Guardian: As a lead author of the last IPCC report, I find it gratifying that Bjørn Lomborg sings the praise of the "careful work" of the "hugely respected" IPCC. However, Lomborg misrepresents what we wrote in the report. It did not conclude that sea level will stay within the ...

I think that Josephus is generally reliable, though I would add more qualifiers than Jon Curry does in his recent comments on the subject. My intention in this post isn't to dismiss Josephus, but rather to illustrate some of the inconsistencies in Jon's argumentation. He writes the following about w...

Guardian: As a lead author of the last IPCC report, I find it gratifying that Bjørn Lomborg sings the praise of the "careful work" of the "hugely respected" IPCC. However, Lomborg misrepresents what we wrote in the report. It did not conclude that sea level will stay within the ...

Lorne Gunter of the National Post disgraced himself yet again this weekend with another outrageously inaccurate column about something he apparently knows nothing about: climate science. Gunter held forward William Happer as his climate skeptic champion to put those dullards at the IPCC to shame. He...

Quite often, among our friends or acquaintances, there is someone who has astonished - or appalled! - us with a few magic tricks. The Ease of Learning and Performing Basic Magic Tricks Most children and adult libraries have a selection of books on the how-to of a wide range of magic tricks. These sh...

Last week, I wrote a few responses to Jon Curry (here, here, and here). He's responded with more posts in his threads here and here. He complains that my criticisms are "quibbling", "boring", etc. He's added qualifiers to his arguments that he didn't include previously. He gives us what he calls a "...

Quite often, among our friends or acquaintances, there is someone who has astonished - or appalled! - us with a few magic tricks. The Ease of Learning and Performing Basic Magic Tricks Most children and adult libraries have a selection of books on the how-to of a wide range of magic tricks. These sh...

Not to let himself be outdone by his skeptic colleague in good standing, George Will, The Boston Globe’s Jeff Jacoby has penned an equally vacuous and misinformed column posing the thought-provoking question: “Where’s global warming?” It’s hard to know where to start. F...

The new Open Lab 2008 is here! This book is a collection of 52 essays representing some of the best science blog writing from 2008. It includes essays from a lot of the usual suspects, plus others I bet you don’t know. My own post about WR 104, a potential nearby gamma-ray burst progenitor, is...

In an article on New Testament authorship that I wrote last week, I noted: "Often, critics are inconsistent in their skepticism. The same critic who claims that the textual evidence for the New Testament documents is insufficient, or rejects an authorship attribution as reasonable as Mark's authorsh...