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.
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Posted on December 20, 2006 5:51 PM • 4 Comments
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.
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Posted on December 20, 2006 1:32 PM • 39 Comments
If any of you guys can see the North Korea test (01:35 GMT / Oct 9) on available seismograms, please email me or put it in the comments. None of the LCSN instruments show anything and while the USGS has...
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Posted on October 9, 2006 4:05 PM • 30 Comments
A good amount of the pushback on carbon and climate change comes from vested interests who stand to lose if carbon restrictions are implemented. They can't say, "Sure, the science is right but we still want to pollute!" so...
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Posted on June 6, 2006 8:03 PM • 5 Comments
I have a pretty strong stomach. I can't think of any other time I've read a story and gotten a big pit and felt actually nauseous. But it just happened. I'm not opposed to capital punishment on moral grounds --...
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Posted on May 3, 2006 1:29 PM • 4 Comments
So M$ just launched a new
journal search page that I assume is meant to rival
Google Scholar (hey, now that there are two tools out there, maybe you journalist types can start actually reading articles in journals other than
Science and
Nature). I've never found Google Scholar all that useful...
Posted on April 12, 2006 3:30 PM • 7 Comments
Tuesday on Prometheus, Roger highlighted this brilliant Myanna Lahsen paper on the use and interpretation of climate models. Her paper should be required reading both for those in the ocean and atmospheric sciences, as well as those who consume climate...
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Posted on January 19, 2006 2:12 PM • 5 Comments
Also out of the Sunday NYT, this time the Magazine, an article on peer review and journals. As I have commented before, peer review is no guarantee of the accuracy or worthiness of a scientific paper. (For that matter, neither...
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Posted on January 17, 2006 1:17 AM • 7 Comments
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.)
