Radical Emissions Planning: Kevin Anderson interview
Professor Kevin Anderson on science and politics; shale gas and climate; and climate, economics and finance.
science
Climate – headlines
•New IPCC Report: Climatologists More Certain Global Warming Is Caused By Humans, Impacts Are Speeding Up •European forests near ‘carbon saturation point’ •Scientists have a moral obligation to take action on climate change •Study: Watching Fox News Makes You Distrust Climate Scientists
The decline of falsifiability
Many ancient societies were ruled by claims of divine right; royal proclamations were not falsifiable…But we don’t have to look to the distant past to see what it looks like for dogma to trump reason.
The Quest for a Common Language
It’s a very old choice: which will you have, the love of power or the power of love?
Garden update: catching up after a late start
The first results of this year’s scientific dialogue with my garden are in and are shared herein.
Science’s evil twin
Every time that I find myself discussing “cold fusion,” I need to explain why I think there exists a "good" science and a "bad" science; the latter sometimes defined also as “pseudo-science” or “pathological science.”. It is a point which is perfectly obvious to scientists, but very difficult to explain to non scientists.