The Talkshop is now an ad-free zone

I looked in on another pc to check the site yesterday and was distracted by the ads displayed. You don’t see them when you are logged in as the blog owner. I think they detract from the user experience. So I had a look at the options WordPress offer to get rid of them. It [...]

Grant Foster: Mathturbation

The censorship prone ‘Tamino’ (Grant Foster) on his blog, which I call ‘closed mind’ has a new post up which takes to task what he perceives to be ‘anti physics’ elements who think quasi-cyclic events such as the main oceanic cycles might have an effect large enough to bring into question the amount of anthropogenic [...]

Les Chevaliers de l’Ordre de le Soleil gris

Some years ago, the Team’s Raymond Pierrehumbert (raypierre) took a nasty swipe at a couple of French scientists, Courtillot and Allègre, who had written an interesting paper on solar variation, geomagnetism and global temperature. The norealcluemate article was entitled ‘Les Chevaliers de l’Ordre de la Terre Plate’, (The Knights Of the Order of the Flat Earth) [...]

Peter Taylor: Hidden History – Deep Mystery

Peter Taylor says: February 25, 2011 at 3:48 pm I am late to this debate – which is my favourite territory, but for which I get little time ‘cos I am out there doing policy (and some science). Its all very familiar – I spent some time at Oxford in the ’70s doing some research [...]

Freeman Dyson: On scepticism and the climate debate

Kate over at WUWT has spotted this gem: An interesting exchange of emails appeared in the Independent today between their science editor Steve Conner (who has no scientific qualifications whatsoever) and Professor Freeman Dyson – http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/letters-to-a-heretic-an-email-conversation-with-climate-change-sceptic-professor-freeman-dyson-2224912.html 25 February 2011 Letters to a heretic: An email conversation with climate change sceptic Professor Freeman Dyson World-renowned physicist [...]

Tallbloke: Ravetz, PNS and the Climate debate

tallbloke says: February 25, 2011 at 12:27 am David says: February 24, 2011 at 10:37 pm “If it may be urgent, then more resources must be put into normal science,” More resources *were* put into normal science. But because at the time the ‘best science’ (heh!) said it was a problem with the atmosphere the [...]

The Tipping Point

This is a partial repost from Climate Etc including the intro and two responses. See the original for the full monty. Hiding the Decline http://judithcurry.com/2011/02/22/hiding-the-decline/ by curryja| 1,123 Comments by Judith Curry To date, I’ve kept Climate Etc.  a “tree ring free zone,” since the issues surrounding the hockey stick are a black hole for conflict and pretty [...]

Lisbon Reflections: A Tale of Tribes

CartoonsbyJosh.com   I still haven’t fully formed my thoughts about Lisbon in the wider context yet, but thought I ought to express something about my current take on things. On Judy Curry’s blog earlier this evening I came across a comment on a Lisbon thread by Werner Krauss. Werner attended with Hans von Storch, who [...]

Tallbloke and Tim Channon: A cycles analysis approach to predicting solar activity

In desperation I asked Fermi whether he was not impressed by the agreement between our calculated numbers and his measured numbers. He replied, “How many arbitrary parameters did you use for your calculations?” I thought for a moment about our cut-off procedures and said, “Four.” He said, “I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used [...]

Miles Mathis: Democracy in Science

  DEMOCRACY IN SCIENCE by Miles Mathis   In my 158 science papers to date, I have talked a lot about the physical and mathematical problems of the 20th century, but I haven’t yet addressed a political problem that underlies them all. That problem is the intrusion of democracy into science. I will have nothing [...]