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.
A paper in Nature by Tim Barnett at Scripps and Jenny Adam and Dennis Lettenmaier at the University of Washington suggests climate change problems for folks who depend on snowpack for their water supplies: All currently available climate models predict a near-surface warming trend under the influence of rising levels of greenhouse gases in the …
I’m in the midst of Chris Mooney’s book, and I must admit that while I think he has assembled a masterful catalog of science misuse, the discomfort I’ve felt about his thesis remains – that the Right is not alone in its misuse of science and any useful discussion of the issue needs to recognize …
It’s difficult to tell the difference between Sadie’s “cat in the front yard” bark and her “Jehovah’s Witness in the front yard” bark. They are both quite vehement.
Ross McKitrick and Steve McIntryre have taken Roger Pielke Jr. up on his offer that they spell out their arguments about “why those of us not involved in the hockey stick fight should care about the continuing battles.” Neither offers any argument whatsoever regarding how this might influence my thinking about what policy choices I …