A year ago today, an unidentified hacker published a zipped folder in several locations online. In this folder were approximately one thousand emails and three thousand files which had been stolen from the backup server of the Climatic Research Unit in the UK, a top centre for global temperature analysis and climate change studies. As [...]
Posts Tagged ‘censorship’
The Real Story of Climategate
Posted in Media and the Public, tagged al gore, anthony watts, carbon dioxide, censorship, climate change, climategate, communication, copenhagen, credibility, CRU, cuccinelli, debate, denial, education, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, hockey stick, inhofe, journalism, media, nasa, politics, republican, risk management, science, skeptic, sustainability, swifthack, united states on November 17, 2010 | 145 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 [...]
What The Press Should Cover, and Won’t
Posted in Media and the Public, News and Reports, tagged britain, censorship, climate change, climategate, copenhagen, credibility, CRU, debate, global warming, hockey stick, house of commons, IPCC, jones, media, science, statements, swifthack on March 30, 2010 | 8 Comments »
The first of three investigations into the CRU emails has been released. You can read the British House of Commons’ entire report here, but I found the summary on page 7 to be just as useful. In part, it reads: We believe that the focus on CRU and Professor Phil Jones, Director of CRU, in particular, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Antithesis to Nitpicking
Posted in Other Advocates, tagged agreement, al gore, carbon dioxide, censorship, climate change, climategate, copenhagen, credibility, CRU, debate, denial, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, hockey stick, IPCC, media, politics, risk management, science, skeptic, united states on February 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Sometimes we have to step back and look at the big picture. We have to remember that not everyone has heard or believed the one about global warming stopping in 1998. Denialists centre around nitpicking and ideas that global warming is a “house of cards”, so we respond the same way: countering all the “mistakes” [...]
A Good Batch of News
Posted in Other Advocates, tagged censorship, climate change, credibility, debate, denial, global warming, IPCC, media, science on February 4, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Today’s batch of news feeds was great. I have not one, but two, posts to comment on from elsewhere in the climate blogosphere. Firstly, James from The Island of Doubt has written a fantastic article on the new line of denialist attack. This is the best bit: “Here’s IPCC author Phil Duffy, whose thoughts on the [...]
Free Speech
Posted in Musings, tagged censorship, climate change, credibility, debate, global warming, science on August 28, 2009 | 46 Comments »
It hasn’t been long since I changed my comment policy, and already I’m getting complaints of censorship. I’m obviously not too concerned about the validity of these sources, but I thought I should address the issue regardless. There are two reasons I will moderate a comment: 1) If you make a scientific claim which isn’t [...]
Logic
Posted in Media and the Public, tagged censorship, climate change, credibility, debate, global warming, science on August 24, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Background information is important. This is what I was thinking while I was reading “The Twenty Three (and Growing) Smoking Guns of Global Warming” on the Heartland Institute website, while researching for quotes to use in my post A Well-Documented Strategy. The introduction reads, “Before you read this essay, I ask you to forget everything [...]
Sinclair vs Watts: An Update
Posted in News and Reports, tagged anthony watts, censorship, climate change, DMCA, global warming on July 29, 2009 | 34 Comments »
(Read the original story on this issue if you haven’t already.) The DeSmogBlog Youtube channel has uploaded the original video. I’m not sure if Peter Sinclair is aware of this, but somehow I think he won’t mind much. Mr Watts, however, will probably throw another fit. I will consider the issue a true victory for [...]
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