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- Certainty on the Science of Climate Change
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Blog Roundup: Dec 10, 2007
The House Oversight Committee releases its report on Bush Administration interference with climate science. From the Executive Summary: “The evidence before the Committee leads to one inescapable conclusion: the Bush Administration has engaged in a systematic effort to manipulate climate change science and mislead policymakers and the public about the dangers of global warming.” Gristmill is not surprised by the conclusion.
“Atlantis is grounded till January 2 at the earliest.” (60 Second Science)
The public isn’t worried about nanotech risks; scientists are. But it turns out that “the public trusts industry and university scientists more than governmental bodies, regulatory agencies and the media.” Matthew Nisbet points to Peter Rodgers’s editorial (subscription) in Nature Nanotech on the opportunity to frame scientific communication on nanotechnology (hint: forget the details, and get help from professional communicators if needed). (Framing Science)
Sorting through the empirical research on the “wide variety of social factors that affect (or are affected by) sex differences in math and science.” (Cognitive Daily)
Hill Heat, Dot Earth, and Climate Progress all cover the Nobel Peace Prize ceremonies and speeches for the IPCC and Al Gore “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.”
Venture Capitalists with money in cleantech start-ups at the Always On Venture Summit West were not optimistic that the U.S. government will enact carbon caps in the near future. (Wired Science)
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