AGU Overload
Again there is way too much to write about. Today and tomorrow I will write more about the American Geophysical Union Meeting. In between I will try to squeeze in news about Gamma Ray Bursters. The AGU Meeting has more packed into a week than ten people could see. Tuesday night was a dinner for Planetary Sciences at the (temporary) California Academy of Sciences, where we ate amid dinosaur skeletons and fish tanks. Wednesday morning is a breakfast sponsored by the petroleum industry.
Kea has often expressed her concern about climate change. I met with Scienceblogger Kevin Vranes whose comments on the subject were picked up by blogs as diverse as Island of Doubt and Transterrestrial Musings.
Thursday I saw a lunchtime talk by Al "I used to be the next President" Gore. "There is a greater temptation to ignore inconvenient truths," he said, "to set aside knowledge that might challenge a prevailing policy." He implored scientists to summon the courage to fight back when "important truths are being ignored, resisted or censored." As you may know, yours truly has a habit of challenging prevailing thought and even fighting back.
Here there is a great interest in climate change and zero, zippo, nada interest in "dark energy." One may appear crazy to contradict the prevailing wisdom, but DE has little following outside a tiny scientific community. The majority of people haven't heard of "dark energy" and don't care anyway. Tomorrow we'll see how a better theory applies directly to Earth's climate.
Kea has often expressed her concern about climate change. I met with Scienceblogger Kevin Vranes whose comments on the subject were picked up by blogs as diverse as Island of Doubt and Transterrestrial Musings.
Thursday I saw a lunchtime talk by Al "I used to be the next President" Gore. "There is a greater temptation to ignore inconvenient truths," he said, "to set aside knowledge that might challenge a prevailing policy." He implored scientists to summon the courage to fight back when "important truths are being ignored, resisted or censored." As you may know, yours truly has a habit of challenging prevailing thought and even fighting back.
Here there is a great interest in climate change and zero, zippo, nada interest in "dark energy." One may appear crazy to contradict the prevailing wisdom, but DE has little following outside a tiny scientific community. The majority of people haven't heard of "dark energy" and don't care anyway. Tomorrow we'll see how a better theory applies directly to Earth's climate.
posted by L. Riofrio at 10:05 AM
4 Comments:
It sounds like an interesting conference. Now you have us guessing again about black holes and the climate!
That's coming soon. When coming to AGU Meetings it is great to have two lines of research to choose from. I enjoy your posts on warming too.
Riofrio,
As I was not indoctrinated into the standard theory at a young age and do not make my living applying it past a certain point, I have no qualms whatsoever about looking at something new. :^D This is not a religion to me! :^D
Query, is Moffat a good place to start with this topic?
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