Climate change in southwestern British Columbia: extending the boundaries of earth science.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Humans are altering the composition of the atmosphere, causing climate to change. Scientists predict that by the middle of the 21st century, average global temperatures will be several degrees warmer than today. The change in climate will be the largest and most rapid of the last 10,000 years and will have profound effect on our lives and the ecosystems that support us. This paper describes a new, graphics-rich, colourful poster dealing with climate change in southwestern British Columbia. The poster, which is being used as a template for six other regional climate change posters in Canada, discusses the science of climate change, possible impacts of climate change over the next 50 years in southwestern British Columbia, and the challenge of dealing with this issue. The target audience for the poster is students in grades 10-12, colleges and universities, their teachers, and the educated general public. In preparing the poster, we were guided by the principle that to educate is to engage critical thought. Resume La presence des humains sur Terre altere la composition l'atmosphere, ce qui entraine des changements climatiques. Les scientifiques prevoient qu'au milieu de 21 e siecle, la temperature moyenne du globe se sera elevee de plusieurs degres audessus de la moyenne actuelle. Ce changement climatique sera le plus important et le plus rapide des derniers 10 000 ans et affectera en profondeur nos modes de vie et les ecosystemes qui assurent notre survie. Le present article decrit une nouvelle affiche tres riche en graphiques et en couleurs qui porte sur les changements climatiques dans la portion sudouest de la Colombie-Britannique. Cette affiche qui sert de modele pour six autres affiches sur les changements climatiques d'autres regions au Canada, traite de la science des changements climatiques, de diverses hypotheses d'impact des changement climatiques des prochains 50 ans dans le sud-ouest de la Colombie-Britannique, ainsi que des defis que pose ces changements. La clientele visee comprend les eleves de la fin du secondaire, les etudiants des niveaux pre-universitaire et universitaire, de leurs enseignants et professeurs ainsi que les couches instruites du grand public. Tout au long de la confection de la presente affiche, nous avons ete guide par la conviction que l'instruction provient d'une reflexion critique.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.021 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".