6 pm The Victoria Rooms, Queen’s Rd, Bristol, BS8 1SA
In this special Cabot Institute lecture, in association with Bristol Festival of Ideas, Michael E Mann will discuss the science, politics, and ethical dimensions of global warming in the context of his own ongoing experiences as a figure in the centre of the debate over human-caused climate change.
Dr. Michael E Mann is Distinguished Professor of Meteorology at Penn State University, with joint appointments in the Department of Geosciences and the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute. He is also director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center. He is author of more than 160 peer-reviewed and edited publications, and has published books include Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming in 2008 and The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines in 2012. He is also a co-founder and avid contributor to the award-winning science website RealClimate.org.
Registration
This event is free to attend and open to all but you must register to attend. We expect this event to be very popular so we encourage you to register as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. If you can no longer attend this event, please email cabot-enquiries@bristol.ac.uk so that we may reallocate your ticket.
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Waste of time. it will be lectures with ignorance and ignoring.
Hot under the collar says:
July 16, 2014 at 5:26 am
They managed to use the denier / denial tag three times just in the introduction to a lecture, not biased much?
Now that the talk has been ‘outed’ do you think he will turn up?
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This will most likely sum up their claims in total.. BUT YOUR A DENIER will be the basis for all thier claims. I am willing to bet that questions must be prearranged and will be tightly controlled.
I get a laugh out of any talk Mann would give on “ETHICS” ….. Where is my head hitting wall smilie when I need it… The same Michael Mann who told investigators what evidence was relevant ( and what they could use against him) in his indictment of ethical misconduct at Penn State….
Two so called scientists who have no clue what ethical conduct is… being heralded as pure by another academic institution…
Barry Woods says:
July 16, 2014 at 5:00 am
“Skeptics compare Al Gore’s public awareness campaign to Nazi-like propoganda.”
I see that you don’t know AT ALL where modern propaganda comes from. Joseph Goebbels cherished his copy of the book Propaganda, 1928, by Edward Bernays. Bernays was a Jew and the nephew of Siegmund Freud and advisor of progressive president Woodrow Wilson. He applied his uncle’s theories to marketing and came up with Propaganda. Which he later, after the term fell out of favor, renamed to PR.
He also became stinking rich through his marketing skills.
I am sure Mike Mann will join in remotely so as not to cause the collapse of the Antarctic and Greenland by jetting to the talk.
Have fun and bring me some butterscotch candies, please.
There is another ‘self portrait’ photo of Herr Cook that you could have used, Anthony. You know the one! 🙂
Bristol was the fifth heaviest bombed city in the last war and their university is inviting a moron who dresses up as a Nazi?
Tickets are going to go fast. I reserved mine. I’m hunting for cheap flights to Bristol now.
Alarmists always try to confuse the issue by concentrating on the wrong questions. Anthony Watts, Dr. Roy Spencer and others made it clear at the International Conference on Climate Change that no one is denying CO2 is a greenhouse gas and no one is denying the planet is slightly warmer. The question is, “is this anything to be concerned about”? The alarmists say yes and the data say no. So are you going to believe the alarmists or your own lying eyes?
From the spiel about the Mann-monster:
“his own ongoing experiences as a figure in the centre of the debate over human-caused climate change.”
Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t the crux of Mann’s ridiculous court case with Steyn revolve around Mann claiming he wasn’t a public figure?
This write-up for the talk implies he very much is in the public eye.
I’ve just started to rewrite and condense a long article (original 22 pages, publ. Sept. 2012).
Now I’ll have to accelerate keyboard velocity to get it published before the event, don’t care much for peer reviewing, it wouldn’t pass it anyway.
Abstract states that the decadal temperature variability in the North Hemisphere can be reconstructed from (the) amplification of the solar magnetic (Hale) cycle by the natural oscillations emanating from the Earth’s magnetic field.
I’m still trying to figure out whether they truly believe that there are people out there who deny that there’s a climate…
David Smith, not at all. Michael Mann freely concedes he is a public figure for the suit.
In 2013, cartoonist John Cook lead the Bandwagon Project, a crowd-sourced effort to complete the most comprehensive attempt to take climate researchers for a ride. They found that among relevant climate papers, 97% endorsed the consensus that humans were causing global-climate-change-extreme-disruptive weird-weather-warming followed by a ….long pause.
When this propaganda was published, it was catapulted by President Obama and the media all over the world, with the paper (but not the cartoonist who produced it) being awarded a shiny badge by the journal of Viral-Mental Research Letters in 2013.
In this Crappy Destitute public lecture, John Cook will discuss his research both on the 97% consensus cartoon, and on the cartoon psychology of consensus.
Please attend.
I have just booked both. Very excited at the thought of seeing a legendary giant of the climate change world. Guess I can put up the presence of Cook and Mann for that!
Dogma vs. consensus:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogma
Dogma is a principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true.[1]
Isn’t “the debate is over” proof that Climate Change is dogma? Isn’t the consensus opinion itself dogma? The authority of the majority?
Consensus is the Dogma of the Majority.
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http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/dogma
3. prescribed doctrine proclaimed as unquestionably true by a particular group: the difficulty of resisting political dogma.
“Don’t be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.“
—Steve Jobs, “Commencement Address at Stanford University“ American Rhetoric (delivered June 12, 2005)
Brandon,
Fair enough, thanks for the correction.
David
And the bonus is that presumably Lewandowsky will be there too as Bristol has taken him under its wing. In fact, he’s probably the organising genius behind the project.
heh Anthony – if you make it over, this is my neck of the woods (normally – if I am not in Czech woods)…and I would like to meet you, even briefly. I have registered for the 19th – can’t seem to access the 23rd. Mann overboard. I am scheduled to be in Europe but may make it over in mid-month and don’t want to miss this – even that I doubt very much they will be fielding questions or giving time for discussion. Bristol University is a hotbed of psychologists studying Global Warming Denialism! They were going to come and interview me for their research until they discovered I had an intelligent grasp of climate science and was not denying anything!
Isn’t that Lew’s Lair too? Why wasn’t he invited to speak as well?
Is Steyn going?
What other theory in science is above question? In what other field of science is “the debate over”? Isn’t this proof that AGW isn’t science?
No other field in science holds that the debate is over. It cannot be. As technology and understanding improves we continually invent new techniques to better predict observations.
The inability of the climate models to predict future climate is evidence that there is room for considerable improvement in our understanding of climate.
The IPCC recognizes that we cannot predict future climate. That such prediction is impossible with current technology due to chaos as per IPCC 2. They call the results of the models projections, not predictions.
Thus the consensus belief that we can predict future Climate is Dogma. It is belief, passed down by authority. The modern equivalent of Papal Infallibility.
Dogma vs. consensus: Letting the evidence speak on climate change
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typo in the title. it should be:
Dogma is consensus: Letting the evidence speak on climate change