Published by Brunsell on 19 Jul 2009 at 08:34 pm
Web Highlights 07/20/2009
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FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: A Challenge to Climate Change Skeptics
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What Questions Can Science Answer? | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine
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what does science actually have the power to do?
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All that is completely mixed-up, because science does not proceed phenomenon by phenomenon. Science constructs theories, and then compares them to empirically-collected data, and decides which theories provide better fits to the data.
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cience passes judgment on ideas about how the world works.
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Science doesn’t pass judgment on phenomena; it passes judgment on theories.
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NOAA scientists today announced the arrival of El Niño, a climate phenomenon with a significant influence on global weather, ocean conditions and marine fisheries. El Niño, the periodic warming of central and eastern tropical Pacific waters, occurs on average every two to five years and typically lasts about 12 months.
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Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
