Comment on Reducing the future to climate by ferd berple
Stacey | December 26, 2011 at 8:21 pm | Reply Climate science is an oxymoron. The word “science” in the name in a dead giveaway that it is NOT science, any more than the People’s Democratic Republic is...
View ArticleComment on Reducing the future to climate by ferd berple
“greater effort should be made to represent these possibilities in any analysis about the significance of future climate change” To allow for this, you must first provide a mathematical boundary on the...
View ArticleComment on Reducing the future to climate by ferd berple
It is notable that climate models start to behave in a similar fashion (unstable) as they try and increase the resolution. The assumption is that they need more computer power and better models to...
View ArticleComment on Science communication by maksimovich
In the case of Mann vs Mann (99/08l) the evidence is not at all surprising ie incoherence eg Gruber 2010 By avoiding the (calibrating) instrumental period, and by using a fairly robust spectral measure...
View ArticleComment on Science communication by maksimovich
The link to the paper is here. http://www.clim-past.net/6/515/2010/
View ArticleComment on Climatic Change special issue on uncertainty guidance for the...
“While the IPCC has yet to make use of them, there are methods that allow an even more precise characterization of uncertainties. “Expert elicitation” involves a set of techniques first developed in...
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David - However, my view is that the behavior they are identifying as biased is actually rational. I don’t think that motivated reasoning implies irrationality, it merely implies a driving mechanism...
View ArticleComment on Evaluative premises by GaryM
There is nothing scientific about political science or social science. They are, respectively, political and social polemicists for progressivism. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/science/08tier.html...
View ArticleComment on Evaluative premises by randomengineer
Rob, there’s nothing intellectually lazy about using experience, because unless you use experience, it isn’t very valuable. Experience is intellectual efficiency. Bear in mind that political science...
View ArticleComment on Evaluative premises by GaryM
Rudolph Giuliani making sure the laws were enforced in New York is an example that what Marx said is interesting? Marx may have been “interesting” to the extent that someone who is completely wrong...
View ArticleComment on Evaluative premises by David Wojick
Joshua, bias is by definition faulty reasoning, hence if it is systemic it is a form of irrationality. As Redlawsk put it “these affective biases may easily lead to lower quality decision making.” Thus...
View ArticleComment on Evaluative premises by Craig Loehle
Warmer is not pollution. Let’s consider disease. Since disease is always bad, let’s give everyone antibiotics every day, preemptively remove everyone’s appendix, and start everyone on chemotherapy...
View ArticleComment on Evaluative premises by P.E.
Gary, the logical conclusion of that scientific ideology is the kind of rhetoric that you hear here about group x or candidate y being “anti science”. That’s a dead giveaway of somebody who wants to...
View ArticleComment on Evaluative premises by P.E.
A candidate with a major league IQ is likely to do smart things. Like getting fellated in the oval office? Don’t bank on it.
View ArticleComment on Year in review: 2011 by P.E.
Hands down, this was my favorite thread: <a href="http://judithcurry.com/2011/09/27/climate-scientists-are-different-from-the-general-public/" rel="nofollow">Climate scientists are different(?)...
View ArticleComment on Evaluative premises by Craig Loehle
I am curious what you think is a “sensible” energy policy, because some people think “sensible” means windmills that shred birds and bats and that stop at a moment’s notice. I think “sensible” is a...
View ArticleComment on Year in review: 2011 by Fred from Canuckistan
Best Headline of the year: “Global Warming Hysteria Cools Down” Next year it will read “Global warming Temperatures Drop Dramatically” Just because it is fun to know that the current glacial...
View ArticleComment on Evaluative premises by GaryM
By all accounts, Lenin, Mao and even Pol Pot were very smart. In their case, their intelligence lead to smart mass murder. The morality of the candidate is crucial. A high IQ…not so much. Reagan was no...
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