Dec 30, 2025 07:01 PM
When will the next ice age come?
https://www.sciencenorway.no/climate-env...me/2593963
EXCERPT: Most researchers agree that the next ice age will not come for several thousand years. Some, however, believe that the ice age should already have started, but has been postponed.
“There are people who assume that the next ice age had already started before we started emitting greenhouse gases, and that the Little Ice Age was actually the beginning of what could have been a new ice age,” says Born.
The term neoglaciation refers to the period when the climate gradually became cooler and glaciers grew after the warm period in the early Holocene, as described in Geophysical Research Letters. The Little Ice Age is a term that describes the climate from the 14th century to the 19th century, when glaciers expanded... (MORE - details)
Top five climate science scandals of 2025
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/top...e-scandals
INTRO: Two things are true at once — First, humans influence the climate system, presenting risks that merit policy attention. Second, climate research, broadly construed, is a deeply politicized endeavor, leaving much room for improvement.
Of feature of the deep politicization of climate is that some people wish to only believe one of these two truths. Developing effective policies related to energy, development, extreme events and disasters depends upon grappling effectively with these two truths.
In 2024, I created a table of the top five climate science scandals in an effort to shine a bright light on areas where the climate community could readily address some of the most egregious failures within the field.
The scientific community can only control what it can control — Big P politics is not among those things, and there is no guarantee that efforts to uphold scientific integrity will make much difference in the political world. But it does seem clear that securing the confidence and trust of our fellow citizens and those empowered to lead will be much more likely if we act to uphold scientific integrity, rather than letting bad science stand.
In today’s post, I both identify fives scandal that I judge to be the most significant as 2025 comes to a close and recommend positive steps that the community might take to correct course.
With the throat clearing out of the way, let’s get to it... (MORE - details)
COVERED:
https://www.sciencenorway.no/climate-env...me/2593963
EXCERPT: Most researchers agree that the next ice age will not come for several thousand years. Some, however, believe that the ice age should already have started, but has been postponed.
“There are people who assume that the next ice age had already started before we started emitting greenhouse gases, and that the Little Ice Age was actually the beginning of what could have been a new ice age,” says Born.
The term neoglaciation refers to the period when the climate gradually became cooler and glaciers grew after the warm period in the early Holocene, as described in Geophysical Research Letters. The Little Ice Age is a term that describes the climate from the 14th century to the 19th century, when glaciers expanded... (MORE - details)
Top five climate science scandals of 2025
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/top...e-scandals
INTRO: Two things are true at once — First, humans influence the climate system, presenting risks that merit policy attention. Second, climate research, broadly construed, is a deeply politicized endeavor, leaving much room for improvement.
Of feature of the deep politicization of climate is that some people wish to only believe one of these two truths. Developing effective policies related to energy, development, extreme events and disasters depends upon grappling effectively with these two truths.
In 2024, I created a table of the top five climate science scandals in an effort to shine a bright light on areas where the climate community could readily address some of the most egregious failures within the field.
The scientific community can only control what it can control — Big P politics is not among those things, and there is no guarantee that efforts to uphold scientific integrity will make much difference in the political world. But it does seem clear that securing the confidence and trust of our fellow citizens and those empowered to lead will be much more likely if we act to uphold scientific integrity, rather than letting bad science stand.
In today’s post, I both identify fives scandal that I judge to be the most significant as 2025 comes to a close and recommend positive steps that the community might take to correct course.
With the throat clearing out of the way, let’s get to it... (MORE - details)
COVERED:
- An Undeniably Fake Dataset Used in Research and Promoted in Assessments
- The U.S. National Climate Assessment
- The Trump Administration’s Campaign of Vengeance as Science Policy
- The Invention of “Climate Risk” in Global Finance
- The Continuing Dominance of Extreme, Implausible Emissions Scenarios
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