{"id":1,"date":"2004-12-09T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-10T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1"},"modified":"2006-01-31T12:54:55","modified_gmt":"2006-01-31T16:54:55","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2004\/12\/welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to RealClimate Bienvenue \u00e0 RealClimate<\/lang_fr>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Climate science is one of those fields where anyone, regardless of their lack of expertise or understanding, feels qualified to comment on new papers and ongoing controversies. This can be frustrating for scientists like ourselves who see agenda-driven ‘commentary’ on the Internet and in the opinion columns of newspapers crowding out careful analysis.
\nLes sciences du climat forment une discipline dans laquelle qui que ce soit, ind\u00e9pendamment de son expertise ou de sa compr\u00e9hension, se sent qualifi\u00e9e pour pr\u00e9senter ses observations sur de nouveaux articles et pol\u00e9miques en cours. Ceci peut se r\u00e9v\u00e9ler frustrant pour les scientifiques, comme nous-m\u00eames, qui lisont des ‘commentaires’ sur le web dict\u00e9s par des pr\u00e9jug\u00e9s politiques qui ne tiennent compte de la rigueur des observations scientifiques.<\/p>\n

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Many scientists participate in efforts to educate the public and to rebut or debunk rather fanciful claims or outright mis-representations by writing in popular magazines such as EOS<\/i> and New Scientist<\/i> or in the Comments section of journals. However, this takes time to put together, and by the time it’s out, mainstream attention has often moved elsewhere. Since these rebuttals appear in the peer-reviewed literature, these efforts (in the long run) are useful. However, a faster response would sometimes be helpful in ensuring that the context of breaking stories is more widely distributed at the time.<\/p>\n

Journalists with deadlines and scant knowledge of the field quite often do not know where to go for this context on papers that are being pushed by some of the partisan think-tanks or other interested parties. This can lead to some quite mainstream outlets inadvertently publishing some very dubious and misleading ideas.<\/p>\n

RealClimate<\/strong> is a commentary site on climate science by working climate scientists for the interested public and journalists. We aim to provide a quick response to developing stories and provide the context sometimes missing in mainstream commentary. <\/p>\n

In order to limit the scope to those issues where we can claim some competence, the discussion here is restricted to scientific topics. Thus we will not get involved in political or economic issues that arise when discussing climate change. The validity of scientific information is completely independent of what society decides to do (or not) about that information. Constructive comments and questions are welcome, as are guest articles from other scientists who may choose to contribute on an occasional basis.
\n Beaucoup de scientifiques participent aux efforts de vulgarisation, et r\u00e9futent et\/ou analysent soigneusement certaines d\u00e9couvertes fantaisistes ou fausses en \u00e9crivant dans des magazines populaires tels que EOS, New Scientist ou dans les sections d\u00e9bats des journaux. Cependant, ceci prend du temps \u00e0 publier, et souvent, bien avant leur publication, l’attention des m\u00e9dias est souvent sur un autre sujet. Puisque ces r\u00e9futations apparaissent dans la litt\u00e9rature scientifique, pass\u00e9e en revue par des pairs avant publication, ces efforts sont \u00e0 long terme utiles. Cependant, une r\u00e9ponse plus rapide est parfois utile pour s’assurer que le contexte des actualit\u00e9s est largement diffus\u00e9.<\/p>\n

Les journalistes \u00e0 cause de dates-limites, et de leur connaissance limit\u00e9e dans ce champ de recherche ne savent souvent pas o\u00f9 aller pour avoir le contexte de travaux soutenus par certains “think-tanks” partisans ou autres. Ceci peut mener certains m\u00e9dias majeurs \u00e0 publier par manque de temps et de compr\u00e9hension du contexte, des id\u00e9es douteuses et fallacieuses.<\/p>\n

RealClimate<\/strong> est un site de discussion sur les sciences du climat pour le public et les journalistes, site anim\u00e9 par des scientifiques actifs dans ce domaine. Notre objectif est de fournir une r\u00e9action rapide aux actualit\u00e9s, et de fournir le contexte scientifique souvent absent dans les m\u00e9dias. <\/p>\n

La discussion est ici limit\u00e9e aux sujets scientifiques, afin de rester sur des problemes sur lesquels nous sommes comp\u00e9tents. Ainsi nous ne impliquerons pas dans les questions politiques ou \u00e9conomiques ayant trait au changement climatique. La validit\u00e9 de l’information scientifique est compl\u00e8tement ind\u00e9pendante de ce que la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9cide de faire (ou ne pas faire) au sujet de cette information. Les questions et commentaires constructifs sont les bienvenus, ainsi que les articles de la part de scientifiques qui peuvent choisir de contribuer occasionnellement.<\/lang_fr><\/p>\n\n<\/div> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Climate science is one of those fields where anyone, regardless of their lack of expertise or understanding, feels qualified to comment on new papers and ongoing controversies. This can be frustrating for scientists like ourselves who see agenda-driven ‘commentary’ on the Internet and in the opinion columns of newspapers crowding out careful analysis. Les sciences […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-climate-science","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}