Category: Climate change
Physicist complains that climate scientists are giving science a bad name
| May 16, 2018 | Posted by News under Climate change, Culture, Intelligent Design, Science |
From James Delingpole at Breitbart: Professor Garth Paltridge, formerly a chief scientist with Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Division of Atmospheric Research, says that the behavior of certain members of the climate science establishment is “seriously threatening the public’s perception of the professionalism of scientists in general.” Many climate scientists are much […]
Can Climate Scientist Do Climate Science?
| May 10, 2018 | Posted by PaV under Climate change |
Here’s a recent paper dealing with the deadly and devastating hurricane Harvey which hit the Gulf last year. I haven’t looked at very much of the paper; however, their basic take on it is that the ferocious effects of Harvey can be explained by the OHC (Ocean Heat Content) of the Gulf’s surface waters. And, […]
“Burning” climate change dissenters
| March 28, 2018 | Posted by News under academic freedom, Climate change, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, Science |
From Peter Rees at Quadrant: The Little Ice age was quite severe in Europe from 1550- 1700. After the prosperity and plenty of the medieval warm period, the LIA led to impoverishment, crop failure, starvation and a resurgence in witch burnings. Every misfortune was an excuse to accuse someone of being a witch working under […]
Postpone the climate apocalypse, will you, till we finish trimming the shrubs?
| March 18, 2018 | Posted by News under Climate change, Culture, Intelligent Design |
No, seriously, a sober view from John Horgan at Scientific American: In his Breakthrough essay, Pinker spells out a key assumption of ecomodernism. Industrialization “has been good for humanity. It has fed billions, doubled lifespans, slashed extreme poverty, and, by replacing muscle with machinery, made it easier to end slavery, emancipate women, and educate children. […]
Breaking: Prominent science journal offers rational assessment of an unhinged climate claim
| February 21, 2018 | Posted by News under Climate change, Culture, Global Warming, Intelligent Design, Media, Science |
Specifically, the claim that global warming promotes violence. From the editors of Nature: Such retrospective analyses raise two questions related to cause and effect: did climate change alter the weather? And did the change in the weather provoke the conflict? Only a solid yes to both can justify bold statements that global warming promotes violence […]
At the Guardian: A big problem with murky science journals is that they publish climate deniers
| January 29, 2018 | Posted by News under Climate change, Culture, Global Warming, Intelligent Design, Peer review |
Oh? From Graham Readfearn at the Guardian: Deniers have found a platform in emerging publications that publish without rigorous review Journals that are “open access” make their money by charging academics or institutions a fee for peer reviewing and checking submitted academic manuscripts, and then publishing them. There are many reputable publishers working this way. […]
Evolution is a Fact; So is Climate Change
| December 29, 2017 | Posted by PaV under Climate change, Evolution, Global Warming, Intelligent Design |
For those of us who have been critiquing evolutionary theory for a long time, and hence, long-time observers of the kind of reasoning evolutionists/Darwinists employ, you can’t help but see the absolute parallel that exists between evolutionary theory and the “science” behind “global warming.” [N.B. If you have to change the name of the ‘science’ […]
Google’s Truthbot gets upended by reality
| November 24, 2017 | Posted by News under Climate change, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, Media |
From Eric Worrall at Watts Up With That?: Google’s efforts to filter out positions which they think are fake news, like climate skeptic posts, have hit an unexpected snag: Google have just noticed large groups of people across the world hold views which differ from the views championed by the Silicon Valley monoculture. Like we […]
Hurting a scientist’s feelings could cost a journal $10 million?
| November 3, 2017 | Posted by News under academic freedom, Climate change, Culture, Intelligent Design, Science |
From Alex Berezow at American Council on Science and Health: Climate scientist Mark Z. Jacobson of Stanford University has sued the National Academy of Sciences, which publishes the prestigious journal PNAS, for publishing an article that disagreed with him. The lawsuit claims that Dr. Jacobson was libeled and slandered. He is suing to get the […]
Nature paper from 2012: Education is not the answer in the war on dissent
| October 1, 2017 | Posted by News under Climate change, Culture, Education, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, science education |
A friend drew our attention to this: From a 2012 letter to Nature: Among egalitarian communitarians, science literacy and numeracy (as reflected in the composite scale Science literacy/numeracy) showed a small positive correlation with concern about climate change risks(r = 0.08, P = 0.03). In contrast, among hierarchical individualists, Science literacy/numeracy is negatively correlated with […]
Conformists: Why dissent is bad for science
| July 28, 2017 | Posted by News under academic freedom, Climate change, Culture, Global Warming, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, Science |
Pos-Darwinista writes to call our attention to several preprints on why dissent is bad in science. Okay, okay, there is good dissent, which is accepted by the Establishment, and then there is bad dissent, which is not accepted by the Establishment. Text Galileo. 1. Climate Skepticism and the Manufacture of Doubt: Can Dissent in Science […]
Forrest Mims: Skepticism now gone from science
| June 24, 2017 | Posted by News under Climate change, Intelligent Design, Science |
At at Watt’s Up with That: Traditional science required a skeptical view of one’s own findings until they could be replicated, especially by others. Unfortunately, skepticism has been deleted from the latest edition of “On Being a Scientist,” a widely-read booklet published by the National Academies of Science. When I asked the NAS about this […]
Is Bret Stephens right about progressives and science?
| May 16, 2017 | Posted by News under Climate change, Culture, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, News, Science |
Readers may not have heard the explosion when the New York Times’ remaining subscribers discovered that their Tree Deathstar had published a columnist who questions global warming hysteria. Publisher Sulzberger has been begging the enraged elitists to quit cancelling their subscriptions ever since. Possibly, the enraged ex-Times readers are too young to recall the era […]
Christian Scientific Society tackles global warming controversy
| April 11, 2017 | Posted by News under Climate change, Global Warming, Intelligent Design |
From David Snokes at Christian Scientific Society: Kevin Birdwell gave a general overview of the issue of global warming and humans’ contribution to it. On the scientific side, one of his main points was that carbon dioxide is not the whole story; there are many other considerations, possibly the greatest of which is the warming […]
Mammals get smaller when the climate heats up?
| March 22, 2017 | Posted by News under Climate change, Evolution, Intelligent Design, News |
Researchers suggest so based on studies of early fossil rabbit and horse types. From ScienceDaily: More than 50 million years ago, when the Earth experienced a series of extreme global warming events, early mammals responded by shrinking in size. While this mammalian dwarfism has previously been linked to the largest of these events, new research […]
Climate change to be discussed at Christian Scientific Society meet, Pittsburgh, April 7–8, 2017
| March 14, 2017 | Posted by News under Climate change |
Schedule and abstracts here. Note: 10:00 A.M. Kevin Birdwell. “Understanding Climate Change Factors” What variables affect climate change? Are they natural? Manmade? Both? Do greenhouse gases provide the sole basis for modern climate concerns? Or are their other important factors to consider? How does the need for large sources of energy to power society affect […]
Similarities Between the Debates Over Evolution and Global Warming
| March 1, 2017 | Posted by Eric Anderson under Climate change, Culture, Darwinist rhetorical tactics, Evolution, Global Warming |
For years I have closely followed both the evolution debate and the global warming debate.* There are some important differences between the two debates, which may be the subject of a subsequent post. However, the number of similarities is striking. Enough so that for some time I have seriously considered writing a book detailing the parallels. […]
New Scientist: EU green energy policies making global warming worse
| February 26, 2017 | Posted by News under Climate change, Culture, Global Warming, Intelligent Design, News, Science |
We didn’t realize it was still legal to say so. From Michael Le Page at New Scientist: Countries in the EU, including the UK, are throwing away money by subsidising the burning of wood for energy, according to an independent report. While burning some forms of wood waste can indeed reduce greenhouse gas emissions, in practice […]
Geologist on why a scientists’ march on Washington is a bad idea
| February 2, 2017 | Posted by News under Climate change, Culture, Intelligent Design, News, Science |
From coastal geologist Robert S. Youngjan at New York Times: Talk is growing about a March for Science on Washington, similar to the Women’s March the day after President Trump’s inauguration. It is a terrible idea. Among scientists, understandably, there is growing fear that fact-based decision making is losing its seat at the policy-making table. […]
Fake news’s power shrinks with context warning?
| January 30, 2017 | Posted by News under Climate change, Design inference, Media, Science |
As a sort of inoculation? From Natasha Lomas at Tech Crunch: Research conducted by social psychologists at Cambridge University in the UK, and Yale and George Mason in the US, offers a potential strategy for mitigating the spread of misinformation online — involving the use of pro-active warnings designed to contextualize and pre-expose web users […]
