{"id":358319,"date":"2024-12-23T09:35:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T08:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=358319"},"modified":"2024-12-23T09:42:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T08:42:51","slug":"dennis-overbye-retiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=358319","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Overbye Retiring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"407\" data-attachment-id=\"358322\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=358322\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/07626805-Dennis-Overbye-Quote-Once-in-a-while-there-was-a-volcanic-outburst.jpg?fit=3840%2C2160&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"3840,2160\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/07626805-Dennis-Overbye-Quote-Once-in-a-while-there-was-a-volcanic-outburst.jpg?resize=1200%2C675&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/07626805-Dennis-Overbye-Quote-Once-in-a-while-there-was-a-volcanic-outburst.jpg?w=1446&amp;ssl=1 1446w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/07626805-Dennis-Overbye-Quote-Once-in-a-while-there-was-a-volcanic-outburst.jpg?w=2169&amp;ssl=1 2169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2024\/12\/21\/dennis-overbye-retiring\/\">Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">News Note by <a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/author\/kiphansen2\/\">Kip Hansen<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I often poke fun, mock and criticize the science reporting in\u00a0<em>the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York Times<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 It has been some time, maybe more than a decade, since I have had faith in the Times\u2019 science desk to report straightforward, unbiased and plain-language explanatory science, medical and environmental news.\u00a0 Gone are the days of the often very good Andy Revkin and several others (remind me of their names in the comments, please) that tried to write rationally about the swirling controversies in science and medicine at the turn of the century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But there was always&nbsp;<strong><em>one science journalist<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;that could always counted on to give it to us straight \u2013 regardless of the fact that many of his topics were fantastical far-out speculations from my generation of physicists, &nbsp;astronomers and philosophers of science that may or may not have ingested far too many hallucinogens in their late-1960\u2019s university years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That would be:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dennis Overbye<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a seemingly endless list of this journalistic output at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/dennis-overbye\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">his \u201cby line\u201d page here<\/a>. &nbsp;&nbsp;He wrote the&nbsp;<em>Out There<\/em>&nbsp;column in the&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/section\/science\/space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Space and Astronomy<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>section of the Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Overbye gives his own \u201ceulogy\u201d upon retirement in a piece titled:&nbsp;<strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/20\/science\/space\/universe-overbye-retirement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Solstice of the Soul<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;Recommended reading for all science and astronomy folk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In it he makes these important points about science:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cAfter 50 years and $10 billion, physicists finally discovered the Higgs boson (or \u201cGod particle\u201d). It was the missing key to physicists\u2019 best, but still unsatisfying, theory of nature yet, called the Standard Model.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cAstronomers discovered that there are&nbsp;<u>billions<\/u>&nbsp;of possibly habitable planets in the galaxy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cAt the same time, they have had to accept that 95 percent of the cosmos consists of invisible \u2018dark matter\u2019 that binds stars in galaxies and a \u2018dark energy\u2019 that pushes those same galaxies apart ever faster. Nobody knows what this dark stuff is.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cI came of age in the Sputnik era, when science and space exploration suddenly became a national priority in the United States. \u2026. Scientists were potential saviors and heroes; everything was possible. Later, giant particle accelerators were built to explore the mysteries of inner space. The Berlin Wall fell. The fruits of innovation flowed: the transistor, the internet, CT scans and MRIs, global positioning systems, Nobel Prizes.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cThe political response to Covid has cast doubt on the very concept of public health; the political response to climate change has cast doubt on the concept of scientific expertise.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cArtificial intelligence has become frighteningly smart. Silicon Valley has led us to new realms of loneliness, squinting at tiny screens for fragile intimations of community.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cAnd yet science, proceeding on skepticism, not certainty, is arguably the most successful human activity of all time. Its truths are temporary; progress, the saying goes, comes only at the funerals of philosophers and cosmologists.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cWe don\u2019t know why there is something instead of nothing at all. Or why God plays dice, as Einstein put it as he mulled the randomness implicit in quantum mechanics, the house rules of the subatomic realm.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cJohn Archibald Wheeler, the physicist who pioneered the study of black holes, liked to say, \u201cWe will first understand how simple the universe is when we realize how strange it is\u201d.&nbsp; \u2026.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c<em>Going forward\u201d Overbye says, \u201cmy money is on confusion.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fare well, Dennis. \u00a0 But I\u2019m sure that you will continue writing and publishing in the\u00a0<em>NY Times<\/em>, despite official retirement.\u00a0 I sure hope so\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong># # # # #<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Author\u2019s Comment:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Love \u2018im or hate \u2018im, he set the bar, sometimes too high, for his fellow journalists at the&nbsp;<em>Times<\/em>.&nbsp; I, for one, will miss his columns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don\u2019t fret, he won\u2019t be able to quit writing.\u00a0 There are several authors here that will attest to the fact that once it is in your blood, you can\u2019t stop, even if you are determined to do so.\u00a0\u00a0I am a successful quitter: I quit drugs, quit alcohol, quit tobacco even!\u00a0 I have tried to quit writing \u2026\u00a0more than once, but it has done me little good \u2013 I\u2019ve slowed down but can\u2019t give it up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the way, we need more good writers here \u2026. better journalistic plain language explanations the basics of science that affect climate, expos\u00e9s of media-as-propaganda, debunking of the endlessly repeated Climate Crisis Talking Points (all which are false) and just plain interesting things about science and nature.\u00a0 Chip in, use the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/submit-a-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit a Story<\/a>\u00a0link. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong># # # # #<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often poke fun, mock and criticize the science reporting in\u00a0the\u00a0New York Times.\u00a0 It has been some time, maybe more than a decade, since I have had faith in the Times\u2019 science desk to report straightforward, unbiased and plain-language explanatory science, medical and environmental news.\u00a0 Gone are the days of the often very good Andy Revkin and several others (remind me of their names in the comments, please) that tried to write rationally about the swirling controversies in science and medicine at the turn of the century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":358322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818056,691832235,691832234,691820439],"class_list":{"0":"post-358319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-climate-change","9":"tag-dark-energy","10":"tag-higgs-boson-or-god-particle","11":"tag-new-york-times","13":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/07626805-Dennis-Overbye-Quote-Once-in-a-while-there-was-a-volcanic-outburst.jpg?fit=3840%2C2160&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1vdl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":374806,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=374806","url_meta":{"origin":358319,"position":0},"title":"No, N.Y. 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