Can we all agree on this statement from Penn State geologist Richard Alley? I think it’s important to say that the interaction between radiation and gases in the air is not red or blue. It’s not Republican or Democrat, or libertarian or anything else. It’s physics. That’s from an interview that Alley does with the…Continue Reading…
An editorial in Nature says that Matthew Nisbet’s Climate shift report “dismantles three of the most common reasons given by those who have tried, and failed, to garner widespread support for policies to restrict greenhouse gases.” I guess they didn’t get the memo from the climate capo or the reprint over at the watchdog site. The Nature…Continue Reading…
As reported last month in Nature, Scientists have come up with new evidence in support of the controversial idea that humanity’s influence on climate began not during the industrial revolution, but thousands of years ago. Now, in a guest post at Real Climate, William Ruddiman summarizes the new evidence that will appear in an upcoming…Continue Reading…
Berkeley physicist Richard Muller is turning out to be one of the most interesting and controversial new players in the climate arena. It’s still early in the year, but it’s looking like he’ll be the Judith Curry of 2011. Fresh off his recent congressional testimony (which turned out to be a deep disappointment to Marc…Continue Reading…
Via Desmogblog, I see there is an emerging anthropological investigation of a curious (some say hydra-headed) creature that is mostly haunting the American political landscape and the dreams of many in the climate concerned community. Mooney has broken out the main findings over there, so no reason for me to duplicate. But if you skeptic…Continue Reading…
Via Judith Curry, I see there is an announcement for a new round of Capitol Hill-sponsored theatrics. The scheduled hearing is titled: Climate Change: Examining the processes used to create science and policy That’s going to be quite a show, given the deliberate bundling of science and policy. Roger Pielke Jr. should be able to…Continue Reading…
A “reformed climate skeptic” has just published an intriguing book, titled Deep Future, which this article calls the long, long view on climate change. I find the book’s purpose fascinating, given that we can’t see our way to thinking several decades ahead, much less thousands of years into the future. Still, I welcome this new dimension to…Continue Reading…
Given the politicization of climate science in the public sphere, I’m not sure it makes sense to mention climate blogs in the same breath as archaeology blogs. Still, there are familiar challenges (and rewards) to blogging for both climate scientists and archaeologists. So I advise any climate scientists lurking at my blog to read a…Continue Reading…
Some of the dead-enders in the climate change & communication debate don’t seem capable of recognizing their own bunk, even after it’s pointed out to them ad nauseum. So here we go again: we are looking at a bunk tsunami, and the press seems absolutely obsessed with finding little bugs on the other side (a…Continue Reading…
Climate blogger Joe Romm has published one of his worst misleading opening sentences: The New York Times has published one of its worst climate science pieces. Yes, I’m being playful, but also dead serious. Romm’s latest post knocking The New York Times coverage of global warming is about this John Broder article–which itself was about a…Continue Reading…