{"id":350,"date":"2006-09-13T11:37:29","date_gmt":"2006-09-13T15:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=350"},"modified":"2006-10-20T20:54:42","modified_gmt":"2006-10-21T00:54:42","slug":"weekly-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2006\/09\/weekly-round-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Round-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kcite-section\" kcite-section-id=\"350\">\n<p>A few scattered pieces that may be of interest:<\/p>\n<p>The increasingly-odd behaviour of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists &#8211; who recently awarded Michael Crichton a <em>journalism<\/em> award (because his work apparently has the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sciam.com\/index.php?title=the_journalistic_triumph_of_michael_cric&#038;more=1&#038;c=1&#038;tb=1&#038;pb=1\">&#8216;ring of truth<\/a>&#8216; as opposed to actually being true), aroused the ire of American Quaternary Association in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amqua.org\/news\/news\/eosforum2006.pdf\">commentary<\/a> in EOS.  <\/p>\n<p>Reason Magazine has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.org\/roundtable\/\">Roundtable<\/a> discussing responses to global warming from their particular perspective. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.org\/commentaries\/boudreaux_20060907.shtml\">second essay<\/a> (by D. Boudreaux) has the remarkable subtitle &#8220;Why ignoring climate change isn&#8217;t a sign of scientific illiteracy or of ideologically induced stupidity&#8221;. His point appears to be that the science of climate change doesn&#8217;t specifically imply any particular actions in response (which is true &#8211; what action to take, if any, is a political, ethical and economic decision). However his conclusion that ignoring climate change is sensible postition to take is indeed pretty dim. Ignorance is never the answer.<\/p>\n<p>And on a lighter note, the Union of Concerned Scientists has a <a href=\"http:\/\/ucsaction.org\/campaign\/vote_now_for_science_idol\/?qp_source=wacucs%5fhomearspotlig\">cartoon competition.<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- kcite active, but no citations found -->\n<\/div> <!-- kcite-section 350 -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few scattered pieces that may be of interest: The increasingly-odd behaviour of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists &#8211; who recently awarded Michael Crichton a journalism award (because his work apparently has the &#8216;ring of truth&#8216; as opposed to actually being true), aroused the ire of American Quaternary Association in a commentary in EOS. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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":[1,26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-climate-science","7":"category-rc-forum","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}