Do Alarmist Climate Scientists Have their Thumb on the Scale?

Ever wondered if alarmist climate scientists purposely hide uncertainties when they communicate with the media and the public? Wonder no longer. They do. That’s the conclusion of Senja Post’s “Communicating science in public controversies: Strategic considerations of the German climate scientists,” published this month in the journal Public Understanding of Science. Here’s the abstract: In public

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Is Global Warming to Blame for Spread of “Tropical” Diseases?

The New York Times has just published an article claiming that global warming is (partly) to blame for the spread of various “tropical” diseases to the U.S. and other areas where previously they had been eradicated or had never existed. Donald G. McNeil Jr. begins his article titled “U.S. Becomes More Vulnerable to Tropical Diseases Like

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Responding to Risks of Climate Change—and to Risks of Responding to Climate Change

Judith Curry delivers a (typically) very thoughtful analysis of one attempt to push people into applying the “Precautionary Principle” so as to embrace major policy initiatives to mitigate “climate change” to avoid its risks. I’ll not try to summarize here other than to say she shows clearly that the arguments fail. Read her post here.

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Never Underestimate Your Opponent—Coming to Grips with the Paris Climate Agreement

Master Sun [Tzu] talks often about deception and therefore warns against being deceived by the enemy and underestimating their ability. ‘He who exercises no forethought but makes light of his opponents is sure to be captured by them.’ It’s important to properly assess your opponent without prejudice or assumption. Many skeptics of catastrophic, anthropogenic global

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How NOAA Lies with Global Warming Statistics

A subscriber to Cornwall Alliance’s e-newsletter recently wrote asking us if we have replies to the various graphs at “Climate Change: Global Temperature,” on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Climate.gov web page. Oh my goodness the misrepresentations of facts in those graphs are awful! Preparing refutations/analyses of all the graphs there would be

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