Tonight is Earth Hour, when people across the world turn off all their lights and electronic devices (except the necessary ones – I don’t think you’re required to unplug the freezer) from 8:30 to 9:30 local time. This is meant to generate awareness about climate change and conservation. It’s really more of a symbolic action, [...]
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My Earth Hour Story
Posted in Musings, tagged climate change, earth hour, education, environment, funny police reports, global warming, kids, recycling on March 31, 2012 | 4 Comments »
An Open Letter to the Future
Posted in Musings, tagged ancient Greece, climate change, ethics, future, global warming, history, science, universe on March 17, 2012 | 54 Comments »
To the citizens of the world in the year 5000: It’s 2012, and nobody is thinking about you. These days, Long Term Thinking means planning for 2050, and even that is unusual. Thoughts of Future Generations don’t go beyond grandchildren. If my government knew I was thinking about people three thousand years in the future, [...]
Apparently, I’m an enemy of Canada
Posted in Musings, tagged alberta, canada, climate change, enbridge, environment, first nations, global warming, joe oliver, keystone, northern gateway, oil sands, peter kent, politics, science, Stephen Harper, tar sands, transcanada, youth on February 15, 2012 | 15 Comments »
A big story in Canada these days is oil pipelines. The federal government wants to ramp up the tar sands industry through international exports. The easiest way to transport crude is through pipelines stretching across the country, and several such projects have been proposed during the past year. First there was the Keystone XL pipeline, [...]
Technical Difficulties
Posted in Musings on January 18, 2012 | 8 Comments »
Sorry for the draft climate model post with a broken link. I clicked Preview, WordPress decided to Publish, I yelled at the computer and reverted to Draft. Apparently, in the two seconds the post was published, it found its way into all the RSS feeds and email subscriptions. The completed post should be up in [...]
Winter in the Woods
Posted in Musings, tagged black-capped chickadee, canada, climate change, environment, global warming, nature, prairies, science, white-tailed deer, wildlife on December 21, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Do not burn yourself out. Be as I am – a reluctant enthusiast… a part time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it [...]
Labels
Posted in Musings, tagged AGU, climate change, contrarian, denial, education, environment, global warming, john cook, science, skeptic, skeptical science on December 13, 2011 | 39 Comments »
For a long time I have struggled with what to call the people who insist that climate change is natural/nonexistent/a global conspiracy. “Skeptics” is their preferred term, but I refuse to give such a compliment to those who don’t deserve it. Skepticism is a good thing in science, and it’s not being applied by self-professed [...]
Thoughts
Posted in Musings, tagged climate change, earth, education, environment, global warming, science, sustainability on May 14, 2011 | 3 Comments »
My presentation went very well. The church group was full of kind, educated, and passionate people. It was nice to have an audience that wasn’t full of high school students who thought science was boring! After the presentation, a woman in the group shared something with me that she found at a conference in Australia [...]
Self-Taught Climate Science
Posted in Musings, tagged climate change, david archer, fortran, global warming, programming, python, ray pierrehumbert, science on March 4, 2011 | 32 Comments »
If you haven’t already guessed, I am a real math and science geek (and rapidly becoming a computer programming geek as well). So, when I got my first taste of quantitative climate analysis from Dana’s articles over at Skeptical Science, I was really interested. It will be a while before my education takes me in [...]
New Year Gratitude
Posted in Musings, tagged climate change, communication, global warming, michael tobis, science, skeptical science, steve easterbrook, tamino on January 1, 2011 | 2 Comments »
A very happy 2011 to everyone. I thought I would write a New Year’s post like last year’s. ClimateSight wouldn’t exist at all without my very best friend and partner, who, after listening for months to my rambles about climate science and policy, set me up with a blog. Since my first post, he has [...]
New Image Page
Posted in Musings on January 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Recently, Anna Haynes made a great suggestion for an image collection page, similar to our existing quote collection. So, here you are!
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