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- Climate Cooking: from Roger Pielke Jr. Sun, 14 Apr 24, 3:00am"Steyer was focused on the question: 'How do you make climate change feel real and immediate for people?'"
- Living Outside The Niche Thu, 28 Mar 24, 4:00amGuest Post by Willis Eschenbach I stumbled across a paper called “Future of the human climate niche“, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
- Arctic Sea Icecapades Sat, 9 Mar 24, 6:00amGuest Post by Willis Eschenbach I see that the usual gloomy hype about arctic sea ice continues unabated. This has been going on for a while. Here’s the dean of…
- Patrick Brown: When Science Journals become Activists Fri, 8 Mar 24, 9:00amSpinning climate data to fit a policy agenda undermines public faith in science.
- SCIENCE!!!!! Uncovers the Mystery that People May Have Mixed Feelings About their Dietary Choices Mon, 4 Mar 24, 1:00amClearly revealing the authors' clear view that positive beliefs about meat eating are inherently false.
- Friday Funny: A Retraction So Hilarious that I Can’t Put the Title in the Title Sat, 24 Feb 24, 9:00amA leading scientific journal faces humiliation after it published a completely fake paper, purportedly written by Chinese researchers, which contained AI generated images of a rat with a penis bigger than its own body.
- When polar bears die, they die of starvation: new Nature paper is propaganda, not news Thu, 15 Feb 24, 5:00pmStarvation is a natural cause of death for polar bears and is virtually never caused by lack of sea ice.
- Tipping Is Optional Mon, 12 Feb 24, 5:00amGuest Post by Willis Eschenbach I was greeted this morning by a CNN headline saying “Critical Atlantic Ocean current system is showing early signs of collapse, prompting warning from scientists“.…
- More About Artificial Ignorance Tue, 30 Jan 24, 5:00amGuest Post by Willis Eschenbach My previous post, Artificial Alarmism, has gotten some comments from folks who think I’m wrong, and that Large-Language Models can indeed automate the fact-checking of…
- Artificial Alarmism Mon, 29 Jan 24, 5:00amGuest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, I was notified by my long-standing “Google Alert” that my name had appeared in a paper on the web. It was in a study…
- Maine Sea Level Panic Tue, 23 Jan 24, 5:00amGuest Post by Willis Eschenbach So I open my electronic window onto the world this morning, and I find lots of wailing and gnashing of teeth about a projected sea…
- Big Claims About Tiny Numbers Tue, 16 Jan 24, 5:00amGuest Post by Willis Eschenbach Our marvelous host, Anthony Watts, alerted me about a new paper yclept “New Record Ocean Temperatures and Related Climate Indicators in 2023“...
- E pur si muove Sun, 7 Jan 24, 5:00amGuest Post by Willis Eschenbach A few years back, some scientists got together and invented something they call the Living Planet Index, or LPI. It’s supposed to measure how well…
- The Absurdity of Measuring Breath for Climate Change Sun, 17 Dec 23, 5:00amIt represents a worrying trend in the climate debate, where even the most basic human functions are scrutinized for their environmental impact.
- Beyond Parody: Misogyny, Authoritarianism, and Climate Change Wed, 13 Dec 23, 5:00amThere's nothing I can add to the self-parody that is this paper.