Feedback Between Deglaciation, Volcanism, and Atmospheric… : DASH Story 2014-10-01
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I teach Earth Science at a Community College. On that meager salary and the small budget available to me I cannot afford to pay for scientific papers to share with my students. Also, as a professional, I am often consulted on the veracity of various scientific or pseudo-scientific claims made in the popular media. In order to verify or de-bunk a claim, I need to consult the scientific research. I recently hit a wall in a discussion because an opponent of climate change cited a paper that cost $40 to download. Luckily I appealed to the author and he shared it with me for free. Otherwise, the opponent, who was mis-quoting the paper, would have gone unchallenged.
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