During the deposition process of Dr Singer (full text here), Lancaster acted as his own attorney, posing most of his questions on the Revelle - Singer - Starr paper and
related science points, but closed with questions about skeptic climate scientists and Western Fuels» funding of them.
Not exact matches
How you can even
relate science and worshiping idols together in the same
point, boggles the mind.
In my view, the most important omission
related directly to
science and technology aspects of the greenhouse gas issue is the failure to
point out the tremendous opportunity that exists to limit warming over the next few decades by imposing strong, mandatory controls of short - lived warming agents (so methane, black carbon, and tropospheric ozone).
Each film serves as a jumping off
point for the speaker to explore a
related science or technology topic in a way that engages popular culture audiences.
The government
pointed to PISA data that showed more than a quarter of pupils (28 per cent) in England hope to be working in a
science -
related career by the time they are 30, a «significant increase» compared to 16 % in 2006.
175 years after the invention of photography, the extensive two - part exhibition presents a somewhat different history of the medium: rather than focusing on technical, sociological aspects or those
related to media
science and art history, it tells the story of photography from the
point of view of artists.
My comments about «my links» was not about you personally, more a general
point about where I sit, and the endless criticisms sharing important
related info /
science that flies right over the top of peoples heads, especially intelligent PhDs who can not see the wood for the trees and have little holistic vision (imho).
I've written in the past about other issues
related to setting a numerical limit for climate dangers given both the enduring uncertainty around the most important climate change questions and the big body of
science pointing to a gradient of risks rising with temperature.
This page is a catalogue that will be kept up to date
pointing to selected sources of code and data
related to climate
science.
Congressman Holt raises a number of key questions on
related issues, while
pointing to some very hopeful experiences, notably in the Apollo program, in his 16 September editorial in
Science.
I notice that it took me, an amateur with no professional qualifications directly
related to climate
science, only moments to independently identify multiple weaknesses in the questions, the same weaknesses that other commenters have
pointed out.
On bad media: There has been plenty of misinformation and / or disinformation on climate disseminated by the media over the years — much of it
related to the AGW
point above (conflating all climate
science with flawed examples, or mashing up meanings).
But while
science advances through that process of argument, public attitudes on climate change have largely been dulled by the debate, particularly after more than a decade of industry - backed efforts to
point to the implicit complexity in the
science as a reason for inaction on
related energy and climate policies.
There are other important questions about the path forward,
related to how to handle reasoned minority views on particular
science and policy questions, how to deal speedily with errors and how to break down barriers among the three main «working groups» — on the basic
science pointing to warming, the range of impacts and possible responses.
Related IPCC Climate Change Report The Five Key
Points IPCC Report: Climate Change 2013: The Physical
Science Basis IPCC Report: Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability New York Times: Climate Study Puts Diplomatic Pressure on Obama
We seem, however, to agree on very many
points related to the nature of
science as well as on what kind of requirements should be made on scientific practices.
Furthermore, I
pointed out how this was closely
related to what I take to be a central principle explaining the power of
science:
In one of my other recent articles, I describe how the PBS NewsHour's 1996 - to - present bias in its global warming discussion segments presents only four instances where any semblance of skeptic
science points were mentioned out of more than 355 on - air broadcast discussions (plus a few online pages directly
relating to some of those segments).
The
point of origin in this discussion was the article that illustrates an influence of «solution aversion» to how people assess the
science related to climate change.
Finally, you may also find quite interesting the concluding Amicus section that
points out the numerous
science -
related legal errors the EPA committed which taken together all but guaranteed that its EF -
related analytical process was grossly flawed.
I forgot to mention that on the «
science denial kills» question, while others have already
pointed out how laughably bogus the «Global Warming is killing people» claim is, we might also mention that when the globe cools, (and when people don't have access to low cost energy for warmth), the associated crop failures, disease, starvation, and cold
related deaths, number in the millions annually as history has amply demonstrated.
And that's illustrated if you compare how «
science - based» and «
science - denier» blogs discuss right about any climate -
related topic, from actual atmospheric temperature development to its physical manifestations, like sea level rise (see the chart in the middle of this piece) and social and ecological consequences of climate change — including at some
point the fate of iconic mammal species that use sea ice as hunting grounds.
assuming what you say about skeptics changing topic as you describe is accurate, and at this
point I do we are talking about data that is less than 200 years old, out of which extraordinary claims are made as to how that data
relates to distant past and future trends tough sell assuming that all adjustments to the data are scientifically sound, It is very difficult for me to believe that measurements that have gone through so many iterations can be trusted to.0 and.00 in most other
sciences, I doubt they would tough sell (the photo of the thermometer is downright funny) in terms of goal post moving I observe predicted heat being re-branded as «missing» a prediction of no snow re-branded as more snow a warming world re-branded to a «warm, cold, we don't know what to expect» world topped off with suggestions that one who thinks the above has some sort of psychological disorder extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence especially when you are teaching children that their world is endangered
On the one hand, warnings from the scientific community are becoming louder, as an increasing body of
science points to rising dangers from the ongoing buildup of human -
related greenhouse gases — produced mainly by the burning of fossil fuels and forests.
As coby has
pointed out on other sections of his blog, the confluence of
science from a wide variety of areas that has led to almost every real scientist in fields
related to climate
science (and especially those in climate
science itself) accepting the basic tenets of anthropenically induced global climate change.
I have done so repeatedly — to the
point that the moderators of this site have had to remind me that it is a climate
science blog, not an energy and efficiency technology blog, and that the comment threads are a forum for discussing climate
science, and not a forum for discussing or debating the merits of different approaches to phasing out energy -
related GHG emissions.