Climate science as a social process
I came across a paper that might be of interest to regular readers of this blog. It’s by Hans von Storch and is a Brief communication: Climate science as a social process – history, climatic...
View ArticleEscape from model land
I listened to an interesting podcast that some of the regulars may find interesting. It was on the Volts podcast and was on the abuse (and proper use) of climate models. It is an interview with Erica...
View ArticleThe origins debate
I’ve mostly tried to avoid the Covid origins debate, but I listened to a very good Guruspod episode, where they covered this. It was an interview with Eddie Holmes, Kristian Andersen, and Michael...
View ArticleProximal Origins
I wrote a recent post about the Covid Origins debate in which I was arguing that all non-experts have to use heuristics to try and assess the arguments being made and that the similarity with the...
View ArticleAlimonti et al. – retracted
The paper that we wrote about in this Skeptical Science post, which I reposted here, has now been retracted. In case people don’t remember, the paper was [a] critical assessment of extreme events...
View ArticleThe Bad Boy of Science
I realise that this was mentioned in the comments of my previous post, but I thought I would just advertise that I spent a bit of time last Friday chatting with Sam Gregson, who runs the Bad Boy of...
View ArticleScientifically intriguing?
Last week, Judith Curry had a guest post about causality and climate. I was initially a little confused, because I thought it was about a paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, that...
View ArticleWhat does net-zero actually mean?
Roger Pielke Jr had a recent guest post on his substack by Tom Wigley called Net-Zero Does Not Mean What You Think it Does. The post concluded that CO2 emissions do not need to be eliminated to meet...
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Gliese 12 b
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is a satellite mission aimed at detecting planets around other stars using the transit method. A particular focus is small planets around stars...
View ArticleScenarios
After the whole RCP8.5 fiasco, that some may remember, I got interested in thinking more formally about modelling scenarios. I even contacted a philosophy colleague to discuss the possibility of...
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