Monthly Archives: January 2017

Watt about four key charts?

Posted on January 29, 2017 by ...and Then There's Physics

I don’t look at Anthony Watts’s blog, Watts Up With That (WUWT), very often, but I glanced at it today and noticed a guest post called four key charts for a climate change skeptic. Anthony Watts’s pre-amble says Skeptics often … Continue reading →

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A new baseline?

Posted on January 28, 2017 by ...and Then There's Physics

Ed Hawkins and colleagues have a new paper called Estimating changes in global temperature since pre-industrial times, which Ed also discusses in this post. The basic suggestion seems to be that we should probably be defining pre-industrial as the period … Continue reading →

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Guest post: Do ‘propagation of error calculations’ invalidate climate model projections?

Posted on January 26, 2017 by ...and Then There's Physics

This is sort of a guest post by Patrick Brown. Patrick contacted me to ask if I’d be willing to highlight a video that he made to discuss a suggestion, by someone called Pat Frank, that ‘propagation of error calculations’ … Continue reading →

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Clutching at straws GWPF style

Posted on January 24, 2017 by ...and Then There's Physics

Since I have a few minutes spare I thought I would highlight another laugh aloud post from the Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF). It’s about Arctic sea ice growing back to 2006 levels. Wow, amazing, what a turnaround after spending … Continue reading →

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The warmest year…again

Posted on January 22, 2017 by ...and Then There's Physics

I haven’t, yet, written anything about 2016 becoming the warmest year in record. That’s partly because it appears to have been virtually certain that it would be for a few months now, and partly because it’s been extensively covered elsewhere. … Continue reading →

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Eddington and the first test of General Relativity

Posted on January 20, 2017 by ...and Then There's Physics

Thanks to Steven Mosher on Twitter, I came across an article that discusses Arthur Eddington’s attempt to test Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity. The basic story is that Newton’s Theory of Universal Gravitation assumed that gravity was a force that … Continue reading →

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SpeedoScience

Posted on January 18, 2017 by Willard

Talking about pseudoscience does not always bore me, but it often does. Not because it begs a far from obvious question, but because of its unsexiness. This kind of talk belongs to what I shall call, in honor of the famous WPM International, SpeedoScience: SpeedoScience. N. An activity where … Continue reading →

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Is it just basic physics?

Posted on January 17, 2017 by ...and Then There's Physics

Originally posted on …and Then There's Physics:
The latest critique of consensus studies is an attempt to re-analyse the data from Verheggen et al. (2014) to suggest that the consensus amongst climate scientists is only 47%, not 97%. I…

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Guest post: ‘An inconvenient truth’ – Exploring the dynamics of making climate change public

Posted on January 15, 2017 by ...and Then There's Physics

This is a guest post by Brigitte Nerlich and Warren Pearce about their new paper called ‘An inconvenient truth’: A social representation of scientific expertise. I’ve never really had a discussion about Al Gore and “An inconvenient truth” on this … Continue reading →

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