Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Should we add a 'hydrogeology' tag?
In common earth science usage, 'hydrology' refers to surface water flow and 'hydrogeology' refers to subsurface flow. We have a 'hydrology' tag but not a 'hydrogeology' tag. Bearing in mind that ...
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Should we add a "not mainstream science" close reason?
As a science-based stack, we do and will inevitable get questions that are, to put it mildly, not based on "mainstream science". Some examples:
https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/q/6928/6
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Are counterfactual questions on topic?
I'm personally a bit ambivalent about questions like this:
Would there still be wind if Earth had no water?
How would the Earth look without water in the oceans?
How would plate tectonics differ if ...
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Should we refine our page description?
I think our page description
Q&A for those interested in the geology, meteorology, oceanography, and environmental sciences
could be refined. How do you feel about this? Should we update the ...
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Help center improvement -- what is on topic?
Right now our "What topics can I ask about" page is bland and not too informative. It basically says "go look around and figure out what is on-topic". I'm looking for proposals of content to include ...
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Questions (even unanswered ones) from our site are being illegally cloned
Not sure if this is the right forum but it looks like we got us a content thief boys and girls. See the following:
Seeking details for the "historical rate" of arable land loss
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Same user asking same question under different user name
I have a feeling that it is the same person asking the same question under different user names - What is the reason for absence of cyclone in south atlantic and south eastern pacific and then here ...
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Can I delete my question?
Paper result validation and the scientific method in earth science - This question was asked by me without knowing the rules of meta ES SE. It was based on a inadequate understanding of what meta.ESSE ...
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Preserve or remove formula formatting in the question title?
This question uses $\mathrm{CO}_2$ formatting in the title (Latex I believe MathJax).
Picture in case someone edits it out:
Personally I find it superfluous and ...
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Close question or leave open with answer "There is no answer"?
This question is getting close votes as 'primarily opinion based'.
Shouldn't it stay open with an answer "There is no data"?
The question is pretty straightforward: For what proportion of the earth'...
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Can we interact with the new Wikipedia WikiProject: Earth Sciences?
There is a new WikiProject: Earch Science on Wikipedia. Thought people here might be interested.
Anyone have any good ideas on how ES.SE can interact with it? Might be interesting to be able to keep ...
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Human health and earth science questions - do they belong here
There's kind of a grey area surrounding the appropriateness of questions on the human health effects of earth science-related processes for this site. Where should the line be drawn?
For example, a ...
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Advice asked for question on hold for being too broad
How is this question of mine "too broad? Is the importance of planetary science for Earth science so enormous that it can't even be explained? Then please just answer so, don't shut it down. How am I ...
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Should we have the [homework] tag?
I realize that our homework policy states that when asking a homework question, one should include the homework tag. However, it seems to me that the homework tag is a meta tag and thus should be ...
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Consistency in closing questions
Two questions have been asked on our site about global warming causing cold weather events. Both questions used the term global warming. The first question was posted in April 2014 about an event in ...
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How are we doing as a community and a site?
We have been in beta now for a little over 430 days and we've been slowly but steadily growing. I am curious about how we collectively feel about this site and if we are happy with the direction it ...
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Community promotion ad
It is 2016 now and we can submit our site ad to this years community ad rotation on relevant graduated sites. However, the image size and guidelines have changed, and the current image below is not ...
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Algorithm confirmation
I have an algorithm in textual form(in English) from a research paper that deals with meteorology/climatology . If I convert the textual algorithm into pseudo code can I ask it as a question here for ...
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Should we shut this site down?
This site has been averaging about 1 to 2 questions per day for the past few weeks.
This is a strong indicator of how unhealthy the site is despite having had plenty of time to develop.
Is it time ...
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Should we allow requests for references?
Prompted by seeing References for moving and nested grids in models. The asker is after information on "concepts such as moving grids and nested grids in models", which if asked as such would probably ...
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Should we reword a question's title so that it can get more Google visitors?
I am referring to my question here.
Currently the title is "Is a complete global flood physically possible?" It's a much more accurate and scientific-oriented title compared to my initial title "Did ...
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Let's get critical: Apr 2015 Site Self-Evaluation
We all love Earth Science Stack Exchange, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from Google, ...
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move [nwp] tag to [numerical-weather-prediction]
Move nwp tag to numerical-weather-prediction. Initialised tags are unclear, even when the initialism is common. I can't suggest a synonym, because I don't have points in that tag.
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Religious Questions
I had a formal (which I apparently lost) debate over the geological validity of Noah's Flood, and flood "geology as a whole. My opponent was claiming that all the fossil evidence points that all of ...
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Agrometeorology questions on topic?
Are questions related to agrometeorology on topic or not ? It could encompass crop yield forecast in response to climate change. Ways to prevent a hailstorm battering crops etc. Are these on topic ?
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Rename the [geothermal-heat] tag?
The tag geothermal-heat seems a bit tautologous. I suppose the idea is 'geothermal energy for heating'. But it's not a super-popular tag (only 15 uses), and some questions (e.g. yesterday's Is there a ...
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Answering current meteorological events that are evolving
What would be the best strategy to answer meteorological events that are still evolving and whose data is still being gathered and analysed ?
Recently this question was asked - Two severe cyclones ...
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What are our best Q&As to show off this site?
I'm looking to promote this site and want to hear from our domain experts what our best questions in each discipline are. I'm interested in both questions with great answers and also great questions ...
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Answer existing question or ask a new concise one in it's place
There is an existing question asked a while ago - What are monsoons caused by? and I just want to know whether it is better to ask a more concise version of this question restricting it to the Asian ...
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Should pseudoscience questions be closed on sight?
A comment on a recent question:
I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it's about pseudoscience.
received numerous votes and noting we have no "official" policy on this I am ...
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Are Shumann waves on topic?
Are Schumann resonances (SR) on topic?
Like background radiation
of the Earth (the Shumann wave) at 7.8 Hertz?
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What is the difference between Earth Science and Sustainable Living SE?
Can anybody clarify what is the main differences between Earth Science and Sustainable Living stack exchange sites?
As I'm finding it a bit confusing where to ask and what kind of questions.
Both ...
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Usage of remote sensing to derive meteorological parameters be on topic?
I am not sure if I can recall perfectly but somebody mentioned this in a meta posting once. Would the usage of remote sensing to calculate meteorological/oceanographical parameters be on topic ? I ...
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Are Questions About Other Planets On Topic? [duplicate]
A question has been asked about a strange feature on Mars.
The name of this site Earth Science. As interesting as the question is, does the question belong on this site or should it be moved to the ...
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Biweekly topic challenge: volcanology
I made a post asking for topic ideas for the challenge, and the highest scoring suggestion is for volcanology.
Please use the tag volcanology when posting questions for this challenge, and remember ...
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Is there a list of topics that are to be censored?
I have asked one simple question about something we can all observe. Both times I got shut down immediately. I am simply concerned with us humans trying to 'own the weather by 2025'...of course ...
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Biweekly topic challenge: antarctic [completed]
I made a post asking for topic ideas for the challenge, and the highest scoring suggestion is for antarctic.
Please use the tag antarctic when posting questions for this challenge, and remember to ...
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Are questions about atmospheric radiation on topic?
One aspect that there are few questions (so far) about atmospheric radiation (e.g. ultraviolet A and B; applications of Beer's Law; etc). I am a bit biased about this as it is my primary area of ...
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What shall we do with cross-posted questions?
Today, I noticed that the question Where did the energy released due to gravitational binding energy of the Earth go? was posted word for word just over an hour earlier on Physics.SE here, where two ...
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Biweekly topic challenge: economic-geology [completed]
I made a post asking for topic ideas for the challenge, and the highest scoring suggestion is for economic-geology.
Please use the tag economic-geology when posting questions for this challenge, and ...
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Are the logistics of field projects on topic?
This question ponders the dress requirements for outdoor operations in the Antarctic winter. This is a consideration for any field project that operates in the extreme cold and part of the logistic ...
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Biweekly topic challenge: mesoscale-meteorology [completed]
I made a post asking for topic ideas for the challenge, and the highest scoring suggestion is for mesoscale-meteorology.
Please use the tag mesoscale-meteorology when posting questions for this ...
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Overusing TeX
TeX looks great and all for equations and reactions, but, at least on some browsers, there is a significant break in style between it and the body text. Sure, one is serif and other sans, but the ...
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How can I format math and chemistry expressions here?
The site supports mathjax for mathematical equations and the mhchem extension for describing chemical reactions. What is the markdown syntax to add these to my own posts?
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In this site, is it correct to write 'Earth' and incorrect to write 'the Earth'?
Pretty much every mention of Earth on this site will be referring to the celestial body, the planet Earth. So in my opinion, just as it is weird to say the Jupiter, it is weird to say the Earth.
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Biweekly topic challenge: paleoclimatology [completed]
I made a post asking for topic ideas for the challenge, and the highest scoring suggestion is for paleoclimatology.
Please use the tag paleoclimatology when posting questions for this challenge, and ...
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Silly question: answering ones' own questions?
Possibly a silly question, but got to ask it - is there any particular limit to how many of our own questions we can answer?
Just looking at the stats, about 10 or so out of the 86 or so unanswered ...
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Are questions about exoplanets and planetary formation on topic?
In response to this question: 'Late Veneer' on other planets
Few have brought up the point that it may or may not be on topic. Is it?
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Earth Science: Biweekly Topic Challenge
Jon Ericson has come up with a wonderful way to boost the amount of questions on the site, and promote activity in topics that may otherwise receive only minimal attention. And it will be a lot of fun....
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Should we discourage wildly hypothetical questions?
The question Can we really travel through earth's core? is wildly hypothetical - basically asking how plausible "movie science" is, from a position of ignorance - but kinda fun. Right now it has ...
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