Tag Archives: John Cook

Classification of contrarian claims about climate change

Posted on December 11, 2021 by ...and Then There's Physics

The latest controversy in the climate debate is the publication of a paper on [c]omputer-assisted classification of contrarian claims about climate change. The authors are Travis Coan, Constantine Boussalis, John Cook, and Mirjam Nanko. You may recognise John Cook as … Continue reading →

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Consensus messaging, an update

Posted on January 14, 2020 by ...and Then There's Physics

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 →

Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, Global warming, Philosophy for Bloggers, The philosophy of science, The scientific method | Tagged , , , , , , | 315 Comments

A challenge for my readers

Posted on February 11, 2018 by ...and Then There's Physics

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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Say it again, and again, and again, and again …..

Posted on May 30, 2017 by ...and Then There's Physics

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 →

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Consensus on consensus

Posted on April 13, 2016 by ...and Then There's Physics

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 →

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A grand scheme of scientists

Posted on January 5, 2016 by ...and Then There's Physics

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 →

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Peter Doran on the 97%.

Posted on December 22, 2014 by ...and Then There's Physics

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 →

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Bravo, Richard Tol, Bravo!

Posted on June 5, 2014 by ...and Then There's Physics

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 →

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Richard Tol and the 97% consensus – again!

Posted on May 10, 2014 by ...and Then There's Physics

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 →

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Winding down

Posted on December 22, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

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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