A year ago today, an unidentified hacker published a zipped folder in several locations online. In this folder were approximately one thousand emails and three thousand files which had been stolen from the backup server of the Climatic Research Unit in the UK, a top centre for global temperature analysis and climate change studies. As [...]
Posts Tagged ‘risk management’
The Real Story of Climategate
Posted in Media and the Public, tagged al gore, anthony watts, carbon dioxide, censorship, climate change, climategate, communication, copenhagen, credibility, CRU, cuccinelli, debate, denial, education, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, hockey stick, inhofe, journalism, media, nasa, politics, republican, risk management, science, skeptic, sustainability, swifthack, united states on November 17, 2010 | 145 Comments »
Geoengineering the Climate
Posted in Mitigation and Policy, tagged carbon dioxide, climate change, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, politics, risk management, science on November 12, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Cross-posted from NextGen Journal Climate change would be a whole lot easier to fix if we could immediately see the results of our actions. First of all, we would have recognized the reality of the problem long ago, before very much harm was done. And even if we initially stalled on fixing the problem, we could [...]
What If…?
Posted in Mitigation and Policy, tagged canada, carbon dioxide, climate change, climategate, copenhagen, denial, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, inhofe, mccain, midterm election, obama, politics, republican, risk management, science, skeptic, swifthack, tea party, united states on November 1, 2010 | 17 Comments »
Cross-posted from NextGen Journal Let’s start with the obvious – the U.S. midterm elections are upon us, and it’s quite likely that the Republicans will win a majority. (My American friends tell me that this is possible even with Barack Obama remaining president. Please bear with my limited knowledge of the American political system. It [...]
What’s Your Idea?
Posted in Mitigation and Policy, tagged biomass, cap and trade, carbon dioxide, carbon tax, clean energy, climate change, cogen, environment, global warming, greenhouse gases, methane capture, renewable energy, risk management, science, solar power, sustainability, wind power on October 9, 2010 | 21 Comments »
If you ran the world…how would you fix climate change? What would be your plan to implement clean energy? What renewables would you focus on, and how would you put a price on carbon? Personally, I am more in favour of a carbon tax than cap-and-trade. It just seems simpler, more difficult for businesses to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Discovery of Global Warming
Posted in Reviews, tagged arrhenius, carbon dioxide, climate change, credibility, environment, fourier, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, hockey stick, ice age, IPCC, journalism, keeling, media, politics, risk management, science, weart on May 18, 2010 | 5 Comments »
A common remark I make about climate change books I like is that “it wasn’t like a textbook”. I like non-fiction books that I can carry around and read cover-to-cover just like I would a novel. I like them to draw me in and catch my interest as if they were a suspenseful PD James [...]
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 [...]
A Better Credibility Spectrum
Posted in How Science Works, Media and the Public, tagged al gore, climate change, credibility, global warming, IPCC, media, nasa, politics, risk management, science on April 25, 2010 | 4 Comments »
It’s been over a year since I wrote The Credibility Spectrum, my first post ever. Since then I’ve learned a lot, and have altered the credibility spectrum in my own mind – so I thought I’d alter it here, too. This credibility spectrum is sort of split into two: the scientific community, and the non-scientific [...]
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 [...]
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