{"id":3364,"date":"2009-01-29T10:49:41","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T10:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/01\/29\/how-to-moderate-a-discussion-o\/"},"modified":"2009-01-29T10:49:41","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T10:49:41","slug":"how-to-moderate-a-discussion-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/01\/29\/how-to-moderate-a-discussion-o\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Moderate a Discussion of Global Warming?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As noted in the previous post<\/a>, I’m supposed to be moderating a panel at Boskone the weekend after next, with the title:<\/p>\n

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Global Warming: Facts and Myths, (and all that jazz)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is not my usual line, but then, I don’t have to provide expert commentary, I just need to steer the discussion. Still, it would be good to have some idea where to steer it, so I will throw this out to the larger ScienceBlogs community:<\/p>\n

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What should I make sure to talk about in a panel on global warming facts and myths?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Of course, there are some additional constraints:<\/p>\n

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1) I’m looking for general discussion topics, not PowerPoint slides. I’m not talking about global warming, I’m moderating a discussion in which other people are going to talk about global warming.<\/p>\n

2) I would like to avoid having the discussion cycle through the same things everybody has heard a billion times before. Something new and preferably interesting would be nice.<\/p>\n

3) I would like this panel not to be soul-crushing. If I wanted fifty minutes about how we’re all gonna diiiieeeee, I would just go in and say to the panel “Tell us how we’re all going to die.” And then take a cyanide capsule, because it’s not only depressing to hear about our inevitable doom, it’s boring as hell, and see point 2.<\/p>\n

4) Some connection to science fiction would be nice. It’s not strictly necessary, but it would be nice.<\/p>\n

So, suggestions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As noted in the previous post, I’m supposed to be moderating a panel at Boskone the weekend after next, with the title: Global Warming: Facts and Myths, (and all that jazz) This is not my usual line, but then, I don’t have to provide expert commentary, I just need to steer the discussion. Still, it… Continue reading How to Moderate a Discussion of Global Warming?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,33,42,11,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-in_the_news","category-policy","category-science","category-sf","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}