It's tragic. I went to Bolivia for the Cochabamba People's Conference on
Climate Change, but failed to get heard by the organisers, whereas the ETC
group did manage. After the conference, I spent 6 months or more trying to
contact the Bolivian Ambassador to UN, Pablo Solon, without success. The
John,
I have no doubt that, from the perspective of many extant species and
less-fortunate humans, we are indeed in dire straits.
If I were convinced that stratospheric aerosols would work as advertised and
that there would be no unforeseen or unanticipated repercussions, and that
some sort of
Values and norms do and must guide what questions we ask, but they cannot be
allowed to influence our scientific answers.
Scientific papers should contain empirical statements and not value-based
judgments.
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Jerome Whitington
jwhiting...@dartmouth.edu wrote:
Deploy has an ominous and fateful ring. What about some careful, well thought
through, limited experiments in order to decide about the value and risk of
deployment? I think that is entirely possible with stratospheric aerosols. I
think this group is entirely capable if defining and proposing
Hi Ken,
Your prescription that science papers should not include prescriptive
statements raises interesting issues.
While I agree that it is important to avoid confusion between science-based
findings and statements based on values, it seems to me that it is possible to
avoid this confusion in
David,
In practice, that is what I do in public talks. I usually spend most of the
talk on science and then i announce that i am moving from science to my own
personal value-laden opinions and proceed to make a raft of prescriptive
statements.
If this is done in a written paper, I could live
Thanks, Dave, for the careful read and perspectives. I too am somewhat confused
by the demarcation that Ken refers to. Isn't the entire field of geoengineering
prescriptive and hence not science by Ken's definition? How can the science
body IPCC publish numerous prescriptive tomes on CO2
Hi All -
Forgive me for joining in - I am a newcomer on this list.
Georges Canguilhem, who analyzed the French medical sciences, argued that
the objectivity of medicine in fact requires its normative component.
Research is not only motivated by goals like curing disease, but is
organized toward
FYI., wil
Millstein Menon, Regional climate consequences of large-scale cool roof
and photovoltaic array deployment, 6(3) Environmental Research Letters,
http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/6/3/034001
wil
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Dr. Wil Burns, Editor in Chief
Journal of International Wildlife Law Policy
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