Tag Archives: John Cook

Watt about the 97% consensus, again?

Posted on August 28, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

Watts Up With That (WUWT) has another post about John Cook’s consensus paper. I must admit that I find this all a little odd. In my experience, if people think a paper is ridiculously wrong, they typically just ignore it. … Continue reading →

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Closing down the debate!

Posted on July 29, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

Making Science Public has allowed Dana Nuccitelli to respond to Ben Pile’s recent post What’s behind the battle of received wisdoms?. I think Dana’s response is very good, but I would say that wouldn’t I? One of the things that … Continue reading →

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Richard Tol and the 97% consensus

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

I said in my earlier post that I might write about Richard Tol’s publicly stated views on John Cook’s 97% consensus paper. Since then, however, I’ve had a rather frustrating Twitter discussion with Richard Tol that, sadly, ended quite sourly … Continue reading →

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Watt about John Cook and the atom bombs?

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

Not surprisingly, Watts up With That (WUWT) has a post mocking John Cook’s recent quote that the increase in energy associated anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is the same as 4 Hiroshima bombs per second. As I showed in yesterdays’s post, … Continue reading →

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John Cook and the atomic bombs

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

John Cook, who writes the Skeptical Science blog, has been criticised – in a blog article called Media Fail: John Cook’s Atom Bombs – for comparing global warming to atomic bombs. This Media Fail post is actually referring to an … Continue reading →

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Richard Tol’s second draft

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

So I’ve had a look through the second draft of Richard Tol’s paper Qunatifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the literature:a comment. It doesn’t seem to have changed much, so I stand by much of what I said … Continue reading →

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Watt about Richard Tol?

Posted on June 2, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

John Cook (with others) published, recently, a paper called Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature. The paper used Web of Science to search for papers on “global warming” or “global climate change”. They restricted their … Continue reading →

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Web of “lack of” Knowledge?

Posted on May 28, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

There is another post over at Watts Up With That (WUWT) claiming that John Cook’s consensus paper is falling apart. They seem rather fixated by this paper, which is interesting in itself. Anyway, it’s based on a post on Bishop … Continue reading →

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John Cook’s lie of epic proportions!

Posted on May 17, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

I’m too tired to write anything substantial, but Anthony Watts has a new post at Watts Up With That (WUWT) called the 97% consensus – a lie of epic proportions. So, what is the basic problems? John Cook’s recent survey … Continue reading →

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Watt about the 32.6%?

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

Watts Up With That (WUWT) has new post called Fuzzy math: In a new soon to be published paper, John Cook claims ‘consensus’ on 32.6% of scientific papers that endorse AGW. It’s about a recent paper published today by John … Continue reading →

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