via wattsupwiththat.com If researchers were perfectly dispassionate reasoners with no motivations other than truth-seeking, their published papers could be taken as a direct, objective view into reality. But as I argued not long ago in an essay in The Free Press, that idealized notion of science is a fantasy. Stemming from a frustration that I felt about […]
by Ralph Evans at wattsupwiththat.com “… Donald Trump is an absolute master at getting people to believe extraordinary things. … President Xi Jinping has claimed the Chinese system is superior …” Is climate change too hard for democracy? We have all heard that 2023 was the warmest year ever for the world, by some margin. […]
by Tilak DoshiPeter A. Coclanis at wattsupwiththat.com Last Friday, just two days after the Dubai COP28 meeting ended, a report published by the International Energy Agency (IEA) stated that global coal demand will set another new record this year. Although coal use in the West is falling, demand in developing economies “remains very strong, increasing by 8% […]