{"id":8088,"date":"2012-01-17T07:58:46","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T12:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=8088"},"modified":"2012-01-17T07:58:46","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T12:58:46","slug":"state-of-the-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=8088","title":{"rendered":"State of the Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://dinoeliadis.com/about-us/">Buy Klonopin Online Overnight</a> I know everyone has been waiting on pins and needles about the future of this blog. The suspense has been killing me, too. Well, I have good news and bad news.<\/p>\n<p> 
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<a href="https://dentalprovidence.com/crowns/"></a> Oh, quit your bawling. We&#8217;ve had a good run. You&#8217;ll be fine. Maybe some old friends will even start talking to me again.<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://andiroberts.com/resourcehub/">Order Ambien Online</a> The good news is I won&#8217;t totally go away. In fact, I still write a once a week thingamajob at the Yale Forum on Climate Change &amp; the Media, which appears every Tuesday or wed. You can check Colide-a-Scape on those days for the blurb and link. Also, it&#8217;s not like I&#8217;m going to stop reading, reporting and writing about the subjects that have been a mainstay of this blog. So when my work appears elsewhere, I&#8217;ll flog it here.<\/p>\n<p> 
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<a href="https://forgive123.com/contact/"></a> Global warming &#8220;has joined abortion and gay marriage as a culture war controversy,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/climate-and-the-culture-war\/2012\/01\/16\/gIQA6qH63P_story.html?hpid=z3\" target=\"_blank\">writes<\/a> conservative WaPo columnist Michael Gerson, as if this were a fresh insight. There&#8217;s enough fodder in his piece to piss off all sides and reinforce the theme of Gerson&#8217;s column.<\/p>\n<p> 
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<a href="https://forgive123.com/our-leadership/">https://forgive123.com/our-leadership/</a> The National Center for Science Education <a href=\"http:\/\/ncse.com\/news\/2012\/01\/ncses-climate-change-initiative-launched-007149\" target=\"_blank\">announces<\/a>\u00a0the launch of a\u00a0new initiative &#8220;aimed at defending the teaching of climate change.&#8221;\u00a0 This one will be interesting to watch. The Center made a name for itself by defending the teaching of evolution. See this LA Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-climate-change-school-20120116,0,2808837.story\" target=\"_blank\">story<\/a> for more background.<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://rgprincipal.com/noticias-peru/"></a> Meanwhile,\u00a0in the Guardian, University of Colorado media scholar Max Boycoff <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2012\/jan\/16\/climate-change-green-economy\" target=\"_blank\">says<\/a>\u00a0that, beyond all this culture war stuff,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
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<a href="http://www.amandasatoz.com/?page_id=1536"></a> Policy is value-laden, while science can only tease out the possibilities and probabilities. Some have now agreed we need to avoid a global average warming of more than 2\u00b0C. But this &#8220;limit&#8221;\u009d is uncertain and value-laden. What is &#8220;dangerous&#8221;\u009d to someone living near the coast in Vanuatu may be quite different from what someone in Russia or inland Australia might consider dangerous. Many of us think a 2\u00b0C limit may not be strict enough to avoid a dangerous degree of climate change. But that is a value judegment made under uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p> 
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