Open access notables
This week we re pleased to highlight a paper by Sergei Samoilenko and John Cook, the latter name likely familiar to many as Dr. Cook is the founder of Skeptical Science. Published in Climate Policy, Samoilienko & Cook s Developing an Ad Hominem Typology for Classifying Climate Misinformation codifies, categorizes and analyzes a large sample of ad hominem arguments derived from numerous contrarian blogs and think-tanks, distilling the following key results:
“Throughout the journey, death knocked at my door several times, but I never lost my focus, I never gave up,” said Ikramul Hasan Shakil, the intrepid conqueror of the Great Himalaya Trail (GHT), home to three of the highest peaks in the world.
“Throughout the journey, death knocked at my door several times, but I never lost my focus, I never gave up,” said Ikramul Hasan Shakil, the intrepid conqueror of the Great Himalaya Trail (GHT), home to three of the highest peaks in the world.
It was not so long ago that the parts of the globe covered permanently with ice and snow, the Arctic, Antarctic, and Greater Himalayas (“the abode of the snows” in Sanskrit), were viewed as distant, frigid climes of little consequence. Only the most intrepid adventurers were drawn to such desolate regions as the Tibetan Plateau, which, when finally surveyed, proved to have the