Naomi Oreskes’ reply to Schulte got me thinking about the journal Energy & Environment, which appears to be the climate science equivalent of Rivista di Biologia (more here on that particular turkey). The journal was founded in 1990 and it...
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Category: Maroon and Gold
Ah, Labor Day weekend. Sun, fun, and the start of college football. ASU plays San Jose State (home of my Scibling Janet) tomorrow night - the first game under Dennis Erickson. There is should be little doubt that ASU will...
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Category: Earth and Planetary Sciences
Historian Naomi Oreskes responds to claims by endocrinologist Klaus-Martin Schulte that her 2004 study of the climate change literature is outdated and wrong.
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Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Events 1909 - Burgess Shale fossils discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott....
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Events 1831 - Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction. 1982 - The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung....
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Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Events 1845 - Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue. 1981 - The National Centers for Disease Control announce a high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men....
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Events 1962 - Mariner 2 launched to Venus. 2003 - Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing approximately 34,646,416 miles (55,758,006 kilometers) from Earth....
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The winged statue of victory [Nike] stands in front of smoke from fires in the village of ancient Olympia near the birthplace of the Olympic Games, in southwestern Greece.Source: Petros Giannakouris/Associated Press...
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