Still waiting for John McLean and Bob Carter to comment on the Foster et al response published in JGR outlining exactly how they manipulated their dataset to give a false conclusion. According to McLean’s website, although the authors were well aware of the Foster response before it was published:
The informal [...]
Here’s an interesting one: Hawaiian scientists discover a terrestrial caterpillar (that eats tree snails) has an innate ability to survive underwater for weeks at a time. It seems that this isn’t a survival mechanism (just in case they fell out of a tree and into a stream whilst munching on tree snails), but [...]
“We have shown that internal global climate-system variability accounts for at least 80% of the observed global climate variation over the past half-century.”
That is how Bob Carter described the implications of the paper he coauthored last year (McLean et al. 2009). But a new rebuttal to the paper (Foster et al. 2010) [...]
Bjorn Lomborg has again been given prime space in The Australian. Reading the article, one is struck by Bjorn’s oversimplification of the issues perhaps exemplified by his claim that a sea-level rise of 5m would not be so bad. For whom? Is it just coastal people in developing nations? The recently released Department of [...]
I have been sort of collecting these essays about how scientists are mucking up our attempts to communicate with the public. This is, so far, my favorite. Sharon Begley is a longtime and very talented science writer who recently returned to Newsweek.
I love a few of her lines. Read the full essay here.
[...]
from Crikey. Hat tip to Deltoid.
Nope, it isn’t Phil Jones or Michael Mann. It is Bob Carter, a co-author on McLean et al. 2009 “Influence of the Southern Oscillation on tropospheric temperature”.
Last year, Bob claimed “We have shown that internal global climate-system variability accounts for at least 80% of the observed global climate variation over the past [...]
The UN has failed for a second time to pass legislation to protect Atlantic bluefin tuna from over-explotation and commercial extinction. The news came from a UN conference on endangered species, where the body also voted against ending the international trade in polar bear parts, shark parts and plans to vote to re-establish the [...]
Andrew Bolt’s latest slander claims that CSIRO, BOM and the Australian government are in a conspiracy. Who is the fraud here? Thousands of scientists or Andrew Bolt? Update: Here we go again. When will Mr Bolt be honest about the actual facts of the matter! Either he isnt reading the responses to his fraudulent accusations or [...]
George Monbiot has a nice article on “the unpersuadables” here. I have been thinking about this a lot. Is there any point in public outreach, in blogging, etc? Has everybody already made up their mind regardless of what the rationale science says? Randy Olson thinks not. Neither does Juan cole. I change my [...]
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