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Using the metric of comments garnered, the two most popular of the articles posted on SkS during the past week were:
On Thursday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that the past year’s El Niño was no more. The declaration comes a few weeks after Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology, the other big El Niño monitoring group, also declared it dead and gone.
That means ocean temperatures in the eastern tropical Pacific are now near normal. But they might not stay that way for long as odds are pointing to a cooling in the region that could herald the arrival of a La Niña event later this fall.
El Niño Had a Good Run, But Now It’s Over by Brian Kahn, Climate Central, June 9, 2016
Is there not, however, a danger that academics may lose their independence if they get too closely involved either with corporate interests or with environmental activism?
Holm* says that independence must be maintained if academics are do their work properly: “I am a staunch believer in the university as a space to stand aside, to dig deeper: we actually do need ivory towers to do this. But I’m also committed to being a passenger on the same bus as every other citizen. If I learn that that bus is driving us towards an abyss, I need to do something about it.”
*Poul Holm, Environmental Humanities Centre, Trinity College Dublin’s Long Room Hub
The art of changing the climate debate by Paddy Woodworth, Irish Times, June 11, 2016
John Coook's Ten Years On: How Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth made its mark was reprinted by IFL Science.
The Debunking Handbook is cited by Atul Gawande in his commencement address at the California Institute of Technology, on Friday, June 10th. The address constitutes the article, The Mistrust of Science published in the New Yorker magazine.
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