{"id":1923,"date":"2009-11-25T12:19:23","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T17:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=1923"},"modified":"2022-11-30T18:00:40","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T23:00:40","slug":"tonight-on-iowahawk-geographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/11\/25\/tonight-on-iowahawk-geographic\/","title":{"rendered":"Tonight on <em>Iowahawk Geographic<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a fascinating show on a topic of <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahawk.typepad.com\/iowahawk\/2009\/11\/iowahawk-geographic-the-secret-life-of-climate-researchers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">great public and scientific interest<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Narrator<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom, home of one of the largest nesting populations of climate scientists in Europe.<\/p>\n<p><em>Gentle ant&#8217;s-eye scene of idyllic campus lawn, strewn about with drunken mating undergraduates<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Each year it attracts magnificent migratory flocks of graduate students, adjuncts and visiting faculty from across the northern hemisphere.<\/p>\n<p><em>Shots of jumbo jets landing at Heathrow; herds of climate researchers busily milling at Duty Free shops, retrieving baggage, phoning for prearranged limo service<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Within minutes of arriving on campus, the migratory researchers approach the entrance of the Climate Research Unit and perform the secret credential dance, fiercely displaying their prominent <em>curriculum vitae<\/em>. This signals to the security drone that they can be trusted with the sacred electronic lanyard badge that will grant them entrance to the hive&#8217;s inner sanctum.  <\/p>\n<p>During the upcoming research season, this hive alone will produce over 6 million metric tons of grant-sustaining climate data guano, but until recently little was known about the elusive genus of <em>homo scientifica<\/em> living inside. Where do they come from? What strange force draws them here year after year? In order to unravel the mystery, <em>Iowahawk Geographic<\/em> documentary filmmaker David Burge undertook a painstaking one-week project to finally capture the climate researchers in their native habitat.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a fascinating show on a topic of great public and scientific interest: Narrator This is the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom, home of one of the largest nesting populations of climate scientists in Europe. Gentle ant&#8217;s-eye scene of idyllic campus lawn, strewn about with drunken mating undergraduates Each year it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,57,16],"tags":[245,240,1498,39],"class_list":["post-1923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-humour","category-science","tag-climatechange","tag-globalwarming","tag-iowahawk","tag-junkscience"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-v1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1923"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78345,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions\/78345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}