American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting

[Questioning_Climate]

Physics World Blog has a couple of posts from AAAS which you will like:
http://physicsworld.com/blog/2010/02/wou...g_the.html

Quote:Those scientists involved were careless and, to prevent this happening again, the research community needs to deal with the threat posed by new types of media. These were the conclusions of Harvard climate scientist James McCarthy when describing two recent climate scandals, which were both fuelled by viral activity in the blogosphere. McCarthy was talking today at the annual meeting of the American association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), which is taking place in San Diego, California.

Since that email scandal broke back in November, bloggers across the globe have chipped with strong criticisms of the scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in the UK. You will remember that leaked emails revealed the researchers to have “sexed-up” certain aspects of their climate data to fit a general warming trend. Then, in January, came another blow to climate science when it came to light that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had included in their latest scientific report a near baseless claim that the central and eastern Himalayas could disappear by 2035.

McCarthy, who previously served as co-chair of an IPCC Working Group, strongly emphasized that these were two isolated incidents, with have no impact on the strong scientific consensus over climate change. However, he also recognises that the climate science community could have done more to deal with the allegations before the issues blew-up into fully-blown scandals. He feels that one way to do this is for researchers to start using social media themselves - which includes blogs, Facebook and Twitter - to disseminate research with the public. “I can tell you, a lot of groups are trying to think about creative ways of entering into the discussion,” he said.

http://physicsworld.com/blog/2010/02/phy...too_b.html

Quote:This great quote came on the final morning here at the AAAS conference in San Diego. Stephen Schneider, an environmental scientist at Stanford University, was lashing out at all forms of climate change denial including those physicists who make a sport of pointing out uncertainties in climate models.

Schneider’s point is that when physicists make laws and theories by studying the relationships between pairs of data, they are still modelling - just with much less data.

The main thrust of Schneider’s talk - delivered with a relish that could have garnished the Mexican burger I had last night - was that climate scientists should not shy away from entering the public debate on climate change. “Because I have a Ph.D. is not a reason to “hang up my citizenship at the door” of a public meeting—we too are entitled to personal opinions,” he said.

Schneider believes that the media’s representation of climate science is being increasingly shaped by the scientifically unqualified and “old men” who overstretch their dwindling expertise.

[Derek]

Is the Stephen Schneider referred to the same "Schneider" that features in the playlist I put on You Tube recently,
where he strenuously warned of the dangers of global cooling and the immanently coming next ice age.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Weiun#p/c/FF...prY2jSI0Ds
Part 3 The coming ice age - aprroximately 6 minutes and 5 seconds in, and 7minutes 12 seconds in.

Playlist.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Weiun#p/c/FF...ndHwW8psR8

He may have a phd, but he does seem to jump onto whatever bandwagon benefits him (personnally) most,
rather than (calmly) following the data.
He does not seem a scientist to me.
Why is he still "respected" as such,
he appears to have always been an alarmist, rather than scientist,
whichever bandwagon he is on at the time.

[Sunsettommy]

Yup it is him.



These are the people Willis Eschenbach complained about needing to clean up their act.

Here is the LINK to his neat rant about Dr. Judith Curry's essay.

Judith, I love ya, but you’re way wrong …

In the rant he tells about scientists (who just happens to be AGW believing) needing to stop their unethical and criminal behavior and get back to good science research.

Worth a good read.