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We must also convince scientists to use those freedoms to follow the truth wherever it leads and to tell the truth even when doing so seems to conflict with other priorities.

By Andy May In another “How the hell did this paper pass peer-review?” incident we find yet another PNAS absurdity by Daniel Vecellio and colleagues (Link), that is described by…

Why are they constantly peddling such doom? The post New Study Confirms Coral Reefs Are Adapting to Warmer Waters first appeared on Watts Up With That?.

Stanford prof ordered to pay legal fees after dropping $10 million defamation case against another scientist

So we have (a) flat to declining trends in annual anthropogenic CO2 emissions in the last decade, (b) many times smaller annual CO2 emissions fluxes from anthropogenic sources relative to nature, and (c) massive uncertainty...

A Stanford professor who sued a critic and a scientific journal for $10 million — then dropped the suit — has been ordered to pay the defendants’ legal fees based on a statute “designed to provide for early dismissal...

From The Daily Caller Actually A Call For Global Socialism 2:50 PM 01/08/2019 | Energy Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor The most popular climate paper of 2018 called for “collective human action” to keep global...

December 4, 2018 Guest post by Bob Vislocky In light of the devastating wildfires that ravished California last month, I thought it would be interesting to critically review a frequently referenced article published in the...

Public Release: 28-Aug-2017 From Eurekalert Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) Rising temperatures due to greenhouse gas emissions will fundamentally change electricity consumption patterns in Europe...

Chocoholics, are you sitting down? Researchers have just found a way process chocolate so it doesn’t need as much fat added into the recipe. By adding an electrical charge, the melted treat flows smoothly enough to be processed...

Chocoholics, are you sitting down? Researchers have just found a way process chocolate so it doesn’t need as much fat added into the recipe. By adding an electrical charge, the melted treat flows smoothly enough to be processed...

From PNAS: Direct satellite observation reveals that the Arctic planetary albedo, a measure of reflectiveness, decreased from 0.52 to 0.48 between 1979 and 2011, a change in albedo that corresponds to a climate forcing 25%...

Guest post by Rud Istvan Excerpted from book in progress Arts of Truth Based on the forthcoming Gaia, Musings on Sustainability © 2012 Rud Istvan   There is a recent example of artful lack of disclosure in the climate...

From time to time, scientists inadvertently use contaminated data and their results are affected. For example, some time after publication of Grand et al (PNAS 2004), the authors determined that their results were erroneous...

About 10 days ago, we discussed the PNAS reviews of the recent submission by Richard Lindzen, a member of the National Academy of Sciences with a distinguished publication record...