A growing body of research is showing that humans are likely causing more than 100% of global warming: without our influences on the climate, the planet would actually be cooling slightly. In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published its fourth assessment report, internationally regarded as the most credible summary of climate science to [...]
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How much is most?
Posted in News and Reports, tagged AGU, climate change, education, environment, global warming, IPCC, science on January 31, 2012 | 33 Comments »
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Posted in News and Reports, Research Blogging, tagged AGU, alberta, arctic, british columbia, climate change, environment, global warming, jack pine, lodgepole pine, mountain pine beetle, science, sea ice on September 21, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Two pieces of bad news: Mountain pine beetles, whose range is expanding due to warmer winters, are beginning to infest jack pines as well as lodgepole pines. To understand the danger from this transition, one only needs to look at the range maps for each species: A study from Molecular Ecology, published last April, has the [...]
Quality, Transparency, and Rigour
Posted in News and Reports, tagged climate change, communication, environment, global warming, IPCC, media, politics, science on June 5, 2011 | 5 Comments »
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports are likely the most cited documents on the subject of global warming. The organization, established by the United Nations, doesn’t do any original research – it simply summarizes the massive amount of scientific literature on the topic. Their reports, written and reviewed by volunteer scientists, and published [...]
Tornadoes and Climate Change
Posted in News and Reports, tagged climate change, climate models, environment, global warming, nasa, ncar, science, tornado, trenberth on June 3, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Cross-posted from NextGen Journal It has been a bad season for tornadoes in the United States. In fact, this April shattered the previous record for the most tornadoes ever. Even though the count isn’t finalized yet, nobody doubts that it will come out on top: In a warming world, many questions are common, and quite [...]
America’s Climate Choices
Posted in Mitigation and Policy, News and Reports on May 18, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Cross-posted from NextGen Journal A landmark report (summary available here) was published this week by the National Research Council in the United States, which is part of the National Academy of Sciences. The report, “America’s Climate Choices”, was requested by Congress several years ago. It focused on the observed impacts of climate change in the [...]
Climate Change Communicator of the Year Award
Posted in News and Reports, tagged climate change, communication, education, george mason university, global warming, naomi oreskes, scott mandia, skeptical science on April 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »
There’s just over a week left to vote in the Climate Change Communicator of the Year awards, run by the Centre for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University. There are several familiar names among the nominees, including meteorology professor and frequent ClimateSight commenter Scott Mandia, the ever-brilliant Naomi Oreskes, and the growing organization of [...]
Climate Scientists Out in the Cold
Posted in News and Reports, tagged canada, carbon dioxide, CFCAS, climate change, congress, denial, environment, global warming, greenhouse gases, IPCC, luetkemeyer, NSERC, politics, republican, science, Stephen Harper, united states, waxman on February 24, 2011 | 35 Comments »
Cross-posted from NextGen Journal In the current economy, it’s not surprising that many countries are reducing funds for scientific research. It’s necessary to cut spending across the board these days. However, North American governments are singling out climate science as a victim – and not just reducing its funding, but, in many cases, eliminating it [...]
What’s the Warmest Year – and Does it Matter?
Posted in News and Reports, Science Lessons, tagged arctic, climate change, education, environment, giss, global warming, hansen, met office, nasa, NOAA, science, statistics on January 26, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Cross-posted from NextGenJournal Climate change is a worrying phenomenon, but watching it unfold can be fascinating. The beginning of a new year brings completed analysis of what last year’s conditions were like. Perhaps the most eagerly awaited annual statistic is global temperature. This year was no different – partway through 2010, scientists could tell that [...]
An Unlikely Priority
Posted in News and Reports, tagged carbon dioxide, cbc, climate change, education, environment, global warming, greenhouse gases, journalism, media, nature, polar bears, science, wildlife on December 17, 2010 | 9 Comments »
A small news splash surfaced this week over a recent paper in Nature, regarding the prospects for Arctic sea ice and, consequently, polar bear populations. Until this paper was published, studies had only examined business-as-usual scenarios. We didn’t really know whether or not, if we pursued aggressive mitigation, it would be too late to save the polar [...]
Party Line
Posted in Mitigation and Policy, News and Reports, tagged al gore, arctic, carbon dioxide, climate change, denial, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, jim demint, john mccain, john raese, ken buck, marco rubio, pat toomey, politics, rand paul, republican, ron johnson, roy blunt, science, senate, sharron angle, skeptic, statements, united states on September 19, 2010 | 19 Comments »
Brad Johnson from The Wonk Room recently released a comprehensive list of what Republican contenders for the U.S. Senate understand about climate change, inferred from their public statements. The result? 47 of the 48 deny the existence of anthropogenic climate change and/or oppose mitigating action to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Take a look – many [...]
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