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by Patrick J Michaels Earlier this year, Eric Kaufmann of the University of London published a remarkably detailed and comprehensive study of bias in academia, “Academic Freedom in Crisis: Punishment, Political Discrimination,...

by Geoffrey Weiss and Claude Roessiger The so-called debate about the causes and effects of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is a notable irony. Rather than a forum for free disputation, AGW has in recent years become the...

by Thomas Anderl Simple models are formulated to identify the essentials of the natural climate variabilities, concentrating on the readily observable and simplest description...

by Judith Curry The concerning saga of the creation, enforcement and collapse of a ‘consensus’ on Covid-19 origins. The Covid-19 virus first appeared in Wuhan, China, where there is a laboratory that conducts...

by Judith Curry Stop using the worst-case scenario for climate change — more realistic scenarios make for better policy.  The International Energy Agency has just published a document ‘NetZero by 2050: A Roadmap...

by S. Stanley Young and Warren Kindzierski Climate Etc. recently carried several insightful posts about How we fool ourselves. One of the posts – Part II: Scientific consensus building – was right...

by Alan Longhurst    “Never before in 1000 years the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), also known as the Gulf Stream System, has been as weak as in the last decades“.  ...

by Judith Curry Reviews of new books by Steve Koonin, Matthew Kahn and Marc Morano. A year ago, we discussed [link]: • False Alarm, by Bjorn Lomborg • Apocalypse Never, by Michael Schellberger Earlier this year, two notable...

by Judith Curry The damaging effects of generating eco-anxiety in children. Climate Etc. as an antidote. Earlier this week, I received this letter via email: To the Esteemed Dr. Judith Curry: You don’t know me but I...

by Judith Curry . . . according to the cover story of April 26 issue of Time Magazine. How have we have fooled ourselves into thinking that manmade climate change is the dominant cause of societal problems? Some excerpts...

by Judith Curry “Is the road to scientific hell paved with good intentions?” – political psychologist Philip Tetlock (1994) Part I in this series addressed logical fallacies...

by Judith Curry “Like a magnetic field that pulls iron filings into alignment, a powerful cultural belief is aligning multiple sources of scientific bias in the same direction...

by Roger Caiazza Environmental justice organizations are currently a major driver of environmental regulation in New York. A new report “The Fossil Fuel End Game, A frontline vision to retire New York City’s peaker plants...

by Judith Curry I have been contacted by a UK politician about climate policy in the UK, We have a zoom call scheduled for next Thursday to discuss. I know that at least some of the Denizens are from the … Continue...

by Judith Curry Best practices in adapting to sea level rise use a framework suitable for decision making under deep uncertainty. This post is the third (and final) part in the series on New Jersey sea level rise: Climate...