Looking at this title, what do you imagine my implications to be? By “wrong” do you think I mean “global warming turns out to be natural/nonexistent/a global conspiracy”? A very interesting sociological phenomenon……In the popular media, we hear so much from people who think that the dangers of climate change have been overstated by the [...]
Archive for September, 2009
What if the IPCC is Wrong?
Posted in Media and the Public, tagged agreement, climate change, debate, global warming, media, science on September 30, 2009 | 51 Comments »
Overlap
Posted in Musings, News and Reports, tagged climate change, environment, global warming, human rights, IPCC, science, sustainability on September 23, 2009 | 15 Comments »
It really annoys me when people treat climate change purely as an environmental issue. I care about the environment, probably more than most people. I pick up litter so birds won’t eat it and get sick. I’m maintaining three composting systems at the moment. When I have my own house one day, I’m going to [...]
More Records Threatened….
Posted in News and Reports, tagged climate change, global warming, science on September 21, 2009 | 13 Comments »
The NCDC August report is in! My favourite monthly nerdfest. (As we can see, the trough situation in central North America has calmed down a bit since earlier in the summer. Actually, since the beginning of September, we’ve had near-record highs in my area. I think July and September switched places.) This has been the [...]
An Analogy
Posted in How Science Works, tagged agreement, climate change, credibility, debate, denial, global warming, science, skeptic on September 16, 2009 | 15 Comments »
I can’t remember where I first read about this phenomenon. It could have been here, here, or somewhere else entirely. Whoever it was wrote a brilliant post about the widespread public belief that “the truth lies somewhere between the two extremes”. This belief was a fallacy, the author argued, as one side could easily make [...]
Time-Lapse Glaciers
Posted in News and Reports, tagged climate change, glaciers, global warming, media, science on September 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
James Balog has an amazing, but terrifying, presentation of how different glaciers are retreating, shown on time-lapse cameras that take pictures every hour. Watch it here. (It looks like I should be able to embed the video, but it’s not working. I hardly know html so I’m probably missing something – I am using the [...]
More Credibility
Posted in Other Advocates, tagged climate change, credibility, global warming, science on September 8, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Robert Grumbine has put together a climate change credibility spectrum for scientific disciplines. Update 14/9/09: This spectrum is a work in progress, and Robert Grumbine has asked that I remove the graphic as it is now outdated. He has a full article on how it should be revised here.
How and Why
Posted in Media and the Public, tagged agreement, climate change, credibility, debate, global warming, media, politics, risk management, science on September 6, 2009 | 27 Comments »
Ever since Tamino linked to me, essentially tripling my blog hits, it’s become obvious that a lot of my readers and regular commenters are very knowledgable in this issue – more than a few are actually scientists who study climate change. This has been absolutely fantastic. Whenever I have an inkling of a scientific question, [...]
A Course for Beginners
Posted in Other Advocates, tagged climate change, global warming, IPCC, media, science on September 4, 2009 | 12 Comments »
This summer, I’ve spent so much time corresponding with people who know more than I do about climate change – like many of our regular commenters – that it’s always sort of strange to talk to people who are new to this topic. When they don’t know about the Milankovitch cycles, the concept of radiative [...]
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