A list of news and blog items we stumbled upon in the past week …
- Consensus gap in climate change science and perception (Why we need to talk about the scientific consensus on climate change, The Guardian)
- Urban Ebola is an emergent phenomenon: We have not matched the species-level threat with the requisite complexity in levels of thinking (Ebola-a societal pathogen in an epidemic of distrust, Africa at LSE blog, London School of Economics and Political Science)
- China and the Chinese Academy of Science is tackling scientific uncertainty by increasing basic research funding in critical scientific areas – this article uses the example of a recent conference to reduce uncertainty in reported depth for Expendable Bathythermography device data. (The Chinese scientific revolution aims to tackle climate change, The Guardian)
- “The Majlis Research Center (MRC) has surveyed different legal and expert dimensions of a plan for water supply in agriculture sector and in the Central Plateau, east and south of Iran and has concluded that the plan cannot render any solution to the water supply challenges.” (Using water diplomacy is tantamount to water export not import: MRC, IRNA)
- A small wearable device provides hyper-local air-quality exposure data to the user, and compiles data for all users to develop high-res air-quality maps. Are there opportunities for individuals and cities to benefit from distributed, passive water data collection tools? (This Wearable Detects Pollution to Build Air Quality Maps in Real Time, Wired)
- Treatment of fracking wastewater is not adequately removing halides and other fracking water problems… (Scientists: Fracking Wastewater Poses Threat to Drinking Water, Think Progress)
- Seven feet of snow…melt. How do you predict and account for risks and impacts from the alignment of extreme snow storms and temperature swings? (Buffalo Braces For Flooding as Seven Feet of Snow Starts Melting, NBC News)
Contributed by: Shafik Islam (@ShafikIslam), Amanda Repella, Michal Russo and Mahdi Zarghami
