Elisabeth Kübler-Ross famously coined the five stages of grief: 1) Denial, 2) Anger, 3) Bargaining, 4) Depression, 5) Acceptance Anthony Watts appears to be stuck at stage 2. Oh sure, he’s still very much in denial over this, but make no mistake, he’s also fuming and furiously spinning. It is highly doubtful that any amount of peer review–when…Continue Reading…
This story can BEST be told in a series of headlines, tweets, and quotes. Andy Revkin kicks it off: Skeptic Talking Point Melts Away as an Inconvenient Physicist Confirms Warming Pshaw, says Anthony Watts: The Berkeley Earth Station Surface Temperature project puts PR before peer review Leo Hickman: What a surprise: Anthony Watts is crying foul over…Continue Reading…
This story in yesterday’s NYT, titled “What happened to global warming?” has stirred some discussion over why a sizable bloc of Americans aren’t taking climate change seriously. Brad Plumer in the Washington Post says it’s a “great piece,” while Joe Romm grits his teeth at what he considers a big omission. I offer my take…Continue Reading…
The Judith Curry story fascinates me. She has undergone such a major transformation in recent years that some now find her unrecognizable. As long-time readers know, I played a bit role in how some of this story played out. But make no mistake, this is Curry’s story, and she’s still writing it over at Climate Etc, her…Continue Reading…
At Forbes, William Pentland explores the “fat tail” of climate change and concludes: Uncertainty is intrinsic to complex systems like Earth’s climate, but in the context of catastrophic climate change, this uncertainty is so severe that it is difficult to draw basic conclusions about how fat the fat tail is. According to [Harvard University’s Martin]…Continue Reading…
When Al Gore said last week that scientists now have “clear proof that climate change is directly responsible for the extreme and devastating floods, storms and droughts that displaced millions of people this year,” my heart sank. That would be the heart of Myles Allen, an author of this recent paper. His sentiment is candidly expressed in this Guardian piece published…Continue Reading…
Here’s the publisher promo for James Lawrence Powell’s new book, The Inquisition of Climate Science: Modern science is under the greatest and most successful attack in recent history. An industry of denial, abetted by news media and “info-tainment” broadcasters more interested in selling controversy than presenting facts, has duped half the American public into rejecting…Continue Reading…
This is not rocket science. The Earth is warming; there’s an important human contribution, and it’s something to worry about. This is the scientific consensus. Earth scientists are substantially split only on whether the warming is potentially catastrophic. A nice distillation by John Nielsen-Gammon on where we stand.
The climate debate, with all its rivalries, melodramatic clashes, and endless reprisals, often resembles a modern-day
In Nature this week, Quirin Schiermeier has written the most lucid, evenhanded article I’ve read yet on the vexing issue of extreme weather/climate change attribution. He also reports on some notable developments. For example, Quirin writes that in the past year, climate researchers in the United States and Britain have formed a loose coalition under…Continue Reading…