Tag Archives: climate science

Value-free science?

Posted on November 8, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

Reiner Grundmann has a new post on Die Klimazwiebel discussing whether or not philosophy can enlighten climate science. Reiner also has an earlier post about the same topic. As far as I can tell, the basic argument seems to be … Continue reading →

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Sceptics vs Academics

Posted on October 6, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

Judith Curry is currently promoting an analysis by someone called the Scottish Sceptic (Mike Haseler) in which he has attempted to differentiate between what he calls sceptics and non-sceptics (academics/warmists) (Sceptics vs Academics). I think the terminology is awful, but … Continue reading →

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The scientists’s view of the IPCC report

Posted on October 1, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just released the Working Group 1 (WG1) report of the fifth Assessment Report (AR5). A difference between what is presented here and what was presented in the fourth Assessment Report (AR4) is … Continue reading →

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Watt about Roger Pielke Jr?

Posted on September 23, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

Watts Up With That (WUWT) has a Weekly climate and energy news roundup in which they normally include a quote of the week. This week’s quote is by Roger Pielke Jr and is A difficult question for the climate science … Continue reading →

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There’s been no pause in global warming!

Posted on September 4, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

I discovered this over at Climate Denial Crock of the Week, but thought I would also post it here. It’s very good video explaining why there has been no pause in global warming. I think it explains the basic science … Continue reading →

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Watt about sticking it to the Mann?

Posted on August 26, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

Watts Up With That (WUWT) has a new post by Lord Christopher Monckton called Sticking it to the Mann. In this post, Christopher Monckton responds to Michael Mann’s recent Richmond Time’s Dispatch article. I would explain why what Christopher says … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthony Watts, Christopher Monckton, Climate change, Global warming, IPCC, Michael Mann, Watts Up With That | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 21 Comments

Guest Post : Collin Maessen on why language matters

Posted on August 13, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

Collin Maessen, who runs the Real Sceptic site, offered to write a guest post about “words and how we use them”. This is an interesting topic in itself, but particularly relevant for the climate science debate as it does seem … Continue reading →

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Watt about Michael Mann at the AGU Chapman conference?

Posted on July 5, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

There’s another recent post on Watts Up With That (WUWT) called watch Michael Mann’s self aggrandizing AGU presentation. It’s referring to a presentation given by Michael Mann at the recent AGU Chapman conference called Communicating Climate Science: A Historic Look … Continue reading →

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The Wrong Climate Stuff?

Posted on April 22, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

A group of 20 retired engineers and scientists who worked on the Apollo programme have got together to form a group called The Right Climate Stuff (TRCS). Their goal was to look at the evidence for Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) … Continue reading →

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The Daily Kos Poll on Michael Mann

Posted on April 15, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

The Daily Kos is an American political blog. One of their writers recently read Michael Mann’s new book The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars. This writer was so taken with the book and with what Michael Mann has gone … Continue reading →

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