January 17, 2016
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Tweet Piers Sellers has written about his terminal cancer and how he is dealing with it.
Hard hitting global and local news
Hard hitting global and local news
Tweet Piers Sellers has written about his terminal cancer and how he is dealing with it.
Tweet An old volcanologist by the name of Peter Ward is holding forth at various places on his theory of everything. Now Eli’s considered judgement is that, as Walter Hannah puts it "His Theory Is Garbage". But as Ray Pierrehumbert said some garbage is more amusing than others, mostly because it exposes things that have to be explained to the naive, and occasionally because the mistake is subtle enough to deepen Eli’s own thoughts about this and that. Hannah (and Eli) spot the G&T, a common mistake amongst phenominologists Greenhouse warming theory also assumes that the heated air radiates energy back to Earth’s surface, and that this return flow of heat energy warms Earth.
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Stakes high, and Decisions urgent. It was a response to problems that came to the fore in the 1980s such as environmental tobacco smoke, HIV/AIDS, acid rain, ozone depletion and, yes, climate change. The observant amongst the bunnies will have noticed that science only has something to say about the first. Values are a question of ethics, stakes economics, and decisions policy. However, the misleading formulation leaves much room for ClimateBall.   The science part is Pre-Normal Science, the stage at which something has been observed, but no one quite knows where it came from, what it means or how to understand it. Science actually has a way of dealing with such situations. The initial flailing about to reach a useful understanding is later used by those who oppose action to obfuscate by insisting that still nothing is known, what is known is wrong, or at best that more research is needed. Oh yes, natural variability.
Thomas Kuhn, in " The Structure of Scientific Revolutions " understood what normal science is Normal Science means research firmly based upon one or more past scientific achievements, achievements that some particular scientific community acknowledges for a time as supplying the foundation for its further practice.†Normal Science by definition operates when scientists share a common set of theories, models and observations, in other words when there is a consensus. Normal science is puzzle solving within the field’s consensus.
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