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…
Category: Post-normal science
The plot thickens – The IPCC and ideological green money-laundering
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…
Science Is Not Being Corrupted — Scientists Are
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…
CO2 deafens "Nemo" – or, how many ichthyologists can you fit in that car?
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…
What climate science has come to: a rap music video with expletives
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 ?…
Clarification on BEST submitted to the House
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…
A plea for a return to science on the nuclear power issue
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,…
New IPCC lead author, one word: strange
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…
Friday funny? Google to take on climate skeptics
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…
Post Normal Ravetz Rumpus
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…
More from Jerome Ravetz: Response to Willis
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…
Ravetz on Lisbon and leading the way
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…
Quote of the week: Genghis Khan should have driven a Prius
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,…
Twittering Heights and Knife Fights
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…
AAAS withdraws "impossible" global warming paper
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…
Abandon all hope, ye who read this
Climate change to continue to year 3000 in best case scenarios New paper in Nature Geoscience examines inertia of carbon dioxide emissions New research indicates the impact of rising CO2…
Craven Attention: The Sequel
by Steven Mosher In the last episode of “Craven Attention” I recounted some of the things Greg Craven said during a panel discussion after Oppenheimer’s lecture of the role of…
Craven Attention
Steve Mosher reports that things got a bit bizarre at the 2010 American Geophysical Union convention in San Francisco Guest post by Steven Mosher At AGU today I was witness…
Another letter from Hal Lewis to the American Physical Society
Dr. Harold Lewis sent this today via email with a request to make it public here. I’m happy to oblige. Read the letter to understand the movie poster.- Anthony Date:…
Spencer on the Lacis-NASA GISS CO2 paper
Does CO2 Drive the Earth’s Climate System? Comments on the Latest NASA GISS Paper by Dr. Roy Spencer There was a very clever paper published in Science this…
Planes, Trains, Automobiles – all bad, some less than others
From the American Chemical Society, a robust model of planes trains and automobiles heating the Earth. So much for Fahrvergnügen. Traveling by car increases global temperatures more than by plane,…
APS responds! – Deconstructing the APS response to Dr. Hal Lewis resignation
Below is the press release (on the web here) from the American Physical Society, responding to the resignation letter of APS fellow Dr. Hal Lewis made public last Friday, October…
OH NO! Too much fresh water! (but we can’t tell)
I’m surprised Josh Willis would get involved in this as a co-author. Ok… here’s the press release title: First-of-its-kind study finds alarming increase in flow of water into oceans And…
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