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RFK Jr. Joins the War on Climate Scientists

Legal Planet

is on when it comes to the war on scientists. That war was on display recently in the defamation trial of two right-wing bloggers who attacked climate scientist Michael Mann to try to smear his work and ultimately climate science itself.

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Model Uncertainty in Politics and Climate Policy

Legal Planet

Moreover, climate scientists have a lot more data to work with. They can be somewhat more confident in dealing with the issue because model assumptions are clearer and can often be tested independently of the overall model. There are detailed satellite data of many forms, and thousands of ground-level observations.

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Science is not value free

Real Climate

Back a few months there was a poorly argued and rather confusing commenary by Ulf Büntgen ( Buntgen, 2024 ) that started: I am concerned by climate scientists becoming climate activists, because scholars should not have a priori interests in the outcome of their studies. Should a doctor working on a vaccine not want it to work?

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New Study Warns of an Imminent Spike of Planetary Warming and Deepens Divides Among Climate Scientists

Inside Climate News

James Hansen, the scientist who first sounded the climate alarm in Congress, sees a decrease in aerosol pollution driving a surge of warming and criticizes the U.N. climate science panel, drawing a backlash from other researchers.

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HotSpots H2O: As Floods Subside, Pakistan’s Economy Is on a Knife-Edge

Circle of Blue

A year of financial and political crises have left Pakistan’s economy on a knife-edge. Pakistan, which is already facing political and economic turmoil, has been thrown into the front line of the human-induced climate crisis,” a U.N. statement read earlier this week. .

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Is Activism a Part of Responsible Climate Scholarship?

Legal Planet

Such arguments against “climate scientists becoming climate activists” are happily boosted by climate denialists, delighted to have another stick with which to beat climate science and to insinuate that climate scholarship is biased. Some fear alienating publics from science and scholarship.

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Stroud Water Research Center Honors Dr. Michael E. Mann, Climate Scientist & Author, At The Water's Edge Gala On Nov. 3

PA Environment Daily

Speaking Truth and Science About Climate Change Michael E. has spent his career investigating climate change, communicating about its reality, and highlighting the politics that seek to undermine action against it. Mann’s research on climate variability and extremes has been at the forefront of climate change science.