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Category: climate communication
There is a post of Top Science Scandals of 2011 at The Scientist (h/t: FE). It all seemed a bit life-sciency, but then that's what the mag is about, so fair enough. Not much climate there, but number 5...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 1:34 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate communication
On the Limits of Expert Credibility:Theory and an Application to Climate Change (h/t FE) is an interesting paper. I'm not sure I believe it, but it is interesting (particularly so after reading Krugman on why people don't understand [[Comparative advantage]];...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:23 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate communication
Bit of a weird one this, and I'm not sure it is all pieced together. I saw this via KZ, and of course was interested in what science R had got wrong, but KZ's Werner Krauss isn't interested in the...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:24 PM • 32 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate communication
That is the summary, but there is far more and more nuances so look at the presentation....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 9:58 AM • 36 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate communication
Apparently the BEST stuff is out; Tamino has the story so I won't bother. Summary: the global temperature record is just what we thought it was. Remind me again why they bothered to do this? Refs * mt at P3...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:52 PM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate communication
Though of course by "natural" we're thinking of with-a-human-contribution. My text is taken from the book of Grauniad: On Friday a team of researchers in Boston calculated that even with only a 2C rise, summer temperatures now regarded as "extreme"...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:45 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate communication
The Washington Post Continues to Publish George Will's Climate Change Disinformation at thinkprogress. Just keeping track of these things, you understand. I thought the 70's-cooling mole had been well whacked, but no. Refs * Now out in BAMS: The...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:32 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate communication
I'm going to intermittently keep track of the comments I make on other blogs. I'll spare you the totally trivial ones, but I don't guarantee this to be especially interesting. One point of doing this will be to track the...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 11:47 AM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate communication
One issue about the infamous Spencer and Braswell (incidentally, who is Braswell? Everyone is ignoring him, is he a nonentity? ) is, of course, who were the referees? The suspicion voiced in various places is that Spencer managed to wangle...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 1:12 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate communication
The story so far: some nut attacks Rahmstorf, comparing him to Aryan physics in a letter to the German TV channel ZDF. The usual fools get confused, the usual fools propagate the nonsense. But this time there is a...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 10:13 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
