What Philip Ball thinks about climate change

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British science writer and former editor at Nature, author of books on chemistry, physics and biology including How Life Works.

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2 dated positions, 2023, in their own words. Our reading of what Philip Ball has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. 15 Sept 2023

   Our readingPatrick Brown's Nature wildfire paper does not show that journals favour bleak climate papers over nuanced ones.

   Their wordsDoes the publication of the paper show that indeed there is a bias in the literature whereby papers that present an unmitigatedly bleak picture of extreme climate change get accepted but those that are more nuanced get rejected? Evidently it shows nothing of the sort.

   ↗The new Climategate that wasn'tphilipball.blogspot.com 1st of 3 in this piece

3. 15 Sept 2023

   Our readingThe claim that climate scientists play up global warming to protect their jobs is risible.

   Their wordsThis idea that climate scientists have to play up global warming to protect their jobs is on the one hand risible and on the other hand a standard trope of conspiracy theorists

   ↗The new Climategate that wasn'tphilipball.blogspot.com 3rd of 3 in this piece