By now, many people must be wondering of Judith Curry: what’s her story? How did the respected Georgia Tech climate scientist go from global warming = more intense hurricanes to darling of climate skeptics? How did she go from staunch IPCC booster to harsh IPCC critic? And why, in heaven’s name, is Curry engaging in…Continue Reading…
I have a guest post up at Nature’s Climate Feedback, titled “Are climate scientists ignoring the lessons of climategate?”
In the Do As I Say, Not As I Do category: in a recent comment thread at Real Climate, here’s Eric Steig admonishing one of the more churlish climate bloggers: Eli, with all due respect (and I do have a lot of respect for you), and at the risk of your calling me naive again,…Continue Reading…
Tobis fires a few wild shots, Lambert does recon, while Real Climate tries to keep the posse in check. It’s quite a spectacle, this latest variation of Shoot the Messenger. Here’s a fact: university press releases that tout scientific studies are routinely vetted by the principal researcher(s). Assuming And that’s the case here, as I…Continue Reading…
Earlier this month, the Center for American Progress (CAP) moderated an interesting panel discussion on the relationship between migration and climate change. Based upon this CAP paper on the subject, issued in December, it would seem that the liberal think tank is not above overplaying the scary climate migrant card. So, via The New Security…Continue Reading…
This online story highlighted at Foreign Policy magazine’s website has a rushed feel to it. It also has a deck that doesn’t deliver: How global warming deniers are running circles around the U.N.’s top climate body I eagerly read the piece to see how that was happening. All I came away with is the reporter’s…Continue Reading…
At Daily Kos, David Brin posted a nice, meta rebuttal to one of the central assertions of climate skeptics: that anthropogenic global warming is some mass conspiracy within the discipline of climate science, a solid wall of group think that none of the field’s scientists dare to cross. As Brin observes: This uniformity of craven…Continue Reading…
Quirin Schiermeier has a must-read piece (free access) in Nature about the gaps in climate science. It’s a sober and frank examination, placed in a larger (and very helpful) perspective. He lists the bullet points in this blog post: My feature describes unressolved problems in four specific areas – regional climate prediction, precipitation changes, aerosols,…Continue Reading…
There’s a mind-bending exchange between climate scientists and policy experts on Dot Earth that many should find fascinating. Or not.