Over at Climate etc., Judith Curry has gone off the deep end decided to boost her hit count smear climate science chum like crazy address “hide the decline”. In doing so, she smears climate scientists involved in producing the IPCC AR4 and the WMO 1999 report. Bad science and/or dishonesty? There is no question that […]
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On Diamonds, Honour and High School Fairy Tales
February 19, 2011 
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In Canada, high school students receive guidance counselling in their senior year in order to assist them as they decide what to do after graduation. I went to my guidance session and my counsellor asked me what I wanted to do after June. I was a good student — a few A+s, a few B+s, […]
Continue readingTwo Minutes of Denialist Chumming
February 15, 2011 130 Comments
“A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one’s will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, […]
Continue readingWhen Science Becomes Politics by Other Means
February 13, 2011 87 Comments
This blog is about the social and political dimensions of the climate wars. As a trained social scientist, that is my main interest and proper subject matter. I have no insight to offer on the quality of the science but I recognize that the science is what really matters. Unfortunately, the science — truth, facts, […]
Continue readingOpen Thread #3
February 7, 2011 82 Comments
The comments on previous posts are getting quite unweildy although I think there are some fruitful avenues to continue exploring. I encourage people to still post where your comment is most appropriate, but there are a number of interesting developments on related issues that I want to point out and open for discussion if you […]
Continue readingPNS – Pretty Nonsensical Stuff
February 5, 2011 132 Comments
I’ve been thinking about the Lisbon Postnormal Workshop on Reconciliation, which you can read about at Rabett, Climate Progress, Tamino and Deep Climate. What is the whole PNS project? It claims to be about providing a new “science” for post-normal times — one that includes an extended peer community and extended “facts”. PNS claims that […]
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