I recently finished reading Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand by Haydn Washington and Skeptical Science founder John Cook. Given that I am a longtime reader of (and occasional contributor to) Skeptical Science, I didn’t expect to find much in this book that was new to me. However, I was pleasantly surprised. Right from [...]
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Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand
Posted in Reviews, tagged climate change, communication, cook, denial, education, environment, global warming, hansen, postmodernism, science, skeptic, skeptical science, venus, washington on August 11, 2011 | 17 Comments »
Models and Books
Posted in Research Blogging, tagged archer, broecker, cesm, climate change, climate models, edgcm, edwards, fourier, global warming, hansen, linux, pierrehumbert, thunderstorms, windows 7 on June 9, 2011 | 15 Comments »
Working as a summer student continues to be rewarding. I get to spend all day reading interesting things and playing with scientific software. What a great deal! Over the weekend, I ran the “Global Warming_01″ simulation from EdGCM, which is an old climate model from NASA with a graphical user interface. Strangely, they don’t support Linux, [...]
What Can One Person Do?
Posted in How Science Works, Media and the Public, Mitigation and Policy, Science Lessons, tagged agreement, canada, carbon dioxide, climate change, climategate, communication, CRU, denial, education, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, hansen, ice age, IPCC, journalism, media, politics, republican, risk management, science, skeptic, sustainability, united states, youth on May 5, 2011 | 23 Comments »
Next week, I will be giving a speech on climate change to the green committee of a local United Church. They are particularly interested in science and solutions, so I wrote the following script, drawing heavily from my previous presentations. I would really appreciate feedback and suggestions for this presentation. Citations will be on the [...]
An Unmeasured Forcing
Posted in Science Lessons, tagged aerosols, carbon dioxide, climate change, environment, global warming, glory mission, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, hansen, nasa, science on April 28, 2011 | 7 Comments »
“It is remarkable and untenable that the second largest forcing that drives global climate change remains unmeasured,” writes Dr. James Hansen, the head of NASA’s climate change research team, and arguably the world’s top climatologist. The word “forcing” refers to a factor, such as changes in the Sun’s output or in atmospheric composition, that exerts [...]
In Other News…
Posted in How Science Works, tagged arctic, climate change, global warming, hansen, nasa, winter on March 29, 2011 | 7 Comments »
The Arctic is getting so warm in winter that James Hansen had to add a new colour to the standard legend - pink, which is even warmer than dark red: The official NASA maps – the ones you can generate yourself – didn’t add this new colour, though. They simply extended the range of dark red [...]
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 [...]
Odds and Ends
Posted in Other Advocates, tagged alda, climate change, communication, denial, education, environment, giss, global warming, hansen, human rights, journalism, kennedy, mckibben, media, nasa, NCDC, politics, republican, science on October 18, 2010 | 16 Comments »
I must thank Michael Tobis for two pieces of reading that his blog recently pointed me to. First, a fantastic article by Bill McKibben, which everyone should print out and stick to their fridge. Here’s a taste: Read the comments on one of the representative websites: Global warming is a “fraud” or a “plot.” Scientists [...]
Global Surface Temperature Change
Posted in How Science Works, Media and the Public, News and Reports, tagged arctic, climate change, climategate, communication, credibility, CRU, education, environment, global temperature, global warming, greenhouse effect, hansen, hockey stick, journalism, nasa, risk management, science, swifthack, united states, urban heat island effect on August 9, 2010 | 14 Comments »
I really enjoyed reading “Global Surface Temperature Change“, by James Hansen and his team at GISS. Keep in mind that it’s still in the draft stages – they haven’t submitted to a journal yet, but they certainly plan to, and it’s a very credible team of scientists that will almost definitely get it published. The [...]
2010 On Track for the Warmest Year on Record
Posted in News and Reports, tagged climate change, credibility, global warming, hansen, media, nasa, romm, science on May 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The data is in from both NASA and NCDC, and NASA’s prediction of 2010 being the warmest year on record is well on its way to coming true, unless La Niña conditions rapidly develop (see page 15 of the NASA document). It has been: the warmest March on record the warmest January-March on record the [...]
Freedom of Information
Posted in How Science Works, Media and the Public, News and Reports, tagged censorship, climate change, climategate, CRU, debate, denial, FOIA, global warming, hansen, hockey stick, jones, media, santer, schmidt, science, skeptic on March 7, 2010 | 14 Comments »
The only real issue that the hacked CRU emails brought up, the only allegation that didn’t fall apart if you were familiar with the literature (*cough cough hide the decline*), was the failure of Phil Jones to respond to some of the FOI (Freedom of Information) requests. This looks bad on the surface, and it [...]
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