Project Cosmos

[H simmens]

Carbon Brief just unveiled a remarkable database of over 1.6 million Climate change research articles that they have compiled along with their partners. 

They also have rankings of the top institutions in the world for climate change research and the top climate change researchers. 

It’s definitely worth checking 

Herb Simmens

Author  of A Climate Vocabulary of the Future

“A wonderful achievement, a SciencePoem, an Inspiration, a Prophecy, also hilarious, Dive in and see"

 Kim Stanley Robinson

@herbsimmens

Herb Simmens

Author  of A Climate Vocabulary of the Future

“A wonderful achievement, a SciencePoem, an Inspiration, a Prophecy, also hilarious, Dive in and see"

 Kim Stanley Robinson

@herbsimmens

[Veli Albert Kallio]

I keep just wondering who has got time to read 1,600,000 climate articles collected by Carbon Brief. Brilliant job!

This raises interesting questions: How much duplication? How much brilliant ideas buried within and without having been taken adequate notice. I am sure there are many invaluable gems within the pile to be rediscovered.

I recall here how the Nature article on moulins got forgotten which explained in 1952 the process in its entirety, then "re-discovered" in 2000's by someone else "discovering" it again with another article more or less the same explanation - and no reference to 1952 Nature article on moulins. If that happens with stuff published in Nature, how much more that happens in lesser publications?

Another interesting point to rise is Encyclopaedia Britannica article on Greenland glaciers which stated that it was once thought that Ellesmere Island, which at the beginning of 1900's was virtually encircled by ice shelves, was having its ice shelves formed soon after the Eemian Period, 128,000 years ago. Alas! It came to happen that once of its northern ice shelves suddenly collapsed and when the wood buried beneath it was radiocarbon-dated, its age was just meagre 3,000 years old or something like that. Similarly, Comphytheres were thought to have become extinct 42 million years ago, until someone came across a hunted one with a Clovis flint embedded in its bones and it was since then ice age.

The above examples underline limitations of naturalistic interpretation and importance to be given all anomalies found. That kind of heap 1,6 million articles is bound to contain nasty surprises but some kind of search engines should be developed to extricate forgotten or under-esteemed observations and data. The information system theorists call it the minimization of the size of the X-factor box by minimising the number of "unknown unknowns" and "little known unknowns" . 

Carbon Brief's article bank's value is functionally greater than the sum of its individual parts, but it should be made accessible by AI applications to make it really useful tool to identify misconceptions and overlooked aspects and forgotten research on climate system.

Veli Albert Kallio, Vice President

Sea Research Society

Environmental Affairs Department

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[Aria Mckenna]

Very cool. Thanks herb

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[Michael MacCracken]

I'd just note that there is a very active debate on this among some of the leading scientists due to its methodology and what it indicates (e.g., Suki Manabe is not high on list and yet won the Nobel Prize for his work; by not really participating in IPCC, Jim Hansen also suffers, etc.). And it is only for actual papers, not for being able to communicate to the public, provide leadership and more. So, it is what it is, and even its creator says it is only on citation count, whether a positive or negative connection.

Best, Mike

[Aria Mckenna]

Thank you for that extremely important context Mike. 

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