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Sep 2023
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#191: Fight Back and Win (Bret Weinstein...

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying
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In this 191st in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

 

In this episode we discuss climate science, models, and assumptions. How do urban heat, and assumptions of low vs high solar variability, affect climate models? Should apparent consensus among climate scientists give one pause? Are non-scientist humans capable of thinking for themselves? We discuss the difference between the environment, and climate, and discuss Apple’s new video starring Mother Nature herself. Finally, we review the move, in Canadian school libraries, to get rid of books published before 2008. What could go wrong?

 

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Mentioned in this episode:

 

Soon et al 2023. The Detection and Attribution of Northern Hemisphere Land Surface Warming (1850–2018) in Terms of Human and Natural Factors: Challenges of Inadequate Data. Climate, 11(9): 179.https://www.mdpi.com/2225-1154/11/9/179

 

CERES: https://www.ceres-science.com/about

 

Creon Levitt’s “Hot or Not” - https://open.substack.com/pub/creon/p/hot-or-not

 

Dr. Paul Offit on the difference between science and science communication: https://x.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1701966873129033985?s=20

 

Apple meets Mother Nature: https://x.com/tim_cook/status/1701732427897491578

 

CBC reports on the intentional disappearance of books from school libraries: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/peel-school-board-library-book-weeding-1.6964332

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