A History Of Scientific Uncertainties (on their way to policymaking oblivion) | Omnologos

I know this story well about climate science. I am pretty sure it happens all the time in every scientific field that has social implications.

1. The scientific paper details the uncertainties
2. The IPCC chapter mentions the uncertainties
3. The IPCC SPM (summary for policymakers) contains some indication of the uncertainties inside one item in the bibliography
4. The Press Release doesn’t have space for the uncertainties apart from a side remark in the middle of the text
5. The interviewed scientist is not asked about the uncertainties
6. The journalistic article isn’t interested in the uncertainties
7. The policymaker either doesn’t know the uncertainties exist, or pivots all his/her career about some of the uncertainties as reported to him/her third- or fourth-hand.

Broken telephones all around…

- Bishop Hill blog - Swords at dawn

There is an important FOI story (or, more precisely, an EIR one) at WUWT. It concerns the compliance of the Irish government with the Aarhus Convention, an international agreement to involve the public in formulation of environmental policy, which, at the same time, requires disclosure of environmental information to the public. The convention is the reason we have the Environmental Information Regulations in the UK).

'Women won’t like working in Antarctica as there are no shops and hairdressers’ - Telegraph

As you fly into Rothera, the main British research station in Antarctica, you
see the emptiness stretching in every direction. On a continent almost 60
times the size of Britain there's not a single permanent inhabitant – just
thousands upon thousands of miles of snow and ice.