Remember back in December, when the news was buzzing each day about the stolen emails from top climate researchers? They were described as “the final nail in the coffin of anthropogenic global warming”, or worse. Apparently, the scientists had written things that severely compromised the underpinnings for the idea that human activity was causing the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘copenhagen’
So What Happened with ClimateGate?
Posted in News and Reports, tagged climate change, climategate, copenhagen, CRU, environment, global warming, greenhouse gases, hockey stick, IPCC, jones, journalism, mann, media, nasa, science, swifthack, UEA, uk on July 11, 2010 | 36 Comments »
All Is Not Lost
Posted in Media and the Public, Mitigation and Policy, News and Reports, tagged carbon dioxide, climate change, climategate, communication, copenhagen, credibility, CRU, debate, environment, george mason university, global warming, greenhouse gases, kyoto, media, politics, poll, republican, risk management, science, survey, united states on June 15, 2010 | 7 Comments »
I really enjoyed reading two recent polls conducted by George Mason University’s Center for Climate Communication. In particular, the results made me wonder why the US government still hasn’t passed a climate bill. For example, US presidents have been saying for over a decade that it is unfair to force their industries to reduce emissions if developing [...]
How We Should Communicate
Posted in Other Advocates, tagged canada, climate change, climategate, copenhagen, credibility, global warming, greenhouse gases, humour, journalism, media, mitchell and webb, national post, politics, Stephen Harper, weaver on June 5, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I really enjoyed this post by Andrew Freedman on the Washington Post blog Capital Weather Gang. I think it is written at the perfect level – basic enough for new readers to catch up on current events, while including enough creative insights to keep the interest of climate science enthusiasts. The article covers the attempts [...]
Illogic
Posted in Other Advocates, tagged climate change, climategate, copenhagen, CRU, denial, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, IPCC, media, quote, science, swifthack, uk, united states on April 19, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Here’s a great quote from a great article posted on the Nation. Thanks to Tim Lambert for the link. Yet when it comes to coverage of global warming, we are trapped in the logic of a guerrilla insurgency. The climate scientists have to be right 100 percent of the time, or their 0.01 percent error [...]
Something Unexpected
Posted in Mitigation and Policy, tagged canada, carbon dioxide, climate change, copenhagen, environment, global warming, greenhouse gases, IPCC, media, politics, science, Stephen Harper, sustainability on April 10, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The differences between the Canadian and American political systems amaze me. Whenever anyone mentions greenhouse gas emissions reductions in the States, people argue, journalists rant about dire economic costs, and Senators stand up and say that cap-and-trade is completely unnecessary because CO2 is plant food. But here in Canada, the government will be voting on [...]
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 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, [...]
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 [...]
The Antithesis to Nitpicking
Posted in Other Advocates, tagged agreement, al gore, carbon dioxide, censorship, climate change, climategate, copenhagen, credibility, CRU, debate, denial, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, hockey stick, IPCC, media, politics, risk management, science, skeptic, united states on February 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Sometimes we have to step back and look at the big picture. We have to remember that not everyone has heard or believed the one about global warming stopping in 1998. Denialists centre around nitpicking and ideas that global warming is a “house of cards”, so we respond the same way: countering all the “mistakes” [...]
IPCC Reform
Posted in How Science Works, Media and the Public, tagged climate change, climategate, copenhagen, CRU, global warming, IPCC, media, politics, science on February 24, 2010 | 7 Comments »
The IPCC is far from ideal, and we knew this even before word got out that WG2 had made several minor mistakes. I’ve written about this before – here I discuss how the IPCC is naturally biased towards understating climate change: being too optimistic in its results. And here I discuss the difference in public [...]
How to Prove Global Warming Wrong
Posted in How Science Works, Science Lessons, tagged agreement, al gore, alarmism, carbon dioxide, climate change, climategate, copenhagen, credibility, CRU, debate, denial, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, humour, IPCC, media, politics, satire, science, skeptic on February 16, 2010 | 35 Comments »
Over the past twenty years, vested interests and political lobby groups have done a fantastic job confusing the public about anthropogenic climate change. To many, they seem to have proven the whole theory wrong. But how could you actually prove global warming wrong – not just in the minds of the public, but through the [...]
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