Global warming, climate change, activism
Posted in Canada, Climate Change Consequences, Climate Change Science, Politics on Jul 31st, 2009
While Anthony Watts runs around trying to convince Americans that the temperature record is flawed and global warming is a socialist commie plot, the Urban Heat Island Effect is melting the magical place that is Canada’s High Arctic. I mean, if you’re a denier, that has to be how you rationalize it, right? It can’t [...]
Posted in Climate Change Science, Double Dumb Ass Award, Global Warming Myths, Politics on Jul 30th, 2009
Anthony Watts, the scientifically-illiterate host of Watts Up With That, has been running a silly initiative called the Surface Stations Project through which he is trying to invalidate recent historical temperature records in the US to prove that global warming is a HOAX. His belief is that these surface stations are too often located close [...]
Posted in Climate Change Consequences, Social Justice on Jul 30th, 2009
Our finger is on the trigger. If we don’t cut carbon in the developed world, we’re taking lives in the emerging world. This Guardian photo series shows courageous people in Bangladesh trying to keep rising sea levels from destroying their villages.
Posted in Climate Change Consequences, Climate Change Science, Food on Jul 20th, 2009
Global warming has serious consequences for the international fishing community — and for humanity. A study published in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences indicates that individual fish have lost half their average body mass, that fish populations have thinned drastically, and that smaller species are starting to dominate European fishing grounds. [...]
Posted in Climate Change Consequences, Climate Change Science, George Monbiot, Politics, UK on Jul 19th, 2009
Classic George Monbiot, the most persuasive voice writing on climate today. He’s arguing that the British and G8 climate strategy just doesn’t add up, and that politicians are hoping that no one can actually do math. Well, at least that clears up the mystery. Over the past year I’ve been fretting over an intractable contradiction. [...]
Posted in Canada, Clean Technology, Climate Change Solutions, Renewable Energy, UK on Jul 19th, 2009
Ed Milliband, Secretary for Climate Change, has unveiled the UK government’s comprehensive plan for cutting GHG emissions and heralding in a new era of renewable energy in Great Britain. The measures will affect most areas of UK society, from home energy use to power generation, and from electric cars to high-speed rail — all in [...]
Posted in Canada, Climate Change Solutions, Politics, UK, USA on Jul 9th, 2009
It appears that the G8 pledge to do everything possible to keep global warming below 2°C by 2050 isn’t worth the paper it was written on. Less than 24 hours after leaders of the world’s largest economies were heralding a breakthrough in climate agreements, the bad boys of international climate negotiations — Canada and Russia [...]
Posted in Climate Change Consequences, Climate Change Science on Jul 9th, 2009
The news from the Arctic isn’t good, for polar bears or for humanity. Arctic sea ice has thinned dramatically since 2004, with older, thicker ice giving way to fragile young ice that can easily melt during the long, cool northern summer days. Researchers have long known that the overall area covered by arctic ice was [...]
Posted in Activism, Climate Change Consequences, Food, High Horse, Social Justice on Jul 6th, 2009
In advance of the G8 Summit in Italy, Oxfam has released a new paper suggesting that hunger will become the defining issue of this century, and that climate change is to blame. The report, called Suffering the Science: Climate Change, People, and Poverty (PDF) argues that hundreds of millions of farmers are now struggling to [...]
Posted in Activism, Alberta Tar Sands, Canada, Climate Change Solutions, Old King Coal on Jul 5th, 2009
Imagine that you’re a tobacco company CEO in the 1960s, and the Surgeon General announces that your product kills people. What would you do? Perhaps you’d experiment with new filters and blends for a few years, trying to minimize the harm. But a decade passes, nothing changes, and you face a horrible truth. Your product [...]