Thursday, March 15, 2012

- Bishop Hill blog - Questioning Mann

Anne Jolis's review of Michael Mann's Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars is the only one I've seen in the mainstream media that approaches the book with anything other than a placid acceptance of Mann's utterances.

More warm makes cold: Record La Niña linked to climate change | JunkScience.com

THREE of the nation’s leading climate scientists have linked the past two years of record wet weather to climate change in their strongest findings yet on the impact of global warming on the nation’s climate.

Solar Update March 2012 | Watts Up With That?

The large decline in the sunspot number and F 10.7 flux at the beginning of the year, prior to the recent major flare, suggests that Solar Cycle 24 will look like Solar Cycle 5 in having a low base of activity with periodic spikes.

“Scared to Death” by Jon Entine should be mandatory reading | JunkScience.com

The competition for declining audiences leads even the most respected news organizations to resort to hyperbole, sensationalism, and shallowness.

97% of DailyKos readers: Mann is dishonest | JunkScience.com

DailyKos has brought us a nice example showing how problematic it is to rely on majorities and how the counting depends on the ways how the poll is engineered.

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