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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘CRU’
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 »
A Must-Read Letter to Science
Posted in News and Reports, tagged agreement, canada, climate change, climategate, credibility, CRU, denial, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, IPCC, leake, media, NAS, politics, risk management, science, united states on May 6, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I must say that I feel proud of the mainstream media when CBC News picks this up before any of the blogs I read. A letter to be published in tomorrow’s edition of Science, defending the integrity of climate science and calling for an end to “McCarthy-like threats” to scientists, has been signed by 225 [...]
We Have Slides!
Posted in How Science Works, Media and the Public, Science Lessons, tagged agreement, al gore, carbon dioxide, censorship, climate change, climategate, credibility, CRU, debate, denial, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, ice age, IPCC, media, nasa, politics, quote, risk management, science, skeptic, sustainability, swifthack, united states, youth on April 19, 2010 | 10 Comments »
After a marathon PowerPoint-session yesterday I finally got my 63 slides out of the way. Here is the presentation for anyone who is interested. The script is written in the notes beneath the slides. I like to have things fading in and out of my slides, so sometimes the text boxes and images are stacked [...]
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 [...]
Mind the Gap
Posted in How Science Works, Media and the Public, News and Reports, tagged carbon dioxide, climate change, climategate, credibility, CRU, debate, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, IPCC, jones, leake, media, politics, quote, risk management, science, sustainability, swifthack on April 11, 2010 | 28 Comments »
This is the script of a presentation I will make to several groups of high school students on Earth Day. I was originally going to use the same script from my PowerShift presentation, but in light of recent developments and my ever-expanding thoughts on climate change, I decided to create an entirely new presentation. I [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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