Tag: consensus
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Can we trust scientists?
I saw this video on New Anthropocene recently and think it’s worth sharing. It is mostly about climate change but also science more broadly and why people don’t always trust the scientific consensus whether it be a consensus about climate change, vaccinations or evolution. Many years ago I lived next to a young woman who…
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More excrement from James Delingpole
There’s nothing quite a like an article written by James Delingpole to spoil my evening and incite anger. His articles are almost always inflammatory, biased, full of inconsistencies and quite often wrong. I just read his latest turd in the Telegraph and with each line I felt my blood pressure rising and my anger escalate.…
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Has global warming stopped?
It seems that almost weekly there’s an article in the news with some climate change contrarian telling the world that global warming has stopped. It’s for this reason that I’m not surprised by the disconnect between what scientists know about global warming and what the general public thinks they know. 97% of climate scientists agree that…