Category Archives: Pseudoscience

The “truth” matters

Posted on April 16, 2018 by

There’s been a lengthy Twitter exchange about the Harvey et al. paper. In case you don’t remember, it was a paper essentially arguing that those blogs that tend to be dismissive of the risks associated with anthropogenic global warming (AGW) … Continue reading →

Posted in ClimateBall, Pseudoscience, Roger Pielke Jr, Scientists, The philosophy of science | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 218 Comments

An editorial response

Posted on April 4, 2018 by

Our response to Hermann Harde’s paper has finally appeared. What’s maybe more interesting is that there is also an editorial response by Martin Grosjean, Joel Guiot, and Zicheng Yu. It’s already been discussed at Realclimate and Rabett Run, but there … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, Pseudoscience, Research, Science, Sound Science (tm), The philosophy of science, The scientific method | Tagged , , , , , | 220 Comments

A challenge for my readers

Posted on February 11, 2018 by

John Cook and colleagues have new paper out about [d]econstructing climate misinformation to identify reasoning errors. The basic idea is to inoculat[e] against misinformation by explaining the fallacious reasoning within misleading denialist claims. and to [o]ffer a strategy based on … Continue reading →

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Polar Bears – a rebuttal

Posted on January 26, 2018 by

I wrote a post a little while ago about Harvey et als paper on [i]nternet Blogs, Polar Bears, and Climate-Change Denial by Proxy. Their basic conclusion was that if you divide blogs into those that accept anthropogenic global warming (AGW) … Continue reading →

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2017: A year in review

Posted on December 30, 2017 by

I’ve now been writing this blog for almost 5 years and I still don’t quite know what I’m trying to achieve, if anything. Hopefully a blog that presents a reasonable representation of our current understanding of climate science, while also … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, Global warming, Greenhouse effect, Personal, physicists, Pseudoscience, Roger Pielke Jr | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 30 Comments

Jordan Peterson speaks the truth

Posted on November 4, 2017 by

I may, justifiably, be accused of this post having a clickbait title. What it refers to, though, is a youtube debate between Philip Moriarty (a Physics Professor at the University of Nottingham) and Fred McVittie (whose credentials I, unfortunately, do … Continue reading →

Posted in ethics, Philosophy for Bloggers, Pseudoscience, Research, Science, The philosophy of science, The scientific method | Tagged , , , , , , , | 404 Comments

Infrared absorption of atmospheric carbon dioxide

Posted on October 21, 2017 by

Geoff Price made me aware of a paper, by an apparently highly published physicist, that considers the infrared absorption of atmospheric carbon. It concludes that CO2 is a very weak greenhouse gas and cannot be accepted as the main driver … Continue reading →

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