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Tag Archives: John Cook
Consensus messaging, an update
If you’re a regular follower of this blog, you’ll know that some of the most active threads have concerned the scientific consensus about climate change and, more specifically, the issue of consensus messaging. Recently, a new book has been released … Continue reading
A challenge for my readers
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
Say it again, and again, and again, and again …..
Since I’ve been focusing a bit recently on science communication I thought I would briefly discuss a paper by Simon Donner called Publish or perish: finding the balance in science communication. The reason for my title is that he suggests … Continue reading
Consensus on consensus
Richard Tol’s consensus paper has finally been published. Richard’s paper can probably be described as taking all possible sets of numbers from all the various other consensus studies, and plotting graphs showing various possible levels of consensus, but without paying … Continue reading
A grand scheme of scientists
I came across this video today of John Cook interviewing Brian Schmidt, who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics for his work showing that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. He mainly talks about attempting to accept a bet … Continue reading
Peter Doran on the 97%.
Since I haven’t written about the 97% for some time, I thought I would post this video of Peter Doran’s TEDx talk about Bringing opinions on climate change closer to reality. There are a couple of things I found interesting … Continue reading
Bravo, Richard Tol, Bravo!
Richard Tol, Professor of Economics at the University of Sussex, has finally managed to publish his comment on Cook et al. (2013), a paper that illustrates the level of consensus – with regards to Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) – in … Continue reading
Richard Tol and the 97% consensus – again!
Apparently Richard Tol has managed (after an impressive number of attempts – you can’t fault his commitment to this cause) to get his paper about the Consensus project published. I’ve discussed his attempts to discredit the consensus project in a … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Comedy, Global warming, Science
Tagged AGW, John Cook, Richard Tol, The Consensus Project
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Winding down
Given that it is the holiday season, I plan to take a short break from blogging to try and relax and spend some quality time with the family. Admittedly, I’ve written almost a post a day for the last 300 … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas, Christmas and holiday season, Holiday, John Cook
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Watt about the 97% consensus, again?
Watts Up With That (WUWT) has another post about John Cook’s consensus paper. I must admit that I find this all a little odd. In my experience, if people think a paper is ridiculously wrong, they typically just ignore it. … Continue reading
