The Canadian government has decided that their meager 20% emission cut from 2006 levels by 2020 (equivalent to 3% cut from the standard base year of 1990) is tenuous – it all depends on what the US decides to do. (Why even bother having a separate Canadian government if they’re just going to follow all [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Why Canada Is the Way it Is
Posted in News and Reports, tagged canada, carbon dioxide, climate change, global warming, greenhouse gases, obama, politics, Stephen Harper on January 30, 2010 | 15 Comments »
Mistakes
Posted in News and Reports, tagged carbon dioxide, climate change, climategate, copenhagen, CRU, global warming, himalayan glaciers, IPCC, media, science on January 24, 2010 | 36 Comments »
I have watched with interest the coverage of the IPCC’s screw-up over the Himalayan glaciers. “Screw-up” is really the best way to describe it. It really shouldn’t have happened. WG2 cited a secondary source that cited something else that cited something else that turned out to be an erroneous New Scientist article. The reviewers of [...]
Manufacturing Doubt
Posted in How Science Works, Media and the Public, Mitigation and Policy, tagged agreement, canada, climate change, copenhagen, credibility, debate, denial, global warming, IPCC, media, politics, science, skeptic, united states on January 17, 2010 | 20 Comments »
I recently wrote this term paper for my world issues course. Enjoy. There are many questions which remain controversial among scientists, but the existence of human-caused climate change is not one of them. Over 97% of publishing climatologists (Doran and Zimmerman, 2009), virtually 100% of peer-reviewed studies (Oreskes, 2004), and every scientific organization in the [...]
NASA Speaks on 2009
Posted in News and Reports, tagged canada, climate change, global warming, greenhouse effect, nasa, science on January 17, 2010 | 11 Comments »
I’d been watching the GISS page closely, to no avail, but it turns out that the annual summation for 2009 global temperatures was posted on James Hansen’s Columbia page. (Click on the graph for a better resolution in the Columbia document.) 2009 is the second warmest on record, “but it is so close to 1998, [...]
Partisan
Posted in How Science Works, Media and the Public, tagged canada, climate change, credibility, debate, denial, global warming, media, politics, science on January 11, 2010 | 16 Comments »
How did objectivity itself become partisan? I’m not quite sure how this thought came into my mind. I was angry about what Mark Steyn is regularly allowed to write in Maclean’s (Peter Sinclair, if you’re reading, you should really use his columns as case studies for your videos – this is the most popular news [...]
ClimateSight/CCC Movies!
Posted in Cartoons, tagged agreement, al gore, australia, canada, carbon dioxide, climate change, copenhagen, credibility, debate, denial, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, hockey stick, humour, IPCC, media, politics, risk management, science, skeptic, united states on January 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a re-upload of some public education videos (aimed at students) I created in the summer, in association with Climate Change Connection. Read the citations, and take the survey if you’re feeling brave. Enjoy!
Thanks to Our Readers
Posted in Musings, tagged climate change, global warming, media, science on January 4, 2010 | 4 Comments »
A happy 2010 to everyone. I thought that the start of a new year would be an appropriate time to thank the many people who have made this blog possible. First and foremost, thanks to the ever-patient and computer-savvy reader who set me up with a blog after months of listening to my rambles about [...]
On Media
Posted in Media and the Public, tagged al gore, canada, climate change, climategate, credibility, CRU, debate, global warming, media, politics, science, skeptic on January 4, 2010 | 19 Comments »
I have given up on my local newspaper. It’s been a long time coming. I’m tired of letters to the editor that talk about how carbon dioxide is good for the environment because it makes plants grow. I’m tired of editorials that conclude with, “So-and-so is a senior fellow at (insert name of suspiciously-funded conservative [...]
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