Strengthening the Stories That Unite Us
Strengthening the Stories That Unite Us
Another batch of private emails from climate scientists has been leaked These ones, though, are very different than the last. It’s a thread of emails from the NAS (US National Academy of Sciences), and these guys are mad. They are…
A brief summary of the Science & Technology Committee”s “ClimateGate” hearing The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee met yesterday for a one off evidence session looking at the disclosure of climate data from the Climatic Research Unit at…
Cross-posted from the Wonk Room. Scientists who challenged the possibility of catastrophic sea level rise in coming decades have retracted their argument. Mark Siddall, whose paper claimed sea level rise from global warming could not be more than 82 centimeters…
A couple of weeks ago, Ben Goldacre bashed out a quick piece for the Guardian’s news desk on the subject of the General Medical Council’s damning verdict on the conduct of Andrew Wakefield, in which he said: As the years…
The “Glaciergate” story is about a claim in the 2007 IPCC report that the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035. It turns out that the evidence for this claim was from a speculative comment made by a not-very-prominent glaciologist in…
Following the UEA email hack, it’s become part of the media narrative that opinion is turning against man-made global warming. It’s usually worth checking any such media claim about changes in public opinion that have supposedly occurred following a series…
Thawing permafrost could inject enough carbon into the atmosphere to cook the planet. But nobody’s quite sure how fast it’s going to happen. Permafrost is a giant cold-storage compost heap, stuffed full of frozen carbon. Just like you chucked out…
*Yawn* Another week, another howler from the Spectator, rapidly pulling ahead in the 'single least informed source on climate science' awards, or maybe just the 'most credulous rag' category. So Melanie Philips announces on her Spectator blog… Yet another scientific…