Bushfires and climate data

RealClimate has a guest post by David Karoly looking at the climate factors that contributed to the severity of the recent bushfires, and examining the evidence (or lack thereof) that global warming is a contributing factor in producing such conditions. Data, evidence, argument – the way an examination of causal mechanisms should be done.
On the [...]

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How sausages are made

Following on from my previous post about effectively disseminating scientific evidence – Dam Buster of Preston commented and linked to a news story about the findings about Antarctic temperatures that have received news coverage today.
Here is an account of the study and its findings from one of the authors, who blogs at RealClimate. It can [...]

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Is science losing the propaganda war?

Before getting stuck into things, here’s a link to one of my favourites from The Onion – which captures the spirit of this post nicely.
Tim Lambert has reported on the findings of a recent survey of earth scientists. The key question in the survey asked whether the respondent thinks “human activity is a significant contributing [...]

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The lunatic fringe

I’ve been in two minds about whether to write this post. On the one hand, it’s a pretty amusing story and highlights just how absurd one can be while collecting what I imagine is a decent paycheque from a major media outlet. On the other hand, it’s so obvious that it barely needs to be [...]

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Sherlock

This Sherlock Holmes story is close to perfect – the only thing missing is that Lestrade didn’t make enough of Mr Algore’s girth.
(Hat-tip to Tamino)

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The Friday Freebie

The Friday Freebie is where I share an online, open-access resource that I think readers might find interesting and useful. Each week, I will introduce a free resource that I think will be useful to teh angry Leftists – books, podcasts, web sites, etc. The aim is to compile a toolkit for understanding and advancing [...]

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Ridiculous made-up word of the day

“Warmaholic” – that is the new term coined by a virologist who was attempting to argue against the evidence for global warming in today’s Australian.
When I read the column this morning, I found myself asking what evidence Jon Jenkins had to support any of his assertions. He didn’t cite it, and I didn’t have the [...]

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Bolt’s nose – steadily growing, not shrinking

Andrew Bolt has gone on a bit of a bender about US politics lately – showing John McCain’s attack ads (the lies and distortions of which  have been catalogued elsewhere), criticising Barack Obama and the Democratic National Convention (usually based on flawed premises), talking about Sarah Palin in a series of posts until he managed [...]

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How to learn about science

Tim Lambert has posted a lengthy but highly worthwhile resource written by John Mashey.

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Constructive disagreement vs constructive disengagement

A recent post by Coby at A Few Things Ill Considered feeds into something I have been thinking about lately. He says:
I poke into Jennifer Marohasy’s blog from time to time, though I am no longer a regular commenter. I gave that up a couple of years ago but still take any special cases as [...]

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