Over the past few days I’ve worked my way through the three-part BBC series, Climate Wars, hosted by Dr Iain Stewart, a geology professor with a very cool Scottish accent. An excerpt from this series was featured in one of Peter Sinclair’s videos, which looked quite fascinating, and anything Peter refers to as “brilliant” is [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Moments of Revelation
Posted in Reviews, tagged climate change, climate models, debate, global warming, iain stewart, science on August 29, 2009 | 38 Comments »
Free Speech
Posted in Musings, tagged censorship, climate change, credibility, debate, global warming, science on August 28, 2009 | 46 Comments »
It hasn’t been long since I changed my comment policy, and already I’m getting complaints of censorship. I’m obviously not too concerned about the validity of these sources, but I thought I should address the issue regardless. There are two reasons I will moderate a comment: 1) If you make a scientific claim which isn’t [...]
Climate Change and Evolution
Posted in Musings, tagged climate change, debate, evolution, global warming, media, risk management, science on August 27, 2009 | 28 Comments »
Many advocates of anthropogenic climate change are also advocates of the theory of evolution. The two are often used in analogy in many different ways. In particular, skeptics of the two theories are often alleged to be either the same people or using the same tactics to spread public confusion. I am not strongly religious, and I [...]
Denial Depot
Posted in Other Advocates, tagged climate change, global warming, satire on August 26, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Over at A Few Things Ill Considered, I was introduced to this site. I’m almost positive that it’s satire. What do you think? Whatever it is, it’s hilarious. Here are some of my favourite excerpts: “It’s Friday afternoon at the IPCC climate lab. Dozens of government funded climate scientists are hunched around a big computer [...]
New Comment Settings
Posted in Musings, tagged climate change, climatesight, debate, global warming, science on August 24, 2009 | 24 Comments »
In response to a very drawn-out debate regarding complex scientific topics, I have changed the comment policy of ClimateSight. Thanks to the many commenters who helped shape this new policy, in particular Hank and Richard. The new policy is as follows: If you have something to say, you are more than welcome to leave a [...]
Logic
Posted in Media and the Public, tagged censorship, climate change, credibility, debate, global warming, science on August 24, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Background information is important. This is what I was thinking while I was reading “The Twenty Three (and Growing) Smoking Guns of Global Warming” on the Heartland Institute website, while researching for quotes to use in my post A Well-Documented Strategy. The introduction reads, “Before you read this essay, I ask you to forget everything [...]
Why Is it So Cold???!!!!
Posted in News and Reports, tagged canada, climate change, cold, global warming, jet stream, science, united states, weather on August 21, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Anyone who lives in the north-central United States, or most areas of Canada, can agree with me here: Spring and summer have been incredibly cold this year. Yesterday, I asked a climatology prof that I know, “Is there a reason for this? Or is it just a fluke?” There was a reason, as he explained. [...]
Sinclair Wins
Posted in News and Reports, tagged anthony watts, climate change, debate, global warming on August 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
As I noted on my last post about this issue, “I will consider the issue a true victory for Sinclair when he re-uploads the video on his account.” It is a true victory for Sinclair! As he writes on his DeSmogBlog post, “In accordance with established YouTube guidelines, I filed a “counternotice”, affirming, “under penalty of [...]
Very Scary Stuff
Posted in News and Reports, tagged arctic, climate change, environment, global warming, greenhouse gases, methane, science on August 19, 2009 | 7 Comments »
One of the most worrying positive feedbacks of our current climate change lies deep in the Arctic permafrost and the ocean – methane hydrates. Methane loosely bonds to water, which freezes and lies stable…..until it melts. When it gets warm enough, the methane breaks apart from the water and is released into the atmosphere, or [...]
Nobody Knows What’s Happening
Posted in Mitigation and Policy, tagged canada, climate change, environment, global warming, greenhouse gases, politics, Stephen Harper on August 19, 2009 | 12 Comments »
About a year ago, the Canadian Conservative government announced that it had a plan to cut Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions 20% from 2006 levels by 2020. The new regulations were scheduled to come into force on January 1, 2010. I was pretty happy – skeptical of Stephen Harper’s ability to carry this out, and wishing [...]
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