Science and (culture, politics, policy, media)
Kevin Vranes has a phud in Physical Ocean- ography and Cli- matology. He now studies sci- ence policy and politics at the CSTPR. (More in the about.)
email: kevin {/at/} nosenada.org
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December 20, 2006
Category: Climate change • Congress
In a few other posts about the changing Congressional landscape for climate in wake of the November midterms, I identified Rep. John Dingell (MI), the incoming chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, as a major potential roadblock to...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 7:03 PM • 8 Comments
Category: Climate change • Science at work
that James Annan and Julia Hargreaves got thoroughly screwed by Geophysical Research Letters. You can read James' recounting of his editorial treatment there, and WC's take here. My FWIW is this: I've reviewed plenty of papers, a few for GRL.
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 5:51 PM • 4 Comments
Category: Climate change • Science at work • Science+culture
I realize that many of you will disagree with the notion that we are overplaying our hand, or are not giving full voice to our uncertainties. I'm not sure the answer to this question myself. But I write all this because I sense a sea change in attitudes amongst climsci people that I know as good scientists without agendas. These are solid scientists, and some told me in no uncertain terms that we are not giving full voice to uncertainties; others implied as much. Therein lies the tension.
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 1:32 PM • 39 Comments
December 19, 2006
Category: Climate change
What does this mean? It is further evidence that the train is leaving the station and that the smart ones are jumping on early before that thing is running fast. It also means Congress is even more likely to pass something significant on GHGs in the 110th session (with or without a veto threat). With that veto looming, though, let's expect something in the 111th session.
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 2:58 PM • 7 Comments
December 12, 2006
Category: Science politics
Ok, so I haven't posted anything on AGU yet. The realclimate guys did a better job than I of anticipating how draining this meeting is and how it affects blogging, although considering that other conferences have stoked a avalanche of...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 8:22 PM • 2 Comments
December 11, 2006
Category: Annoucements • Earth Science (general) • Geology • Natural hazards/disasters
I've been meaning to pull together a geobloggers confab at AGU this year but didn't get it done, so we'll have to wait until next year. In the meantime, I'm at the AGU Fall Meeting all week and am giving...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 10:29 AM • 6 Comments
December 4, 2006
Category: Journalism • Science education
One thing I don't do in blogging is pick on one person and keep harping harping harping endlessly on the poor dead horse(man). (Even when they deserve it, like Paul Epstein.) So this will be the last Laurie David/NSTA post,...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 12:30 PM • 1 Comments
December 2, 2006
Category: Earth Sci Article Abstracts
I'm way behind on this, so I'm not giving commentary this time, just titles and links. Ordered from oldest to most recent, split into two posts. [If you're new to these, I list all the abstracts that have caught my...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 3:26 PM • 1 Comments
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