Global Warming Debate on Laura Ingraham Show: Heartland’s James M. Taylor vs. Kurt Davies of Greenpeace

As expected, Davies was not so much interested in debating the facts — which are not on his side — as he was in engaging in ad hominem attacks against Heartland and James. Here’s a quick rundown, but listen to the 11-minute debate below.

Fiji Gripped With Unusually Cold Weather | Link Newspaper

No consensus on consensus: Part II | Climate Etc.

The perspective of Funtowicz and Ravetz (1993) on post normal science – characterized by conflicting values and deep uncertainties – is useful in moving forward on wicked problems and messes. When the stakes are high and uncertainties are large, Funtowicz and Ravetz point out that there is a public demand to participate and assess quality, which they refer to as the extended peer community. The extended peer community consists not only of those with traditional institutional accreditation that are creating the technical work, but also those with much broader expertise that are capable of doing quality assessment and control on that work. New information technology and the open knowledge movement is facilitating the rapid diffusion of information and sharing of expertise, giving hitherto unrealized power to the peer communities. This newfound power has challenged the politics of expertise, and the “radical implications of the blogosphere” (Ravetz 2011) are just beginning to be understood. Arguing from consensus to enforce their conclusions doesn’t work with the extended peer community; what is needed is serious attempts to engage the extended peer community with the modes of expert reasoning used to reach those conclusions (Beck 2012).

July 1901 : Hottest Month In US History | Real Science

I had been under the mistaken impression that July, 1936 was the hottest month in US history, but the raw temperature data shows that July 1901 was hotter.

The three hottest July’s were 1901, 1936 and 1934