Category Archives: Science

Climate impacts

Posted on October 7, 2018 by

Carbon brief has a very nice interactive report that show the impacts of climate change at 1.5C, 2C and beyond. It presents the various projected climatic, ecological, and economic changes on both global and regional scales. It is an impressive … Continue reading →

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Galactic electric currents vs nuclear fusion

Posted on October 3, 2018 by

In a Twitter discussion with Ned Nikolov, I discovered that some people believe that the Sun is powered by Galactic electric currents. I don’t even understand how this is meant to work, but that doesn’t really matter since it’s clearly … Continue reading →

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We Are Science

Posted on September 17, 2018 by

After a few days of presentations on (gasp!) science communication, a party was being held in Iceland. Many dignitaries, a few allocutions, among them one by a lady from the banking industry, more exactly a PR big boss from a … Continue reading →

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You only need about 60 surface stations

Posted on August 18, 2018 by

Since surface temperature changes are correlated over distances of about 1000 km (it does depend somewhat on the latitude of the stations), it turns that you only need about 60 stations to produce a reasonable surface temperature dataset. [Edit: As … Continue reading →

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Science might be political, but…..

Posted on July 30, 2018 by

Since everyone else is writing about science having always been political, I thought I would have a go too. I will admit that this episode has made me think more about this, and there are aspects that I still find … Continue reading →

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Science Has Always Been Political

Posted on July 27, 2018 by

The following tweet states a fact many historians of science attest: |￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣| Science has always been Political|＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿| (__/) || (•ㅅ•) || / 　 づ#HistorianSignBunny — Dr. Audra J. Wolfe (@ColdWarScience) July 12, 2018 Scientists were not all pleased. Tweetstorms rained. … Continue reading →

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Science and Skepticism

Posted on June 4, 2018 by

oarobin posted a comment highlighting a video of a talk about Science and Skepticism by Steven Goodman. It essentially disusses the issue of reproducibility in science, and mentions some issues that I have myself. Ultimately, science is about unconvering “truth”. … Continue reading →

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