26 thoughts on “The papers: I think I have all titles.”

1. I love this one:
   Role Of Blood-oxygen Transport In Thermal Tolerance Of The Cuttlefish, Sepia Officinalis
   Mechanisms that affect thermal tolerance of ectothermic organisms have recently received much interest, mainly due to global warming and climate-change debates in both the public and in the scientific community. In physiological terms, thermal tolerance of several marine ectothermic taxa can be linked to oxygen availability, with capacity limitations in ventilatory and circulatory systems contributing to oxygen limitation at extreme temperatures. The present review briefly summarizes the processes that define thermal tolerance in a model cephalopod organism, the cuttlefish Sepia officinalis, with a focus on the contribution of the cephalopod oxygen-carrying blood pigment, hemocyanin. When acutely exposed to either extremely high or low temperatures, cuttlefish display a gradual transition to an anaerobic mode of energy production in key muscle tissues once critical temperatures (T-crit) are reached. At high temperatures, stagnating metabolic rates and a developing hypoxemia can be correlated with a progressive failure of the circulatory system, well before T-crit is reached. However, at low temperatures, declining metabolic rates cannot be related to ventilatory or circulatory failure. Rather, we propose a role for hemocyanin functional characteristics as a major limiting factor preventing proper tissue oxygenation. Using information on the oxygen binding characteristics of cepbalopod hemocyanins, we argue that high oxygen affinities (= low P-50 values), as found at low temperatures, allow efficient oxygen shuttling only at very low venous oxygen partial pressures. Low venous PO2S limit rates of oxygen diffusion into cells, thus eventually causing the observed transition to anaerobic metabolism. On the basis of existing blood physiological, molecular, and crystallographical data, the potential to resolve the role of hemocyanin isoforms in thermal adaptation by an integrated molecular physiological approach is discussed.

2. Also good:

   Lca Of Manufacturing Lead-free Copper Alloys
   To promote the recycling of copper alloy scrap, we developed a new technique for removing Pb from copper alloy scrap containing 2-6 mass% Pb. However, we must evaluate quantitatively the level of environmental impact reduction that can be obtained using this new technology. In this study, a manufacturing system that produces Pb-free copper alloy products using copper alloy scrap was assessed by means of life cycle assessment (LCA). The superiority of the new manufacturing system that uses Pb-free copper alloy scrap over the conventional one that uses virgin materials was investigated from the viewpoint of environmental impact. LCA software (JEMAI-LCA) was used to assess environmental impacts such as global warming, acidification, energy Consumption and resource consumption. We assessed the raw material acquisition and casting process of Pb-free copper alloy products. The subsequent processes such as machining. assembling, transportation, use and recycling/waste processing are not taken into account in the environmental impact assessment. The results show that the conversion of the conventional system that uses virgin materials into the new one that uses Pb-free copper alloy scrap decreases the environmental impact, significantly. This is attributed to the nonutilization of virgin materials and the decrease in energy consumption during the casting process.

3. Re: “Mechanisms that affect thermal tolerance of ectothermic organisms have recently received much interest,”
   Consider a 0.7C “recent” change in light of geological temperatures having ranged from 10C to 25C and the presence of ectothermic fossils. Does the paper recognized that range, and can the model statistically detect that difference? (Or do we have hyper-evolution in the last 12,000 years?)

   Re: “mainly due to global warming and climate-change debates in both the public and in the scientific community.”
   = Must appear politically correct so it can get funded.

   Need to add categories:
   “does not pass the smell test” and
   “you got to be kidding”!

4. The University of Queensland Guidelines for Ethical Review of Research Involving Humans

   As part of the design process for any research project involving human subjects or human-related materials, University of Queensland researchers must investigate the need for ethical clearance and obtain it when required. The following pages outline the principles of ethical research, and the procedures for applying for approval.

   I wonder whether the University of Queensland recognizes the need to examine the human psychology explored in Mark Twain’s The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1865/1875)

5. Environmental Assessment Of Logistics Outsourcing
   Environmental awareness is increasingly important to society, government, and industry, and there is a strong demand for sustainable development practices. The importance of supply chain management is critical, as it characterizes and influences the life cycles of all products. Within the major logistics trends, outsourcing has a significant potential to increase sustainability in the supply chain as third-party logistics providers (3PLs) focus on improving resource utilization and making processes more efficient. However, their motivation is largely economic, and an environmental perspective is rarely seen in 3PLs. As consumers demand greener alternatives and, subsequently, environmental regulatory measures are implemented, 3PLs will have to become more environmentally and socially aware in order to develop sustainability goals. This study compares two scenarios using life-cycle assessment (LCA): one where logistics functions are handled in-house, and an alternative scenario where such functions are outsourced to a 3PL. The impacts of logistics outsourcing on energy utilization, global warming potential, and fatalities are first quantified in the supply chain of an automobile. Even though vehicle operation, responsible for most of the impacts considered, is outside the domain of logistics functions, logistics outsourcing nonetheless has the potential to reduce energy use and global warming potential by 0.4-2% and fatalities by 0.8-3.3% throughout the entire life cycle of a typical automobile. Road and air transportation are found to account for most of the impacts in all selected metrics. Analyzing logistics outsourcing in the other sectors of the U. S. economy revealed the same trend as observed in the supply chain of an automobile.

   Given the limited choice of responses permitted to those evaluating the abstracts, this could be said to show implicit consensus without actually saying global warming is caused by humans.

   That said, if different questions were asked in the pull down menu, and evaluator might say it doesn’t so much show implicit consensus, but rather shows evidence that those who might otherwise merely write papers discussing improvements in energy efficiency are now required to add a global warming hook and toss in fly by references to “global warming”.

   This fact that someone’s guess about what might be “implied” by this abstract shows that the range of possible responses permitted could easily have a very strong impact on the results.

6. I think there was one about feminism.

7. I think there was one about feminism.

8. Paul–
   I haven’t found it. I found this:

   Cool Dudes: The Denial Of Climate Change Among Conservative White Males In The United States
   We examine whether conservative white males are more likely than are other adults in the U.S. general public to endorse climate change denial. We draw theoretical and analytical guidance from the identity-protective cognition thesis explaining the white male effect and from recent political psychology scholarship documenting the heightened system-justification tendencies of political conservatives. We utilize public opinion data from ten Gallup surveys from 2001 to 2010, focusing specifically on five indicators of climate change denial. We find that conservative white males are significantly more likely than are other Americans to endorse denialist views on all five items, and that these differences are even greater for those conservative white males who self-report understanding global warming very well. Furthermore, the results of our multivariate logistic regression models reveal that the conservative white male effect remains significant when controlling for the direct effects of political ideology, race, and gender as well as the effects of nine control variables. We thus conclude that the unique views of conservative white males contribute significantly to the high level of climate change denial in the United States. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Cool Dudes: The Denial Of Climate Change Among Conservative White Males In The United States

9. lucia, if he got the same thing I got, it should be about 32 MB (unzipped) and have something like 12,465 papers in it. Does that sound right?

   If so, extracting the titles is easy. I’ll e-mail you a list of them in a few minutes.

10. Paul is talking about this paper: Between A Rock And A Soft Place: Ecological And Feminist Economics In Policy Debates Its abstract is entirely unhelpful:

    The field of ecological economics includes both economic analysis on the one hand, and discussions of normative values and visions for society. on the other. Using feminist insights into cultural beliefs about the relative hardness and softness of these two sides, this essay discusses how ecological economists can use this unique between space in order to better inform policy. The current crisis of global climate change. it is argued. requires that economists move beyond modeling and measurement, while ecological thinkers need to re-examine beliefs about markets and profit. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved

11. I sent lucia a list of all the titles. Is there any reason for me to extract the abstracts as well?

12. Paul M
    Between A Rock And A Soft Place: Ecological And Feminist Economics In Policy Debates
    The field of ecological economics includes both economic analysis on the one hand, and discussions of normative values and visions for society. on the other. Using feminist insights into cultural beliefs about the relative hardness and softness of these two sides, this essay discusses how ecological economists can use this unique between space in order to better inform policy. The current crisis of global climate change. it is argued. requires that economists move beyond modeling and measurement, while ecological thinkers need to re-examine beliefs about markets and profit. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved,
    Between A Rock And A Soft Place: Ecological And Feminist Economics In Policy Debates

    Bradon–
    We only need more extraction if we want to do our own survey. That can wait.

13. lucia (Comment #112347) May 3rd, 2013 at 11:39 am

    I love this one:

    Role Of Blood-oxygen Transport In Thermal Tolerance Of The Cuttlefish, Sepia Officinalis

    O/T … but then again, perhaps not …

    Reading through the sample abstracts (such as the one above), I am reminded of Nate Silver’s recent observation during an interview on his book [h/t Paul Matthews via BH]:

    Academics also want to provide false certainty and they also tend to be very skilled at obfuscating how messy their conclusion is by using very cumbersome technical language that’s hard to parse, so you assume that if someone uses a lot of jargon they must know what they’re talking about

14. Hilary Ostrov
    I’d say that title is a perfectly respectable sounding title in fish physiology. The difficulty arises when whatever that abstract might say is used to try to assess the scientific consensus on whether humans cause climate change. Or even if one wants to say that provides evidence on what fish pysiologists think about the strength of evidence attributing climate change to man’s activities, a problem arises if one thinks that’s any more meaningful than learning what hair dressers, waitresses, auto mechanics and ditch diggers think about about the strength of the evidence.

15. Lucia, I don’t disagree, at all 🙂

    But I should have articulated why I thought it might be at least tangential to the many problems surrounding Cook’s new, improved “survey”.

    I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to imagine that some respondents’ eyes will simply glaze over when confronted with the text of such abstracts.

    And here’s where I think Silver’s “you assume that if someone uses a lot of jargon they must know what they’re talking about” enters the picture …

    So, not understanding the jargon – and recognizing that no one wants to present her/himself as an overwhelming “know nothing” – is it not plausible that some such respondents may well give a rating to such a paper that is in accord with whatever their own notion of consensus “supporting” (or “non-supporting”) might be.

    IOW, my thinking was derived from the recollection of those who – with no apparent effort whatsoever – succeeded in getting a number of interviewees to sign a petition to ban “dihydrogen monoxide”.

    A few curious … uh … anomalies about this “survey”, btw.

    Setting aside the sloppiness of “The drop down indicates indicates …” – and that the writer doesn’t appear to know the appropriate usage of an “i.e.” or an “e.g.” in the first para of the intro – consider the “branding”.

    Compare the banner in your first screen cap with that found at (for example):

    http://www.gci.uq.edu.au/

    where this “survey” is supposedly housed/hosted – and of which I could find no sign when I searched for it:

    http://www.gci.uq.edu.au/search/no-results/7c51872da53f4ddc3f640d21a52b26f5/

    Nor does John Cook’s name appear as a Researcher – or his survey title in the list of 12 projects with “Peer-Reviewed” in the title – according to the search results I obtained at:

    http://www.uq.edu.au/uqresearchers/search.html?search_type=advproj

    Weird, eh?! Might such unexpected anomalies and absences go some way towards explaining why he might now be … shall we say … reluctant to disclose the ethics application he supposedly filed?!

16. How many papers by Lindzen are on the list? Spencer? Pielke?

17. Paulm–
    We could figure that out. We need a list of all the titles of each person’s papers because the authors aren’t included in the list. But I suspect all or most of their papers are in the group.

    I suspect a greater problem is that many of those papers don’t map into any choices for the person evaluating. There is no “Explicitly accepts AGW, quantifies, and says amount is less than IPPC (or alarmist etc.) range” or anything similar. So whoever is evaluating needs to decide the next best choice.

    So basically: with respect to “alarmists” vs. “lukewarmers” vs. “denialists” as being in the consensus view, if an abstract is alarmists, a choice on the pulldown exists. If an abstract is denialists, a choice exists. But if a paper is “lukewarmer” there is no appropriate choice on the pulldown. None.

    Obviously, the study cannot conclude the consensus based on the content of abstracts is lukewarmer because that position is defined out of the choices available to those evaluating the paper.

18. Regarding the copper-lead paper, who in their right mind (except an academic) would use leaded copper as scrap to make pure copper? If you have leaded copper as scrap, guess what you make from that……more leaded copper!

19. Could someone provide the low-down on where this has all reached?

    FWIW, there are many entries in the tree-hut logs where Cook is seen experimenting with his own forum members, archetypal creepy scientist persona fully included

20. Could someone provide the low-down on where this has all reached?

    I’m not sure what you are asking. Do you mean how many blogs have run the invitation? What’s a “tree-hut log”?

21. The tree hut logs are Skepticalscience’s secret forum text that leaked.

22. FWIW, there are many entries in the tree-hut logs where Cook is seen experimenting with his own forum members, archetypal creepy scientist persona fully included

    Do you mean he tested this survey out in those logs? Or something else?

23. Not this survey. For eg., John Cook logs himself in as Lubos Motl, freaking out the tree-hut residents.

    Since Cook classifies all his website registrants as skeptic or warmist, there was a plan to display a post on Skepticalscience.com which would display only certain kinds of comments, depending on your category as assigned by Cook. Who know if it panned out.

24. Shub

    there was a plan to display a post on Skepticalscience.com which would display only certain kinds of comments, depending on your category as assigned by Cook. Who know if it panned out.

    A group of people collectively discussing a nefarious plan? Sounds like you are suggesting they were involved in a conspiracy! Clearly, you are suffering from conspiracy ideation.

25. Clearly! 😉

    But, to be clear, the plan to do such a thing was Cook’s.

26. Shub: there was a plan to display a post on Skepticalscience.com which would display only certain kinds of comments, depending on your category as assigned by Cook. Who know if it panned out.

    Lucia: A group of people collectively discussing a nefarious plan? Sounds like you are suggesting they were involved in a conspiracy! Clearly, you are suffering from conspiracy ideation.

    .
    With apologies to The Rolling Stones:

    I don’t get no …. ideation ….
    I don’t get no …. ideation ….
    I can try, I can try, I can try …. to trend high ….
    I DON”T GET NO …. ideation ….

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