Part 1 of a series of 5 for NextGen Journal. What’s wrong with these statements? I believe in global warming. I don’t believe in global warming. We should hear all sides of the climate change debate and decide for ourselves. Don’t see it? How about these? I believe in photosynthesis. I don’t believe in Newton’s [...]
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Why Trust Science?
Posted in How Science Works, tagged agreement, chemistry, climate change, consensus, credibility, debate, global warming, journalism, physics, politics, risk management, science on July 7, 2011 | 47 Comments »
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 [...]
Where Activism Fails
Posted in Media and the Public, Mitigation and Policy, tagged climate change, communication, democracy, education, environment, global warming, greenhouse gases, journalism, media, north america, politics, powershift, risk management, science, united states, vote, youth on April 20, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Cross-posted from NextGen Journal This weekend, 10 000 young people converged in Washington, D.C. and protested the American government’s inaction on climate change. Students stood in front of government buildings wearing green hard hats, holding signs saying “Make Polluters Pay, Not the EPA”. Students stormed the House of Representatives and sang a song about climate [...]
The Rest of the World
Posted in Mitigation and Policy, tagged australia, canada, carbon dioxide, climate change, copenhagen, environment, EU, global warming, greenhouse gases, japan, norway, politics, risk management, Stephen Harper, uk, united states on April 6, 2011 | 16 Comments »
Here in North America, we are surrounded with rhetoric denouncing the feasibility of climate change mitigation. It’s not possible to reduce our emissions, people say. It’s not worth it. The situation in the U.S. Congress regarding this issue is becoming so bizarre that hopes for an international agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions have grown [...]
Ozone Depletion and Climate Change
Posted in Science Lessons, tagged carbon dioxide, CFCs, climate change, copenhagen, education, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, HFCs, kyoto, montreal protocol, ozone depletion, politics, risk management, science, sustainability 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 [...]
Nuclear Power in Context
Posted in Mitigation and Policy, tagged chernobyl, climate change, coal, environment, fossil fuels, fukushima daiichi, global warming, health, japan, meltdown, natural gas, nuclear energy, nuclear power, oil, risk management, thorium, tsumani, uranium on March 15, 2011 | 36 Comments »
Since its birth, nuclear power has been a target of environmental activism. To be fair, when nuclear power goes wrong, it goes wrong in a bad way. Take a look at what’s happening in Japan right now. Friday’s tsumani damaged the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, and several of its reactors have experienced partial meltdowns. Radiation [...]
Extinction and Climate
Posted in Science Lessons, tagged anoxic event, carbon dioxide, climate change, environment, evolution, extinction, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, k-t, permian, risk management, science on February 17, 2011 | 79 Comments »
Life on Earth does not enjoy change, and climate change is something it likes least of all. Every aspect of an organism’s life depends on climate, so if that variable changes, everything else changes too – the availability of food and water, the timing of migration or hibernation, even the ability of bodily systems to [...]
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 [...]
Storms of my Grandchildren
Posted in Reviews, tagged al gore, cap and dividend, cap and trade, carbon dioxide, carbon tax, climate change, climate sensitivity, communication, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, james hansen, nasa, obama, permian extinction, PETM, politics, risk management, science, united states on December 28, 2010 | 6 Comments »
I hope everyone had a fun and relaxing Christmas. Here’s a book I’ve been meaning to review for a while. The worst part of the recent book by NASA climatologist James Hansen is, undoubtedly, the subtitle. The truth about the coming climate catastrophe and our last chance to save humanity – really? That doesn’t sound [...]
The Nature of Scientific Consensus
Posted in How Science Works, tagged agreement, cancun, carbon dioxide, climate change, copenhagen, credibility, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, media, politics, risk management, science on December 1, 2010 | 24 Comments »
Cross-posted from NextGen Journal It is common for one to fail to grasp the difference between “consensus” and “unanimity”. A consensus does not require agreement from absolutely every member involved. Rather, it is a more general measure of extremely high agreement, high enough to accept and base decisions on. It’s stronger than a majority-rules style [...]
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