Noah Sachs, over at PrafsBlawg, is kind enough to respond to my post on the Copenhagen meetings and collective action problems. It is worth reading the whole thing, but here is a chunk of it. (If you comment, please remember that Professor Sachs is my guest here, so be courteous. And my thanks to him […]
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Clive Crook (at The Atlantic) on “ClimateGate”
Here’s what Crook writes: I admire expertise, and scientific expertise especially; like any intelligent citizen I am willing to defer to it. But that puts a great obligation on science. The people whose instinct is to respect and admire science should be the ones most disturbed by these revelations. The scientists have let them down […]
“Scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) Have Admitted Throwing Away Much of the Raw Temperature Data on Which Their Predictions of Global Warming Are Based”
So reports the Sunday Times (London). The data apparently got “dumped to save space when the CRU [Climate Research Unit] moved to a new building,” “in the 1980s, a time when climate change was seen as a less pressing issue.” Only the adjusted data, adjusted based on decisions by the CRU scientists, has been kept. […]
How Are the Copenhagen Talks Supposed to Overcome Collective Action Problems?
By Kenneth Anderson on November 29, 2009 7:42 pm in Climate Change, Collective Action Problems, Environment, International Law
Let me leave aside for the moment all the leaked memos and stuff. I would describe myself as a non-expert on climate issues who has been gradually persuaded to the following positions: Agnostic on the question of warming and human impact on it; Getting less agnostic as I read the emails and leaked materials; Unpersuaded […]
“‘We’re the Experts, Trust Us,’ Has Clearly Gone by the Wayside”
The NYT has a follow-up story on the continuing controversy triggered by the leak of e-mails and internal documents from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit. The story provides a quick summary of the central issues in the controversy. The most serious criticisms leveled at the authors of the e-mail messages revolve around […]
More Responses to the CRU E-mail Leaks
Rajendra K. Pachauri, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, responds to the leak of e-mails and other documents from the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit with a statement (posted on Dot Earth). He writes in part: The unfortunate incident that has taken place through illegal hacking of the private communications of […]
More Monbiot on CRU E-mail Leak
George Monbiot has a follow-up to yesterday’s column on the lead of e-mails and other documents from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit. It begins: I have seldom felt so alone. Confronted with crisis, most of the environmentalists I know have gone into denial. The emails hacked from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) […]
“Climategate” and the Social Validation of Knowledge
By Ilya Somin on November 24, 2009 5:42 pm in Climate Change, Political Ignorance, Politicizing Science
Recent evidence that prominent climate scientists have tried to intimidate academic journals into not publishing papers submitted by “climate change” skeptics have caused a major brouhaha in the ongoing political battle over global warming. At least some of the scientists in question certainly seem to have put ideology above the search for truth. The effort […]
Monbiot: Leaked CRU Docs a “Major Blow”
Noted environmental writer George Monbiot, author of Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning, calls the leaked documents from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit a “major blow.” On his website and in The Guardian, he writes: The emails extracted by a hacker from the climatic research unit at the University of […]
NYT Policy on Illegally Acquired Documents
The NYT‘s environmental blog, Dot Earth, covered the disclosure of e-mails and other files from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit, noted that the files are available on various other website, but did not reproduce any files on its site. As Andrew Revkin explained in the post: The documents appear to have been […]
WaPo on Climate E-mails (and More)
The Washington Post covers the disclosure of e-mails from the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit — e-mails that appear to have been subject to an FOI request and that were either hacked by an outsider or stolen and released by an insider. In one e-mail, the center’s director, Phil Jones, writes Pennsylvania State […]
NYT on Hacked Climate E-Mails
The New York Times reports on the hack and disclosure of e-mails from the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit. The e-mails, attributed to prominent American and British climate researchers, include discussions of scientific data and whether it should be released, exchanges about how best to combat the arguments of skeptics, and casual comments […]
Climate Scientists, Unfiltered
Someone hacked into the computers at the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit, downloaded various files and e-mails posted on the web. Now the climate blogosphere is all atwitter over whether the resulting disclosures are a scandal or much ado about nothing. Excerpts and reactions from Roger Pielke Jr., Real Climate, Climate Audit, Watts […]
Climate Chavistas?
There are plenty of reasons to oppose the cap-and-trade legislation working its way through Congress, but the claim that a “nasty bureaucratic provision” will require “President Obama to act like Venezuelan strong man Hugo Chavez” is not one of them. The provision at issue — Section 707 in the bill approved by the Senate Environment […]
Against Climate McCarthyism, Part Deux
Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus continue their pushback against “Climate McCarthyism,” with a particular focus on efforts to equate unorthodox climate views with Holocaust denial, guilt-by-association, and lead Climate McCarthyite Joseph Romm. Roger Pielke Jr. chimes in here. I posted earlier on Shellenberger and Nordhaus’ first fusillade. UPDATE: Ron Bailey chimes in.