Climategate: Plausibility and the blogosphere in the post-normal age.

Good piece by Jerome Ravetz. An excerpt: Even worse, for the warming case to have political effect, a mere global average rise in temperature was not compelling enough. So that people could appreciate the dangers, there needed to be predictions of future climate – or even weather – in the various regions of the world. Given the gross uncertainties in even the aggregated models, regional forecasts are really beyond the limits of science. And yet they have been provided, with various degrees of precision. Those announced by the IPCC have become the most explosive. As all these anomalies and unsolved puzzles emerged, the neat, compelling picture became troubled and even confused. Much more at the link.

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Climategate: Plausibility and the blogosphere in the post-normal age.