Tag Archives: Warren Pearce

Cosmopolitan knowledge

Posted on September 12, 2020 by ...and Then There's Physics

I’ve been reading a recent paper by Sujatha Raman and Warren Pearce called Learning the lessons of Climategate: A cosmopolitan moment in the public life of climate science. I’m always a little uncomfortable writing about climategate, partly because it’s been … 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 →

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2017: A year in review

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

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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I’m confused….

Posted on November 14, 2017 by ...and Then There's Physics

Recently, Warren Pearce and colleagues published a paper called [b]eyond climate consensus which I wrote about here. There was a response from John Cook, one from Naomi Oreskes, and a Guardian article by multiple authors. Pearce et al. have now … Continue reading →

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Beyond climate consensus

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

I’ve had a chance to read the recent Beyond Climate Consensus paper by Warren Pearce, Reiner Grundmann, and colleagues. I’ve only just realised that it cites my blog, which might be a first. The paper itself is a Commentary, rather … Continue reading →

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TBH, I don’t really like consensus messaging either

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

Originally posted on …and Then There's Physics:
I might have to give Dan Kahan some credit. Even though I’m not convinced that consensus messaging is toxic and polarising in general, there are certainly circumstances in which it can be,…

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Democratising science

Posted on March 28, 2017 by ...and Then There's Physics

I got into a brief discussion on Twitter about democratising science, which some people seemed to think was a good idea. One thing I was trying to do was simply to work out what people meant. I’m still not sure, … Continue reading →

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Guest post: ‘An inconvenient truth’ – Exploring the dynamics of making climate change public

Posted on January 15, 2017 by ...and Then There's Physics

This is a guest post by Brigitte Nerlich and Warren Pearce about their new paper called ‘An inconvenient truth’: A social representation of scientific expertise. I’ve never really had a discussion about Al Gore and “An inconvenient truth” on this … Continue reading →

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On transparency

Posted on April 2, 2016 by ...and Then There's Physics

A while ago I wrote a post about a Nature commentary on Research Integrity and transparency, by Stephan Lewandowsky and Dorothy Bishop. Warren Pearce and colleagues wrote a brief response and have since expanded on this in a blog post. … Continue reading →

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Clarity of meaning

Posted on October 23, 2015 by ...and Then There's Physics

A while ago I discussed a Nature Climate Change article by Greg Hollin and Warren Pearce called Tension between scientific certainty and meaning complicates communication of IPCC reports. A number of us submitted a response, which appeared today together with … Continue reading →

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