Category: Climate change
Nobel Peace Prize Winner Al Gore on why evidence doesn’t matter (with free curse words)
| August 25, 2011 | Posted by News under Climate change, Intelligent Design, News, Science |
A guy can create an uproar by setting the fire alarm – once. The third time, it won’t be a fire that gets investigated. more
The Darwin lobby has been forced to take a part time job?
| August 13, 2011 | Posted by News under Climate change, Culture, Darwinism, News |
Apparently. Ian Binns, a science education researcher at Louisiana StateUniversity, told Science that a law such as Louisiana’s, which misdescribes established scientific theories such as evolution as controversial, “tells our students and teachers that there are problems that there aren’t” and distort their understanding of the nature of science; NCSE’s Joshua Rosenau added, “Science is… more
Polls: Rising number doubt honesty among scientists
| August 5, 2011 | Posted by News under Climate change, Science |
The government needs to vote the people out of office and elect a new “pro-science” public that would never think they had any right to question such things. more
Why wasn’t that polar bear scientist a full-time Darwinist writing about human evolution? He’d be way safer.
| July 31, 2011 | Posted by News under Climate change, Peer review |
Why wasn’t that polar bear scientist a full-time Darwinist writing about human evolution? His speculations would be way safer. more
When the politics of climate change clash with the politics of Darwinism, expect a big fight – but which wins?
| June 11, 2011 | Posted by News under Climate change, Darwinism |
An interesting clash is shaping up between the truisms of Darwinian evolution and those of climate change, as reported in ”Can Evolution Outpace Climate Change? Tiny Seashore Animal Suggests Not”, (ScienceDaily, June 9, 2011): Animals and plants may not be able to evolve their way out of the threat posed by climate change, according to a… more
Heartland Institute on NAS Climate Report
| May 20, 2010 | Posted by William Dembski under Climate change, Global Warming |
Your tax dollars being used against you: ————————————— NAS Climate Report: ‘Partisan, Closed Minded’ The National Academy of Sciences Thursday reasserted its opinion that the Earth’s climate has warmed to crisis levels and that human activity – the burning of fossil fuels – is the primary cause. In its 869-page report, the NAS, a group… more
Lord Monckton’s Climate Testimony Before Congress
| May 10, 2010 | Posted by William Dembski under Climate change, Global Warming |
Here’s an enjoyable piece of testimony from May 6th, 2010 by Lord Christopher Monckton before Congress. For the pdf of his testimony, go here. His point about science not being a matter of consensus is well taken and was stated even more eloquently by Michael Crichton in his 2003 Caltech Michelin lecture (go here). Also important is… more
We’re Not Critics – We’re Enemies!
| March 5, 2010 | Posted by DonaldM under Climate change, Creationism, Culture, Darwinism, Evolution, Evolutionary biology, Free Speech, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, Media, Science |
Today’s Fox News website had this little story, entitled Climate Scientists Plan to Hit Back at Skeptics. In the article, Stanford University climate researcher Paul R. Ehrlich had this to say about global warming skeptics: “Most of our colleagues don’t seem to grasp that we’re not in a gentlepersons’ debate, we’re in a street fight… more
Al Gore comes out of hiding
| March 2, 2010 | Posted by William Dembski under Climate change, Eyes Rolling, Global Warming |
Part of Al Gore’s credibility problem is his blatant conflict of interest, having profitted enormously from pushing AGW. Fortunately, ID proponents can’t say that we’ve lined our coffers pursuing ID. Sure, Barbara Forrest, Eugenie Scott, and Ken Miller constantly proclaim the contrary — from their well-heeled positions, funded largely by public moneys. In any case, this… more
Climategate: Plausibility and the blogosphere in the post-normal age.
| February 9, 2010 | Posted by DLH under Climate change, Ethics, Free Speech, Intellectual freedom, Peer review, Science |
Philosopher at Large, Dr. Jerome Ravetz has a fascinating exploration of moral and peer review issues on ClimateGate as “Post-Normal science” at Watts Up With That . . . At the end of January 2010 two distinguished scientific institutions shared headlines with Tony Blair over accusations of the dishonest and possibly illegal manipulation of information.… more
“Overwhelming Scientific Evidence” yet again
| January 28, 2010 | Posted by William Dembski under Climate change, Culture, Global Warming, Science |
Whenever I hear the phrase “overwhelming evidence” or “overwhelming scientific evidence,” my antennae go up and I know that someone is trying to sell me something. Last night, if you were watching the networks, you heard the following remark: I know that there are those who disagree with the overwhelming scientific evidence on climate change.… more
Climategate at Wikipedia vs. Conservapedia
| December 21, 2009 | Posted by William Dembski under Climate change, Global Warming |
Go here for Wikipedia’s treatment of Climategate and here for Conservapedia’s treatment of it. True to form, Wikipedia argues that the hacking of the CRU server changes nothing. Conservapedia, by contrast, treats Climategate as further confirmation that AGW is a ruse. Interesting is the following quote from their Climategate article: It was reported that, despite… more
Climategate: If you can’t stand the cold, get out of the freezer
| December 20, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Climate change |
Yes, there has definitely been a chill around climate science in recent weeks. Brrr!! Patrick J. Michaels, who used to study and write about climate, comments on Climategate: After Messrs. Jones and Mann threatened a boycott of publications and reviews, half the editorial board of Climate Research resigned. People who didn’t toe Messrs. Wigley, Mann… more
Coffee!! Could Climategaters and Darwinists share a shrine to save money?
| December 12, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Climate change |
In “Promises, Promises,” Stuart Blackman warns: “Ill-judged predictions and projections can be embarrassing at best and, at worst, damaging to the authority of science and science policy. (The Scientist, Volume 23 | Issue 11 | Page 28). (Registration wall) As Michael Gerson, who does not dispute global warming, puts it, in the famous East Anglia e-mail… more
Intellectual freedom: The difference the blogosphere makes
| December 10, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Climate change |
In “Bloggers peer review a scientific ‘consensus,’” Gordon Crovitz writes (Wall Street Journal, December 6, 2009), Unlike Watergate, Climategate didn’t come to light because investigative journalists ferreted out the truth. Instead, this story so far has played itself out largely on blogs, often run by the same scientists who had a hard time getting printed… more
How much attention should we pay to pundit predictions?
| December 9, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Climate change, Neuroscience |
Maybe not so much. Jonah Lehrer, contributing editor at Wired, and blogger at The Frontal Cortex writes, In the early 1980s, Philip Tetlock at UC Berkeley picked two hundred and eighty-four people who made their living “commenting or offering advice on political and economic trends” and began asking them to make predictions about future events.… more
Coffee!!: What do polls mean?
| December 9, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Climate change |
Here, Barry offered some poll numbers re beliefs of Americans: Percentage of Americans who believe in angels: 55 Percentage of Americans who believe in evolution: 39 Percentage of Americans who believe in anthropogenic global warming: 36 Percentage of Americans who believe in ghosts: 34 Percentage of Americans who believe in UFOs: 34 Some commenters wanted… more
Do humans influence temperature records?
| December 8, 2009 | Posted by DLH under Climate change, Design inference, Global Warming, Intelligent Design, Physics, Science |
Can the methods of Intelligent Design be brought to bear to detect anthropogenic influence in temperature records? Core to the climate debate is the danger of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming. We hear of “tipping points” promising coast lands drowning in glacial melt. Defining “very likely” as > 90%, the IPCC’s Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report… more
Puzzled about the climate uproar? Wonder why anyone cares? Before you run off to devour caviar in Copenhagen …
| December 8, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Climate change |
Here’s the clearest explanation of Climategate I have encountered, with charts showing how one can create global warming: while reconstructions — as past temperature interpretations from proxy data are called – can differ greatly from one source to another, those generated by the CRU have often been accepted as the de facto temperatures of the… more
“The Totalities of Copenhagen”
| December 8, 2009 | Posted by William Dembski under Climate change, Global Warming |
Bret Stevens’ article today in the WSJ, “The Totalities of Copenhagen,” again shows the strong parallels between the global warming debate and the evolution debate, especially with the proclivity of AGW and evolution advocates to quash all dissent. Consider, from his piece, the following characteristics of the AGW advocates: • Revolutionary fervor: There’s a distinct… more
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