Michael Mann is denying the debate again, arguing in the New York Times, 'If You See Something, Say Something'. THE overwhelming consensus among climate scientists is that human-caused climate change is happening. Yet a fringe minority of our populace clings to an...
Buy a Newspaper, or the Planet Dies…
Over at the Guardian, Professor of Journalism and former editor of the Daily Mirror, Roy Greenslade observes that... The Independent is up for sale. The paper's founder, and current chairman of its publishing company, Andreas Whittam Smith, has been authorised to seek...
Re-Writing Mission History?
Stephan Lewnadowsky has an article at The Conversation, saying that sceptics are wrong, in their pointing and mocking of the failed Spirit of Mawson expedition. As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, and by now you might have seen dramatic images of...
Science, Advocacy, Politics, Technocracy
Judith Curry and Brigitte Nerlich have been focussing on some interesting questions about scientists and advocacy. Judith Curry has quite a series on the subject, but the two posts linked to seem to have been provoked in part by Kevin Anderson's comments urging...