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Monthly Archives: November 2020
Some reflections on lecturing during a pandemic
I noticed, via Twitter, that a colleague had written an interesting post about survival strategies for lecturers [Edit: I hadn’t appreciated that this had been written pre-pandemic, but it is what largely motivated my post]. I had been thinking about … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, physicists, Science, Universities
Tagged Online teaching, pandemic, University teaching
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Berna’s Boat
Berna Devezer is an associate professor of marketing at the University of Idaho. When she does not tweet about her cats and about her cool readings, she is sailing on her magnificient boat: Her lines start with a Capital B, … Continue reading
Climate change doesn’t work like that
A couple of years ago I wrote a post where I tried to explain why I thought climate change was a different kind of problem when compared to most of the other issues we might face today. I find it … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Environmental change, ethics, Policy, Science
Tagged AGW, atmospheric CO2, Jessica Tierney, Jody Freeman, Jonathan Gilligan, Pliocene
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A little domain knowledge can go a long way
A rather bizarre paper has been published in Scientific Reports (yes, that Scientific Reports) claiming that [an] earth system model shows self-sustained melting of permafrost even if all man-made GHG emissions stop in 2020. One immediate problem is that the … Continue reading
Namecalling in science
A couple of days ago, I retweeted an article with the title [t]he trouble with ‘Covid denialism’. I thought the article was reasonable, but some objected to the use of ‘denialism’. There are a number of very credible scientists who … Continue reading
Posted in ClimateBall, Personal, Philosophy for Bloggers, The scientific method, We Are Science
Tagged COVID-19, denial, Denialism, Namecalling
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