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Tom Nelson
Personal blog · tomnelson.blogspot.comsciencepolitics
Tom Nelson's personal blog at tomnelson.blogspot.com covers science and politics. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's posts on climate science, including the Climategate emails and funding of climate skeptics, as sources in debates about climate change and who pays for skeptic views.
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.
CO2 is NOT the climate control knob
What Hacker News says?
http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2010/02/02/president-obam... http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2012/02/with-tiny-budgets-like... You're welcome. Actually, the funding for the actual climate skeptics who are actually fighting this goliath is so close to zero as to be indistinguishable. The significant players all basically amateur bloggers. I think Anthony Watts got $40K from Heartland, but AFAIK it was for a contract…
Comment linking /2012/02/with-tiny-budgets-like-310-million-100.html
on “Is Psychology About to Come Undone?”http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2011/12/climategate-email-warm... Of course this will be downvoted to oblivion, to punish me for pointing it out. Because it's now an ideological debate.
Comment linking /2011/12/climategate-email-warmist-tom-wigley.html
on “How the oil industry made us doubt climate change”Who is spending "billions of dollars shaping discourse" exactly, unless you mean governments and their academics? The idea that people don't trust climatologists because they get paid not to is simply an absurd lie. It's the other way around: the budgets are all on the side of the academics. Take it from climatologists themselves, talking about who are these skeptics who cause them so much trouble? http://tomnelson.…
Comment linking /2012/01/email-4986-augsept-2009-phil-jones-are.html
on “An Ominous Heating Event Is Unfolding in the Oceans”