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Another climate delay from the Obama admin? | Grist

Hey guys, keep in mind that Obama only has 1,406 days left in office …

- Bishop Hill blog - Tightening scientific belts

[Mike Kelly] Some points that you have not considered, which blunt the strength of your argument: The scientific enterprise is not immune from the peril of obesity. Periodic downturns in funding provide an opportunity to weed out the less than effective. Even you I think would agree that much of the ‘science around climate change’ is second rate – repeatedly drawing unwarranted conclusions from incomplete data and extrapolating from simulations of model climates that have not been robustly verified in terms than an engineer would regard as essential as the basis for future action. I could go round other subjects, you will have your own, where a bit belt-tightening would be positively beneficial. If much of the second-rate were squeezed out, US science would be in a better place. During Mrs Thatcher’s period as Prime Minister, UK science was squeezed hard, and I would argue came out of it better, leaner and fitter.

Twitter / RichardTol: The latest hockey stick is ...

The latest hockey stick is due to sample selection bias? http://climateaudit.org/2013/03/15/how-marcottian-upticks-arise/ … Palaeoclimatologists should take a stats class, 101 suffices