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With October being a record hot month during a record hot year that will easily beat the previous record hot year, 2014, we can anticipate some lame excuses from the denialists. I thought I’d address them now
See the original post: This Night is a Time of Pain and Mourning
View article: Responsible, ethical DuPont. At least compared to Exxon.
Tweet I want to follow up on Eli’s comment below that "There is a place between blogs, arXiv and Science for really speculative papers, but the authors need to strongly defend themselves." Yes, and Hansen’s paper is properly occupying that place, assuming it can stay defended. But then, think about a speculative paper that went for the mirror-opposite side of the spectrum, saying "what if we’ve been wrong about everything about climate change and here’s a negative feedback mechanism previously undiscovered that will safely limit things." Let’s further assume this turns out not to be a Galileus paper but a Bozo paper , as seems likely. The normal consequences of publishing something that’s wrong is bent, by denialism
Tweet That’s my interpretation of Clinton’s carefully limited support for the death penalty .
Tweet Science is understanding data, not data. Science requires data, and it requires models to understand the data. The best models will be based on well established principles of physics, chemistry and biology.
