Monthly Archives: May 2014

STS vs Physics

Posted on May 28, 2014 by

There’s an interesting discussion taking place in the comments on a Making Science Public guest post – by Philip Moriarty – called Science is not what you want it to be. This issue seems to relate to the significance of … Continue reading →

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Decades of cooling?

Posted on May 27, 2014 by

Victor Venema and Judith Curry were having a Twitter discussion yesterday about uncertainty. I think – although Victor can correct me – that Victor was trying to get Judith to acknowledge that uncertainty works both ways. Even though it is … Continue reading →

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Another good TED talk about climate models

Posted on May 24, 2014 by

Just came across what seems to be an excellent TEDx talk, by Steve Easterbrook, about climate models. One take away message seems to be that climate models are less buggy than virtually all commercially available software, and they’re almost as … Continue reading →

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Circling the square

Posted on May 23, 2014 by

The seems to have been an interesting, inter-disciplinary meeting in Nottingham called Circling the Square : Research, media, politics, and impact. The goal seems to have been to explore the role of knowledge in policy making and brought together international … Continue reading →

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Just some things

Posted on May 22, 2014 by

I haven’t written anything for a while. Partly I’ve been rather busy with other things, and partly I’m just going through another phase of just wondering about what the whole point is. The whole climate debate seems so polarised, that … Continue reading →

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Politicised science?

Posted on May 18, 2014 by

There are a number of people who seem to object to one of the reviewers of Lennart Bengtsson’s paper saying Summarising, the simplistic comparison of ranges from AR4, AR5, and Otto et al, combined with the statement they they are … Continue reading →

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linear vs non-linear

Posted on May 17, 2014 by

Andrew Montford has a post about the errors in Lennart Bengtsson’s rejected paper. I haven’t seen the paper, and nor – I think – has Andrew Montford. All we have access to is a copy of one of the reviewer’s … Continue reading →

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Lennart Bengtsson’s paper

Posted on May 16, 2014 by

I wasn’t really going to say much about Lennart Bengtsson and the GWPF. Stoat and HotWhopper have covered it if you want to read more. I have some sympathy with someone who may have felt pressurized by their colleagues. On … Continue reading →

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I’m confused about Kummer & Dessler

Posted on May 13, 2014 by

I wrote a post recently about the new Kummer & Dessler paper on Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity (ECS). It was based on the earlier work of Shindell et al. (2014). The basic premise is that more land mass in the northern … Continue reading →

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Richard Tol and the 97% consensus – again!

Posted on May 10, 2014 by

Apparently Richard Tol has managed (after an impressive number of attempts – you can’t fault his commitment to this cause) to get his paper about the Consensus project published. I’ve discussed his attempts to discredit the consensus project in a … Continue reading →

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