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Tag Archives: Public engagement
Science is a messy process
I was invited to speak at a Contemporary Climate meeting in Edinburgh’s School of Geosciences. It was really nice to talk face-to-face with people about some of the topics I find interesting. We covered aspects of blogging and social media, … Continue reading
The significance of the “pause”
I wrote a post a while ago about there being no “pause” in global warming. It was based on a paper by Risbey et al. called [a] fluctuation in surface temperature in historical context: reassessment and retrospective on the evidence, … Continue reading
Take your lumps and forcefully engage the public back
John Russell highlighted, on Twitter, an article about why Americans have come to worship their own ignorance and suggested that I might particular like the end bit. The article was really an interview and one of the final question elicited … Continue reading
Posted in Pseudoscience, Research, Scientists, The scientific method
Tagged Public engagement, Science communication, Tom Nichols
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If someone says “deficit model thinking” again I’ll…..
There can be a tendency, often amongst social scientists, to accuse scientists of deficit model thinking. The suggestion is that there are scientists who think hostility to science, or a lack of trust in science, is because of a lack … Continue reading
Effective Science communication?
I came across a post by Jon Tennant called science, echo chambers, and why facts are never enough. The basic idea is that people don’t really use science in rational ways, that publicly scientists can often end up mainly occupying … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, Global warming, Research, Science
Tagged Brian Schmidt, Ironic, Jon Tennant, Malcolm Roberts, Prat, Public engagement, Science communication
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A public engagement problem?
One of the themes on this blog has been to try and get the message across that global warming is fundamentally about energy, not simply about global surface temperatures. Even though surface temperatures appear to have been flat for the … Continue reading
