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The question in climate change is not direction, but magnitude and variance. While most of physics does use 3-5 sigma tests due to a large number of experiments
by yummyfajitas 10y ago
The question in climate change is not direction, but magnitude and variance. While most of physics does use 3-5 sigma tests due to a large number of experiments, climate science can not do the same.
Furthermore, we have significant evidence that climate scientists are motivated to protect their work against critics - just read the climategate emails. That's not how science should be done, and goes well beyond the replicability issues discussed here.
- argonaut 10y agoAt the risk of further derailing this thread, there was nothing wrong with the content of the climategate emails, other than poor choice of words - a poor choice of words that were all too easy to take out of context.
- gd1 10y agoReally? There is 'literally nothing wrong' with stonewalling FOI requests, stacking peer review to prevent opposing scientists from publishing, or splicing temperature data onto the end of a proxy chart to hide the fact the proxy is diverging? Ok then.
- 77pt77 10y agoSomeone said something along the lines of "I'm not giving you the data because you'll try to poke holes in it" as a FOIA request answer. How is this OK?
- argonaut 10y agoThat doesn't relate to the actual content of the emails or data. Although I agree that they dealed with the FOI requests poorly.