Jason Soon asked for feedback and opinions on the Scientific Article, Seven Answers to Climate Contrarian Nonsense.
Jason, since you asked, here’s my take on that article. I think it’s weak in many places, but particularly weak when it gets to climategate.
The Scientific American (SciAm) article by John Rennie looks at seven claims of so-called contrarians [...]
A new study claims that el nino effects explain the surge in temperature from 1977 onwards. In the article, the authors claim that 80 percent of climate variability can be accounted for by modelling internal (ie earthbound) climate effects.
“The surge in global temperatures since 1977 can be attributed to a 1976 climate shift in the [...]
Science books in America don’t have enough doom and gloom in them. They certainly don’t paint a comprehensive picture of humans polluting and destroying the planet.
What do you do when science texts aren’t up to the job? Resort to videos, which don’t have to stick to the facts so closely.
The NY Times reports on “A [...]
Ian Plimer on his new book, Heaven and Earth:
“The reason I put this book out,” he says, “is to start a debate. The fact that I’ve now flushed out a few scientists to criticise me in public is wonderful because we’ve never had a [scientific] debate. Consensus is a word of politics; it’s not a [...]
Ian Plimer’s book Heaven and Earth has been criticised by blogger Tim Lambert.
Jason Soon at Catallaxy, questions Lambert:
For the record I have no interest in any of this stuff and tend out of laziness to take the consensus view on warming. But Lambert has hardly ‘demolished’ anything. let’s see him write a book of similar [...]