by Judith Curry
Because there is no good, cheap green energy, the almost universal political choices have been expensive policies that do very little. There is much greater scope for climate policies to make the total climate cost greater through the 21st century. – Bjorn Lomborg
by Judith Curry
UK Energy and Climate Change Committee report on IPCC AR5 – another pointless exercise in circular reasoning, confirmation bias and division? – Paul Matthews
Posted in IPCC
by Judith Curry
An academic feud swirls around how best or even whether to express the scientific consensus around climate change.
Posted in Consensus, Sociology of science
by Judith Curry
The global climate change debate has gone badly wrong. Many mainstream environmentalists are arguing for the wrong actions and for the wrong reasons, and so long as they continue to do so they put all our futures in jeopardy. – Thomas Wells
Posted in Ethics
by Judith Curry
The myth that there is no politics of science is dangerous as it prevents the important and urgently needed institution of some democratic control of the existing system of politics within the commonwealth of learning. – Joseph Agassi
Posted in Sociology of science
by Judith Curry
Direct determination of changes in oceanic heat content over the last 20 years are not in conflict with estimates of the radiative forcing, but the uncertainties remain too large to rationalize e.g., the apparent “pause” in warming. – Wunsch and Heimbach
Posted in Data and observations
by Judith Curry
The military frames those efforts in terms of saving money and reducing its dependence on vulnerable supply lines, not dealing with climate change, but the result is the same.
Posted in Policy
Posted in Open thread
by Judith Curry
So Prof. Enoch is basically seeking to harm Prof. Bell’s reputation, without providing literally ANY documentation that Prof. Bell is wrong, much less so egregiously wrong that his work should be considered “pseudo-scholarship” and his reputation should suffer.
Posted in Sociology of science
by Judith Curry
Who assesses the assessors of climate science research? A new paper reviews the climate change reviewers by comparing references in the NIPCC and IPCC reports.
Posted in Skeptics, Sociology of science
by Judith Curry
The divorce between philosophers and scientists is fairly recent. Its time for a reconciliation.
Posted in Scientific method, Sociology of science, Uncertainty
by Judith Curry
Tracing the acceptance or rejection of “scientist” among researchers not only gives us a history of a word—it also provides insight into the self-image of scientific researchers in the English-speaking world in a time when the social and cultural status of “science” was undergoing tremendous changes. – Melinda Baldwin
Posted in History, Sociology of science
by Marcia Wyatt
Implications for the “stadium wave” and Northern Hemisphere climate variability.
Posted in Attribution
by Zeke Hausfather
There has been much discussion of temperature adjustment of late in both climate blogs and in the media, but not much background on what specific adjustments are being made, why they are being made, and what effects they have. Adjustments have a big effect on temperature trends in the U.S., and a modest effect on global land trends. The large contribution of adjustments to century-scale U.S. temperature trends lends itself to an unfortunate narrative that “government bureaucrats are cooking the books”.
Posted in Data and observations
Posted in Sociology of science
by Judith Curry
With careful design, the same development projects that improve communities, save lives, and increase GDP can also fight climate change.
Posted in Policy
by Judith Curry
Yet not once has overconfidence by actual scientists been demonstrated. You just keep making that up. – Chris Colose
Posted in Uncertainty
Our algorithm is working as designed. – NOAA NCDC
Posted in Data and observations
