Global warming, climate change, activism
Posted in Activism, Ain't Easy Being Green, Astroturfing, Climate Change Science, UK on Dec 2nd, 2009
Most people who follow the climate debate — and many who do not — will have heard about the so-called Climategate. In a nutshell, hackers stole 13 years of emails from leading climate scientists at Hadley Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the UK’s University of East Anglia, and published them on the web for all [...]
Posted in Climate Change Science, Humor on Oct 1st, 2009
What should I do now that my whole world has fallen apart? Thirteen months ago, I launched a web site called Anything But Conservative to highlight Canada’s dismal record on global warming simply because I felt it should be THE issue during the Canadian election. When the results were in, and nothing had changed, I [...]
Posted in Activism, Climate Change Science, Politics, Social Justice on Sep 29th, 2009
Just days after Rasmussen reported that 47 percent of U.S. citizens suggested that it was OK to put the economy before climate change concerns, one of the key advisors to the German government suggested that North Americans know less about climate change than just about anyone else in the world. Professor John Schellnhuber, of the [...]
Posted in Climate Change Consequences, Climate Change Science on Sep 3rd, 2009
Haunting. The picture was captured by marine photographer and environmental lecturer Michael Nolan while on an annual voyage to observe the glacier and its surrounding wildlife. Here’s more about soaring arctic temperatures at CBC and what it means for the planet.
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, 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 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 Science, Greenwashing, USA on Jun 29th, 2009
Nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman, in fine form.