H/t to Eli Rabett, such a quick little bunny: “Fabricated quote used to discredit climate scientists” — in the Independent. Here’s an excerpt: For climate sceptics it was a key piece of evidence showing that the scientists behindglobal warming could not be trusted. A quotation by one of the world’s most eminent climate scientists was supposed to […]
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First Published Article on Global Warming
February 14, 2010 
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Well, here it is — my first published article on global warming: “Mysterious Source of Global Warming Identified”. I think it worked out pretty well. Comments welcome!
Continue readingA GHCN Analysis
February 14, 2010 1 Comment
Over at Open Mind, Tamino has an analysis of GHCN station data that looks quite interesting to this layperson’s eyes. I’m going to start a post on this to examine his analysis and most importantly, the next post which he promises will be a response to skeptics and their criticism of GHCN. Here’s an excerpt […]
Continue readingPhil Jones Q&A at the BBC
February 13, 2010 35 Comments
The BBC has an article up which includes a Q&A session with Phil Jones of the CRU: Let’s start with the most important: E – How confident are you that warming has taken place and that humans are mainly responsible? I’m 100% confident that the climate has warmed. As to the second question, I would […]
Continue readingPost-Normal Science or [Pseudo] Sort of Science?
February 13, 2010 12 Comments
This post is just for my own amusement. Feel free to comment but I don’t expect a lot of dialogue since this is just because I’ve been reading the literature on “post-normal” science and am finding it quite enlightening and entertaining at the same time. So I’m strange like that. 😀 I’d heard about “post-normal science” […]
Continue readingA Response to Climate Change Denialism
February 12, 2010 8 Comments
Here is Richard Sommerville’s response to Climate Change Denialism with a h/t to Rabett Run. 1. The essential findings of mainstream climate change science are firm. This is solid settled science. The world is warming. There are many kinds of evidence: air temperatures, ocean temperatures, melting ice, rising sea levels, and much more. Human activities […]
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