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Patrick T. Brown
Personal blog · patricktbrown.orgsciencedata
Patrick T. Brown's personal blog at patricktbrown.org covers science and data. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-01-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link this blog in threads on the 1856 paper linking CO2 to global warming and on critical reading of scientific sources. The comments do not assess the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
It’s easy to construct a persuasive argument, it’s much more difficult to figure out the truth…
What Hacker News says?
Surely you are as capable of determining that as we are. Some of them are. Some are not, eg, they are links to newspaper articles and government publications. But the question was "Can you post something to back up your claims from a well respected climate scientist?" That means "at least one", not "all". walleeee's links includes claims from well-respected climate scientists. Eg, the first author of the Nature pape…
Comment linking /about/
on “First Paper to Link CO2 and Global Warming (1856)”Submitted Do ‘propagation of error’ calculations invalidate projections of global warming? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionCritical skepticism should be a core competence as well. Even well known and highly respected journals like Nature or NYT likely have biases at the editor/peer review level. They should be read with at least one eye toward skepticism that [money/prestige/desire to get published/etc] have influenced the results of the paper/article. I've read that scientists often have to "massage" their papers if publishing on a div…
Comment linking /2023/09/05/the-not-so-secret-formula-for-publishing-a-high-profile-climate-change-research-paper/
on “Critical ignoring as a core competence for digital citizens (2022)”