It’s been over a year since I wrote The Credibility Spectrum, my first post ever. Since then I’ve learned a lot, and have altered the credibility spectrum in my own mind – so I thought I’d alter it here, too. This credibility spectrum is sort of split into two: the scientific community, and the non-scientific [...]
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A Better Credibility Spectrum
Posted in How Science Works, Media and the Public, tagged al gore, climate change, credibility, global warming, IPCC, media, nasa, politics, risk management, science on April 25, 2010 | 4 Comments »
We Have Slides!
Posted in How Science Works, Media and the Public, Science Lessons, tagged agreement, al gore, carbon dioxide, censorship, climate change, climategate, credibility, CRU, debate, denial, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, ice age, IPCC, media, nasa, politics, quote, risk management, science, skeptic, sustainability, swifthack, united states, youth on April 19, 2010 | 10 Comments »
After a marathon PowerPoint-session yesterday I finally got my 63 slides out of the way. Here is the presentation for anyone who is interested. The script is written in the notes beneath the slides. I like to have things fading in and out of my slides, so sometimes the text boxes and images are stacked [...]
Mind the Gap
Posted in How Science Works, Media and the Public, News and Reports, tagged carbon dioxide, climate change, climategate, credibility, CRU, debate, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, IPCC, jones, leake, media, politics, quote, risk management, science, sustainability, swifthack on April 11, 2010 | 28 Comments »
This is the script of a presentation I will make to several groups of high school students on Earth Day. I was originally going to use the same script from my PowerShift presentation, but in light of recent developments and my ever-expanding thoughts on climate change, I decided to create an entirely new presentation. I [...]
Academic Culture From the Inside – a Guest Post by Steve Easterbrook
Posted in How Science Works, tagged censorship, climate change, climategate, CRU, debate, easterbrook, global warming, media, monbiot, science, swifthack, u of t on March 25, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Steve Easterbrook is a comp-sci professor at the University of Toronto who has also worked at the University of Sussex and NASA. Recently, he decided to apply his software engineering expertise to the challenge of climate change, particularly relating to climate models. This post began as a comment on a recent RealClimate post about media [...]
Now We’re Talking!
Posted in How Science Works, Media and the Public, News and Reports, tagged carbon dioxide, climate change, climategate, communication, CRU, debate, global warming, humour, IPCC, media, NAS, politics, risk management, science, skeptic, swifthack on March 8, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Another batch of private emails from climate scientists has been leaked/hacked/stolen/whatever. These ones, though, are very different than the last. It’s a thread of emails from the NAS, and these guys are mad. They are mad about vested interests skewing the discussion. They are mad that journalists have sat and lapped it right up without [...]
Freedom of Information
Posted in How Science Works, Media and the Public, News and Reports, tagged censorship, climate change, climategate, CRU, debate, denial, FOIA, global warming, hansen, hockey stick, jones, media, santer, schmidt, science, skeptic on March 7, 2010 | 14 Comments »
The only real issue that the hacked CRU emails brought up, the only allegation that didn’t fall apart if you were familiar with the literature (*cough cough hide the decline*), was the failure of Phil Jones to respond to some of the FOI (Freedom of Information) requests. This looks bad on the surface, and it [...]
IPCC Reform
Posted in How Science Works, Media and the Public, tagged climate change, climategate, copenhagen, CRU, global warming, IPCC, media, politics, science on February 24, 2010 | 7 Comments »
The IPCC is far from ideal, and we knew this even before word got out that WG2 had made several minor mistakes. I’ve written about this before – here I discuss how the IPCC is naturally biased towards understating climate change: being too optimistic in its results. And here I discuss the difference in public [...]
How to Prove Global Warming Wrong
Posted in How Science Works, Science Lessons, tagged agreement, al gore, alarmism, carbon dioxide, climate change, climategate, copenhagen, credibility, CRU, debate, denial, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, humour, IPCC, media, politics, satire, science, skeptic on February 16, 2010 | 35 Comments »
Over the past twenty years, vested interests and political lobby groups have done a fantastic job confusing the public about anthropogenic climate change. To many, they seem to have proven the whole theory wrong. But how could you actually prove global warming wrong – not just in the minds of the public, but through the [...]
Manufacturing Doubt
Posted in How Science Works, Media and the Public, Mitigation and Policy, tagged agreement, canada, climate change, copenhagen, credibility, debate, denial, global warming, IPCC, media, politics, science, skeptic, united states on January 17, 2010 | 20 Comments »
I recently wrote this term paper for my world issues course. Enjoy. There are many questions which remain controversial among scientists, but the existence of human-caused climate change is not one of them. Over 97% of publishing climatologists (Doran and Zimmerman, 2009), virtually 100% of peer-reviewed studies (Oreskes, 2004), and every scientific organization in the [...]
Partisan
Posted in How Science Works, Media and the Public, tagged canada, climate change, credibility, debate, denial, global warming, media, politics, science on January 11, 2010 | 16 Comments »
How did objectivity itself become partisan? I’m not quite sure how this thought came into my mind. I was angry about what Mark Steyn is regularly allowed to write in Maclean’s (Peter Sinclair, if you’re reading, you should really use his columns as case studies for your videos – this is the most popular news [...]
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