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10 May 2012

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Empty Debate and Climate Attack Dogs

Earlier this week, Andrew Turnbull, who was Cabinet Secretary under Tony Blair, had an op-ed in the Financial Times stating his views on th...
Hurricane Damage Risk and Predictions

Karen Clark and Co. have released an updated report ( here in PDF, the table shown above comes from the report) evaluating the performance...
Legal Liability for Bad Scientific Forecasts in the United States

The verdict in the lawsuit brought against scientists L'Aquila has prompted much discussion and debate. Following the initial poor re...
Space Shuttle Costs: 1971-2011

In this week's Nature , Rad Byerly and I have a short correspondence on the overall program costs for the Space Shuttle program (see fi...
Fixing the Marcott Mess in Climate Science

In 1991 the National Research Council proposed what has come to be a widely accepted definition of misconduct in science: Misconduct i...
Brisbane Floods in Historical Context

The graph above shows flood peaks in Brisbane from 1841 to 2011. The data comes from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, which published ...