climate change

The compulsion to be seen as doing something in response to perceived public health or environmental concerns is a syndrome endemic in the political class and, increasingly, the mass media.

Join host Cameron English as he sits down with Dr. Chuck Dinerstein to break down these stories on Episode 43 of the Science Dispatch podcast:

Quick factoid reaffirms the concept of recency bias, the concept that more recent events hold greater weight than past ones, a bias we all have.

Biosphere “Our Biosphere includes people and all other living organisms that we directly or indirectly interact with. The Biosphere is our common heritage that sustains human existence.”

Climate “We find that global warming beyond 1.0 °C above pre-industrial levels, which has already been exceeded, carries a moderate likelihood of triggering tipping elements.”

The authors have provided a bit of a summary of their proposals at The Conversation.

The Problem – “Past performance is not a guarantee of future results.”

Join host Cameron English as he sits down Dr. Chuck Dinerstein to break down these stories on episode 32 of the Science Dispatch podcast:

ChatGPT is an AI model of language trained to produce text. It was trained on materials written by humans found on the Internet.

Mara’s commentary steered clear of a discussion of gender (women tend to be smaller than men); lifespan; BMI, or activity on climate change, even though our ability to affect BMI or activity level is much greater than our influence on height, gend