Heh, unfortunately not.  Have done a bit of a career change, and am a software developer now, so no Royal Society for me these days.

How's things at your end, Katisara?  Ya know, like, other than the whole world having gone batsh*t crazy the last couple years, I mean?  ;)

I'm officially a Trump employee now :(  Not the most prestigious title, I'm afraid.

But I also got promoted to management! I have an office with a nice map and pins in, and even staff who usually respond to my emails. So yay me!

It could be worse, katisara. I'm now a Trump climate scientist. But who knows for how much longer...

In all seriousness, that's rough. Hang in there!

Holy cow. Don't stop the good fight!! We need you!!!

Can we open a thread that discusses why the faithful hesitate to consider topics that are critical towards their faith?

I'm sure a good name can be created for such a topic.

Perhaps: "Confirmation Bias" or Cognitive Bias

Tough one since it's not limited to religious faith.

I have to be really careful about confirmation bias when discussing the hockey team I cheer for as well! ;)

In reply to Doulos (msg # 591):

Indeed!!

Can we have a thread called either the future of Mormonism or Religions?
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Done!  Feel free to kick off the conversation!

Thanks!

Hey hakootoko, how are things going being a trump climate scientist??

There is relatively little impact, given that I work for the DoD. Those in the DoE and NASA are having more trouble. The most we get is needling to use 'Extreme Weather' instead of Climate Change or AGW. (My preferred is AGW. CC is a mealy-mouthed term that doesn't say much.)

The iceberg detection and tracking project I've been working on since Obama continues to be funded by the Navy climate center. We added another satellite to it last year, and NASA is still funded to produce more weather satellites in that series. Our results go out to Navy subs and icebreakers, but we haven't yet succeeded in getting it distributed to civilian shipping.

We still get funding for arctic study, and send field teams out there each summer to take ground and airborne measurements. That helps us calibrate satellite retrievals of ice pack age and thickness, a project which has never received sufficient funding but is no worse under Trump. Ice pack edge and area covered by ice are more established measurements and what people want to see better estimates of, and our iceberg detection is improving the resolution of the ice pack edge, so people are happy with it.

Funding for publishing in peer-reviewed journals is stable. That funding is effectively unbounded, because publishing is limited by time and effort rather than money. Funding for conference attendance is way down, but I don't know if I should attribute that to Trump.

What's AGW?

Anthropogenic Global Warming. I.e., the earth is getting warmer due to human activity.

Oh wow, that's awesome. And very glad to hear the science is going on.

Where are you based out of? DC?

Isn't "global warming" the same number of syllables (and easier to understand) than AGW? ;)

Edit: actually global warming is one less syllable than AGW.
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In reply to Bart (msg # 601):

But the "A" is the crucial aspect, really.

Yeah, I'm at the US Naval Research Lab in DC.

Get out. Beautiful location. I work right by the Capitol.

Good scientists know that it's anthropogenic without it needing to be explicitly stated -- it's like saying anthropogenic electricity that comes from your wall.  In my opinion, we all understand that when you plug something into the wall it's not static electricity or lightning, it's just "electricity".

And to people unfamiliar with the term, it could seem offputting.  I'd just call it "global warming".

I didn't realize no one had been posting here in awhile. Everyone's gone maybe?

I've still got the forum pinned, but yeah, it's been a long time since we've been very active.

I'm still alive. But I'm a supervisor now and keeping pretty busy!! Happy to turn over the admin reigns if someone wants to start pushing advertising and such.

It's unlikely I'll be very active. Maybe I'll push people's buttons now and again, but very busy at the moment.

Still, glad to see this is still around.