I am gobsmacked — literally gobsmacked at the latest from McIntyre… A long detailed post about the a scandal around one of Yale’s star academics and its failure to deal with the allegations of child molestation raised against him. McIntyre links this to the current Penn State scandal. Of course we’re all familiar with another […]
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“A Combustible Mixture of Ignorance and Power”
November 14, 2011 
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Climate deniers and contrarians are always warning their audience of the dangers of appeals to authority and the importance of skepticism, but if you look at their published words closely, you find an absence of real skepticism (note how they glom onto every paper that appears at first blush to find the opposite of the consensus without […]
Continue readingOpen Thread #7
October 2, 2011 7 Comments
I’ve been starting and stopping a number of posts on various climate science topics, but have been diverted by one thing or another at work or home and never got round to finishing them properly. So instead of trying to finish them, I’ve decided to post them as teasers in this open thread. As with […]
Continue readingIll-gotten Geld: EXXON and Arctic Sea Ice
September 9, 2011 4 Comments
There’s a recent news story that demands attention. It’s covered in today’s Real Climate posting, The unnoticed melt, which contains both bad news and some good. The good news is that it would be possible to stop the death-spiral of Arctic sea ice loss, given appropriate reductions in CO2. The bad news is that it […]
Continue readingThe Eternal Return or: The Unbearable Wrongness of Spencer and Braswell
September 6, 2011 26 Comments
There is a concept in philosophy that posits that the universe will repeat itself, in an endless cycle of recurrence. This means that everything in your life will be repeated again and again and again… All your hard work trying to arrive at some vestige of truth, some facts you can rely on, some firm […]
Continue readingAnother one bites the dust… Editor of Remote Sensing Resigns Over Spencer-Braswell Pal Review
September 2, 2011 21 Comments
Denizens of the climate blogosphere will be familiar with Dr. Roy Spencer, who along with William D. Braswell, recently published an article titled “On the Misdiagnosis of Surface Temperature Feedbacks from Variations in Earth’s Radiant Energy Balance” in an obscure open source journal Remote Sensing. Much ado was made of it at the time […]
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