The Unbearable Lightness of Bias

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By Keith Kloor
Jun 25, 2010 9:51 PMNov 20, 2019 2:12 AM

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Does climate science have a confirmation bias problem? Or is it the bias of climate skeptics that is the problem? I suppose how you answer that might reflect your own bias. And so, in light of recent posts that explored issues of trust and polarization, maybe it's a good time for us to examine the bias issue. Once again, it is an exchange between readers (one of them being Gavin Schmidt) that will take center stage, and hopefully serve as a springboard for a productive discussion on bias. Yesterday JohnB waded into an ongoing exchange between Judith Curry and Gavin on this thread. At the end of one comment, Gavinwrote:

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