Category Archives: Science

Science might be political, but…..

Posted on July 30, 2018 by

Since everyone else is writing about science having always been political, I thought I would have a go too. I will admit that this episode has made me think more about this, and there are aspects that I still find … Continue reading →

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Science Has Always Been Political

Posted on July 27, 2018 by

The following tweet states a fact many historians of science attest: |￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣| Science has always been Political|＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿| (__/) || (•ㅅ•) || / 　 づ#HistorianSignBunny — Dr. Audra J. Wolfe (@ColdWarScience) July 12, 2018 Scientists were not all pleased. Tweetstorms rained. … Continue reading →

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Science and Skepticism

Posted on June 4, 2018 by

oarobin posted a comment highlighting a video of a talk about Science and Skepticism by Steven Goodman. It essentially disusses the issue of reproducibility in science, and mentions some issues that I have myself. Ultimately, science is about unconvering “truth”. … Continue reading →

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Initial value problem vs boundary value problem

Posted on May 29, 2018 by

I haven’t actually looked at Judith Curry’s blog for a while, but popped across there and noticed a guest post about energy budgets, climate system domains, and internal variability. One reason why we think that we can actually do long-term … Continue reading →

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The adults in the room

Posted on May 22, 2018 by

I was having another discussion on Twitter with Jean Goodwin, who posted the following quote. It’s attributed to Mark Largent and may have been delivered at a AAAS meeting. I’m interested in what other people think of this. I don’t … Continue reading →

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Lewis and Curry, again

Posted on April 27, 2018 by

I should probably say something about the new Lewis & Curry paper. It’s mostly an update to their earlier paper that I’ve discussed before. Bottom line; there are reasons to be cautious. The basic formalism is that one can use … Continue reading →

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Five years

Posted on April 13, 2018 by

Turns out today is the fifth anniversary of me starting this blog. It’s been an interesting journey and I feel that I should reflect on what I’ve done, what I’ve learned, what I would have done differently, and what I’m … Continue reading →

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