Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Breaking the Set

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So what happened after Paul Brookes was forced to shut down Science-Fraud.org?

Paul Brookes, via URMC
Paul Brookes, via URMC
Retraction Watch readers will likely be familiar with the story of Paul Brookes, the University of Rochester researcher whose identity as the person behind Science-Fraud.org was revealed in January 2013. That revelation — and legal threats — forced Brookes to shutter Science-Fraud.org.
In a new illuminating interview in Science, Brookes discusses the legal threats he faced, how they curtailed his travel, and how his university responded, among other subjects.
The risks faced by whistleblowers are a constant thread on Retraction Watch. So did the site have an effect on his ability to do science? Read the rest of this entry »

Following criticism, PLOS apologizes, clarifies new data policy

plosIn response to “an extraordinary outpouring of discussions on open data and its place in scientific publishing” following a February 24 announcement about a new data policy at PLOS, the publisher has apologized and corrected the record.
The new policy — which was actually first announced on January 23, as we noted here — had led to criticism at the DrugMonkey blog, and a February 26 clarification seemed to do little to convince another critic. (Not all disagreed with the policy, however.)
In particular, there were objections to a section that began with Read the rest of this entry »
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March 9, 2014 at 9:53 am

Changing the Modal Law School: Rethinking U.S. Legal Education in (Most) Schools

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Chevron's Pizza Apology, Real Unemployment Rate, Jordan Davis & Racism's Historical Continuum WATCH
 

 
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Open Peer Review Journal
associated with tropopause

Michael Connolly
1
, Ronan Connolly
1
1
Connolly Scientific Research Group. Dublin, Ireland.
Abstract
Atmospheric pro les in North America during the period 2010-2011, obtained from archived weather
balloon radiosonde measurements, were analysed in terms of changes of molar density (
D
) with pressure
(
P
). This revealed a pronounced phase change at the tropopause. The air above the troposphere (i.e.,
in the tropopause/stratosphere) adopted a \heavy phase", distinct from the conventional \light phase"
found in the troposphere. This heavy phase was also found in the lower troposphere for cold, Arctic winter
radiosondes.
Reasonable ts for the complete barometric temperature pro les of all of the considered radiosondes
could be obtained by just accounting for these phase changes and for changes in humidity. This suggests
that the well-known changes in temperature lapse rates associated with the tropopause/stratosphere regions
are related to the phase change, and not \ozone heating", which had been the previous explanation.
Possible correlations between solar ultraviolet variability and climate change have previously been ex-
plained in terms of changes in ozone heating in uencing stratospheric weather. These explanations may
have to be revisited, but the correlations might still be valid, e.g., if it transpires that solar variability in u-
ences the formation of the heavy phase, or if the changes in incoming ultraviolet radiation are redistributed
throughout the atmosphere, after absorption in the stratosphere.
The ts for the barometric temperature pro les did not require any consideration of the composition
of atmospheric trace gases, such as carbon dioxide, ozone or methane. This contradicts the predictions of
current atmospheric models, which assume the temperature pro les are strongly in uenced by greenhouse
gas concentrations. This suggests that the greenhouse e ect plays a much smaller role in barometric
temperature pro les than previously assumed.
In the current paper (Paper I), we will analyse
9
weather balloon data taken from public archives, in
10
terms of changes of molar density with pressure, and
11
related variables. By doing so, we discover a phase
12
change associated with the troposphere-tropopause
13
transition, which also occurs in the lower tropo-
14
sphere under cold, polar winter conditions. We
15
nd that when this phase change is considered, the
16
changes in temperature with atmospheric pressure
17
(the
barometric temperature pro les
) can be described
18
in relatively simple terms. These descriptions do
19
not match the radiative physics-based infra-red cool-
20
ing/radiative heating explanations used by current
21
models. We present theoretical explanations of these
22
simple descriptions from thermodynamic principles
 

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