By this metric, who are the most valued people on my campus?
"Student-athletes are tested six days each week – all but their mandatory day off – and sometimes get tested twice in a day" buffzone.com/2020/11/21/how…
College football is important in American culture & as a business
I used to think its contradictions could be reconciled with university missions
No longer
Football can associate w/ universities but should no longer pursue the fiction of being a part of the university mission
Giving degrees in football would certainly eliminate much of the hypocrisy but it wouldn't address the ethical, racial, economic and other issues presented by big-time football on university campuses
One problem in the communication of climate science is that "experts climate communicators" make quick judgments for reporters on deadline on papers they have not read & data they have not analyzed and then, when paper is shown to be fatally flawed, defend their original comments
Example: A scientist in this @capitalweather@washingtonpost article cites hurricanes Michael (2018) and Ike (2008) to emphasize the results of the paper & both of these storms decayed FASTER than the average rate reported in study
However it has come about that the leader of the next US national climate assessment will work from an agency as a career scientists (not politically appointed & not working from White House) is good news for the integrity of the NCA as an advisory mechanism
Climate science has been overseen from the White House since the 1980s & the US NCA since the 1990s
On that early history see:
Pielke Jr 2000. Policy history of the US global change research program: Part I. Administrative development. GEC 10:9-25. sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/admin/publicat…
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A new RCP8.5 critique published today
Pedersen et al adds to @matthewgburgess et al & @hausfath@Peters_Glen
It is a valuable contribution to growing literature documenting why it's inappropriate to use RCP8.5 as a reference scenario in climate research nature.com/articles/s4324…
There now appears to be a growing consensus that RCP8.5 (and by extension SSP3-7.0 and SSP5-8.5) are inappropriate when used as reference scenarios (for definition of what a "reference scenario" means see @jritch &I --> osf.io/preprints/soca…)
There is a bit of unfortunate historical revisionism in the paper
Compare Pedersen et al (left) with the original description of RCP8.5 in Riahi et al 2011 (right)
The use of RCP8.5 as a reference scenario can be found in thousands and thousands of papers, with more added daily
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Initial reactions to Blake Leeper CAS ruling
Summary:
Leeper lost his appeal to run in Olympics but World Athletics (IAAF) lost the case & will completely reshape possibilities for athletes with prosthetics to run in elite competition
First, this case hinges on rules, processes and science
On the latter it is remarkable to see IAAF demanding access to data, when they refused (to this day) to release data in their research re: Semanya
Similarly, I had a good chuckle seeing IAAF emphasize peer review (Semenya research wasn't) & the necessity of data release for CAS to do its job
In this case the data was shared by Leeper's team, in Semenya case IAAF never shared its data
Incredible
Solar power enjoys an incredibly strong a global public consensus
As do wind and hydro, 7 just below gas
Nuclear, oil, coal ... not so much
Via @pewglobal pewresearch.org/science/2020/0…
Ideological polarization on climate policy is a largely found in a few English-speaking countries (plus Sweden!)
Via @pewglobal
With a high % of authors of @IPCC_CH coming from ideologically polarized countries (US, UK, Australia) not surprising that those politics re-emerge within the assessment process
But ideological battles over climate are a non-issue for >95% of the world
I outlined the issues in a thread as well, which has details if you are interested, 100% consistent with @hausfath@Peters_Glen letter (which is behind a paywall)