The Georges Lemaître Centre for Earth and Climate Research of the Univsersity of Louvain-La-Neuve made a brilliant webpage on critical thinking (in French though) (UPDATE linkfix)They took a random presentation of a pseudoskeptic, and demonstrate what happens if you to… [more]
Onlangs postte Hans Labohm, die zichzelf de officieuze coördinator van de Nederlandse klimaatpseudoskeptici noemt, een stukje over de tropische hotspot. Een onderwerp waarvan al veel mensen hebben aangetoond dat ze niet begrijpen waar het over gaat. Uiteraard vormt de econoom… [more]
De Groene Rekenkamer is een organisatie die zichzelf onterecht een onafhankelijke kritische auditor van ecologisch getinte onderwerpen noemt, maar in realiteit een organisatie is die vooral overal tegen is, omdat het niet past binnen een politieke ideologie. De organisatie heeft… [more]
Couldn’t resist this. Of course, based on the content of the study, we can presume this will be denied as well.
From RawStory.com:
Belief in Free Market Economics Predicts Denial of Science
A strong belief in a hands off approach… [more]
… [more]
The global warming policy foundation, a British astroturf group unwilling to disclose its funding, published an article of four Belgian climate pseudo-skeptics: Istvàn Marko, Alain Préat, Samuele Furfari and Henri Masson. The article starts with complaining they don’t get the… [more]
Nog al te vaak zie je mensen stellig beweren dat de opwarming van onze planeet moeilijk te verzoenen valt met de koude temperaturen die West-Europa afgelopen winter kende.Nu is de planeet natuurlijk net dat tikkeltje groter dan enkel West-Europa, daarom… [more]
James Delingpole, the libertarian columnist of The Telegraph has searched, and found, for a new low in the climate change debate in his latest column in which he expresses his hope that one day there will be a Climate Nurnberg… [more]
Recent ging er heel wat aandacht naar de paper A Reconstruction of Regional and Global Temperature for the Past 11,300 Years van Marcott et al die in Science werd gepubliceerd.In de paper werd door gebruik van proxies een temperatuurreconstructie gemaakt… [more]
There has been a big change at WIREs Computation Stats.
In a stunning (but welcome) development, James Gentle of GMU and Karen Kafadar of IndianaUniversity have been named editors-in-chief, joining remaining original editor David Scott.
I last discussed WIREs Comp… [more]
Yes, the Deep Climate blog is finally returning after a hiatus of several months. Over the next few months, look for at least two or three posts per month, as I gradually return to former activity levels. Thanks to everyone… [more]
…
Daniel Sarewitz has a commentary in Nature in which he claims that science is on a “worrying slide towards politicization”. The solution so that scientists can “gain the confidence of people and politicians across the political spectrum”? Scientists can demonstrate… [more]
Samuele Furfari (Picture: Desmogblog)Under the title ‘climate change, why such a heated debate’, the French part of the Belgian Royal Academy of Sciences recently organized a series of lectures by Belgian climate skeptics like Samuele Furfari, Alain Préat, Henri Masson… [more]
Motie NeppérusVVD-kamerlid Helma Neppérus verklaarde in 2010 in het Nederlandse parlement:De VVD wil onafhankelijk onderzoek naar de opwarming van de aarde, nu ons land al weken in de ban is van de vrieskou. “We moeten weten hoe het echt zit, zeker… [more]
Dewever en Arnaert N-VA-lid Brecht Arnaert, uiteraard weer een libertariër (zucht), postte recent op zijn facebookpagina dat hij niet wakker ligt van klimaatverandering en linkte daarbij naar twee filmpjes op De Groene Rekenkamer van Ton Begemann, die zeker niet foutenvrij zijn… [more]
Het Nederlandse Planbureau voor het Leefmilieu reageert hier op de grootste fouten in Rypke Zeilmaker’s recente artikel in het Parool. Noot: Zeilmaker beeert dat zijn artikel buiten zijn weten geredigeerd werd door de redactie, waardoor er extra fouten in het… [more]
Hajo Smit laat weer maar eens blijken hoe gemeend zijn SMOM-subsidie-aanvraag tot het opzetten van een blog waar beide partijen in het debat kunnen dialogeren nu eigenlijk juist was: De enige reden dat ik vind dat Al Gore, Ramstdorf, Schellnhuber,… [more]
Watch Climate of Doubt on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE. Read More on Scott Mandia’s blog… [more]
The eleventh domino has fallen.
The extraordinary 2012 Arctic sea ice melt has resulted in a September average sea ice extent of 3.61 million sq km, according to the latest monthly data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center… [more]
A recent Canadian radio appearance by Berkeley Earth founder Richard Muller has shed additional light on the role of Charles Koch, a major funder of the Berkeley Earth effort (and arguably the top funder of climate contrarians over the last… [more]
Climate change got its first mention of the U.S. political season with Mitt Romney’s “heal the planet” crack, and Obama’s memorable retort:
And yes, my plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet – because… [more]
Interest in 2012′s record Arctic sea ice melt has reached the mainstream press both here in Canada (CBC, PostMedia) and abroad (New York Times, Associated Press and the Guardian), now that the Colorado-based National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)… [more]
[UPDATE Aug 24-28: The previous record low for daily Arctic sea ice extent was 4.16 million sq km, set on September 14, 2007. The new record was first set on August 24, 2012 and now stands at 3.85 million sq… [more]
[UPDATE 08/17: In comments, Berkeley Earth team member Zeke Hausfather reveals that most of the discrepancy between the Berkeley Earth 2011 and 2012 results is due to a previously unreported error in latitudinal weighting in the earlier version.
UPDATE 08/20:… [more]
This month we kick things off with the renewed attacks on Tides Canada by oilsands booster (and Canadian Conservative government surrogate) Ethical Oil [h/t Holly Stick].
Meanwhile, Canadian environment minister Peter Kent is touting an improved outlook for meeting Canada’s… [more]
The saga of statistician turned climate science critic Edward Wegman and his protege Yasmin Said has taken yet another strange turn. The pair’s tenure as editors-in-chief at the Wiley journal they founded three years ago quietly came to an unceremonious… [more]
Just ran across this interesting 2006 overview by Elizabeth E. Smith on the work of tobacco lobby tool ARISE (Associates for Research in the Science of Enjoyment), a group stating ‘tobacco is good for you because it gives you pleasure.: … [more]
I love mathematics. It’s so simple. 1 + 1 = 2.
When the Gleick Heartland documents were first released, people who call themselves climate skeptics claimed that the strategy memo was a fake because Heartland wouldn’t be so blatant in… [more]
Filed under: Uncategorized… [more]
