Category Archives: Anthony Watts

The Hack That Changed the World

Posted on November 12, 2021 by ...and Then There's Physics

After airing the movie, The Trick, the BBC has also broadcast a series of podcasts on Climategate called the Hack That Changed the World (H/T Dikran Marsupial). I’m not sure if all can listen to them, but I thought they … Continue reading →

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Recursive climateball

Posted on January 23, 2019 by ...and Then There's Physics

I noticed on Twitter that Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame) has got people talking, again, about controversies based on emails from almost 20 years ago. Rather than delving into it too much myself, I thought I would just post the … Continue reading →

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Watt about breaking the ‘pal review’ glass ceiling

Posted on October 23, 2017 by ...and Then There's Physics

Pat Frank has a guest post on WUWT about breaking the ‘pal review’ glass ceiling in climate modeling. It’s essentially about a paper of his that he has been trying to get published and that has now been rejected 6 … Continue reading →

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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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Watt about a 10th Anniversary?

Posted on November 19, 2016 by ...and Then There's Physics

When I started blogging about climate science, I mainly focussed on addressing what was said on Anthony Watt’s blog, Watts Up With That (WUWT) (and often started my post titles with the word “Watt”, as I’ve done again – for … Continue reading →

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Consensus on consensus

Posted on April 13, 2016 by ...and Then There's Physics

Richard Tol’s consensus paper has finally been published. Richard’s paper can probably be described as taking all possible sets of numbers from all the various other consensus studies, and plotting graphs showing various possible levels of consensus, but without paying … Continue reading →

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Watt about David Whitehouse

Posted on January 24, 2016 by ...and Then There's Physics

I realise Sou has already covered this but, since I haven’t done a Watt about post for some time, I thought I would also comment. The post I’ll be discussing is a guest post on Watts Up With That (WUWT) … Continue reading →

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A poignant essay

Posted on January 17, 2016 by ...and Then There's Physics

Although I find this a rather uncomfortable topic, I thought it well worth highlighting an article by Piers Sellers in which he discusses his thoughts about climate change, given that he has just been diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. … Continue reading →

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Aerosol forcing

Posted on March 20, 2015 by ...and Then There's Physics

I was wondering if a anyone had any insight into this new paper by Bjorn Stevens called Rethinking the lower bound on aerosol forcing. The basic goal seems to be to try and more tightly constrain the forcing due to … Continue reading →

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Guest post : Skeptics demand adjustments

Posted on February 9, 2015 by ...and Then There's Physics

This is a guest post from Steven Mosher, who is part of the Berkeley Earth (BEST) team. It’s motivated largely by the recent resurgence of claims of tampering with the temperature records, that I’ve discussed earlier. I won’t say anymore, … Continue reading →

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