Kevin Vranes, whose hockey stick post I discuss below, is part of a group of science policy bloggers at no/se/nada (well, it looks like the group is mostly Kevin). Added to the blogroll. Now that I’ve got a “science policy” section over there, Chris Mooney’s been added. I’ve shared my discomfort with his work, but …
Kevin Vranes pretty much nails it with an insightful analysis at Prometheus about the way the hockey stick debate has become such an odd sideshow: Inaction was the political response to the 2001 SPM* presentation of the hockey stick. The hockey stick both as science and icon could not have been more hyped. But They …
Now Michael Fumento’s editing his own Wikipedia page. Errr, I mean “Tracy Spenser” is editing Michael Fumento’s Wikipedia page.
Interesting piece by Sid Perkins (sub. req.) in the Oct. 29 Science News on the discovery of fossil sloths in Haiti and Cuba 4,000 years ago. In the longstanding debate between climate change and human hunting in the extinction of the big mammals in the Americas 10,000 years ago, score one for the humans with …
Stuff from today’s bike ride, seen and heard: The Curb Cafe, going in where the old Cafe Riviera used to be on Constitution just west of Carlisle A guy walking down the bike path, up along the north diversion channel, playing a flute A lovely little hawk of some sort, alighting on a telephone pole …
Having thrashed around quite about over the last year in the issues raised by Dan Sarewitz’s scientization paper, I’m at a bit of a loss on something. Perhaps y’all can help. There have been a couple of discussions this week on RealClimate (here and here) about the “false balance” problem – the allegation that journalists …
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If I may, then, in my next breath criticize my good friend Tim Lambert whom I’ve never met, I think his post this morning on CEI bloviator Ian Murray’s remarkable global climate change conversation rather misses he point. Murray used to be a serial denier of the consensus science on climate change. Now, in a …
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In which my old buddy Michael Fumento (see also more from Fumento) gains an ally in yet his latest blubbering discussion with Tim Lambert. Seems a character called “Tracy Spenser” started posting comments in Lambert’s blogs extolling the intellectual brilliance of Fumento and Lambert’s relative lack thereof. Spenser also seemed to be posting from the …
A discussion over at RealClimate about media coverage of climate change (an issue dear to my heart) sent me back to read a widely quoted paper last year by Boykoff and Boykoff – Balance as bias: global warming and the US prestige press.
The Barnett paper I quoted below talks about hydrologic changes “already diagnosed in some regions.” A reminder for those of you in the Western U.S. – we’re one of those regions.