Dr. Tim Ball
- Official website: "Dr. Tim Ball - A Different Perspective" [JC: Website under maintenance]
Previous Conversation On Dr. Ball's Adages
Items mentioned in / related to the conversation
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Tim Ball, "New Adages for the Technocratic Era", Technocracy.news (11 July 2018)
- TMR 136 : Patrick M. Wood : Industry 4.0 - Rise of the Robots (or Fall of the "Useless Eaters"?)
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Antonio Damasio, Descarte's Error : Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain, Vintage (2006)
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James Delingpole, "UN Poll Shows Climate Change is the Lowest of All Global Concerns", Breitbart (26 October 2016)
- Jonathan Watts, "We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, warns UN", The Guardian (08 October 2018)
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Consensus Research article featured on NASA's Global Climate Change Blog, 13 June 2013: John Cook et al, "Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature", 2013 Environ. Res. Lett. 8 024024
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For an assessment of the Cooke et al paper and its claim of 97%, see: Andrew Montford, "Consensus? What Consensus?", GWPF Note 5, The Global Warming Policy Foundation (September 2013) [external PDF available via this page at GWPF]
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In the Montford piece, there's a revealing quotation by Mike Hulme (Professor of Climate and Culture, Department of Geography, King's College London):
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"The "97% consensus" article is poorly conceived, poorly designed and poorly executed. It obscures the complexities of the climate issue and it is a sign of the desperately poor level of public and policy debate in this country that the energy minister should cite it. It offers a similar depiction of the world into categories of ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ to that adopted in Anderegg et al.’s 2010 equally poor study in PNAS: dividing publishing climate scientists into ‘believers’ and ‘non-believers’. It seems to me that these people are still living (or wishing to live) in the pre-2009 world of climate change discourse. Haven’t they noticed that public understanding of the climate issue has moved on?" (emphasis added) (The orginal comment can be viewed here: http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2013/07/23/whats-behind-the-battle-of-received-wisdoms/)
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Interview with James Lovelock: "James Lovelock: ‘Before the end of this century, robots will have taken over’ ", The Guardian (30 September 2016)
- Stephen Jay Gould, Wonderful Life: Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, Vintage (2000)
Acknowledgements
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