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” […]
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A Response to Climate Change Denialism
February 12, 2010 
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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 […]
Continue readingClimategate News: Jones on climate data
February 12, 2010 19 Comments
BBC has an article up titled “Climate data “not well organized”. Here’s an excerpt: Phil Jones, the professor behind the “Climategate” affair, has admitted some of his decades-old weather data was not well enough organised. He said this contributed to his refusal to share raw data with critics – a decision he says he regretted.
Continue readingIndependent Inquiry Into Climate Emails — News
February 11, 2010 6 Comments
Here’s a bit of a news roundup concerning the Independent Review. According to an article in The Guardian, the ICCER will not “audit” the scienific conclusions of the CRU scientists and their work. It will instead focus on issues relating to the alleged abuses of power made against them based on the CRU emails. Here’s […]
Continue readingPost-Normal or a return to normal?
February 11, 2010 4 Comments
Note: This post is a work in progress. Expect some revision as the time goes by. ~~~ Some interesting discussions around the climate blogosphere re: post-normal science. Watts Up With That has a guest post by Jerome Ravetz himself titled: “Climategate: Plausibility and the blogosphere in the post-normal age”. Here is an excerpt: Climategate is […]
Continue readingThe Guardian — Climate Scrum: Document on the CRU Emails
February 9, 2010 41 Comments
The Guardian is creating a public document letting anyone who wants, anonymously or not, edit it. In a unique experiment, The Guardian has published online the full manuscript of its major investigation into the climate science emails stolen from the University of East Anglia, which revealed apparent attempts to cover up flawed data; moves to prevent […]
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