consensus, Tag

By Rud Istvan A sound bite summary* The climate consensus now has two derogation levels for those who disagree. Climate ‘contrarians’ like Bjørn Lomborg disagree about mitigation policies. Climate ‘deniers’ like...

by Judith Curry Tough days on The Hill for the enforcers of the climate consensus. While EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has been taking most of the ‘heat’ for the Trump administrations climate policy, this past...

Yesterday, the American Meteorological Society (AMS) published a letter yesterday to U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, admonishing him for having the temerity to doubt that carbon dioxide is the “primary driver”...

Guest post by David Middleton OK… My “burned at the stake” comment was mostly sarcastic hyperbole… But the author of this CSM article really deserves a heaping dose of sarcastic hyperbole...

Guest post by David Middleton OK… My “burned at the stake” comment was mostly sarcastic hyperbole… But the author of this CSM article really deserves a heaping dose of sarcastic hyperbole...

Guest essay by Rick Wallace A useful method for gaining an initial understanding of complex social-psychological phenomena is to collect and compare case studies...

by Judith Curry Acknowledging the science of global warming does not require accepting that it is immune to criticism. I just spotted a wonderful article in the American Conservative – History and the limits of the...

by Judith Curry Acknowledging the science of global warming does not require accepting that it is immune to criticism. I just spotted a wonderful article in the American Conservative – History and the limits of the...

How many Presidential candidates are susceptible to groupthink, scare campaigns and low-base science agitprop? Thanks to Seth Borenstein, Michael Mann & Andrew Dessler we can rank them according to their ability to resist...

by Andy West A frequent topic at Climate Etc. is the ‘consensus.’ An argument is presented here that the climate consensus is as much about culture as it is about climate science. For about 150 years we’ve been learning...

by Judith Curry The limits of judicial competence and the risk of taking sides Several recent posts have discussed the involvement of courts in climate science disputes: The Urgenda ruling in the Netherlands Minnesota Trial:...

by Judith Curry A British academic wants an international court to declare climate skeptics wrong, once and for all. From Donna LaFramboise [link]: Last week, a three-day conference took place in the UK attended by a “key...

by Judith Curry Any attempt to impose agreement will “promote confusion between consensus and certainty”. The goal should be to quantify uncertainty, not to remove it from the decision process. –  Willy Aspinall...

by Judith Curry Critiques, the 3%, and is 47 the new 97? For background, see my previous post The 97% feud. Cook et al. critiques At the heart of the consensus controversy is the paper by Cook et al. (2013), … Continue...

by Judith Curry Among the best indirect indicators available to nonexperts is the overwhelming numbers of scientists testifying to anthropogenic climate change...