Why 200 US Climate Scientists are Hosting a 100-Hour YouTube Livestream (space.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/05/31/0856253/why-200-us-climate-scientists-are-hosting-a-100-hour-youtube-livestream
- Source link: https://www.space.com/science/climate-change/climate-scientists-are-hosting-a-100-hour-youtube-livestream-in-response-to-trumps-research-funding-cuts
The event is being stated in protest of recent government funding cuts at NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the United States Geological Survey, and the National Science Foundation. (The event began with "scientists documenting their last few hours at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies as the office was shuttered.")
> The marathon stream features mini-lectures, panels and question-and-answer [3]sessions with hundreds of scientists , each speaking in their capacity as private citizens rather than on behalf of any institution. These include talks from former National Weather Service directors, Britney Schmidt, a groundbreaking glacier researcher, and legendary meteorologist John Morales.
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> In its first 30 hours, the stream got over 77,000 views.
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> Ultimately, the goal of the event is to give members of the public the chance to learn more about meteorology and climate science in an informal setting — and for free. "We really felt like the American public deserves to know what we do," Duffy said. However, many of the speakers and organizers also hope the transference of this knowledge will spur people to take action. The event's website features a link to [4]5 Calls , an organization that makes it easy for folks to contact their representatives in Congress about the importance of funding climate and weather research.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/@wclivestream/live
[2] https://www.space.com/science/climate-change/climate-scientists-are-hosting-a-100-hour-youtube-livestream-in-response-to-trumps-research-funding-cuts
[3] https://wclivestream.com/schedule/
[4] https://5calls.org/issue/climate-weather-research-funding-cuts/
Re: (Score:2, Insightful)
Earth is cooked and the only hope of the Muskian bloodline surviving is by establishing an ethnostate of Elon's descendants on Planet Mars.
(A pity for the 7 billion humans unrelated to the Musk family to become extinct but dismantling NASA and funneling proceeds of DOGE to SpaceX is for the greater good, surely.)
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So the libertarian think-tankers at the [1]Heartland institute [wikipedia.org] which is most famous for working with Philip Morris and the tobacco companies to discredit any research around smoking harms, those folks are totally on the up and up, no way they would have a subversive financial interest. Those millions from Exxon and oil companies, nothing to see here!!! (Don't) Follow the money (too closely)!!!
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartland_Institute
PR Marathons (Score:2)
Science shouldn't have to do PR marathons and "Show & Tell" to "persuade" "the public" why its needed.
The Trump administration and their DOGGIES are idiotic anti-science worm-brain idiots.
Not relevant (Score:3)
The science is not relevant.
The effects of global warming on the USA and Europe are not relevant to why there is a large and well funded movement against climate science.
Qui bono.
Out of touch (Score:3)
It is hard to relate to people who expect the public to tune in, even partially, for a five-day livestream on a topic where meaningful action rarely follows. Most of us are busy with work, family, and everyday commitments - we simply cannot have the luxury of dedicating time to passive discussions.
If you really want to make an impact, make the arguments more relatable to your audience.
Please explain.... (Score:2)
I keep seeing the average temperature of the planet measured to a tenth of a degree.
1) What is the definition of this? For example, how deep in the ocean do you go?
2) How much data is involved? Won't it be some huge number of terabytes?
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The Koch Brothers paid a bunch of scientists to prove the figures being released by the IPCC and clinate scientists wrong. The scientists they paid concluded (in direct contradiction to the argument that scientists say what they're paid to say) that the figures were broadly correct, and that the average planetary temperature was the figure stated.
My recommendation would be to look for the papers from those scientists, because those are the papers that we know in advance were written by scientists determined
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I mean at least with regards to the NWS and NOAA this is all published, public information, what the sensors are, where they are located, their historical data, it's just the skeptics have a financial anf ideological interest in acting like all this information does not exist
[1]https://www.weather.gov/about/... [weather.gov]
[2]https://www.weather.gov/coop/ [weather.gov]
(this has over 4000 sites participating)
[1] https://www.weather.gov/about/observation-equipment
[2] https://www.weather.gov/coop/
Preaching to the choir (Score:3)
Unfortunately no opinions will be changed.
People are married to their 'alternate facts'.
Marathon-level boredom (Score:2)
...and just like with any marathon-grade event, it's going to be an absolutely borint and uproductive event with very low attendance numbers.
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> this is literally saying nothing, snark for the sake of snark
As opposed to every lying politician citizens blindly believe and repeatedly elect that will ignore the shit out of everything from 5 Calls anyway? You are not who they Represent. Neither is the "climate" they fly through with private jets.
How the hell do you think we got here. As if organizing a phone-the-reason is gonna help? Sorry if far too much history is feeding my obvious pessimism here.
(~600 watching on the live stream. Sad to see they're basically saying everything to an audience of nothing.)