{"id":22380,"date":"2010-06-27T08:09:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T08:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/if-only-oil-spills-would-evaporate-like-climategate-cosmic-variance\/"},"modified":"2010-06-27T08:09:07","modified_gmt":"2010-06-27T08:09:07","slug":"if-only-oil-spills-would-evaporate-like-climategate-cosmic-variance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/if-only-oil-spills-would-evaporate-like-climategate-cosmic-variance.php","title":{"rendered":"If Only Oil Spills Would Evaporate Like Climategate | Cosmic Variance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even if I&rsquo;m on hiatus, there&rsquo;s no reason not to post links to interesting things that I would be <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/seanmcarroll\">tweeting<\/a> anyway. Blogs are still much better places to have conversations, whatever the Twitter triumphalists might think.<\/p><p>With that in mind: check out this <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/blogs\/the-gaggle\/2010\/06\/25\/newspapers-retract-climategate-claims-but-damage-still-done.html\">story by Sharon Begley from <em>Newsweek<\/em><\/a>, on how media are slowly backing away from the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/12\/08\/climategate\/\">Climategate<\/a> hysteria. (Via <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2010\/06\/climategate_slowly_deflates.php\">PZ<\/a>.) She very rightly highlights the real damage: the backing-away won&rsquo;t undo all the misimpressions of scientific malfeasance that people absorbed when the story was at its height. <\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/mG3hQjKNOrCVAs9H0zkPTOO2LsU\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d5117_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/mG3hQjKNOrCVAs9H0zkPTOO2LsU\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d5117_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d5117_mk6BMlAtQtg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d5117_FCQ9cTYPgAc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if I&rsquo;m on hiatus, there&rsquo;s no reason not to post links to interesting things that I would be tweeting anyway. Blogs are still much better places to have conversations, whatever the Twitter triumphalists might think.With that in mind: check &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/if-only-oil-spills-would-evaporate-like-climategate-cosmic-variance.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}