The Race to Understand Polar Ice Sheets goodmenproject.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from goodmenproject.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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It s always a special pleasure to note an article including Skeptical Science s founder John Cook in the author roster. Misinformation and the epistemic integrity of democracy includes not only Cook as a collaborator but also a cast of other familiar authorities on human cognition in connection with climate science, in particlar how our mental equipment struggles with following a continuous thread of truth through a tangled knot of disconnected confusion in the form of misinformation. We re not necessarily very good thinkers in the best of circumstances. We often fail to think clearly when we re in the presence of misinformation or synthetic ignorance, especially when it s calculated and crafted exactly for the purpose of paralyzing competent thinking. In their abstract the authors note Democracy relies on a shared body of knowledge among citizens, for example trust in elections and reliable knowledge to inform policy-relevant debate. One can extend that th
Research using satellite observations and ice thickness measurements gathered by NASA s Operation IceBridge is giving new insight into one of the processes causing Greenland s ice sheet to lose mass.
8 Most Iconic Glaciers That Are Disappearing - One Green Planet onegreenplanet.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from onegreenplanet.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.