Category Archives: Philosophy for Bloggers

Journalistic norms for bloggers

Posted on November 3, 2019 by

I thought I would quickly advertise a recent paper called ““The truth is not in the middle”: Journalistic norms of climate change bloggers. It’s by Christel van Eck, Bob Mulder, and Art DeWulf, who are also involved in the survey … Continue reading →

Posted in Interview, Personal, Philosophy for Bloggers, Research, Scientists | Tagged , , , , , , | 23 Comments

Estimates of the economic impact of climate change

Posted on October 31, 2019 by

I realise Stoat has already covered this, but I thought I would also briefly discuss it here. I posted a couple of tweets, that got quite a lot of responses, about the economic impacts of climate change, that tried to … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon tax, Climate change, economics, Global warming, Philosophy for Bloggers | Tagged , , , , , , , | 197 Comments

The GRRRRROWTH Institute

Posted on October 18, 2019 by

Posit an opiniator O* from the Super Wonderful Punditry think tank SWP. Deadlines displease him. The international community failed to meet so many since 1995 that such call becomes self-defeating, or so O* worries. To interpret IPCC deliverables, time for … Continue reading →

Posted in ClimateBall, economics, GRRRRROWTH, Philosophy for Bloggers, Satire | 45 Comments

A survey of blog audiences

Posted on October 9, 2019 by

A while ago, I was interviewed by Christel van Eck, who is a PhD student at Wageningen University & Research. It was for a project about the journalistic norms adhered to by bloggers. There should be a paper appearing quite … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate change, Global warming, Philosophy for Bloggers, Research | Tagged , , , , | 10 Comments

IAMs – Open Thread

Posted on September 21, 2019 by

There’s been an interesting debate about IAMs. IAMs are Integrated Assessment Models that are used to develop mitigation pathways. In this article, Kevin Anderson argues that IAMs are simply the wrong tools for the job, while Jessica Jewel clarifies the … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon tax, Climate change, economics, GRRRROWTH, Philosophy for Bloggers, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , | 102 Comments

The Popper Ratio

Posted on August 3, 2019 by

I hereby propose the Popper Ratio – (n.) Unit obtained by calculating the number of “popper” in a long-form text compared to the number of times Sir Karl is really cited. By “really cited” I mean (a) a quote and … Continue reading →

Posted in Freedom Fighters, Philosophy for Bloggers, SpeedoScience, The philosophy of science, The scientific method | Tagged , , | 18 Comments

Retract!

Posted on July 25, 2019 by

I’ve been on holiday for a week or so. While I’ve been away there’s been quite a lot of media coverage of the paper that I discussed in this post and that we discussed extensively in this pubpeer thread. It … Continue reading →

Posted in ClimateBall, ethics, Philosophy for Bloggers, Research, Scientists, The philosophy of science, The scientific method | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 54 Comments