Sea Turtles Saved from Florida Frost - 0 views
Applying the 1% doctrine to climate - 0 views
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"In 2006, Ron Suskind published "The One Percent Doctrine," a book about the U.S. war on terrorists after 9/11. The title was drawn from an assessment by then-Vice President Dick Cheney, who, in the face of concerns that a Pakistani scientist was offering nuclear-weapons expertise to Al Qaeda, reportedly declared: "If there's a 1% chance that Pakistani scientists are helping Al Qaeda build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response." Cheney contended that the U.S. had to confront a very new type of threat: a 'low-probability, high-impact event.' Soon after Suskind's book came out, the legal scholar Cass Sunstein, who then was at the University of Chicago, pointed out that Mr. Cheney seemed to be endorsing the same "precautionary principle" that also animated environmentalists. Sunstein wrote in his blog: "According to the Precautionary Principle, it is appropriate to respond aggressively to low-probability, high-impact events - such as climate change."
Cold Patches in a Warm World - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views
The Distracting Debate Over Climate Certainty - 1 views
Your Dot: A Bison Encounter - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views
Q.&A.: Transportation Secretary on Biking, Walking and 'What Americans Want' - Green In... - 0 views
Costco Pulls Threatened Fish from Stores - NYTimes.com - 0 views
A Big Surprise Beneath the Ice - NYTimes.com - 0 views
2000s warmest decade on record - 0 views
Will Big Business Save the Earth? - 0 views
Bloomberg Eyes Danish Offshore Wind Farm and Sees New York's Future - 0 views
East Anglia's Climate Lessons - 0 views
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"One lesson is that anyone hoping to up-end decades of research pointing to a growing human influence on the climate by challenging a single batch of studies (in this case efforts to chart past temperatures using indirect clues like tree rings) is almost surely on a fool's errand. Another is that scientists, even when under relentless pressure, need to conduct their work scrupulously, carefully and openly and understand that transparency is inevitable in the digital era. A third is that scientists in highly specialized fields would do well to reach out for added statistical expertise when trying to test broader implications of their work."
What are containment domes? Have they been used successfully before? - 0 views
Nabokov Butterfly Theory Is Vindicated - 0 views
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