The first of three investigations into the CRU emails has been released. You can read the British House of Commons’ entire report here, but I found the summary on page 7 to be just as useful. In part, it reads: We believe that the focus on CRU and Professor Phil Jones, Director of CRU, in particular, [...]
Archive for March, 2010
What The Press Should Cover, and Won’t
Posted in Media and the Public, News and Reports, tagged britain, censorship, climate change, climategate, copenhagen, credibility, CRU, debate, global warming, hockey stick, house of commons, IPCC, jones, media, science, statements, swifthack on March 30, 2010 | 8 Comments »
The Best Analogies Ever
Posted in Musings, tagged archer, climate change, energy budget, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, science on March 29, 2010 | 4 Comments »
An analogy is a powerful tool in science communication. Here are two of my favourites to do with climate change. The first is of my own creation (although it isn’t too original) and came about after I had presented to high school students a few times. As anyone taking high school physics learns pretty quickly, [...]
Academic Culture From the Inside – a Guest Post by Steve Easterbrook
Posted in How Science Works, tagged censorship, climate change, climategate, CRU, debate, easterbrook, global warming, media, monbiot, science, swifthack, u of t on March 25, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Steve Easterbrook is a comp-sci professor at the University of Toronto who has also worked at the University of Sussex and NASA. Recently, he decided to apply his software engineering expertise to the challenge of climate change, particularly relating to climate models. This post began as a comment on a recent RealClimate post about media [...]
A First Step
Posted in Media and the Public, News and Reports, tagged amazon, climate change, climategate, credibility, CRU, debate, denial, global warming, IPCC, leake, media, science on March 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Scientists are beginning to fight back against inaccurate climate change journalism, and Simon Lewis is taking one of the first steps. He officially complained to the UK Press Complaints Commission about an “inaccurate, misleading and distorted” article by Jonathan Leake in the Sunday Times. It’s one of Leake’s many “IPCC errors uncovered” – the AR4′s [...]
Sea Turtles and Kids
Posted in Musings, tagged climate change, credibility, global warming, science, sea turtles, youth on March 21, 2010 | 4 Comments »
A true story. I found it incredibly inspiring, so I wanted to share it with all of you. A seven-year-old girl was doing a school project on sea turtles, and found out something interesting – that the sex of a fertilized egg depends largely on the temperature in which it is laid. Climate change, therefore, [...]
A Good Discussion Starter
Posted in Musings, Other Advocates, tagged climate change, global warming, risk management, youth on March 15, 2010 | 23 Comments »
How did you become interested in the issue of climate change? What sparked your interest, and why? For me, it was purely a coincidence. I wanted to get involved in school groups and so I joined the environmental club. I liked a lot of the people in it, and found the discussions very interesting. Around [...]
Staying Sane
Posted in Musings, tagged climate change, climategate, copenhagen, CRU, debate, denial, global warming, inhofe, IPCC, media, politics, science, skeptic on March 14, 2010 | 18 Comments »
A long time ago, I learned to turn off the emotional half of my brain – can’t remember whether it’s right or left – when I read studies about climate change. I look at model results and projections from a purely analytical standpoint. I register how awful the scenarios are, but I don’t let it [...]
Now We’re Talking!
Posted in How Science Works, Media and the Public, News and Reports, tagged carbon dioxide, climate change, climategate, communication, CRU, debate, global warming, humour, IPCC, media, NAS, politics, risk management, science, skeptic, swifthack on March 8, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Another batch of private emails from climate scientists has been leaked/hacked/stolen/whatever. These ones, though, are very different than the last. It’s a thread of emails from the NAS, and these guys are mad. They are mad about vested interests skewing the discussion. They are mad that journalists have sat and lapped it right up without [...]
Freedom of Information
Posted in How Science Works, Media and the Public, News and Reports, tagged censorship, climate change, climategate, CRU, debate, denial, FOIA, global warming, hansen, hockey stick, jones, media, santer, schmidt, science, skeptic on March 7, 2010 | 14 Comments »
The only real issue that the hacked CRU emails brought up, the only allegation that didn’t fall apart if you were familiar with the literature (*cough cough hide the decline*), was the failure of Phil Jones to respond to some of the FOI (Freedom of Information) requests. This looks bad on the surface, and it [...]
Recommendations?
Posted in Mitigation and Policy, tagged climate change, debate, denial, global warming, media, politics, republican, risk management, science, skeptic on March 2, 2010 | 12 Comments »
I’m interested in finding out how and why climate change action became a partisan issue. As Stephen Schneider says in his new book, there’s a reason that “conservation” sounds so much like “conservatism”. The fiscal conservative school of thought is to save money for a rainy day, and to minimize spending so the economy is [...]
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