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...many crimes that climate scientists have been accused of lately is that they claim absolute certainty in a field of research fraught with uncertainty. Sure, the planet is warming, say skeptics, but that's happened throughout Earth's history, long before humans were burning fossil fuels. So, how can we be sure this isn't just a natural phenomenon...
Again, none of the evidence adds up to absolute certainty, a rare commodity in any field of science. On Wednesday, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced that an independent panel of scientists, representing national science academies from around the world, would review the IPCC's research procedures - an effort to account for the 2007 report's mistakes, for which the IPCC has come under hard criticism. But while the U.N. group may benefit publicly from more transparency, it won't change the fact that more than 99% of the scientific details in the 2007 report have already withstood...
Junior seminars are non-required undergraduate courses “designed to introduce students to research in a particular field of economics,” according to the course catalogue...
Cushman excelled on the softball field early, earning All-Ivy status in the sport as a freshman. But at the same time, she was becoming increasingly interested in Nordic skiing, a sport she had decided to take up after her First-Year Outdoor Program trip...
...addition, Democratic leaders tried to clear the field for Specter in the primary. But they couldn't stop Democratic Congressman Joe Sestak, a retired Navy admiral whom the party had initially been recruiting to run against Specter back when he was still a Republican. Sestak has said the White House went so far as to offer him a top job in the Administration to get him out of the race; he has declined to provide details but has hinted that it may have been Secretary of the Navy. The White House denies...