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{\it Lyndsay Delello, Fabiana Martinez, Megan Norton -- Cultural Cognition and How
It Relates to Climate Change.}
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Your presentation to the class was mostly good, although
there were still some coordination issues (overlap of content)
between Fabiana's part and Lyndsay's part.  The fact that you 
had so many slides also created some time pressure for
Meg's part, so you ended up being rushed.   

The major strength of your project was the way you were
able to design the survey, get it approved, arrange to 
have it administered to the residents of Mulledy via
Moodle, and do some analysis on the results.  It was great
that you got started early on this.  I think the data from 
the responses are also quite interesting.  If it's OK with
you, I would like to hold onto the Excel spreadsheet and 
possibly use this in other ways in future years.  

The paper is clearly three
separate sections spliced together rather than a 
single text.  I know you had a lot of issues to deal with, though,
what with Lyndsay's absence during the time the project
was ``going'' and other things.  So I'm not penalizing
the group for that.  

But there are also some technical
issues.  The major thing there is that you have not included
{\it in the paper} a complete bibliography of the sources
you consulted.  I hope that you didn't misunderstand the
terms of the assignment.  Even though I asked you to do 
the annotated bibliography earlier, you were still supposed
to include a complete bibliography in the final paper since, 
as was true for several groups, additional sources might
have emerged as work on the project proceeded.  Plus, 
citations in the text should be checkable from the paper 
itself (without referring to what you submitted earlier). 
I can guess how that probably happened, but
that just is not acceptable for a research paper like this.  
(Be aware, too, that in a lot of courses here at HC, problems with
citations would carry extremely steep penalties
on the overall grade for the paper.)  

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{\it Specific Comments}
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\item{1)}  It would have been good to start the paper with an overall
introduction rather than jumping into the first section.  
\item{2)}  I'm not sure what ``projects a continuation'' in the second
sentence means.  Do you mean that ``it is projected that this will continue?''
\item{3)}  Maybe ``natural processes'' here.  The idea is that more or
less natural processes like digestion in large animals also add methane
to the atmosphere.  (I say ``more or less natural'' because the 
characteristics of these animals and their numbers have been strongly
influenced by humans.)
\item{4)}  The discussion of the reasons for skepticism is not very 
clear.  Do you mean that some people have used the fact that 
scientific theories are always subject to revision if different
evidence is found in later experiments to sow doubt about things
(as in ``evolution is only a theory, not established fact?'')
\item{5)}  We saw some specific examples of what you 
said about US temperature trends in the temperature
data that Mike and Drew Bechard analyzed.  
\item{6)}  It's important to realize that the relation between
higher average temperatures and higher precipitation is not 
uniform, though.  Global climate change is affecting different
areas in different ways.  Some parts of the world (e.g. northern
Africa) have actually be getting {\it drier}.  
\item{6.5)} You say small effects can build up over time.  That
is certainly true, but there's also the point that even a 1-degree change
in global average temperature can have significant effects.  
\item{7)}  The Red Scare may have been an over-reaction, but there's
also no denying that many communist regimes have been extremely
repressive and brutal to their populations.  
\item{8)}  Technical point about citations:  When referring to 
an article with multiple authors (like ({\it The Tragedy of 
the Risk Perception Commons}), it would be common to use the 
abbreviation {\it Kahan et al.} to refer to the authors.  
(This is from Latin words meaning literally ``and the rest.'')
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{\it Final Project Grades}
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{\it Presentation:}  B+ (88)
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{\it Paper Content:}  A-  (92)
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{\it Paper Form:}  B  (85)
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