The National Journal‘s Neil Munro has an interview with climatologist Judith Curry (featured in this, this, and this prior post). The interview is a must read for those interested in the ClimateGate story and the broader questions about the intersection of science and politics. There’s lots of good stuff in the interview — so you […]
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Jon Stewart on ClimateGate
ABC, CBS and NBC have yet to air anything on the leaked e-mails and documents from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit, but The Daily Show did — and they got the story right.
Hulme on ClimateGate and the Politicization of Science
Climatologist Mike Hulme, who worked at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit, gets the big picture in a WSJ Europe op-ed. Some excerpts: One thing the episode has made clear is that it has become difficult to disentangle political arguments about climate policies from scientific arguments about the evidence for man-made climate change […]
ClimateGate Updates
Last night, the University of East Anglia announced that Phil Jones, a central figure in the e-mails and other documents disclosed last month, would temporarily step aside as head of the Climate Research Unit pending an independent review of the matter. Penn State University has also announced an investigation regarding the conduct of Michael Mann, […]
MIT’s Lindzen on “ClimateGate”
MIT’s Richard Lindzen is one of the world’s leading climate scientists. He is also a climate “skeptic,” rejecting claims that anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases are likely to create a climate catastrophe. Above all others, he is the climate skeptic environmental activists most fear, as he has unimpeachable credentials. As a prominent climate scientist who […]
Noah Sachs Responds to Anderson re Copenhagen and Collective Action
By Kenneth Anderson on November 30, 2009 10:36 pm in Climate Change, Collective Action Problems, Economy, Environment, International Law, Politicizing Science
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 […]
“‘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 […]