“Climate Change: A Catastrophist’s Perspective”
From Reality Sandwich:
ST Frequency
Since the release of Al Gore’s disquieting documentary An Inconvenient Truth, the extent of humanity’s influence on the earth’s climate has become one of the most pressing topics in the public discourse…
On the Credibility of Climate Research, Part II: Towards Rebuilding Trust
By Judith Curry, Georgia Institute of Technology
I am trying something new, a blogospheric experiment, if you will. I have been a fairly active participant in the blogosphere since 2006, and recently posted two essays on climategate, one at climateaudit.org and the other at climateprogress.org. Both essays were subsequently picked up by other blogs, and the diversity of opinions expressed at the different blogs was quite interesting. Hence I am distributing this essay to a number of different blogs simultaneously with the hope of demonstrating the collective power of the blogosphere to generate ideas and debate them. I look forward to a stimulating discussion on this important topic.
Losing the Public’s Trust
Climategate has now become broadened in scope to extend beyond the CRU emails to include glaciergate and a host of other issues associated with the IPCC. In responding to climategate, the climate research establishment has appealed to its own authority and failed…
