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- We teach kids only half the scientific method Wed, 21 Aug 24, 11:00pmBut whatever the reason, the Framework and NGSS only teach the happy half of the scientific method. The crucial part where hypothesis meets reality is not there. So, they are actually failing to teach how scientists think...
- Important new paper challenges IPCC’s claims about climate sensitivity Wed, 21 Sep 22, 2:31amby Nic Lewis Official estimates of future global warming may be overstated. A brief summary in press release style of my new paper (written in the third person) One of the most important conclusions of the recent 6th Assessment...
- What the pandemic has taught us about science Sun, 11 Oct 20, 1:24amThe scientific method remains the best way to solve many problems, but bias, overconfidence and politics can sometimes lead scientists astray It’s been awhile since I have been so struck by an article that I felt moved...
- Emergent constraints on TCR and ECS from historical warming in CMIP5 and CMIP6 models Thu, 20 Aug 20, 6:14amBy Nic Lewis This is a brief comment on a new paper[i] by a mathematician in the Exeter Climate Systems group, Femke Nijsse, and two better known colleagues, Peter Cox and Mark Williamson...
- Truth(?) in testimony and convincing policy makers Thu, 27 Jun 19, 11:23pmby Judith Curry Some reflections, stimulated by yesterday’s Congressional Hearing, on the different strategies of presenting Congressional testimony...
- Climate science’s ‘masking bias’ problem Fri, 21 Jun 19, 10:59pmby Judith Curry How valid conclusions often lay hidden within research reports, masked by plausible but unjustified conclusions reached in those reports. And how the IPCC institutionalizes such masking errors in climate...
- Climate scientists’ motivated reasoning Thu, 20 Jun 19, 2:51amby Judith Curry Insights into the motivated reasoning of climate scientists, including my own efforts to sort out my own biases and motivated reasoning following publication of the Webster et al...
- Global Warming: Science or Political Science? Tue, 26 Mar 19, 4:00pmBy John Droz, jr In paleoclimatologist Dr. Curt Stager’s recent Adirondack Almanac piece about me it’s startling that he so openly disavowed traditional Science. By comparison, consider his insightful quote back in 2011:...
- Climate uncertainty monster: What’s the worst case? Fri, 12 Oct 18, 3:10amby Judith Curry On possibilities, known neglecteds, and the vicious positive feedback loop between scientific assessment and policy making that has created a climate Frankenstein...
- Reviewing the CCSR: Discussion thread Mon, 21 Aug 17, 9:16amby Judith Curry This post is running parallel to the post Reviewing the Climate Science Special Report (a technical post), to accommodate general discussion on the topicFiled under: Scientific method
- Reviewing the Climate Science Special Report Mon, 21 Aug 17, 9:17amby Judith Curry Calling on CE Denizens to review the Climate Science Special Report: nominate an official reviewer, or participate in the CE Crowdsourced Review...
- Nye’s Quadrant Wed, 3 May 17, 2:54amby Judith Curry The scary emergence of Nye’s Quadrant in dominating the public discourse on climate change. If you are unfamiliar with Pasteur’s Quadrant, read my previous post [link]. The focus of my previous...
- A ‘Red Team’ Exercise Would Strengthen Climate Science Sat, 22 Apr 17, 1:23amby Judith Curry Put the ‘consensus’ to a test, and improve public understanding, though an open and adversarial process. – Steve Koonin Steve Koonin has an op-ed published today in the Wall Street Journal:...
- Discussion thread: reactions to House Hearing Sun, 16 Apr 17, 1:33amby Judith Curry Climate Feedback has interviewed a number of scientists regarding the recent House Hearing on climate science. The article: Scientists reactions to the US House Science Committee hearing on climate science....
- Science needs reason to be trusted Thu, 6 Apr 17, 2:38amby Judith Curry Two excellent articles about science, facts, and post-factualism. Sabine Hossenfelder just published a superb essay in Nature Physics, entitled Science needs reason to be trusted. Subtitle: That we now live...