The Reference Frame: Robbert Dijkgraaf: ClimateGate unrelated to IPCC

Indeed, I can't believe how Robbert can say something so breathtakingly stupid.

The Scientific Method | Climate Skeptic

I guess I am confused as to what the point of a public university is, if its not to contribute knowledge to the public domain. Had Mike Baillie formed his own company with private investors to gather and monetize tree ring data, he would be absolutely correct, and I would be the first to defend him. I would love to see the grant application or funding proposal he submitted for this work. “We would like public funds in the amount of X to gather tree ring data and keep this data absolutely secret so that no one can check or replicate our results.” Actively fighting replication is not a very positive indicator of confidence in one’s scientific results.

Hospitals [attempt to prevent bad weather by failing to serve meat to people who need protein]

WASHINGTON, April 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Health Care Without Harm and the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, part of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, have released "Balanced Menus: A Pilot Evaluation of Implementation in Four San Francisco Bay Area Hospitals," the first US examination of the impact that reduced-meat menus in hospital food service have on climate change.

Krugman on Climate III: Resorting to Pascal’s Wager - Jim Manzi - The Corner on National Review Online

A healthy society is constantly scanning the horizon for threats and developing contingency plans to meet them, but the loss of economic and technological development that would be required to eliminate all theorized climate change risk (or all risk from genetic and computational technologies or, for that matter, all risk from killer asteroids) would cripple our ability to deal with virtually every other foreseeable and unforeseeable risk, not to mention our ability to lead productive and interesting lives in the meantime.

Green policy: We need a seismic shift in thinking

The massive disruption to European air travel from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland is a stark reminder of the massive force of nature – and the powerlessness of our actions when we feel its full might.  [But can I still prevent hurricanes by unplugging my cell phone charger?]