Category Archives: Roger Pielke Jr

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 →

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Criticising the critics

Posted on April 11, 2018 by

I’ve recently come across a number of examples of people objecting to the manner in which some people engage in public criticism. There is a podcast with Sam Harris and Ezra Klein. It relates to a situation in which a … Continue reading →

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Extreme events and anthropogenic emissions

Posted on March 27, 2018 by

This is a post that I’ve been thinking of writing, but have been somewhat reluctant to start. It’s mostly because it relates to something said by Roger Pielke Jr, so could end up being a bit of same ‘ol same … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, Global warming, Policy, Roger Pielke Jr, Severe Events | Tagged , , , | 102 Comments

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 →

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Mertonian norms

Posted on November 17, 2017 by

There are a set of norms of science, first presented by Robert K Merton and known as the Mertonian norms. I found what seems to be a good description of them here. There are four Mertonian norms, called universalism, communalism, … Continue reading →

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Manichean paranoia

Posted on August 5, 2017 by

Some have encouraged me to watch Roger Pielke Jr’s presentation on Climate politics as a manichean paranoia, and I have now done so (slides here, and I’ll post the video at the end of the post.). Manichean paranoia refers to … Continue reading →

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The Linear Model for Richies

Posted on August 2, 2017 by

Not long ago, Richie contended that sticking to presenting true information and letting otters decide what to do, given that information, was “the neatest little summary of the linear model.” This short note should suffice to show that this claim … Continue reading →

Posted in ClimateBall, Good Ol' Richie, Richie, Roger Pielke Jr, Sound Science (tm) | 53 Comments