Stephen Harper is coming to Copenhagen. It really surprised me when the Canadian media started patting him on the back for announcing this, as if he was finally cleaning up his act and showing some leadership. Coming to a conference – and most likely only for a day or two, for a photo op – [...]
Archive for November, 2009
The Worst in the World
Posted in Mitigation and Policy, tagged canada, climate change, copenhagen, global warming, greenhouse gases, politics, Stephen Harper, united states on November 29, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Where to Go for Answers
Posted in Other Advocates, tagged agreement, canada, carbon dioxide, climate change, credibility, debate, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, hockey stick, ice age, IPCC, media, oregon petition, petition project, science, skeptic, statements on November 22, 2009 | 29 Comments »
To all of our new readers, thanks to CBC and StumbleUpon, this is for you! Most of us don’t read scientific journals. We read the newspaper instead. We read our news feeds. We watch CNN. These sources, as we know, are fairly low on the credibility spectrum. But how are people like you and I [...]
A World Without Ice
Posted in Reviews, tagged al gore, climate change, global warming, ice age, IPCC, science on November 17, 2009 | 18 Comments »
Dr Henry Pollack, the author of A World Without Ice, is a geophysicist and an IPCC author. According to Al Gore, in the foreword, he is also “a scientist with the rare ability to engage ordinary people and to translate scientific ideas into everyday terms that are easy to understand”. I couldn’t agree more. Pollack [...]
Loose Ends
Posted in Musings, tagged climate change, global warming, humour, politics, science on November 7, 2009 | 16 Comments »
A couple of stories that couldn’t be elaborated into an entire post: I met Elizabeth May (the leader of the Canadian Green Party) not long ago when she came to my local university. We had a chat about their emission reduction plans – a 30% reduction from 1990 levels by 2020, and 90% by 2050. [...]
Two Great Canadians
Posted in Reviews, tagged canada, climate change, global warming, media, politics, science, Stephen Harper on November 5, 2009 | 21 Comments »
It’s a rare day when you find a book about climate change written by a Canadian. The authors are American, mostly. Some are British or Australian. And that’s a real shame, because there’s a lot going on in Canadian politics about climate change – but you can’t read about it anywhere. The newspapers don’t report [...]
Naming
Posted in Media and the Public, tagged climate change, credibility, denial, global warming, media, politics, skeptic on November 1, 2009 | 21 Comments »
What can we call organizations like the Heartland Institute, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Fraser Institute, and so many others? Technically, they’re think tanks. But they don’t really fulfill the purposes of think tanks, which are supposed to provide independent research to advise the government on policy issues. These as-yet-unnamed organizations do provide some research [...]
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