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Clive Best
Personal blog · clivebest.com/blogscienceculture
Clive Best's personal blog at clivebest.com covers science and culture. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite Clive Best's blog as a source on the greenhouse effect and CO2, and debate its climate-science posts, including one on the costs of wind and solar power.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
> I find this a stunning indictment of mainstream scientific consensus How exactly ? Climate science is thoroughly in the humanities at this point, very much not in exact science, and this is hardly the only wrong-but-we-can't-do-better consensus that exists. People believe this and it provides them with things to do, with the "ability to predict". Except, it's not correct use of math, with the predictable result th…
Comment linking /blog/?p=2208
on “What's Really Warming the World?”Estimates of when the next glacial period would naturally start range from about 2ky to 12ky, so too far away to worry about now. The glacial transitions are somewhat predictable as they are triggered by favorable isolation conditions due to the eccentricity, obliquity and precession of the Earth. That's why we can have high confidence it won't happen in the next few hundred years. https://judithcurry.com/2016/10/24…
Comment linking /blog/?p=7344
on “As climate fears mount, some are relocating within the US”That is a reasonable sounding argument, much more reasonable than I expected before looking into it. I also came across explanations such as this one: http://clivebest.com/blog/?p=1169 which explains why increased CO2 will still increase the greenhouse effect. An appeal to authority is not the strongest argument, but there is a near universal consensus among the scientific community that increased CO2 will increase…
Comment linking /blog/?p=1169
on “Wind and solar power are even more expensive than is commonly thought”