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DEI Is Transforming the National Science Foundation
https://www.thefp.com/p/dei-national-sci...nts-report
EXCERPT: The report, titled “DEI: Division. Extremism. Ideology,” analyzed all National Science Foundation grants from 2021 through April 2024. More than 10 percent of those grants, totaling over $2 billion, prioritized attributes of the grant proposals other than their scientific quality, according to the report. What’s more, that’s a feature—not a bug—of the new grant-making process. Biden’s 2021 Scientific Integrity Task Force released a report in January 2022, stating that “activities counter to [DEIA] values are disruptive to the conduct of science.” (MORE - details)
RELATED (background schools of thought): Decolonizing science: undoing the colonial and racist hegemony of western science ...... Critical theory (generic)
How mainstream climate science endorsed the fantasy of a global warming time machine
https://theconversation.com/how-mainstre...ine-225597
EXCERPT: . . . The world had finally agreed an upper limit for global warming. [...] Or so, at least, it seemed...
[...] De facto, what they said was this: staying below a temperature limit is the same as first crossing it and then, a few decades hence, using methods of removing carbon from the atmosphere to dial temperatures back down again. From some corners of the scientific literature came the assertion that this was nothing more than fantasy. A new study published in Nature has now confirmed this critique.
It found that humanity’s ability to restore Earth’s temperature below 1.5°C of warming, after overshooting it, cannot be guaranteed. Many impacts of climate change are essentially irreversible. Those that are might take decades to undo, well beyond the relevant horizon for climate politics.
For policy makers of the future, it matters little that temperatures might eventually fall back again; the impacts they will need to plan for are those of the overshoot period itself... (MORE - details)
https://www.thefp.com/p/dei-national-sci...nts-report
EXCERPT: The report, titled “DEI: Division. Extremism. Ideology,” analyzed all National Science Foundation grants from 2021 through April 2024. More than 10 percent of those grants, totaling over $2 billion, prioritized attributes of the grant proposals other than their scientific quality, according to the report. What’s more, that’s a feature—not a bug—of the new grant-making process. Biden’s 2021 Scientific Integrity Task Force released a report in January 2022, stating that “activities counter to [DEIA] values are disruptive to the conduct of science.” (MORE - details)
RELATED (background schools of thought): Decolonizing science: undoing the colonial and racist hegemony of western science ...... Critical theory (generic)
How mainstream climate science endorsed the fantasy of a global warming time machine
https://theconversation.com/how-mainstre...ine-225597
EXCERPT: . . . The world had finally agreed an upper limit for global warming. [...] Or so, at least, it seemed...
[...] De facto, what they said was this: staying below a temperature limit is the same as first crossing it and then, a few decades hence, using methods of removing carbon from the atmosphere to dial temperatures back down again. From some corners of the scientific literature came the assertion that this was nothing more than fantasy. A new study published in Nature has now confirmed this critique.
It found that humanity’s ability to restore Earth’s temperature below 1.5°C of warming, after overshooting it, cannot be guaranteed. Many impacts of climate change are essentially irreversible. Those that are might take decades to undo, well beyond the relevant horizon for climate politics.
For policy makers of the future, it matters little that temperatures might eventually fall back again; the impacts they will need to plan for are those of the overshoot period itself... (MORE - details)