Beneath the public climate debate, another debate is going on, unnoticed, and one that citizen scientists may be uniquely qualified to address.
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It’s official: global warming is real. Now the debate has shifted to whether it’s worth doing anything about it.
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By Sheldon Greaves One of the legendary minds of the 20th century whose work will continue to enlighten the current century is R. Buckminster Fuller. “Bucky” as he preferred to be called was not only remarkable for the prodigious output … Continue reading
By Sheldon Greaves With the release last Friday of the Fourth National Climate Assessment came Trump’s predictable denial of the science behind it, and the equally predictable (and justifiable) exasperation expressed by anyone with even a moderate knowledge of the … Continue reading
By Sheldon Not long ago the web was abuzz with the news that a judge had ordered EPA Director Scott Pruitt to disclose the climate science behind his claims that deny accepted science on global warming. Scientific American (“Judge Orders … Continue reading
By Sheldon Greaves, Ph.D. Ocean Sanctuaries 11 December 2017 (Download PDF) A recent essay[1] by Philip Mirowski has caught the attention of the Citizen Science community, by raising some trenchant questions despite several questionable assertions and assumptions about the Citizen … Continue reading
Note: I wrote this review quite awhile ago and posted it on the web site of the Society for Amateur Scientists. Both the organization and the web site no longer exist. I then reposted it on the site for the … Continue reading
By Sheldon When circumstances permit, we like to garden and grow our own vegetables. This has not often been possible, but when it is, we try to give it our best shot. Actually, my spouse Denise is the gardening genius. … Continue reading
By Sheldon Now that we are entering our second year of home ownership in Oregon, we hope that this time we will be able to get a garden in. Last year I covered the skeleton of a carport with plastic, … Continue reading