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 [...]
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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 »
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 »
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 [...]
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 Ben Santer Has to Say
Posted in Interviews, tagged ben santer, climate change, climategate, communication, education, environment, global warming, jones, journalism, media, science, swifthack on October 24, 2010 | 104 Comments »
“Climate change journalism has gotten worse,” says Dr. Ben Santer, researcher at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, and one of the world’s top scientists studying the attribution of climate change. The decline in the quality and accuracy of climate change coverage over the years is quite a paradox. Surely, now that this issue [...]
Priorities
Posted in Musings, tagged carbon dioxide, climate change, climategate, communication, CRU, denial, education, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, IPCC, journalism, media, politics, quote, science, swifthack on September 6, 2010 | 17 Comments »
I’m sick of all the politics surrounding climate science. I wish it could go back to just being science, the way it was in the 1970s, without all these people trying to sabotage it for us. I wish we could concentrate on the joy and fascination we feel when we learn about the climate system, [...]
What Kevin Trenberth Has to Say
Posted in Interviews, tagged climate change, climategate, communication, CRU, debate, education, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, IPCC, journalism, media, ncar, science, skeptic, swifthack, trenberth, united states on August 30, 2010 | 7 Comments »
A comment from Steve Bloom several months ago got me thinking about a new kind of post that would be a lot of fun: interviewing top climate scientists, both on their research and their views of climate science journalism and communication. When I emailed Dr. Kevin Trenberth to see if he would be interested in [...]
The Best Cartoons Ever
Posted in Cartoons, Musings, tagged cartoonist group, climate change, climategate, communication, CRU, denial, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, houston chronicle, humour, journalism, lee judge, media, nick anderson, swifthack on August 23, 2010 | 14 Comments »
Over the past year, I have seen far too many political cartoons on the editorial pages of newspapers accusing climate scientists of fraud. It amazes me what is allowed to be published without evidence in respected media publications. However, there are still some great cartoons about climate change, sans libel. Here are two of my [...]
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 [...]
So What Happened with ClimateGate?
Posted in News and Reports, tagged climate change, climategate, copenhagen, CRU, environment, global warming, greenhouse gases, hockey stick, IPCC, jones, journalism, mann, media, nasa, science, swifthack, UEA, uk on July 11, 2010 | 36 Comments »
Remember back in December, when the news was buzzing each day about the stolen emails from top climate researchers? They were described as “the final nail in the coffin of anthropogenic global warming”, or worse. Apparently, the scientists had written things that severely compromised the underpinnings for the idea that human activity was causing the [...]
Summer Plans
Posted in Musings, tagged climate change, climategate, communication, global warming, science, swifthack, youth on June 26, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Apologies for not posting last week. I am right in the middle of high school graduation events so things have been a little crazy. I start my B.Sc in the fall, and am hoping to continue posting at least once a week. However, I want to write as much as possible this summer, in case [...]
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