José Duarte, PhD

Tag: climate skepticism

  • Nimble skepticism (Updated)

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    The Karl et al. study highlights something I’ve been thinking about lately. I don’t know if the Karl paper is important, good, or bad. It claims to debunk the slowdown in surface warming. Other papers will claim the opposite. This won’t be the end of it, but imagine that it was – imagine that we…

  • Don’t be a skeptic / the noun problem

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    I don’t think you should be a skeptic. Not on the severity of human-caused warming, the safety of GMOs, or a few other things. Consider: 1. I’m a skeptic. — or — 2. I’m skeptical of the predictive power of climate science at this point. When you choose the noun, you’ve chosen membership in a…