In the current wars over global warming we are
seeing an example of scientists behaving badly.
While
some see this an example of scientists as over-reaching themselves, to make the case for action over global warming, others see the start of a witch - hunt.
Not exact matches
See for
example: The Language
of God: A
Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief - Francis Collins (head
of human genome project)
For a recent
example of narrative method employed by a social
Scientist see Robert N. Bellah et al., Habits
of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life (Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1985).
«The sites that have been excavated are those that the international community has prioritized, but you could
see Greenlandic
scientists targeting other ones, for
example sites that are at risk
of loss from climate change.»
But some
scientists — Chris McKay, for
example —
see it as highly unlikely that the Red Planet is active enough to produce methane and believe there is no explanation for its high rate
of dissipation in the atmosphere.
The inability to
see the extremely small is becoming more
of a problem all the time, since the objects our
scientists and engineers think about are steadily shrinking (metamaterials are themselves an
example).
The UT
scientists see possibilities in analysis and separation
of proteins, for
example.
The Pew report, which draws on survey responses from 3748 AAAS members based in the United States, also showed that perceptions differ by discipline — for
example, 48 %
of earth
scientists see news coverage as important to their careers, but only 35 %
of chemists do.
Instead
of trashing real climate
scientists who study nuclear winter as stooges
of KGB manipulation, maybe the FBI should
see if the Wegman fiasco might be an actual
example of their observation that «foreign researchers may be under pressure to make their research conclude what their government wants it to conclude, or they may be ordered to write completely fabricated studies.»
These claims were subsequently disputed in an article in Eos (Rahmstorf et al, 2004) by an international team
of scientists and geologists (including some
of us here at RealClimate), who suggested that Shaviv and Veizer's analyses were based on unreliable and poorly replicated estimates, selective adjustments
of the data (shifting the data, in one case by 40 million years) and drew untenable conclusions, particularly with regard to the influence
of anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations on recent warming (
see for
example the exchange between the two sets
of authors).
Biofuel funding is an
example of something that got out
of control long after the real
scientists saw its futility.
For
example, he shows an ice core and indicates it is from Antarctica and shows evidence
of a change due to the Clean Air Act amendments in the US; the core was actually, as I understand it, from Greenland — and on his visit to
see the core, the
scientist had shown him cores from both the Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheets.
The issue I have with this is that there seems to be more evidence that a luck
of trust (if it exists) is because certain media outlets keep telling the public that climate
scientists can't be trusted, rather than the public deciding this independently because they've become aware
of advocacy by climate
scientists (
see Dana's Guardian article today, for
example).
I do admit, though, there are a lot
of your fellow luke - and non-warmers who apparently believe the world's
scientists are engaged in some massive conspiracy to perpetrate a hoax (
see previous comment for
example).]
In the question and answer period, Dr. Flato noted that the different pathways
of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations diverge near the middle
of the century and Dr. Zwiers offered the climate - exacerbated spread
of the mountain pine beetle as an
example of an impact that we have already
seen here in BC (PCIC
scientists have recently authored two papers on the impacts
of climate change on BC's forests,
see here for more).
Rather than attack Tom you should
see him as an
example of climate
scientists of all persuasions who are trying to analyse the behaviour
of complex chaotic systems by the application
of simplistic relationships studied in a laboratory.
In a curiosity venture to
see if the Union
of Concerned
Scientists regurgitation of the «reposition global warming» accusation narrative was getting any media traction, I instead stumbled across an unexpected example of outright either deliberate misinformation, or one of otherwise incompetent reporting from someone who is supposed to be an authority on the topic of «industry - corrupted skeptic climate scientis
Scientists regurgitation
of the «reposition global warming» accusation narrative was getting any media traction, I instead stumbled across an unexpected
example of outright either deliberate misinformation, or one
of otherwise incompetent reporting from someone who is supposed to be an authority on the topic
of «industry - corrupted skeptic climate
scientistsscientists».
«I
see repeated
examples of scientists taking action to obscure these bits BECAUSE they fear what skeptics will do with these bits.»
In the mails however I
see repeated
examples of scientists taking action to obscure these bits BECAUSE they fear what skeptics will do with these bits.
Via Daily Caller: Climate
Scientist Zeke Hausfather: «A good
example that even brilliant
scientists sometimes say silly things when it's outside their field
of expertise (
see Nobel disease).»
You often
see climate denialists trotting out this
example as «proof» that
scientists are lying to keep people in a state
of fear.
The mechanisms such interests use are many — influencing election outcomes by injecting huge sums
of money into them (
see the NYT editorial on the KOch Brothers and AB32, for
example), installing fossil fuel employees in government bureaucracies (BP's ex-chief
scientist is currently Head
of Science at the DOE, one Steve Koonin, also
of Caltech — welcome to the fossil fuel - academic complex), and distorting science to fit their agenda (witness the endless fraudulent claims about zero - emission combustion, despite the persistent absence
of any stand - alone prototypes.)
In ethical terms we
see another
example of a climate
scientist who holds a strong ethical commitment to the policy dimension
of climate change and its associated end
of shaping public opinion and behaviour, appearing to prioritise the pursuit
of those ends above the narrower moral codes
of scientific discovery.
The more mobile ones are also involved in various international societies and coalitions (and yet they fail to
see the irony
of this in light
of their zeal to prevent international goverment forming); for
example they are members or contributors to the Marshal Institute, or the Climate Coalition (or is it the Coalition
of Climate
Scientists, or something similar), or IceCaps —
see the website, or SEPP, and on it goes.
Just type the terms you want to compare into the boxes at the top
of the page (after you delete the «Data
Scientist» and «Devops»
examples already there, as you
see below).
Scientists believe that disgust evolved as a defensive mechanism to keep us from being contaminated by external sources.1 Accordingly, the mouth and the vagina, two body parts that lie at the border
of the body (and are therefore at a higher risk for contamination), demonstrate greater disgust sensitivity; for
example, we are likely to be especially grossed out by having a spider crawling on / around the mouth or vagina compared to, say, the left arm.2 Add to this the finding that some
of the strongest triggers for disgust are body odor, saliva, semen, and sweat, all heavily involved when getting «down and dirty,» and you can
see how the relation between sex and disgust seems contradictory or even obstructive.