Category Archives: Climate Proposal Review Process
Are Some Climate Scientists And Program Managers At NSF Gaming the System With Respect To Providing Inadequately Assessed Multi-Decadal Predictions Of Changes In Climate Statistics To The Impacts Community?
Are climate scientists and program managers who fund them, who misrepresent multi-decadal climate model predictions to the impacts communities as skillful projections, “gaming the system” ? Gaming the system is defined as Gaming the system (or bending the rules, playing the … Continue reading
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Follow Up On My Post “Funding Agency Bias – A Short Summary”
Don Bishop, in response to the post Funding Agency Bias – A Short Summary sent the informative e-mail below which I invited him to share with everyone. It is reproduced with his approval. Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:45:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Don … Continue reading
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The NSF CREATIV Initiative On Interdisciplinary Research – Another Example Of Thinking Inside The Box
Several months ago, the NSF announced the CREATIV initiative in a Dear Colleague letter. Since we have proposed a broader, interdisciplinary approach to the assessment of risks to key societal and environmental risks in our paper Pielke Sr., R.A., R. Wilby, D. … Continue reading
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NSB/NSF Seeks Input on Proposed Merit Review Criteria Revision and Principles
The National Science Board has sent out a notice requesting input on the NSF review process. Their request is reproduced in this post. One glaring issue that is missing is accountability. I discussed this subject in my posts My Experiences With … Continue reading
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Predicting Wars Based On Climate Change – Really?
There is a remarkable recently NSF funded study that claims to be able predict the liklihood of wars based in part on multi-decadal climate change. Readers can assess from their own perspectives if this is appropriate as a scientifically testable study. … Continue reading
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NSF Decision On Our Request For Reconsideration Of A Rejected NSF Proposal On The Role Of Land Use Change In The Climate System
On May 18 2010 I posted on a proposal to NSF that was highly rated each time it was submitted, but was rejected each of the three times it was submitted after further revisions were made. The May post is Is … Continue reading
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Is The NSF Funding Process Working Correctly?
This post is titled “Is The NSF Funding Process Working Correctly?” ABSTRACT The short answer to this question is NO. I recommend the following changes in the NSF review procedures to improve the process: present ALL proposal abstracts, anonymous reviews of both accepted … Continue reading
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