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Record W1668450421

Weather Report: Images from the Environmental Crisis

2007· article· en· W1668450421 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Brenda Longfellow

Bibliographic record

VenueSocialist register · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicAmerican Environmental and Regional History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAmateurPoliticsMateriality (auditing)Climate justiceGeopoliticsClimate changeDemocracyGlobal warmingSociologyHistoryPolitical economyPolitical scienceLawAesthetics
DOInot available

Abstract

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In the summer of 2004 I began filming scenes for what I thought was going to be a lyrical and quirky look at weather stories and weather lore across Canada. Climate change, or a section I called 'The Politics of Weather', was obviously going to be included but at that moment I thought it would be confined to one section, interspersed with weather proverbs or amusing bon mots from amateur weather observers. Like most people, I had a vague idea of carbon cycles and a dim appreciation of the complexities of Kyoto and emissions reductions. I was wary of apocalyptic scenarios but susceptible to low-level dread at the steadfast accumulation of international weather disasters, not to mention the increasing summer temperatures and smog days in my own city of Toronto. I left lights on, I used my dryer, I drove to work (I love my car). But the climate crisis is an issue that gets under your skin; ask any climate activist. That's because its dimensions are so all-encompassing and the task of addressing the issue is so urgent. It's a geopolitical issue as much as it is a local issue. It connects to the immediate materiality of our individual bodies, as much as it implicates energy regimes, models of development, how we organize cities, suburbs and transportation systems, public utilities and private corporations. It crosses issues of social justice in the global south and the crisis of democracy just about everywhere, and it puts the future on the agenda for all of us, in a way, as Andrew Ross suggests, that has not been seen since the mass socialist movements of the 1930s.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.040
Threshold uncertainty score0.134

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0060.002
Scholarly communication0.0060.004
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0030.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0400.007

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.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.221
Teacher spread0.212 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

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".

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