Apologies for my silence recently – I just finished writing some final exams that I missed for the AGU conference, so I’ve been studying hard ever since Boxing Day. I am working on a larger piece about climate models: an introduction to how they work and why they are useful. That will take about a [...]
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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, [...]
What Happened At Durban?
Posted in Mitigation and Policy, tagged carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, climate change, copenhagen, durban, economy, environment, global warming, greenhouse gases, kyoto on December 15, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Cross-posted from NextGen Journal Following the COP17 talks in Durban, South Africa – the latest attempt to create a global deal to cut carbon emissions and solve global warming – world leaders claimed they had “made history”, calling the conference “a great success” that had “all the elements we were looking for”. So what agreement [...]
Ozone Depletion and Climate Change
Posted in Science Lessons, tagged science, politics, risk management, climate change, global warming, environment, sustainability, greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, greenhouse effect, copenhagen, education, kyoto, ozone depletion, CFCs, HFCs, montreal protocol on March 30, 2011 | 18 Comments »
“Global warming…doesn’t that have something to do with the ozone?” Well, no. Environmental issues are not all the same. It’s common for people to confuse climate change and ozone depletion, but they are separate issues – although they are indirectly connected in some interesting ways. Ozone, which is made of three oxygen atoms stuck together [...]
The Pendulum
Posted in Mitigation and Policy, tagged al gore, an inconvenient truth, arctic, canada, carbon dioxide, climate change, climategate, copenhagen, debate, democrat, denial, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, human rights, hurricane katrina, journalism, kyoto, media, obama, politics, republican, risk management, science, skeptic, Stephen Harper, sustainability, swifthack, united states on January 31, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Cross-posted from NextGen Journal A few years ago, climate change mitigation became a major political issue. Before 2005, governments certainly knew that human-caused climate change was a serious problem – but the public knew next to nothing about it, so there was no incentive to act. However, between 2005 and 2007, a perfect storm of [...]
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 [...]
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