Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Warren Miller Entertainment and Climate Reality Project join for snow
Warren Miller Entertainment in Boulder has partnered with Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project on an upcoming campaign that will highlight the impact on climate change on winter sports.
The Breakthrough Institute - Questioning the Wisdom of Denier Discourse
The authors of the PNAS study and groups like the National Center for Science Education defend their use of the label "denier" as descriptive rather than pejorative, and as based on its "well established" use in the literature...we will need to leave behind these damaging labels in order to think, plan, and collaborate on creative, self-reflective, and effective strategies for actually getting something done. Otherwise, as the Financial Times aptly warned, we will continue to be "squabbling while the world burns."
Flashback: Fewest Forest Fires On Record | Real Science
There have been 47,437 forest fires this year. That is the smallest YTD total since the National Interagency Fire Center started tracking it in 2003. It is almost 25% below the mean and about one fourth of the 1938 total.
Calgary, Here I Come « NoFrakkingConsensus
Most of us assume that scientists are rigorously impartial. That’s what the white coat signifies, right? But a new breed now seems to be wearing those coats – people who want all the respect and authority that comes with the “scientist” label yet aren’t prepared to honour the most basic scientific precepts.

Science isn’t about achieving the answer you expect, want, or believe will support a cause to which you are sympathetic. It’s about recognizing that, in the words of the late great physicist Richard Feynman, you yourself are the “easiest person to fool” and that every precaution must therefore be taken.

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