Since this thread is about the Arctic, it should be pointed out that the “Blond Eskimos” (living between mainland Canada and Victoria Island) tell a similar tale:Īlso of a little blonde girl (“niviasar”) and three bears – in this case, polar bears (“nanuks”), of course. We all know the fairy tale story of “Goldilocks and the three bears”, where GL enters the bears’ house (while they are all gone), snoops about and finds the “just right” chair, bowl of porridge and bed before being awakened by the returning bears and chased away. On the polar bear thread, Max Anacker writes: There is a youtube video entitled Goldilocks and the Greenhouse: the Science of Climate Change. However, when it comes to planet Earth, we have a much narrower definition of the Goldilocks zone for climate. In planetary science, the ‘Goldilocks zone’ is terminology for the the band around a sun where temperatures are neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist. Is it so unfamiliar as to seem random, intractable, obfuscated or even alien? Is it so simple that it’s boring, overly familiar, or simply uninteresting? It is a fascinating presentation, but I refer here specifically to slides 11 and 12: My interest in the Goldilocks Principle was piqued by a presentation that I recently heard by Gary Flake entitled The Computational Beauty of Nature. After testing each of the three items, Goldilocks determines that one of them is always too much in one extreme (too hot, too large, etc.), one is too much in the opposite extreme (too cold, too small, etc.), and one is “just right”. Each bear has their own preference of food, beds, etc. The Goldilocks principle states that something must fall within certain margins, as opposed to reaching extremes. The Goldilocks principle is derived from a children’s story “ The Three Bears” in which a little girl named Goldilocks finds a house owned by three bears. What is the Goldilocks Principle? From the Wikipedia: On what we can learn from Goldilocks and The Three Bears regarding our perceptions of climate, climate science, communication and policy.Ĭontinuing with the recent bear theme at Climate Etc., lets think about applications of the Goldilock’s principle to climate, climate science, communication and policy.
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