Anthony Watts reports on another smear on Susan Crockford and himself: Climate Change Denialists Say Polar Bears Are Fine. Scientists Are Pushing Back, by Erica Goode of the New York Times. Anthony says I’m not allowed to give any of the details of it other than a link because I recently got a threat letter … Continue reading
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‘It is not science as we know or understand it. Yet it is peer-reviewed, it exists’ – Part I
Imagine it is star date 41315.6. The USS Enterprise has gone into orbit around a remarkably Earth-like planet and Spock is uploading data from the surface which reveals the planet is peopled by sentient beings who do ‘science’. The first actual scientific paper he uploads is Harvey et al, Internet blogs, polar bears, and … Continue reading
Comment on Harvey et al submitted
We’ve already written several Cliscep blogposts on the nasty error-filled smear paper by Harvey et al, attacking Susan Crockford. The paper should have been retracted immediately, since it violates the OUP ethics policy, but neither the journal editors nor OUP seem to have any regard for ethics, so this didn’t happen, despite Crockford’s detailed letter. Now, Anand … Continue reading
The Value of Dr. Crockford and Polar Bear Science
Back in the 70s, the Welsh screenwriter Elaine Morgan responded to a question that had been making the rounds in conversation about feminism. The question was ‘why do women use sex as a weapon?’ Morgan replied simply that perhaps it was because women so badly needed a weapon. Those of us who are interested in … Continue reading
Okay, just one more post on polar-bear-gate… I promise…
Well, here’s how I spent a day with the flu: Watts Up With That (WUWT) is one of the blogs cited as a ‘denier’ blog by Harvey et al.(Harvey et al 2017 asserts that contrarian weblogs predominantly cite Dr. Susan Crockford’s work when discussing polar bears. Crockford is not skeptical about global warming, but is … Continue reading
Concluding Thoughts on Polar-Bear-Gate and Censoring Opposing Thought
Update: Well, don’t you just hate it when Christmas cheer pre-empts the climate wars and amity breaks out like a rash… After my laments about censorship and taking the opportunity to get a bit self-righteous about it all, Bart published my comment and made a cordial response below. Thanks Hans Erren for pointing this out. … Continue reading
Polar bear attack paper invalidated by non-independent analysis
Cross-posted from Shub Niggurath Stephan Lewandowsky has co-authored (yet another) paper attacking climate skeptics. His colleagues-in-arms this time are long-time climate consensusite Jeff Harvey , Bart Verheggen, and a cohort of ecologists along with Michael Mann. First author Harvey is well-known to climate commenters as a rant-prone passionate bulldog for the climate cause. The … Continue reading
