Hey everyone, The next in my series of five….
Archive for April, 2009
Another Cartoon
Posted in Cartoons, tagged climate change, global warming, risk management on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Cartoon
Posted in Cartoons, tagged climate change, global warming, risk management on April 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Here’s a political cartoon I drew. More to come.
Why They Don’t Debate on TV
Posted in How Science Works, Media and the Public, tagged al gore, climate change, credibility, debate, global warming, media, politics, science, statements on April 28, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I read an interesting article not long ago that claimed that scientists were not debating climate change enough. It said that they were refusing to debate skeptics on television and in the media, as they “knew they would lose”. Examples of “believers” who apparently refused such debates were Al Gore, David Suzuki, and well-known climatologists [...]
The Worrisome Stuff
Posted in Musings, tagged climate change, debate, global warming, media, politics, risk management on April 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I’m not actually interested in changing the minds of climate skeptics. If they’re stubborn enough that the work of NASA, 32 national academies of science, the IPCC, the World Meterological Society, and every other professional scientific organization on the planet can’t change their minds, the chance of a mere student like me having any influence on [...]
Artificial Balance
Posted in Media and the Public, tagged agreement, climate change, debate, global warming, media, politics, science, statements on April 20, 2009 | 5 Comments »
All issues have two (or more) sides. We can probably all agree on that. But are they always two equal sides? Journalists are trained to always present both sides of an issue with equal weight. This works well for matters of politics. Got the Conservative? Get the Liberal. (That’s Republican and Democrat, respectively, for our American friends.) [...]
The Importance of Error Statements
Posted in How Science Works, tagged climate change, credibility, debate, global warming, media, politics, risk management, science, statements on April 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Scientific error is unavoidable. There is a very good chance that whatever measurements we take will be slightly off. There is even a small chance that our conclusions are completely wrong. We accept that we don’t know everything. We live with it. We do the best we can. Stating error and uncertainty is required in [...]
A Great Quote
Posted in Other Advocates, tagged climate change, debate, global warming, quote on April 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Science, even climate science, should be about light, not heat.” -RealClimate, January 2009
Scientific Agreement Quantified
Posted in News and Reports, tagged agreement, al gore, climate change, credibility, debate, global warming, science, statements on April 14, 2009 | 7 Comments »
You hear the term “scientific consensus” thrown around all the time in climate change. Al Gore claims absolute consensus. Many skeptics claim none at all. Earlier this year, Peter Doran and his student Maggie Zimmerman, from the University of Illinois, published the results of a poll aimed at quantifying the degree of scientific agreement on [...]
The Schneider Quote
Posted in Media and the Public, tagged climate change, global warming, media, statements on April 12, 2009 | 40 Comments »
Dr Stephen Schneider, of Stanford University, is a well-respected climatologist who is also quite active in the media and politics – chances are you’ve seen him in something like The 11th Hour, read one of his books, or read an interview with him in the newspaper. Chances are, you’ve also seen the following quote attributed [...]
How it All Ends
Posted in Other Advocates, tagged climate change, credibility, global warming, media, politics, risk management, science, statements on April 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For anyone who hasn’t yet heard of these video series – Greg Craven is a high school teacher from the States who put together six hours of video explaining why we should act on climate change. Don’t be scared by the “six hour” thing – all his arguments are condensed into the first, 10-minute long [...]
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