Calendar of Events 1940 Events

This is a calendar of 1940 Events accompanying a small brochure commemorating the re-establishing of the New Salem Post Office as Lincoln’s New Salem Post Office. It features information regarding the pictorial cachets to be released by Poor Richard Presshttps://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-artifacts/5780/thumbnail.jp

Commemorative Brochure for the Re-establishing of the New Salem Post Office as Lincoln’s New Salem Post Office

This is a small brochure commemorating the re-establishing of the New Salem Post Office as Lincoln’s New Salem Post Office. It features historical information about the Post Office and a chronology of events. This brochure is accompanied by a Poor Richardhttps://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-artifacts/5777/thumbnail.jp

Pink Insert from Poor Richard Press

This is a pink insert accompanying a small brochure commemorating the re-establishing of the New Salem Post Office as Lincoln’s New Salem Post Office. It features historical information about the Poor Richard Press and its sponsorship of three cacheted cohttps://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-artifacts/5778/thumbnail.jp

Calendar of Events 1939 Events

This is a calendar of 1939 Events accompanying a small brochure commemorating the re-establishing of the New Salem Post Office as Lincoln’s New Salem Post Office. It features information regarding the pictorial cachets to be released by Poor Richard Presshttps://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-artifacts/5779/thumbnail.jp

Original Love Letters which Passed Between Abraham Lincoln and Ann Rutledge

The Atlantic Monthly announcement of the publication of Original Love Letters which passed between Abraham Lincoln and Ann Rutledge. The back of the announcement features a reproduction letter from Abraham Lincoln to Ann Rutledge.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-artifacts/5664/thumbnail.jp

Cover of the Colgate Alumni News from February 1964

This is a cover for the Colgate Alumni News from February 1964. This magazine cover features a photograph of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-artifacts/5615/thumbnail.jp

Tension between scientific certainty and meaning complicates communication of IPCC reports

Here we demonstrate that speakers at the press conference for the publication of the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report (Working Group 1; ref. 1) attempted to make the documented level of certainty of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) more meaningful to the public. Speakers attempted to communicate this through reference to short-term temperature increases. However, when journalists enquired about the similarly short 'pause' 2 in global temperature increase, the speakers dismissed the relevance of such timescales, thus becoming incoherent as to 'what counts' as scientific evidence for AGW. We call this the 'IPCC's certainty trap'. This incoherence led to confusion within the press conference and subsequent condemnation in the media 3 . The speakers were well intentioned in their attempts to communicate the public implications of the report, but these attempts threatened to erode their scientific credibility. In this instance, the certainty trap was the result of the speakers' failure to acknowledge the tensions between scientific and public meanings. Avoiding the certainty trap in the future will require a nuanced accommodation of uncertainties and a recognition that rightful demands for scientific credibility need to be balanced with public and political dialogue about the things we value and the actions we take to protect those things 4-6