Summary:Â After a quarter-century of the climate wars, the chaff thrown up by political activists on both sides has largely obscured the key questions which we must answer in order to deal with this, perhaps the most important of the many shockwaves facing us. Today we look at the most important question of logic in …
Cutting to the heart of the public policy debate about climate change Read More »
Summary:Â Debates about science occupy a central place in many public policy issues. To name a few: education, climate, public health, and medicine. In most of these the debate revolves around (silently, often ignorantly) questions of epistemology — the philosophy of knowing. Today we look at one example. . Although the IPCC and major climate …
A key to understanding the climate wars (about one of our big weaknesses) Read More »
Summary: Today we have an article by Professor Judith Curry that goes to the heart of the climate science debates, about epistemology (the philosophy of knowing) and the process of science. As we see here, we can do it better — and must in order to meet the challenges of the 21st century. “Magical theories“ by …
Magical theories of science & how they influence us Read More »
