So much about the Climategate scandal — i.e., the leaking (or hacking) of emails and other files from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia — has been published on the internet in the past two weeks that one risks information overload by trying to read everything. For about a week … Read more The skeptical layman’s guide to Climategate
By now, just about everybody who closely follows the news should have heard of “Climategate”, the leaking or hacking of emails and other files from the servers of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia, the main center for climate research in the United Kingdom, and the main keeper of the … Read more Climategate: why it matters
Back in December 2004 the magazine Science published science historian Naomi Oreskes’ summary of an analysis of the abstracts of the peer-reviewed scientific studies dealing with climate change that had been published between 1993 and 2003. In the article, Oreskes reported that, of the 928 abstracts analyzed, fully 75 percent endorsed or accepted the hypothesis … Read more Climate change and Keynesianism