Thursday, October 10, 2013

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The Reference Frame: Roy Spencer vs citizen scientists
Climatology has become the best example of a discipline in which citizen scientists are competitive, to say the least.
In the hot seat: The NAACP gets into the climate fight | Grist
Jacqueline Patterson can rattle off an endless stream of statistics about how climate change, and the industries that are driving it, put communities of color at risk. Patterson heads the NAACP’s environmental and climate justice program, so she lives and breathes these numbers
Tales From the Shutdown: Grad Student Is Frozen Out of Research in Antarctica | Science/AAAS | News
He had filled three pallets with supplies for his experiments on how algae in the region detect and react to the presence of ultraviolet radiation, part of a larger effort to understand the role that bacteria play in sequestering carbon in the Southern Ocean.

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