A sane conservative on global warming
April 26, 2010 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under climate change, politics, science
Jim Manzi explains why, even though he’s skeptical of carbon taxes, cap-and-trade, etc. he insists on telling people that global warming is real:
Earlier in the post you said of the global warming debate that you “haven’t taken the time to study it”. Later in the post you say that “If the issue is truly important [...]
Awful Guardian piece on the climate non-scandal
February 3, 2010 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under climate change, dating, science
Via The Volokh Conspiracy, the Guardian has a new piece which appears to show that, finally, journalists have discovered something scandalous in the hacked climate research e-mails. Except that once again, if you look closely, the situation hasn’t changed from what I described in December. A scientist was accused of fraud, but there’s no evidence [...]
Continue Reading »Newsflash: Scientists Respond Poorly to Harrassment
December 25, 2009 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under climate change, politics, science, social and literary criticism, stupidity
And Journalistic Objectivity is Idiotic.
Via Vic Reppert, a couple weeks ago the AP put out a report on the hacked global warming e-mails. What it boils down to is this: the scientists weren’t committing fraud, but in spite of this they were getting accused of fraud, and in one case, a critic threatened to [...]
Climate non-scandal, update no. 3
December 4, 2009 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under climate change, science
Actual scientists and software developers write in to explain to him what was really going on with some of the data. One thing I really like about Andrew’s no-comments-allowed approach to blogging: nothing lingers in the comments section, instead, really good things people write in correcting him will make the front page of his blog.
Continue Reading »More on the climate non-scandal
December 1, 2009 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under climate change, stupidity
First, from Real Climate:
Since emails are normally intended to be private, people writing them are, shall we say, somewhat freer in expressing themselves than they would in a public statement. For instance, we are sure it comes as no shock to know that many scientists do not hold Steve McIntyre in high regard. Nor that [...]