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…
Category: Post-normal science
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…
Attention codgers! Get with the program!
I wouldn’t have believed this if I hadn’t read it for myself. This is an actual study and press release from the University of York. I’m surprised they didn’t issue…
Connolley may be out at Wikipedia
For those who don’t know, William Connolley, a Real Climate founding contributor, has been the most prolific climate information gatekeeper at Wikipedia, and was the subject of this Lawrence Solomon…
The phenomena of disinvitation and the brotherhood of silence
Closing out dissent By Professor Bob Carter August 1, 2010, originally published at Quadrant Online, portions republished here with permission. The phenomena of disinvitation and the brotherhood of silence Scientists…
I'm honored…I think
In the New York Times: For science that’s accessible but credible, steer clear of polarizing hatefests like atheist or eco-apocalypse blogs. Instead, check out scientificamerican.com, discovermagazine.com and Anthony Watts’s blog,…
Amazongate proven: IPCC based their claim of rainforest sensitivity on a "probably" sentence in a now defunct activist website
There’s been lots of whooping and celebrating by the warmist crowd lately over the retraction by the Sunday Times Jonathan Leake story about Amazongate. The claim was that the sensitivity…
Ugliness – The blacklist of climate science
A Black Day For Science – PNAS publishes a paper based on a skeptic blacklist It doesn’t get much uglier than this. A stasi-esque master list of skeptical scientists and…
Ash cloud models – overrated? A word on Post Normal Science by Dr. Jerome Ravetz
“We sent ten Boeing 747 and Airbus 340 jets on transfer flights from Munich to Frankfurt,” Lufthansa spokesman Klaus Walther told the paper. The planes were moved in order to…
Dr. Jerry Ravetz – on Willis, epidemics, rough & tumble debate, and post normal science
Jerome Ravetz, of Oxford University in the UK. First I must apologise for the long delay in my making a contribution to WUWT. I confess that I was overwhelmed by…
Catlin Team Averaging 1.7 Miles Per Day – Only 295 Miles Left to Go!
The Catlin team has been on the ice for 10 days, and has traveled a total of 17 miles so far as the crow flies. At that rate, they will…
Response to Ravetz and post-normal science
People send me things. Here’s one from today’s mail. It is a response by Dr. Jaap Hanekamp to the essays by Oxford Professor Jerome Ravetz carried here on WUWT recently.…
Jerry Ravetz part 2 – Answer and explanation to my critics
Dr. Ravetz’s first posting on WUWT created quite a controversey. You can read it here: Climategate: Plausibility and the blogosphere in the post-normal age. Answer and explanation to my critics –…
Scientist quits: 'I don’t want to remain a member of an organization that …screws up science that badly.'
From the Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. blog: Henk Tennekes Resigns from Dutch Academy Henk Tennekes is well known to the visitors of our website. A few days ago, he told me…
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