As my summer research continues, I’m learning a lot about previous experiments that used the UVic ESCM (Earth System Climate Model), as well as beginning to run my own. Over the past few years, the UVic model has played an integral role in a fascinating little niche of climate research: the importance of cumulative carbon [...]
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Cumulative Emissions and Climate Models
Posted in Research Blogging, tagged canada, carbon cycle, carbon dioxide, climate change, climate models, global warming, greenhouse gases, science, trillion tonnes, UVic on May 16, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Summer Research
Posted in Research Blogging, tagged canada, climate change, climate models, emic, GCM, global warming, programming, UVic on May 3, 2012 | 6 Comments »
I recently started working for the summer, with Andrew Weaver’s research group at the University of Victoria. If you’re studying climate modelling in Canada, this is the place to be. They are a fairly small group, but continually churn out world-class research. Many of the projects here use the group’s climate model, the UVic ESCM [...]
March Migration Data
Posted in Research Blogging, tagged birding, birds, birdwatching, canada, climate change, environment, global warming, migration, nature, science, spring on April 1, 2012 | 5 Comments »
In my life outside of climate science, I am an avid fan of birdwatching, and am always eager to connect the two. Today I’m going to share some citizen science data I collected. Last year, I started taking notes during the spring migration. Every time I saw a species for the first time that year, [...]
Tar Sands vs. Coal
Posted in Mitigation and Policy, tagged alberta, canada, climate change, coal, environment, global warming, keystone xl, natural gas, northern gateway, oil sands, petroleum, science, tar sands on March 4, 2012 | 19 Comments »
The term “fossil fuels” is a very large umbrella. Coal, oil, and natural gas are the usual distinctions, but there’s also unconventional oil (such as the Alberta tar sands) and unconventional gas (such as shale gas from fracking). “Unconventional” means that the fuel is produced in a roundabout way that’s less efficient and takes more [...]
Denial in the Classroom
Posted in Media and the Public, tagged canada, carleton, cass, climate change, education, geology, global warming, heartland institute, international climate science coalition, maclean's, ottawa, science, skeptic, tom harris, university, youth on February 28, 2012 | 16 Comments »
At one of Canada’s top comprehensive universities, a well-known climate change denier was recently discovered “educating” a class of undergraduate students about global warming. The Instructor Tom Harris spent much of his career acting as a PR consultant for fossil fuel companies. Today he directs the International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC), an advocacy group closely [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Recommended Reading
Posted in Mitigation and Policy, Other Advocates, tagged canada, climate change, durban, economist, global warming, globe and mail, guardian, kyoto, monbiot, policy, Stephen Harper, youth on December 20, 2011 | 5 Comments »
A lot of great articles reflecting on the Durban talks have come out in the past few weeks, particularly in the mainstream media. Some of my favourites are Globe and Mail articles by Thomas Homer-Dixon and Jeffrey Simpson, The Economist writing that climate change, in the long run, will be more important than the economy, [...]
A Little Bit of Hope
Posted in Media and the Public, tagged canada, carbon dioxide, climate change, education, global warming, science, sea level rise, skeptical science, solar activity, volcanoes, youth on December 15, 2011 | 6 Comments »
I went to a public lecture on climate change last night (because I just didn’t get enough of that last week at AGU, apparently), where four professors from different departments at my university spoke about their work. They were great speeches – it sort of reminded me of TED Talks – but I was actually [...]
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