This Saturday at The Science Circle

 

 Saturday November 4

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    At 10 AM PST   

    The New Climate We Live With

    By Dr. Keith Eric Grant

    https://www.sciencecircle.org/event/the-new-climate-we-live-with/

 

    The Science Circle (72,129,30)

      

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    At 9 PM PST   

    Anti-Bullying Week

    Jes Stannard

    https://www.sciencecircle.org/event/anti-bullying-week/

    

    The Science Circle (72,129,30)

 

 

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    NOTE: Non-members required to register once

    IM Jes Cobalt or Nymf Hathaway

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This Saturday at The Science Circle

 

 Saturday, October 15

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    At 10 AM PST   

    Understanding The Importance of Coastal Zones in Climate Resilience and Mitigation (Part 1)

    By Linda M. Kelley (Delia Lake)

    https://www.sciencecircle.org/event/coastal-zones-part1/

 

   Chemistry World (106/226/22)

      

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    At 9 PM PST   

    Mental Health Near You

    Jes Stannard

    https://www.sciencecircle.org/event/architecture/

 

 The Science Circle (72,129,30)

 

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    NOTE: Non-members required to register once

    IM Jes Cobalt or Nymf Hathaway

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This Saturday at The Science Circle

 

Saturday, September 10

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    At 10 AM PST   

    Beragon's Bistro: Alzheimer’s and Scientific Integrity

    Matt Burr/Beragon Betts

    https://www.sciencecircle.org/event/bb-alzheimers/

 

The Science Circle (225/230/28)

      

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    At 9 PM PST   

    Dealing With Climate Change

    Jes Stannard

    https://www.sciencecircle.org/event/dealing-with-climate-change/

 

 The Science Circle (135/139/3499)

 

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    NOTE: Non-members required to register once

    IM Jes Cobalt or Nymf Hathaway

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This Saturday at The Science Circle

 
Saturday February 26

At 10 AM

"The Roller Coaster of Extreme Weather in a Climate-changing World"
by Linda M. Kelley and Dr. Keith E. Grant
https://www.sciencecircle.org/event/extreme-weather/

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Science%20Circle/122/166/3002

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At 9PM
Gender and Race in Science
Discussion by Jes Stannard
https://www.sciencecircle.org/event/gender-and-race/

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Science%20Circle/190/53/23
 

Book Discussion: "The Little Ice Age - How Climate Made History"

  
"The Little Ice Age - How Climate Made History, 1300 - 1850"
Author Brian Fagan traces the influence of Earth's 500-year "cold snap" on historic periods and events in human culture.
PRESENTED: in Voice
Location: New Kadath Lighthouse Art Gallery Reading Room

8:30 PM SL time

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/New%20Kadath/52/36/46
  

Announcement: This Friday and Saturday at The Science Circle - "Climate Change and Risk Analysis"

 

"Climate Change and Risk Analysis"

Satutday February 20

10AM to 11AM SL time

Over the last 40 years, a wide scientific consensus predicted a global, annual average, temperature increase due to human emissions of carbon dioxide plus the feedback of the amount of water vapor that the atmosphere can contain as the atmospheric temperatures increased. The primary focus of scientific policy recommendations was mitigation of such global warming by shifting to carbon neutral energy production  Nonetheless, the atmospheric concentration of CO2 has continued to increase from a preindustrial value of 285 ppm (parts per million) to a concentration in 2000 of 370 ppm to about 418 ppm today, high than any prior time in human history.. This increase is sufficient that we can no longer focus only on global emissions reduction but must reckon with local adaptations to already existing economic and social system risks, where a risk is considered to be an undesirable event stemming from a changing climate.

This initiates a project, often at the level of cities and counties, of identifying potential risks, estimating various levels of likelihood, tying those levels to consequences for human lives, social systems, and economics, and then pursuing means of adapting to reduce the risks. 

Presentation by Dr. Keith Grant

For more information, Click Here.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Science%20Circle/67/129/32

Announcement: This Saturday at The Science Circle - "Weather Models, Climate Models, Observations, and Parallel Earths"

Weather Models, Climate Models, Observations, and Parallel Earths

Saturday, May 23
10 AM PDT

By Dr. Keith E. Grant
   
Weather models and climate models share some core algorithms. They also share algorithms with the models used to obtain properties of the atmosphere and surface from satellite observations. There are differences also, largely a reflection of different spans of time. All three depend on local observations but in different ways.

Satellite observations can be effectively instantaneous, many acquired within a single day. Climate model runs span years, requiring inclusion of seasonal changes and feedbacks of surface and ocean. Weather models are only able to predict the weather up to about two-weeks into the future before the actual weather and the model weather diverge. This does not mean that the weather the model creates is unrealistic. A person on a parallel Earth with the model’s weather wouldn’t be able to tell from the weather alone that they weren’t on our Earth. That’s a bridge between weather modeling and climate modeling.

To read  more, Click Here.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Science%20Circle/67/129/32

Announcement: This Saturday at The Science Circle - "Fire and Rain"

"Fire and Rain"

Saturday February 15

8AM to 8:30 AM SL time

“Oh, I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain,

I’ve seen sunny days that I thought would never end,

I’ve seen lonely times when I could not find a friend,

But I always thought I’d see you again.”

In 2019, too many places on Earth suffered extreme drought and horrible wildfires while other places were deluged by severe rainstorms and floods.  We all hope that none of us ever experiences a fire maelstrom for real, or intense rainstorms that damp them. Yet having at least a touch of a visceral sense of what these would be gives more meaning and understanding to data such as those that Dr. Keith Grant shared with us in his excellent presentation a few weeks ago.

One of the unique qualities of Second Life is that we can construct immersive spaces that provoke a sense of being there, of experiencing. For this purpose we have build a fire burnout. Dramatic experiences inform thinking and conversation. Please join me on Saturday, February 15, don some fire fighting equipment and let’s get started.

Linda Morris Kelley (Delia Lake in SL)

To read more, Click Here. 

https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Science%20Circle/122/137/3002

Announcement: This Saturday at The Science Circle - "Natural Forcings And Natural Climate Cycles"

"Natural Forcings And Natural Climate Cycles"

Saturday January 18
10 AM to 11 AM SL time

Natural Forcings and Natural Climate Cycles – Just not what we are seeing today

In order to understand how human-caused climate change differs from natural cycles, it helps to have a basic understanding of natural cycles. In that context, this talk will address orbital forcing, solar variation, and natural carbon dioxide emission and removal.

By Keith Eric Grant

https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Science%20Circle/67/129/32

 To read more, Click Here.

Announcement: This Saturday in The Science Circle - "This Isn’t Your Grandparents’ Climate"

"This Isn’t Your Grandparents’ Climate"
Saturday October 19
10AM to 11AM

Human life on Earth has always depended on natural levels of greenhouse gases. The Earth absorbs visible light from the sun and, to stay in energy balance in the global and seasonal mean, must emit an equal amount of energy back into space.

The effective temperature at which the earth radiates to space is about -18 °C while the global annual surface temperature has been about 15 °C, a 33 °C difference.

Partly this separation between surface and effective temperature is a direct effect of the non-precipitating greenhouse gases and partly an effect of their control of the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere, itself a strong greenhouse gas.

There is no physical reason that increases in carbon dioxide and methane from human activities would not continue to increase the mean surface temperature to maintain the effective radiative temperature.

This change in global, annual mean surface temperature is what we call global warming, but it is only part of the story.

Read the announcement in full here (link).

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Science%20Circle/67/129/32  

Interview with SLB Exhibitor Kimble

Among the exhibitors at the Second Life Birthday is Kimbe (kimblecoles). With her work on climatology in real life, her exhibit in SL15B Electrify is about the science behind the theory of climate change. Deaflegacy met up with her, and they talked about not just the exhibit, but about how she's gone about Second Life and how she handles her challenges in both real-life and the virtual world.

Read Deaflegacy's interview in People.

SL Youtube: Raytheon & NOAA in Second Life

Although not as many real life businesses have an inworld presence as a few years ago, some continue to do some work in Second Life. One I hadn't heard of doing so was Raytheon, at least until I stumbled across a Youtube by accident.

The video describes Raytheon helping out NOAA bring a number of science teachers inworld "together in one dynamic learning space" at a "NOAA Virtual Workshop of Climate Change" to discuss the latest climate news to share with classrooms, suggesting there were some Raytheon workers also inworld in-avatar.

It wasn't mentioned when the event took place, but the video was uploaded on March 7, a week before the VWBPE(Virtual World Best Practices in Education) conference, so that can be ruled out.

Taking a look at NOAA Island at Meteora, there were no signs of the buildings in the video. So where this was taken remains unknown.

The youtube can be found at :
http://youtu.be/vuR2xeIcnFM . Although one can get copies of the link, the option to embed it on a webpage is gone.

*UPDATE* It's possible that the recording was done in the Energy Island sim, which while around when visited in August, has somehow since vanished, along with most of NOAA Island's other immediate neighbors. I say possible as that sim was closed to public access despite that it seemed to be set up for Education purposes.

Bixyl Shuftan