tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post3500316807764601701..comments2024-02-15T04:42:41.606+00:00Comments on James' Empty Blog: Culture CRASSHJames Annanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04318741813895533700noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post-78615315500859956692010-10-02T22:32:16.462+01:002010-10-02T22:32:16.462+01:00Steve, *I* experienced cognitive dissonance too. M...Steve, *I* experienced cognitive dissonance too. Much of the workshop was very good, and it was very well organised. The content-free talks left me genuinely baffled as to how anyone could have thought it was worth standing up and talking for 15 minutes about so little.James Annanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04318741813895533700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post-88640140866019957682010-10-02T21:01:08.610+01:002010-10-02T21:01:08.610+01:00"(A) few hours later I can't even remembe..."(A) few hours later I can't even remember what most of these talks were about."<br /><br />"It was striking to us how interesting and switched-on the commenters were. Usually questions after scientific presentations are things like "what was the x-axis on your graph" but these were much more perceptive and interesting. The meeting was also really well-organised, with a good mix of excellent keynote speakers, shorter presentations and debates."<br /><br />I experience cognitive dissonance.Steve Bloomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12943109973917998380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post-55816998247736391362010-10-02T14:32:56.265+01:002010-10-02T14:32:56.265+01:00Regarding the Foundation, (your report of) Mike...Regarding the Foundation, (your report of) Mike's impression identifies a branding problem, which I'm already aware of and which I'm hoping to fix over the next couple of weeks.<br /><br />Originally in 2008 we were <a href="http://clearclimatecode.org/" rel="nofollow">the Clear Climate Code project</a>, which now has two years' worth of spare-time stuff including real and IMO interesting science (some of which we are now writing up for publication).<br /><br />Then this summer we set up <a href="http://openclimatecode.org/" rel="nofollow">the Open Climate Code project</a>, which does indeed have a youtube video and not much else: people arriving through that door are not going to be impressed and it's on my list to fix this.<br /><br />Finally I put the day job on one side to make time to set up the <a href="http://climatecode.org/" rel="nofollow">Climate Code Foundation</a>, bringing the projects together into a framework to do more and better, with full-time effort. I have about a dozen pages still in draft form for the new website ('Board', 'Advisory Committee', 'Testimonials', 'Press', etc). I'm planning to put the shine on that over the next couple of weeks, before certain events which should generate some press interest.<br /><br />In short, if we look like spare-timers, that's because we have been exactly that until very recently. If we look unfunded, that's because we are, and you can help to fix that. But if you think we're not serious, or that we don't know what we're doing, or that we've underestimated the size of the challenge, think again.Nick Barneshttp://climatecode.org/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post-73745468021190757932010-10-02T01:26:53.292+01:002010-10-02T01:26:53.292+01:00The Mayans figured that 2012 CE was the last year;...The Mayans figured that 2012 CE was the last year; maybe we don't even have 5 years left...David B. Bensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02917182411282836875noreply@blogger.com