bad science, Tag

...the episode will stand as another example of how easily scientific restraint is abandoned when a frightening story is available for the telling.

From the "central committee told me to pay lip-service to China’s net-zero pathway" department ...

The tragedy is not that Nature publishes climate papers. It is that it no longer seems capable of publishing skepticism — not denial, but skepticism in its proper sense: disciplined uncertainty, careful boundary-drawing,...

Its GHGs wot dun it....this is where physics quietly left the room, and narrative building took its place.

Apparently, doom is just around the corner, thanks to climate change messing with the nitrogen cycle.

They may quote skeptics endlessly. They may code them meticulously. They may analyze their “affective economies” until the funding runs out. They will still have no idea why climate skepticism exists.

A society that values both knowledge and liberty must resist this convergence of expertise and power. Scientists play a vital role in informing public debate. They do not acquire special moral authority to govern simply by...

So, you see warming also leads to unusual cold and harsh winter events across Europe

In the end, the paper offers a compelling story, but not a disciplined causal argument. A loosely defined marine heat wave is paired with a loosely defined ecological baseline, and the two are joined by temporal coincidence...

"Real Science" by somebody without a clue.

The Nature retraction has been long (too long!) in coming since it has been obvious for some time that the paper was riddled with fatal flaws. The authors had admitted that the errors were too substantial for a correction.

The Nature retraction has been long (too long!) in coming since it has been obvious for some time that the paper was riddled with fatal flaws. The authors had admitted that the errors were too substantial for a correction.

A widely-referenced 2024 study that predicted massive global economic damages due to climate change has now been retracted, The New York Times (NYT) reported on Wednesday.

This is the circular fortress of modern climate science: models validate models, statistical significance is computed on synthetic data, and uncertainty is waved away with phrases like “robustness” and “consistency.”

The human cost of this prolonged fiction is measured not in disability-adjusted life years of uncertain provenance, but in the children never conceived, the young families who postponed dreams, and the enduring chill on Northeast...