Friday, March 09, 2012

New SimCity has SimClimateChange[Hoax] | Grist

there’s a new factor to juggle: Making lousy energy choices can force your city to contend with climate change.

Peter Glover: The Royal Society’s Climate Of Anti-Science

As a former president of the Royal Society (1703-27) Sir Isaac Newton would be appalled by the de facto rejection of the Society’s 300-year guiding philosophical principle: “never to give their opinion as a Body upon any subject either of Nature or Art that comes before them” (1). Newton understood well that to deal in the “dull certainties” of a politicized consensus is always ruinous to the cause of empirical science. And so it is proving at the once noble Royal Society; its reputation increasingly dashed on the hard to negotiate rocks of climate science.

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