The (Imaginary) Trial of Peter Gleick – Part 3: Defense Opening Argument
From the beginning: The (Imaginary) Trial of Peter Gleick. Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. It features characters based on real people and evidence based on real events, and is as close to...
View ArticleThe (Imaginary) Trial of Peter Gleick – Part 4: Prosecution Witness Donna...
From the beginning: The (Imaginary) Trial of Peter Gleick. Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. It features characters based on real people and evidence based on real events, and is as close to...
View ArticleTwo Stopped Watches
Everyone knows the old adage that “even a stopped clock is right twice a day.” Then there’s that saying (which I’d always thought was a quotation from Mark Twain, but which turns out, at least...
View ArticleRussell to Daisey to Gleick
There’s a weird synchronicity in all these stories floating around lately about people, nominally good guys, trying to raise public awareness about nominal bad guys, but doing it by exaggerating or...
View ArticleThe Mysterious Ticking Noise
This is the bed where my wife and I sleep. I often sit there reading (okay; or playing Draw Something) for a little bit before I turn out the lights. It was a few nights ago that I first noticed the...
View ArticlePushing Back in the Comments
I will always love Jack Hitt for his story about taking his daughter to lunch on Martin Luther King day, which featured in what may be my favorite episode of This American Life ever, Kid Logic. I liked...
View ArticleLaden and Romm on Goldenberg on Gleick
I’m not sure that anyone else besides me actually cares about the angst I suffered during the whole Heartland/Peter Gleick saga. But for me at least, it was fairly angsty. One of the main things I took...
View ArticleJPL’s ’7 Minutes of Terror’ Video
On August 5 at around 10:24 p.m. Pacific time, engineers at JPL will experience “7 minutes of terror” as they follow the delayed telemetry from the Mars Curiosity rover to see if it successfully...
View ArticleVoosen on Krosnick on Public Perceptions of (Climate) Scientists Who Advocate
There was an interesting article from Paul Voosen in Greenwire the other day: Climate: Scientists struggle with limits — and risks — of advocacy. I came across it on Judith Curry’s blog (Just the...
View ArticleAttributing Extreme Weather to AGW, Finding Common Ground (Or Not)
Another quick post to link to some interesting discussion that I’m not going to bother to write about in detail. Perception of Climate Change – James Hansen of NASA argues in a somewhat science-y way...
View ArticleHoffman on Ending the Climate Science Culture War
Andrew J. Hoffman (joint PhD in Management and Civil and Environmental Engineering from M.I.T.) writes interestingly about the climate change debate: Climate Science as Culture War. The piece is long,...
View ArticleChanging One’s Mind
Keith Kloor posts today with some examples of people who were sailing along with one belief and then, despite the headwind created by motivated reasoning and confirmation bias, managed to tack and sail...
View ArticleSinging About Science
You’ve probably seen it already (since I’ve seen it about 5 times from various sources in my newsfeed), but the Symphony of Science guy (John Boswell, aka melodysheep) has a new auto-tuned song out...
View ArticleKloor, Frauenfelder, and Hiltzik on Attitudes Toward and the Politics of GMO...
Keith Kloor has an excellent article at Slate on how scientific denialism is not the exclusive province of the Right: GMO Opponents Are the Climate Skeptics of the Left. This hit home for me, because...
View ArticleSam Harris on Alexander’s ‘I Visited Heaven’ Claim
Again with the people who have actual expertise weighing in on credulous fairy tales: This must be heaven.
View ArticleKloor: More on How GMO Fear is the Climate Denial of the Left
Another in a continuing series of posts by Keith Kloor on the similarities between science denialism by those on the right (who deny the scientific consensus on climate change) and the left (who deny...
View ArticleTalking about Sandy and Climate Change
I’ve been reading a bunch of people talking about whether Hurricane Sandy was “caused by” climate change (answer: it depends on what you mean by “caused by”). Also the related question: Is it kosher...
View ArticleA Dan Kahan Reader on Cultural Bias and Motivated Reasoning
As previously mentioned, here’s some Dan Kahan to liven up your day: Why we are poles apart on climate change – from Nature, a good overview of Kahan’s views and research. Doesn’t get too technical....
View ArticleMore Scary Stuff About the Future by People with Actual Expertise
shcb will not find the credentials of the authors of this report compelling. He will imagine that their training and the level of analysis they bring to bear is roughly the equivalent of (or, if he’s...
View ArticleAnother Realm in Which Expertise Matters: GOTV Software Development
Here are a couple of items I found interesting because they relate to what I do for my day job: web application development. It turns out that along with overpaying for advertising and buying a lot of...
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