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Category Archives: Philosophy for Bloggers
The social construction of science
Richard Dawkins posted a tweet that cause a bit of a furore in some sectors of Twitter. He did try to clarify, but it still didn’t go down well. The problem with his tweet is that science clearly is socially … Continue reading
Alan’s Bottle
Me and Ken just had a talk over the Science Kerfuffle of the moment, featuring a physics and maths teacher known to pwn fashionable nonsense fans. He recently suggested that POMO weakened our herd immunity to combat objective untruths. He … Continue reading
On baselines and climate normals
Mike Hulme, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Cambridge, has a somewhat bizarre article published in Academia Letters called Climates Multiple: Three Baselines, Two Tolerances, One Normal. It’s basically a discussion of the recent World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Philosophy for Bloggers, Politics, Science
Tagged Baselines, Mike Hulme, WMO, World Meteorological Organisation
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Have CO2 emissions peaked?
I noticed, as has Stoat, that Ken Caldeira and Ted Nordhaus have a bet about whether or not we’ve reached peak CO2 emissions. Specifically, the bet is Between 2021 and the end of 2030, annual fossil fuel emissions (excluding carbonation) … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, ethics, Global warming, Philosophy for Bloggers
Tagged Climate bet, CO2 emissions, Ken Caldeira, Peak emissions, Ted Nordhaus
91 Comments
2020: A year in review
It’s been quite a year. The blog certainly hasn’t been as active as it has been in previous years. This is partly because it is simply getting more and more difficult to motivate myself to write posts, but is also … Continue reading
Posted in ClimateBall, ClimateBall Bingo, Philosophy for Bloggers
Tagged Blog summary, Blogging, New Year, Willard
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Where have all the STS’ers gone?
There’s a recent paper in Science and Technology Studies by Jaron Harambam called The Corona Truth Wars: Where Have All the STS’ers Gone When We Need Them Most? The topic is, fairly obviously, the current coronavirus pandemic, and the abstract … Continue reading
Namecalling in science
A couple of days ago, I retweeted an article with the title [t]he trouble with ‘Covid denialism’. I thought the article was reasonable, but some objected to the use of ‘denialism’. There are a number of very credible scientists who … Continue reading
Posted in ClimateBall, Personal, Philosophy for Bloggers, The scientific method, We Are Science
Tagged COVID-19, denial, Denialism, Namecalling
171 Comments
Evidence-led?
I was blocked on Twitter by Zion Lights after I, somewhat snarkily, retweeted one of her tweets. Zion Lights is the UK director of Michael Shellenberger’s organisation, Environmental Progress. Zion Lights has had a bit of a rough week, having … Continue reading
The Auditing Problem
Auditing leads to an open problem. Let’s try to specify it as lightly as possible. Technical notes follow the main text, they’re tagged using curly brackets, like {this note}. §1. Alvaro’s Story Alvaro wrote a piece called What’s Wrong with … Continue reading
