Month: February 2010
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Climate reporting – compare and contrast
There’s a subtle difference here that I can’t quite put my finger on. An article in The Register (by Lewis Page): Agricultural brainboxes at Stanford University say that global warming isn’t likely to seriously affect poor people in developing nations, who make up so much of the human race. Under some scenarios, poor farmers “could…
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Come in
Here’s a sign I noticed while cycling: Perhaps there’s hope for us yet.
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Open source science
Slashdot notes an article from the Guardian: “If you’re going to do good science, release the computer code too“. The author is, Darrel Ince, is a Professor of Computing at The Open University. You might recognise something of the mayhem that is the climate change debate in the title. Both the public release of scientific…