Author Archives: Barry Woods
Unsettled Climate: Transparency, Peer Review, and the Skeptical Science Consensus (2013) Study
Climate science communication is a complex and often contentious field. One particularly influential piece of research has been the 2013 paper by John Cook et al., “Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature.” This study, frequently … Continue reading
What is the object of the 97% Consensus on Climate Change – ref John Cook (Skeptical Science) – by Unsettled Climate AI
I’m back! This is my first blog post in almost exactly 10 years. As an experiment I have asked a Generative AI questions about a social science climate related topic – The 97% Consensus. I first wrote about my concerns … Continue reading
Guest post: “Climate variability research: did the sceptics make us do it?” – Professor Richard Betts
This is a guest post by Prof. Richard Betts, Head of Climate Impacts at the Met Office, (IPCC AR4 and AR5 lead author) about Lewandowsky, Oreskes et al’s forthcoming paper, which suggests that climate skeptics influence climate scientists. I think it highlights … Continue reading
Guest Post – Label the behaviour, not the person – Professor Richard Betts (Met Office)
This is a guest post by Professor Richard Betts, re-posted (with permission of the author) to enable everybody anybody, including myself, who are unable to comment at the other blog, to comment and discuss it here. As it appeared originally at … Continue reading
Vice Chancellor Paul Johnson of the University of Western Australia refused my request for Professor Lewandowsky’s data – my response
I had written to Prof Maybery (Head of the School of Psychology) for an academic request for data from Prof. Lewandowsky’s paper – NASA faked the Moon Landings, therefore [climate] science is a hoax. An Anatomy of the Motivated Rejection … Continue reading
I requested data from the University of Western Australia……..
I requested data from the University of Western Australia…….. …so that I could submit a comment to the journal of Psychological Science. I wrote to Professor Maybery (email below) but instead I received this stunning response from the Vice Chancellor … Continue reading
The Science Was Settled Enough
I was invited several months ago, to contribute to a collection of essays and narratives about what sort of story is climate change. The book – Culture and Climate Change: Narratives – edited by Joe Smith, Renata Tyszczuk and Robert Butler, was launched on … Continue reading
An Inconvenient Tweet
The observant may have noticed I haven’t blogged for quite a while, nearly a year in fact. This is for a number of reasons (a prime one here) but I have been microblogging, ok, just chatting on twitter, and exploring and … Continue reading
The perils of science by press release, to get a headline, with data and publication following months later
(for the pedantic, I just don’t care about typos, grammar, it’s Easter holiday, time I should be spending with my family, may sort out obvious howlers later) So, I read an article in a national UK newspaper and was sufficiently … Continue reading
Dr Adam Corner talks with Geoff Chambers – Discussion 2
In this second exchange (1st here) between Adam Corner (Talking Climate blog) and Geoff Chambers – (a regular and prominent commenter at several climate sceptic blogs), they continue to discuss research on the psychology of scepticism. Comments are very welcome – but … Continue reading
Unsettled Climate 