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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Clarifications and How Better To Communicate Science
Originally blogged at Realclimategate (I changed the name of the blog, because of this post) Reputation is everything on the internet. Last week I was very concerned to see that Peter Gleick had publically claimed on Twitter he had … Continue reading
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Challenging Thoughts for the BBC and Guardian – BBC’s Michael Buerk at The Fifth Column blog
Originally blogged at Realclimategate Update: I quickly wrote this last night (26th Dec), I’m working on a more detailed analysis today, come back later for a link. Interesting thoughts (podcast and transcript) by journalists challenging the ‘media consensus’ on a number of topics. … Continue reading
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