Comment on Sir Paul Nurse on the science-society relationship by cwon14
This link is useful as well; http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100136432/the-royal-society-is-a-joke/
View ArticleComment on Sir Paul Nurse on the science-society relationship by cwon14
More of the Nurse double talk in action, mouthing the “anti-science” label on those who oppose his agenda; And of course, the Royal Society’s current president Sir Paul Nurse has been quite explicit...
View ArticleComment on Demon Coal by Fred Moolten
One of the important points that emerges from the material Pekka has cited above (and it’s also in my article) is that for the most vulnerable marine organisms, the calcifiers, pH is less important...
View ArticleComment on Sir Paul Nurse on the science-society relationship by MrE
A better analogy is that Nurse is like a modern day Faust.
View ArticleComment on Sir Paul Nurse on the science-society relationship by tempterrain
Patients are free to seek and ignore whatever opinions and advice they choose. Sir Paul Nurse isn’t saying otherwise. He himself could have shopped around for the sort of advice he may well have...
View ArticleComment on Messes and super wicked problems by Judith Curry
Kennedy Maize has written an article at Power Magazine on Climate Science: A Super Wicked Mess, that is well worth reading...
View ArticleComment on Sir Paul Nurse on the science-society relationship by DocMartyn
I suggest we perform a simple experiment to test Prof Nurse’s postulate that those with Scientific Knowledge should drive political opinion. On this board we have a wide range of scientifically...
View ArticleComment on Demon Coal by hunter
PP, Rationalizing that the lack of evidence of OA is not a valid reason to dismiss it is sour grapes. Pun intended.
View ArticleComment on The long, slow thaw? by tonyb
When I come to look at the unexpected warmth I identified at the 1538 start date of this article it would be useful to look at this paper in greater detail;...
View ArticleComment on Demon Coal by Latimer Alder
Hi David You are of course at liberty to choose to read my stuff in any which way you like. But , though you may dislike my mode of expression, I don’t think that I overstepped any of Judith’s...
View ArticleComment on Sir Paul Nurse on the science-society relationship by Martin Lack
This appears to be a re-visiting of the arguments Nurse used to such great effect to humiliate James Delingpole just over a year ago. For example, Delingpole admitted that: – he believes concern about...
View ArticleComment on Sir Paul Nurse on the science-society relationship by Donald Rapp
There are many phenomena in nature that, for one reason or another, are not susceptible to verification by independent testing. These typically include events that either occurred a long time ago or...
View ArticleComment on Demon Coal by Latimer Alder
@Fred Fine So the problem that you have spent so long wittering on to us about has very little whatsoever to do with pH or ocean acidification or whatever term you all use to frighten the public with...
View ArticleComment on Sir Paul Nurse on the science-society relationship by Bart R
So let me see if I follow this argument.. Delingpole is to be commended as he’s so epitomizes the great fiction writers of the English language, while Hansen is to be villified because at one point he...
View ArticleComment on Demon Coal by Bart R
Jim Cripwell No. Really no. It’s not that simple. Here’s only one of several issues: Recall that the graph plots slopes, not temperatures. It is a derivative plot. To obtain _temperature_ again from...
View ArticleComment on Sir Paul Nurse on the science-society relationship by Bart R
Beth Cooper ..brings to mind http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DjPo0ewuCw
View ArticleComment on Should we tell the whole truth about climate change? by ceteris...
” Whilst I don’t mention it, I anticipate that there will be experiments published later this year using spectrometers to demonstrate that warm gases do not absorb emission from cooler sources. ” Of...
View ArticleComment on Sir Paul Nurse on the science-society relationship by omanuel
Statements and actions by “leaders” of the scientific community, like Sir Paul Nurse of the UK’s Royal Society and Dr. Ralph Cicerone of the US National Academy of Science, help expose deepest...
View ArticleComment on 21st century solar cooling by Bart R
You make fair points. That’d have to be some smooth water for your angle of incidence to bear out completely. I’m more familiar with oceans that have waves in them.
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