/lit/ - Literature

>>11963327
MD PhD here.

The methodology used to derive climate science findings appallingly bad and almost all the "science" that you see peddled in popular culture affirming it are conclusions and unproven hypotheses from the discussion section of their research (conjecture).
What is especially worrisome is the proxies used. There does not exist reliable data beyond modern instrumentation. What is used in lieu of it, i.e. the proxies, are tree ring and soil samples which have been shown to be influenced by more than just temperature (e.g. rainfall totals, sunshine hours, disease, etc). At best, we have a very weak approximation of what temperatures were like. The sample period A friend who is a chemist once asserted that captured CO2 in ice reaches a steady state equilibrium after so many years, which makes sense to me, although I have not found anything to support these claims,but if true that presents difficulty in measuring per-instrumentation measurements of CO2 levels.

I don't have a problem with the research, or it's findings. I have a problem with it being presented as Gospel. The worst are the undergrads who think they're scientists puffing themselves up as experts and accosting everyone who disagrees as either denialists, scientific illiterates or paid shills.

>>11963136
And PDF is a digital facsimile of the actual book, making it uniform and consistent (and also as the author intended). It's much easier to cite a page than to go back and count the chapter and paragraph. A proper 10"+ device will show a PDF as it should be displayed.
Both formats have their advantages. Epub is better for smaller devices, light reading but for serious material/work/academia PDF is superior.
>>11963199
That's why you shell out the extra bucks for a Sony Digital Paper, or an ONYX BOOX 10" device. They aren't cheap but they're worth it considering how many more books (particularly non-fiction) are in PDF format, and if you read journal publications---you're looking at $500-600. There was a time where the cheapest A4 capable PDF devices were $1899, and it wasn't too long ago where Sony Digital Papers cost $1300+. As expensive as they are, they've at least come down in price. I just wish there was more competition.