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, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘education’
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 »
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 [...]
Breaching the Mainstream
Posted in Media and the Public, tagged climate change, dftba, education, environment, global warming, hank green, john green, nerdfighters, scishow, vlogbrothers on February 5, 2012 | 5 Comments »
It’s hard to overestimate the influence of John and Hank Green on the Internet, particularly among people my age. John (who writes books for teenagers) and Hank (who maintains the website EcoGeek and sings songs about particle physics) run a YouTube channel that celebrates nerdiness. This Internet community is now a huge part of pop culture [...]
How much is most?
Posted in News and Reports, tagged AGU, climate change, education, environment, global warming, IPCC, science on January 31, 2012 | 38 Comments »
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 [...]
How do climate models work?
Posted in Science Lessons, tagged arctic, atmosphere, cesm, chemistry, climate change, climate models, education, global warming, IPSL, mathematics, NOAA, ocean, physics, programming, science on January 20, 2012 | 29 Comments »
Also published at Skeptical Science This is a climate model: T = [(1-α)S/(4εσ)]1/4 (T is temperature, α is the albedo, S is the incoming solar radiation, ε is the emissivity, and σ is the Stefan-Boltzmann constant) An extremely simplified climate model, that is. It’s one line long, and is at the heart of every computer [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
General Thoughts on AGU
Posted in Other Advocates, Research Blogging, tagged AGU, ben santer, bill mckibben, climate change, education, environment, gavin schmidt, global warming, james hansen, john cook, michael mann, michael tobis, physics today, richard sommerville, science, skeptical science, stephen schneider, susan joy hassol on December 12, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I returned home from the AGU Fall Meeting last night, and after a good night’s sleep I am almost recovered – it’s amazing how tired science can make you! The whole conference felt sort of surreal. Meeting and conversing with others was definitely the best part. I shook the hand of James Hansen and assured [...]
A Conversation with Gavin Schmidt
Posted in Interviews, tagged agriculture, climate change, economy, education, gavin schmidt, global warming, hurricanes, media, science, sea level rise, uncertainty on October 18, 2011 | 15 Comments »
Cross-posted from NextGenJournal Dr. Gavin Schmidt is a climate modeller at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, as well as the editor at RealClimate. I recently had the opportunity to interview Dr. Schmidt, one of the top scientists in his field, on what we can expect from the climate in the coming decades. Here is [...]
The Pitfalls of General Reporting: A Case Study
Posted in Media and the Public, tagged arctic, atmosphere, canada, canadian press, CFCs, climate change, communication, education, environment, global warming, journalist, manitoba, media, nature, ozone, reporter, science, stratosphere, troposphere, weather, winnipeg free press on October 2, 2011 | 15 Comments »
Today’s edition of Nature included an alarming paper, indicating record ozone loss in the Arctic due to an unusually long period of cold temperatures in the lower stratosphere. On the same day, coverage of the story by the Canadian Press included a fundamental error that is already contributing to public confusion about the reality of [...]
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