The scientific consensus on climate change: How do we know we`re
... The IPCC is a somewhat unusual scientific organization: created not to foster new research, but to compile and assess existing knowledge on a politically charged issue. Perhaps its conclusions have been skewed by these political concerns? Perhaps, but IPCC is by no means alone it its conclusions, an ...
... The IPCC is a somewhat unusual scientific organization: created not to foster new research, but to compile and assess existing knowledge on a politically charged issue. Perhaps its conclusions have been skewed by these political concerns? Perhaps, but IPCC is by no means alone it its conclusions, an ...
Here - Lawrence Torcello
... The scientific process does err, it should be emphasized, but it also self-corrects over time. (Merton 1942, 1973) Again, it is this process of progressive self-correction that relies upon robust genuinely skeptical methodologies. Those who challenge the view that science is necessarily selfcorrecti ...
... The scientific process does err, it should be emphasized, but it also self-corrects over time. (Merton 1942, 1973) Again, it is this process of progressive self-correction that relies upon robust genuinely skeptical methodologies. Those who challenge the view that science is necessarily selfcorrecti ...
2009 Climate Change - The Bush School of Government and Public
... on the severity, causes, likely effects, and need for action regarding climate change have been at the center of a U.S. policy debate for the past several years. Those who see the problem as real, caused by human activity, and in need of decisive action argue that U.S. scientists are in agreement th ...
... on the severity, causes, likely effects, and need for action regarding climate change have been at the center of a U.S. policy debate for the past several years. Those who see the problem as real, caused by human activity, and in need of decisive action argue that U.S. scientists are in agreement th ...
Inadequacies and criticisms of the Intergovernmental Panel on
... U.K. Hadley Centre’s Climate Research Unit (CRU), the version in IPCC (2001) being a slightly updated version of Jones et al. (1999). Despite requests from interested researchers, Dr. Jones refuses to release the full dataset, or disclose details of corrections made for urban heat island effects and ...
... U.K. Hadley Centre’s Climate Research Unit (CRU), the version in IPCC (2001) being a slightly updated version of Jones et al. (1999). Despite requests from interested researchers, Dr. Jones refuses to release the full dataset, or disclose details of corrections made for urban heat island effects and ...
Consensus‟ Exposed: The CRU Controversy - Inhofe
... The scientists involved in the CRU controversy violated fundamental ethical principles governing taxpayer-funded research and, in some cases, may have violated federal laws. In addition to these findings, we believe the emails and accompanying documents seriously compromise the IPCC-backed ―consensu ...
... The scientists involved in the CRU controversy violated fundamental ethical principles governing taxpayer-funded research and, in some cases, may have violated federal laws. In addition to these findings, we believe the emails and accompanying documents seriously compromise the IPCC-backed ―consensu ...
On forced temperature changes, internal variability
... changes. We have thus, in addition, analyzed a comprehensive ensemble of state-of-the-art climate model simulations provided by the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) historical simulation experiments [Stocker et al., 2013]. Estimates of the forced component of NH mean temperature ...
... changes. We have thus, in addition, analyzed a comprehensive ensemble of state-of-the-art climate model simulations provided by the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) historical simulation experiments [Stocker et al., 2013]. Estimates of the forced component of NH mean temperature ...
Attachment 2
... ambiguity of verbal quantifiers, such as ‘unlikely’ or ‘probable’25. However, whether the IPCC’s specific communications have succeeded is an empirical question whose answer requires rigorous research. At least one study suggests that the IPCC has not done as well as it would have wished26. The UK g ...
... ambiguity of verbal quantifiers, such as ‘unlikely’ or ‘probable’25. However, whether the IPCC’s specific communications have succeeded is an empirical question whose answer requires rigorous research. At least one study suggests that the IPCC has not done as well as it would have wished26. The UK g ...
The Wegman report
... review. It is especially the case that authors of policy-related documents like the IPCC report, Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis, should not be the same people as those that constructed the academic papers. Recommendation 2. We believe that federally funded research agencies should develop ...
... review. It is especially the case that authors of policy-related documents like the IPCC report, Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis, should not be the same people as those that constructed the academic papers. Recommendation 2. We believe that federally funded research agencies should develop ...
Climate change prediction: Erring on the side of least drama?
... category to describe this attribution, ‘‘low confidence’’; IPCC, 2012). Furthermore, AR4 concluded that a continuation of this trend into the future was ‘‘likely’’. In the aftermath of the record-breaking Atlantic hurricane season of 2005, there was much discussion of whether one could reasonably say ...
... category to describe this attribution, ‘‘low confidence’’; IPCC, 2012). Furthermore, AR4 concluded that a continuation of this trend into the future was ‘‘likely’’. In the aftermath of the record-breaking Atlantic hurricane season of 2005, there was much discussion of whether one could reasonably say ...
Climate Psychology in Cartoons - Association of Energy Engineers
... Translate scientific data into concrete experience. Children don’t learn to keep their hands away from a hot stove through charts, or even through urgent warnings from parents. They learn best by touching one. One much-lamented problem with climate change is that by the time most of us experience it ...
... Translate scientific data into concrete experience. Children don’t learn to keep their hands away from a hot stove through charts, or even through urgent warnings from parents. They learn best by touching one. One much-lamented problem with climate change is that by the time most of us experience it ...
The Culture and Discourse of Climate Skepticism Andrew J
... to partner with the municipal government on GHG emission reduction efforts through voluntary programs and initiatives. That Chamber’s website also lists a number of talks from high‐profile sustainability speakers about the economic benefits of addressing climate change. It would be illuminating ...
... to partner with the municipal government on GHG emission reduction efforts through voluntary programs and initiatives. That Chamber’s website also lists a number of talks from high‐profile sustainability speakers about the economic benefits of addressing climate change. It would be illuminating ...
Science studies, climate change and the prospects for constructivist
... tends to polarize debate and oversimplify the rich variety of constructionist understandings of science and its politics. In this paper I want to bring the controversies about climate change science together with those about academic science studies in hopes of thereby clarifying what might be at st ...
... tends to polarize debate and oversimplify the rich variety of constructionist understandings of science and its politics. In this paper I want to bring the controversies about climate change science together with those about academic science studies in hopes of thereby clarifying what might be at st ...
Call for Abstracts The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP
... comparable impacts on African rainfall. Research frontier #2: Understanding and representation of teleconnections in models to enhance forecast performance and interpretation. Potential benefits of advancing these research frontiers include more confident decision making in: a) Implementing early ...
... comparable impacts on African rainfall. Research frontier #2: Understanding and representation of teleconnections in models to enhance forecast performance and interpretation. Potential benefits of advancing these research frontiers include more confident decision making in: a) Implementing early ...
Chapter 3: The Global Warming Debate PDF
... The second is arctic methane gas fifty times more potent that CO2, currently frozen into the Tundra. As the ice melts, the gas is released, triggering more warming and more atmospheric methane. Ocean acidification, the third danger point, involves the health of the seas. As carbon dioxide sinks into ...
... The second is arctic methane gas fifty times more potent that CO2, currently frozen into the Tundra. As the ice melts, the gas is released, triggering more warming and more atmospheric methane. Ocean acidification, the third danger point, involves the health of the seas. As carbon dioxide sinks into ...
Center for Policy Research
... Four of those (3.8%) had responded to the survey. A brief message was sent to the remaining 102 asking them why they did not respond. An automatic receipt was received from 96 of them, indicating that the message was received. 71 responded to the message. Of those who responded, 43 (60.6%) did not s ...
... Four of those (3.8%) had responded to the survey. A brief message was sent to the remaining 102 asking them why they did not respond. An automatic receipt was received from 96 of them, indicating that the message was received. 71 responded to the message. Of those who responded, 43 (60.6%) did not s ...
Climate Science: An Empirical Example of Postnormal Science
... of climate scientists to be their ability to address the issue of climate and climate change in accord with formal training and a special mode of discourse. This is of particular relevance for the extension of the dialogue past one’s area of expertise, which, however, might be an unavoidable circums ...
... of climate scientists to be their ability to address the issue of climate and climate change in accord with formal training and a special mode of discourse. This is of particular relevance for the extension of the dialogue past one’s area of expertise, which, however, might be an unavoidable circums ...
amicus brief
... planet from the one on which civilization developed. As part of that work, Dr. Hansen has outlined steps that are needed to stabilize climate, with a cleaner atmosphere and ocean. Dr. Hansen was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1995. Amicus Professor David Beerling is a palaeobiologist ...
... planet from the one on which civilization developed. As part of that work, Dr. Hansen has outlined steps that are needed to stabilize climate, with a cleaner atmosphere and ocean. Dr. Hansen was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1995. Amicus Professor David Beerling is a palaeobiologist ...
How to communicate the scientific consensus on climate change
... public engagement with climate change is due to a gap in knowledge or public understanding (the so-called “knowledge-deficit model”) has been questioned (Moser and Dilling 2011; Sturgis and Allum 2004). Indeed, Kahan et al. (2012) argue that divisions over climate change have little to do with the p ...
... public engagement with climate change is due to a gap in knowledge or public understanding (the so-called “knowledge-deficit model”) has been questioned (Moser and Dilling 2011; Sturgis and Allum 2004). Indeed, Kahan et al. (2012) argue that divisions over climate change have little to do with the p ...
2016 - Greenpeace - Exxon - Climate Liability
... but which assumes governments will fail to adopt any new policies or regulations with the omission of the IEA’s other two scenarios which provide a less favourable view on future coal demand. Further litigation The Martin Act grants the attorney general very broad evidence gathering and investigativ ...
... but which assumes governments will fail to adopt any new policies or regulations with the omission of the IEA’s other two scenarios which provide a less favourable view on future coal demand. Further litigation The Martin Act grants the attorney general very broad evidence gathering and investigativ ...
Spring 2008
... might be just the university setting that GFDL was looking for to broaden its scope of its activities. Twelve months after the initial conversation between Mellor and Joseph Smagorinsky, GFDL’s founder, a memorandum of understanding was signed. The relocation of GFDL from Pennsylvania Avenue, in Was ...
... might be just the university setting that GFDL was looking for to broaden its scope of its activities. Twelve months after the initial conversation between Mellor and Joseph Smagorinsky, GFDL’s founder, a memorandum of understanding was signed. The relocation of GFDL from Pennsylvania Avenue, in Was ...
The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change: How
... IPCC is a somewhat unusual scientific organization: it was created not to foster new research but to compile and assess existing knowledge on a politically charged issue. Perhaps its conclusions have been skewed by these political concerns, but the IPCC is by no means alone it its conclusions, and i ...
... IPCC is a somewhat unusual scientific organization: it was created not to foster new research but to compile and assess existing knowledge on a politically charged issue. Perhaps its conclusions have been skewed by these political concerns, but the IPCC is by no means alone it its conclusions, and i ...
Climate Skepticism and the Manufacture of Doubt: Can Dissent in
... AEI offer is not that it rewards only a specific class of results. As we will argue later, one of the problems lies partly in which specific set of results it rewards. Another potential reason for thinking that there is something epistemically problematic with the AEI offer is that it appears to be ...
... AEI offer is not that it rewards only a specific class of results. As we will argue later, one of the problems lies partly in which specific set of results it rewards. Another potential reason for thinking that there is something epistemically problematic with the AEI offer is that it appears to be ...
Science and the Public: Debate, Denial, and Skepticism
... Lester, 2006) sheds light on the nature of the majority of such complaints. In the case of tobacco research there is also evidence that complaints about academics are not random but highly organized (Landman & Glantz, 2009). In at least one case known to us (not involving the present authors), alleg ...
... Lester, 2006) sheds light on the nature of the majority of such complaints. In the case of tobacco research there is also evidence that complaints about academics are not random but highly organized (Landman & Glantz, 2009). In at least one case known to us (not involving the present authors), alleg ...
Be skeptical of Skeptic`s skepticism of skeptics
... The existence of a prolonged warm period so recently in the Earth’s climate history was making it impossible for the environmental extremists driving the climate scare to convince the world’s policymakers that today’s comparatively temperate temperatures were anything to worry about. The “hockey st ...
... The existence of a prolonged warm period so recently in the Earth’s climate history was making it impossible for the environmental extremists driving the climate scare to convince the world’s policymakers that today’s comparatively temperate temperatures were anything to worry about. The “hockey st ...