This isn't the first time that Rose has
written about climate science.
He has not
written about climate science, per se — in fact, I do not believe he even mentions it, or (if so) it is just in passing.
The controversy over the Karl et al. study flared up again in early February 2017 when the Daily Mail published an article by David Rose — who has often inaccurately
written about climate science — based on a blog post by retired NOAA scientist John Bates, who maintained that the study authors failed to disclose critical information about their data.
Many stories were
written about climate science in 2017, but were the ones that «went viral» scientifically accurate?
Few columnists
writing about climate science are as brazen in their open contempt for the truth as Lawrence Solomon, as I showed in my analysis of Solomon's recent musings about Arctic sea ice.
Is Viscount Monckton arguing that George Monbiot, a journalist who makes no claim to being a climate scientist, should not
write about climate science?
A Bit of Good News
Writing about climate science can get grim: melting ice, warming temperatures, rising sea levels.
Not exact matches
The companies include Chevron Corp., ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips Co., BP, Royal Dutch Shell and Peabody Energy Corp. «The American people deserve answers from the fossil fuel corporations
about their actions to massively deceive the public in regards to
climate science,» Lieu and Welch
wrote in a letter to their House colleagues asking for their support.
Before joining Scientific American, he was senior writer at
Climate Central, a nonprofit research and journalism organization, and before that he spent nearly 21 years at Time magazine, where he
wrote more than 50 cover stories on
about science and the environment, along with many smaller pieces.
His time at the U.K. Parliamentary Office of
Science and Technology (POST), during which he helped
write a four - page brief
about international efforts to reduce deforestation ahead of the United Nations
Climate Change Conference in Paris, was a tremendous learning experience, says Richardson, who is now a postdoc at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, working at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
«The evidence before the committee leads to one inescapable conclusion: the Bush administration has engaged in a systematic effort to manipulate
climate change
science and mislead policymakers and the public
about the dangers of global warming,» the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
wrote in its report on the matter in December 2007.
In «A Phoenix Flies to Mars», Andrew Fazekas, the Canadian Editor for
Science's Next Wave,
writes about the NASA Phoenix polar lander, and Canada's contribution to the project: a sophisticated meteorological station developed by a team of Canadian scientists and engineers that will analyze Mars» arctic
climate.
He
writes about lawmakers» attitudes on
climate change and tracks efforts by political groups to promote and stigmatize the
science around warming.
«They do a nice job showing that exceptionally warm temperatures from 2012 - 2014 amplified drought conditions for California,» Nate Mantua, a
climate scientist at the Southwest Fisheries
Science Center who has previously
written about temperature variations in the region, said.
«Coming from complexity
science, the term emergence describes the dynamic and unpredictable ways through which change unfolds in organizations,»
writes Shane Safir in this article
about how teacher leaders can transform a school's
climate and culture.
I've addressed this question before in various ways, but was prompted to dig into my ideas and feelings
about the building greenhouse effect with new rigor when two very different magazines, Issues in
Science and Technology (the magazine of the National Academies) and Creative Nonfiction, invited me to
write an essay on my 30 years of
climate inquiry.
Jim: thanks so much for
writing about the attacks against
climate scientists so cogently and eloquently in «The Inquisition of Climate Science&
climate scientists so cogently and eloquently in «The Inquisition of
Climate Science&
Climate Science».
Drs Leonard Smith and Nicholas Stern
wrote poignantly
about how policy is nearly always set in the context of uncertainty, and that even incomplete scientific assessments can be of great value («Uncertainty in
science and its role in
climate policy», http://www.lorentzcenter.nl/lc/web/2011/460/presentations/Smith.pdf).
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.
The two most hateful sentences I ever
wrote were in an essay of 1988, during my effort to save a nuclear plant on
climate grounds: «Moreover, almost everything which
science can tell us
about this problem has already been conveyed.
Thanks for your comment in 249 on if the U.S.
Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) press release (link below) is an example about how to, or how not to, write a press release dealing with climate
Climate Change
Science Program (CCSP) press release (link below) is an example
about how to, or how not to,
write a press release dealing with
climate climate change.
Also, Spencer Weart has
written a guest post at Real
Climate which admits the science is not settled about the climate's sensitivity
Climate which admits the
science is not settled
about the
climate's sensitivity
climate's sensitivity to CO2.
Last week, I
wrote about the new online
climate science course taught by David Archer at the University of Chicago.
Over all, he
wrote, «My reading of the vast scientific literature on
climate change is that our understanding is undiminished by this incident; but it has raised concern
about the standards of
science and has damaged public trust in what scientists do.»
I was engaged in a discussion with Monckton
about his views of
climate science and some disputes we'd had over stories I'd
written when Brad Johnson, a
climate blogger and editor at the liberal Center for American Progress, walked by — creating one of those volatile moments, as if matter and anti-matter had come a bit too close for comfort.
As I
wrote in January, when a columnist really cares
about something — as was the case with Will's assault on
climate science — he really puts his shoulder to it in repeated volleys.
Which basically brings us back to my original recommendation that you do a lot more open minded reading, or go to school for
climate science for a while, if you wish to
write intelligently
about it.
The companies include Chevron Corp., ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips Co., BP, Royal Dutch Shell and Peabody Energy Corp. «The American people deserve answers from the fossil fuel corporations
about their actions to massively deceive the public in regards to
climate science,» Lieu and Welch
wrote in a letter to their House colleagues asking for their support.
Second, I was asked to
write about the
science and issues at the
climate science - policy interface, which I regard as of the utmost importance.
Such is the concern
about ExxonMobil that earlier this year the Royal Society, considered Britain's leading scientific academy,
wrote to it asking that it stop funding groups that have «misrepresented the
science of
climate change by outright denial of the evidence».
Last year the UK's prestigious scientific body, the Royal Society,
wrote to Exxon asking them to stop funding the groups who were «misinforming the public
about the
science of
climate change».
Why is it that the people who understand Law and Order work behind bar, the people who understand politics spend their time driving cabs and the people who really understand
climate science write papers
about nmr spectroscopy in the far, far future?
Answering a review by Michael Tobis of his book «The Honest Broker» Pielke
writes «My concern
about climate science is that too many
science arbiters and honest brokers have decided to engage in advocacy.
If you, Pielke and Curry keep saying often enough that the
science community is doing damage to itself (because obviously, all tens of thousands of
climate scientists have
written CAPS LOCK mails to Bengtsson to force him to leave the cigar and port club), it might just come
about.
Articles
written principally
about the
science of
climate change represented less than a tenth of all the coverage surveyed.
We have
written an article
about the Clear
Climate Code project for the IEEE Software special issue on climate s
Climate Code project for the IEEE Software special issue on
climate s
climate science.
If journalists
wrote more stories
about where uncertainty exists in the
science, and if they were more aggressive
about challenging scientists on transparency issues, we wouldn't have these pseudo-scandals erupt every time a
climate scientist missteps.
RTB
wrote: «Considering MM Co2 represents
about one molecule in 62,500 in the atmosphere and it is supposed to be controlling all the Earth's
climate zones seems extremely unlikely... I know
science is not intuitive but this is not credible, imo.»
When a medical doctor with no prior record of publication in the learned journals of
climate science wanders off the reservation and
writes for a collectivist website
about the totalitarians» favorite Trojan horse, global warming, one expects nonsense.
Rather than
writing position documents
about climate science they should worry
about the integrity of
climate science and making sure that
science can evolve wherever it wants to go.
There are a bunch of people who
write fairly regularly
about climate science and
climate policy in the mainstream media, but as you point out there are many more
writing about it in the blogosphere.
- Quote
about writing «scientific studies» for the tobacco industry by Frederick Seitz, the author of that cover letter for that petition of 30000 questionable signatures against the
science of
climate change.
Though not CMOS's first public statement, it was one of the most «vocal
about climate change of late» due to the fact «that Canada's new Conservative government does not support the Kyoto Protocol for lower emissions of greenhouse gases, and opposed stricter emissions for a post-Kyoto agreement at a United Nations meeting in Bonn in May [2006]» and because «a small, previously invisible group of global warming sceptics called the Friends of
Science are suddenly receiving attention from the Canadian government and media,» Leahy
wrote.
Mr. Dickson
wrote passionately
about several areas in
climate science that troubled him, including: first, the idea that 97 percent of
climate scientists agree that
climate change is real, caused by humans, and a threat; second, the idea that government agencies had manipulated temperature records to fit a narrative of warming; and third, that China is developing its coal resources so fast that nothing short of radical population control will save us, if burning fossil fuels really does cause global warming.
Here we have a post
written by a
climate scientist in order to complain
about the biasing effect of a politicization of
climate science, in which she openly embraces an analysis that presents a completely politicized picture of
science, without even a cursory attempt to present objectively collected and analyzed evidence in support..
Science journalist Andrew Revkin who
writes the Dot Earth blog for the New York Times told EarthSky his thoughts
about the U.S.
climate bill.
Last week, I
wrote about the remarkable letter in
Science supporting the accuracy of climate science, signed by 255 National Academy of Sciences members, including 11 Nobel lau
Science supporting the accuracy of
climate science, signed by 255 National Academy of Sciences members, including 11 Nobel lau
science, signed by 255 National Academy of Sciences members, including 11 Nobel laureates.
One of the most glaring differences between legitimate
science - based blogs and those that deny the
science on anthropogenic
climate change is how they
write about polar bears and Arctic sea ice.
As is usually the case in these
climate contrarian letters, this one has no scientific content, and is
written by individuals with not an ounce of
climate science expertise, but who nevertheless have the audacity to tell
climate scientists what they should think
about climate science.
Jeremy Deaton
writes about the
science, policy, and politics of
climate and energy for Nexus Media.