By Judith Curry | Climate Etc. | September 21, 2014 In a press conference last week, UN Secretary-General Ban-Ki Moon stated: “Action on climate change is urgent. The more we delay, the more we will pay in lives and in money.” The recently appointed UN Messenger of Peace Leonardo DiCaprio stated “The debate is over. […]
We are biological creatures, part of an ecosphere, living in communities. Like any other organism, our genetic code sets parameters within which we live. The ecosphere is governed by laws of physics and chemistry that set the parameters within which all organisms exist. And we encounter the world not as isolated, independent individuals but through social systems that affect how we understand ourselves and the possibilities for our lives.
by Judith Curry
UK Energy and Climate Change Committee report on IPCC AR5 – another pointless exercise in circular reasoning, confirmation bias and division? – Paul Matthews
By Judith Curry | July 27, 2013 My, the Cook et al. 97% consensus paper is a gift to the climate blogosphere that keeps on giving. Some insightful new posts provide fodder for additional discussion on this. Ben Pile Ben Pile has a new post Tom Curtis doesn’t understand the 97% paper. Here are a […]
by Judith Curry The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space & Technology is holding a Hearing today at 11 a.m.: Examining the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Process The link to the Hearing is [here]. The Hearing … Continue reading →
Credentialed, experienced critics declare that the UN's climate panel is politicized - and that many of its conclusions are mistaken.
by Judith Curry Our point is that the IPCC has bought into a very specific framing of “the problem” that has rendered climate policy ineffective and has foreclosed the possibility of public consent. - Silke Beck et al. You may recall … Continue reading →
Help annotate the new IPCC report so that it's more user friendly - and more informative about its authors and source material.
by Judith Curry The whole concept behind IPCC is basically wrong. – Lennart Bengtsson Last week, The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) issued a press release that Lennart Bengtsson joints the GWPF’s Academic Advisory Council. Exceprts: The Global Warming Policy Foundation is … Continue reading →
A new study by psychologist David Budescu of Fordham University and his colleagues is actually the latest in a string of papers by these researchers showing that people systematically misunderstand what the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) means when it uses phrases such as “likely” and “very likely” to describe the strength of its conclusions.
