This week talked about a lot of different interesting points so I am just going to jumble them all in this fun blog:) Our most interesting reading was professor Jessy's article in Climate Cultures on her anthropogenic research of the culture of climate change politics and groups. We talked about the editing process of these climate reports. I was very surprised to learn that anyone can sign up to edit these reports and they have to reply back to every edit! Specifically she looked into an editing error in a report that said that the west antartic ice sheet will disappear in 2035 rather than what it was supposed to be predicted of 2350. One tiny typo ended up raising millions of questions on acuracy on the document as a whole!!! That is what is really difficult of translating science to policies/reports. The deliver of information is so important in its value to the rest of the world. But, at the end of the day we are all human and can,will, and do make mistakes.

We finished the week discussing about the science policy interface. We drew an interconnecting web of all that goes into climate policy: Science(IPCC), UN, executives/implementers, research and development ngos, activists, governments, corporations/ businesses, and a lot more.

I also revived my assignment cluster. I am in the science and technology cluster. I am really excited to get going on my research. The cluster will be working together through our own individual research on a common aspect of climate change. Two of the 5 of us are actually going to Paris for the UNFCCC meeting so the will be tracking how our cluster topic play out in Paris and we will be tracking the media and how it plays out there. Our cluster's mission statement is·     

The sci-tech group is dedicated to examining the effects of climate change on the biosphere/atmosphere, how the science and technology sector will influence policy at the UNFCCC, and what technologies are being developed to mitigate climate change.