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Amazing multiplying hockey stick proxies
This short list of predictors are the "Amazing Multiplying Hockey Stick Proxies." These 10 predictors are multiplied into 71 proxies, and these proxies all rank high for correlation to the instrumental temperature record from 1850 to the present. Consequently, these 71 "proxies" likely weigh heavily in Mann's 2008...
Super-simple hockey stick explanation.
I have been reading over the blog posts of Steve McIntryre and Jeff Id and others about the nuances of various constructions of the hockey stick. I’ve been examining the archived Mann08 data at the NCDC. This is my attempt to boil down hockey stick construction to its bare-bones, expressed as five essential steps: Step...
Mann’s 1209 temperature proxies
I believe that data used temperature reconstructions, which are in turn used to push for re-structuring the economy of the world, should be easily accessible to everybody. You can view the plots of all 1,209 proxies used by Michael Mann for his 2008 hocky stick temperature reconstruction joined together into one...
Wikipedia brags that "Anyone can be a Wikipedian—including you. Just click the edit link at the top of any page, or one of the ones at the beginning of each section." Sounds good, Wikipedia has empowered you, right? But they have also empowered everybody else: those with an...
Funny Cap and Trade advice for President Obama from the NYP
Mr. President, why not deal with global warming with a nice interfaith prayer summit? You can invite every Imam and Buddhist monk you know......
Mohib Ebrahim’s Climategate poster at NREL
I downloaded the large version of Mohib Ebrahim's very nicely made climategate timeline from Jo Nova's blog. This poster is now hanging on the wall of my office cubicle at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. It will be interesting to see how this goes over with my colleagues....
The Island of Doubt
Why the denial camp is winning (and we're all losing) the climate wars
It's not so much that the pseudoskeptics who dominate the climate change denial camp are particularly clever, but they have been rather fortunate, and the forces aligned on the side of science have turned out to be human after all. The result is the denial camp is winning, and those...
More distractions on the climate front
Never mind that the first decade of the 21st century was the warmest on record. Or that 2009 tied for the second-warmest year. Neither of those stories are consuming much airtime and web- and print-space. No, the biggest stories on the climate beat involve allegations of fraudulent activity on the...
Delingpole invents another "--gate" for his pseudoskeptical fans
James Delingpole continues to enjoy the privileges of blogging on the Daily Telegraph's imprimatur, despite his repeated misstatements on climatology. His latest affront to journalistic norms comes in the form of another alleged failure of a team of IPCC authors to cite real science. He's calling it "Amazongate." Oh dear. ...
The public-scientist disconnect
So, to recap: More than 96% of working climatologists say the global mean temperatures are rising, but only 34% of the public believes "Most scientists think global warming is happening." How did we let this happen? Read the comments on this post......
Daily Mail invents a climate conspiracy
I've never met David Rose of the U.K.'s Daily Mail. And, while his past reporting on climate issues has tended to misrepresent the science of the day, it is entirely possible his editors are to blame for the fictionalization of his latest story. So I won't point fingers at this...
Here is Justice Stevens' core argument against his five colleagues on the U.S. Supreme Court, each of who believes corporations are legally equivalent to citizens, as laid out in the dissenting opinion in Thursday's ruling on Citizens United vs the Federal Election Commission. The basic premise underlying the Court's ruling is...
Journey to the Sinking Lands
I’ve just been told that the BBC are entering the Journey of a Lifetime doco, which went out on Radio 4, for this year’s One World Media awards. Very exiting stuff, but the competition will be amazing, so I’m not getting any hopes up yet. I’ll let you know if...
A few more tour dates have been added for next year, which I have listed in the column to the right. As well as these public dates, I’ve also been asked to speak at quite a few schools, colleges and university societies. I’m pursuing a policy of saying yes to...
I gave the Monday Night Lecture at the Royal Geographical Society about the Carterets journey this week (would have blogged earlier, but have been laid up with flu). It was a real privilege, it was good fun and a great way to end the year on a project that, to...
I’ve been asked to go on tour by the Royal Geographical Society, talking about the Carterets trip as part of their regional lecture series next year. I’ll post more details when I get them but, until then, these are the dates I have so far: February 25, 2010. Stamford Arts Centre,...
A version of the Journey of a Lifetime doco has been broadcast on the BBC World Service. I missed it (though with any luck some of the those I met in Papua New Guinea did not), but you can catch it here. ...
I’ve gone through the recordings I made while living on the Carterets islands and picked out a few to listen to here. They say the pictures are better on radio, and I agree: In church, on Sunday morning Walking through the food gardens with John Sailik and Ruth Marcella A school assembly Talking...
Jennifer Marohasy
Flashback 2008: Scientist: ‘Global warming’ is sub-prime science, sub-prime economics, and sub-prime politics, and it could well go down with the sub-prime mortgage’ http://web.me.com/sinfonia1/Global_Warming_Politics/A_Hot_Topic_Blog/Entries/2008/9/21_Global_Warming%E2%80%99s_Boom_Bust.html Paper: UN climate chief Pachauri used ‘bogus’ climate claims ‘to win grants worth hundreds of thousands of pounds’ http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6999975.ece UN IPCC Exposed: ‘Dozens’ of instances where WWF reports have been...
“LET me get this right… The fraudster who runs the IPCC global warming scam and makes millions from that office Employs the bloke who gave the scientific evidence for glacier melt in the Himalayas totally removing them from the face of the earth by 2035 Over the phone To a bloke at New Scientist Who printed...
The Science and Public Policy Institute has published an analysis of the leaked climategate emails. This 149-page document takes the emails in chronological order and shows, with comments on each message, how science was perverted. In the introductory material the report says: The entire industry of “climate science” was created out of...
Climategate Hits the US: Kenneth Haapala
FOR MUCH of the Northern Hemisphere, the cold is abating. As climate scientists long realized, a short period does not create a trend. Even global warming advocates, who insisted that the 1998 El Nino warming was a trend, are now claiming that the cold does not contradict their warming trend. Their...
For an interview with Fred Singer in Copenhagen please see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmNQoQ2Tr18&feature=rec-LGOUT-exp_fresh+div-1r-5-HM According to the New York Times the real success of Copenhagen was Western nations pledging to fund developing countries through international mechanisms. “Copenhagen’s One Real Accomplishment: Getting Some Money Flowing” by James Kanter, New York Times, Dec 20 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/business/energy-environment/21iht-green21.html?_r=1&hpw. However journalists...
I Love Carbon Dioxide: Revamped
Hi Jennifer, Our new and greener web address is now simply www.ILoveCO2.org. Those of you who send me news stories please add justin@iloveco2.org to your list. For 2010, the site will become very user-oriented. I’m opening it up for multiple writers, journalists, and scientists to contribute to the site on a...
Climate Change: Changing our World
The Bigger Kahuna: Are More Frequent and Higher Extreme Waves a By-Product of Global Warming?
Increasing maximum wave heights off the Pacific Northwest coast may pose a greater threat than rising sea levelsArmand Thibault looked out over the Pacific's rumbling winter waves from his balcony in Neskowin, Ore. "The predicted high tide today is a 10.1 [feet]," he relayed via YouTube...
CLIMATE CHANGE: Small Islands Await Haitian-Type Disaster
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 19, 2010 (IPS) - The devastation caused by the earthquake in Haiti last week has brought into sharp focus the threat of another natural disaster waiting to happen: a sea-level rise that could obliterate the world's small island states, triggering fears of mass migration.But contrary to initial...
Global warming could lead to rise in powerful hurricane.
London, January 22 (ANI): A new study has determined that the number of major Atlantic hurricanes per year may almost double by the end of the century in response to global warming.In 2008, a group led by Thomas Knutson of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Geophysical Fluid Dynamics...
Climate Wizard Makes Large Databases of Climate Information Visual, Accessible
(Dec. 29, 2009) — A Web tool that generates color maps of projected temperature and precipitation changes using 16 of the world's most prominent climate-change models is being used to consider such things as habitat shifts that will affect endangered species, places around the world where crops could be at...
The Known Universe: A perspective from which to reflect on climate change
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Copenhagen agreement fails UN processes and the planet
Climate Shame: Saturday Dec 19th, 2009 - Climate negotiations in Copenhagen ended with a whimper and some chaos in the final plenary. About 115 national leaders attended the Copenhagen climate talks but the final 'agreement' announced by the US, India, China and South Africa, was drafted...
the Air Vent
Detectives question climate change scientist over email leaks An article about the emails at the guardian where some guy Patrick Condon is featured. I received a surprise call at home from a reporter David Leigh asking for Patrick this weekend, and was told my info was easy to find. ...
Ok, so I’ve just realized something. There are smart people here who take issue with the fact that CO2 captures/retards/slows down, heat flow. Now of course there are nuances, but at Climate Audit Steve doesn’t like the discussion b/c we’ve all heard it before. I mean that’s...
I don’t know any other way to react to this. The IPCC released this statement which is covered at WUWT. As you all know, I have an attitude problem with bovine scatology. Below is the IPCC statement, below that is my translation for the layman. Recent media...
Michael Mann’s PNAS investigation turned out as expected. Steve McIntyre has a short post on it. Click the link below. I’ll hold my own, far less reasonable comments, for later. —————————- The Mann Report -by Steve McIntyre Feb 3, 2010 – 3:26 PM Is here. I’ll comment later. 4 p.m. A couple of quick...
The Power Behind Hurricanes and Tornadoes
For a long time I’ve wanted to do a post on some work by Dr. Anastassia Makarieva who has in my opinion explained the driving mechanisms behind hurricanes and tornadoes. Now I’m not an expert, but as an aeronautical engineer the equations were familiar so the paper read easily....
UEA Files Were on a Single Server
Since these files first came out, there has been a lot of speculation as to the source of them. Today we learn that, in fact, my Id may have guessed correctly as to the nature of the breach. David Leigh of the Guardian broke the story using an oddly rare...
RealClimate
Solomon et al, Science express, stratospheric water vapour...
The IPCC is not infallible (shock!)
Like all human endeavours, the IPCC is not perfect. Despite the enormous efforts devoted to producing its reports with the multiple levels of peer review, some errors will sneak through. Most of these will be minor and inconsequential, but sometimes they might be more substantive. As many people are aware...
2009 temperatures by Jim Hansen
Jim Hansen, 2009 temperature summary, GISTEMP, HadCRUT, Arctic Oscillation, El Niño, global warming, and the difference between weather and climate...
Plass and the Surface Budget Fallacy
RealClimate is run by a rather loosely organized volunteer consortium of people with day jobs that in and of themselves can be quite consuming of attention. And so it came to pass that the first I learned about Gavin’s interest in the work of Plass was — by reading...
L&C, GRL, comments on peer review and peer-reviewed comments
Lindzen and Choi (2009), GRL, peer review...
First published response to Lindzen and Choi
Lindzen and Choi, Trenberth, Fasullo, O'Dell and Wong, climate sensitivity and how the scientific literature deals with anomalies....
Climate Skeptic
Climate Quotes is keeping up a list of questionable or outright odd citations in the IPCC AR4 and AR3 Many are barely more than press releases from influence groups....
What Do The World’s 25 Dirtiest Cities Have In Common?
They are all poor. Think on that, environmentalists, when you argue that limiting CO2 emissions should trump economic growth....
Thought I would share a couple of bits of an email I got today. The email showed a distinct lack of familiarity with the nuances of my climate position, so my guess is this may be a form letter. I find it interesting a 17-year-old knows the term “NGO” but...
The Guardian has an amazing series of articles about the Jones 1990 urbanization study that has been quoted by all subsequent IPCC reports as authoritative that urbanization has negligible effect on the historic temperature record. It is pretty clear that while denying the FOI requests and calling skeptics lazy and...
Feedback Assumptions Finally Being Challenged
When asked what one thing I would want to tell laymen about catastrophic man-made global warming theory, it is the following: That this theory is in fact a two-part theory. Greenhouse gas theory alone only gives us incremental warming and no catastrophe. It is a second theory that Earth’s climate...
My Eighth Grade Son Did Better Science
I cannot believe that we skeptics have caught grief from these folks for years for our science not being sufficiently peer-reviewed. But forget about peer-review for a moment (I think it is overrated anyway) — At least the analyses we skeptic have been doing have some kind of rigor, rather...
Watts Up With That?
Israeli study shows variable sea level in past 2500 years
From the University of Haifa via Eurekalert The sea level has been rising and falling over the last 2,500 years IMAGE: Rising and falling sea levels over relatively short periods do not indicate long-term trends. An assessment of hundreds and thousands of years shows that what seems an irregular phenomenon today… Click...
Ummm Charles, about that train thingy you arrived on…
From the UK Express PRINCE CHARLES ON CLIMATE CHANGE: GLOBAL WARMING SCEPTICS ARE ALL LIARS Charles, who has campaigned on global warming for more than 20 years, said: “I have watched with growing dismay and alarm the glee with which the sceptics have leapt upon the recent news stories...
Major snowstorm headed for eastern US
This national radar mosaic shows huge amounts of gathering moisture ready to collide with frigid air. The storm gets the label “Nor’easter“. Forecasters all over are watching this storm with concern. From Accuweather.com a forecast for the mid-Atlantic suggests Washington DC might get dumped on big time: “Accumulations have the potential to reach...
UAH global temperature posts warmest January
January 2010 UAH Global Temperature Update +0.72 Deg. C by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. UPDATE (4:00 p.m. Jan. 4): I’ve determined that the warm January 2010 anomaly IS consistent with AMSR-E sea surface temperatures from NASA’s Aqua satellite…I will post details later tonight or in the a.m. –...
WSJ op ed – IPCC “Omitted: The bright side of Global Warming”
While the consensus warns of gloom and doom, the WSJ points out that warming has its positive aspects as well. For example, Trees seem to be responding well to increased CO2. See: Forests in the Eastern United States are growing faster than they have in the past 225 years The...
Telegraph: India to ‘pull out of IPCC’
Looks like Pachy is having a crisis of confidence in his home country. Is anyone surprised? Excerpts from the Telegraph: India has threatened to pull out of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and set up its on climate change body because it “cannot rely” on the group headed by...
G2 Weather Intelligence
Monster Trees? Study Finds a Tree Growth Spurt
From today's NY Times. More CO2 means monster trees ... Forests in the eastern United States appear to be growing faster in response to rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, a new study has found. The study centered... ...
Interesting turn of events related to one of the core arguments related to the veracity of the climate change case -- garbage in, garbage out. The skeptics premise: bad temperature data resulting from poorly sited equipment has contaminated the historical... ...
Climate Change and the SEC (and Wall Street)
The SEC voted this week to compel public companies to warn investors about possible risks posed by climate change. This is a significant regulatory event that will result in all publicly traded companies taking a hard and measured look at... ...
Caught this video in a recent blog post by Andrew Revkin. Classic Monty Python and a familiar reflection of the nature of the loud and very public (cable TV, blogs, etc.) arguments we are all subject to today. Enjoy ... ...
Where is it colder: Embarrass or International Falls? The battle for bragging rights. ...
'How Bad For The Environment Can Throwing Away One Plastic Bottle Be?' 30 Million People Wonder
WASHINGTON—Wishing to dispose of the empty plastic container, and failing to spot a recycling bin nearby, an estimated 30 million Americans asked themselves Monday how bad throwing away a single bottle of water could really be. Read it here via... ...
Climate Feedback - Blog Posts
Indian Prime Minister backs IPCC
Quirin Schiermeier Indian Premier Manmohan Singh has backed the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and its chairman, Rajendra Pachauri, who has come under fire for his dealing with a recently discovered error and a number of other alleged inaccuracies in the last IPCC report. The IPCC had...
Cross-posted from Mark Peplow on The Great Beyond “Sanjay put his arms around her and kissed her, first with quick caresses and then the kisses becoming longer and more passionate.” UN climate change supreme Rajendra Pachauri gets physical in a line from his novel, Return to Almora, published last month. The Telegraph...
Olive Heffernan The latest issue of Nature Reports Climate Change, online today, takes a look at what is next for climate policy post-Copenhagen. I put together a round-up of responses from several experts on what they consider to be the most important milestones on the road from Copenhagen. I was...
Olive Heffernan Today on Nature.com, my colleague Quirin Schiermeier reports on the allegations that have, of late, been plaguing the UN body that assesses the science of climate change. Aside from Glaciergate and other claims of inaccuracy in reporting the science, now Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
Olive Heffernan The past two months have been an unnerving time for the international climate community. Once seen as one of the most esteemed scientific organizations in the world, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has, of late, suffered some serious blows to its reputation. The first of these — dubbed 'Climategate'...
Bin Laden says ‘climate change is real’
The world’s most wanted terrorist has blamed the west for not doing enough to fight climate change. In an audio tape Al Jazeera says it has obtained from Osama bin Laden, the Al-Qaeda leader says climate change is real, and calls it the result of economic globalization. "This is a message...
Global Warming
Penn State Climate Scientist Cleared of Most Serious Charges
Just saw this breaking story from Penn State University.......... An academic board of inquiry from the Pennsylvania State University has largely cleared Climate scientist Michael Mann of science misconduct, but a second panel will decide if his behavior undermined public......
Did Sudden Drop in Water Vapor Slow the Rate of Warming?
New research from NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory in Colorado indicates that there was a sudden, unexplained drop in the amount of high atmospheric water vapor almost a decade ago (late 2000 and early 2001). Water vapor is a powerful,......
Were Problems with Key Chinese Temperature Data Previously Hidden?
It's back to climategate and Phil Jones once again........... The UK's Guardian has supposedly uncovered evidence that a series of measurements from Chinese weather stations were seriously flawed (from a 1990 study) and that documents relating to them could not......
Positive Warming Feedback Exists, but Not as Severe as Earlier Estimates
A new study from the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, whose data is based on natural swings in temperatures from 1050-1800, indicated that a rise of one degree Celsius (1.6 degree Fahrenheit) would increase carbon dioxide concentrations by about 7.7......
NASA Directed Toward Climate Change, But Not the Moon
Since there will be no money for NASA's Constellation program that was supposed to return humans to the moon by 2020, the White House will instead direct NASA to concentrate on Earth-science projects -- principally, researching and monitoring climate......
Estimates of CO2 Release from U.S. Forest Fires Grossly Overestimated
According to Oregon State University (OSU) researchers there are some serious misconceptions about how much of a forest actually burns during fires, a great range of variability, and much less carbon released than previously suggested. Some past analyses of carbon......
The Blackboard
Police Question Paul Dennis of CRU
An interesting Guardian UK story starts: A scientist at the University of East Anglia has been questioned by detectives investigating how controversial emails were leaked from the campus’s climate research unit. Norfolk police have interviewed and taken a formal statement from Paul Dennis, 54, another climate researcher who heads an adjacent laboratory. Dennis...
UAH & RSS: January was a scorcher!
Roy Spencer posted the UAH January Anomaly for the lower troposphere: +0.72 Deg! Chicago was cold, but the globe was hot, hot, hot! The graph above shows the temperature anomalies in the satellite records for both RSS and UAH, I’ve highlighted all January readings with...
The Enquiry into Mann’s alleged misconduct moves forward.
Penn States inquiry into possible misconduct by Mann moves forward. They considered 4 possible charges, and find one warrants further investigation. From Penn state In looking at four possible allegations of research misconduct, the committee determined that further investigation is warranted for one of those allegations. The recommended investigation will...
How TO Respond to an Invitation to Debate.
The past two posts have discussed Tobis’s poor response to Simac’s post at Pajamas Media and shown the invitation to the debate itself. My major point is that, given Michael Tobis’s claimed goals, his post went beyond “ill-advised”. It may have been the worst possible response to Simac’s...
The Debate Invitation: Politely worded.
It turns out the invitation to the debate discussed in How NOT to respond to skeptics was previously posted on Michael Tobis’s google groups. The planet 3.0 thread dated Jan 5, 2010 is here. The invitation appears to have been polite, >>> “Kim Simac” 1/3/2010 7:01 PM >>> Hello Mr. Huertas, We...
How NOT to respond to skeptics.
Every blogger has a role in how to explain science; this week Michael Tobis embraces the role of the bad example. Take a look at his response to Kimberly Jo Simac who invited climate activists and climate skeptics to a public debate on climate change. ...
ScienceDaily: Earth & Climate News
Commercial fishing endangers dolphin populations, new study finds
Extensive commercial fishing endangers dolphin populations in the Mediterranean, according to a new study by researchers in Israel....
Engineers aim to make air travel greener
Carbon emissions from air travel could be reduced, thanks to a new collaboration between engineers in the UK and the aerospace industry. The million project will investigate new ways of using composite materials for wing panels in aircraft. The research will be using carbon fibres that are curved within flat...
New material absorbs, conserves oil
Researchers make new material to clean up oil spills in factories or on the ocean, and conserve the oil....
Oceans reveal further impacts of climate change
The increasing acidity of the world's oceans -- and that acidity's growing threat to marine species -- are definitive proof that the atmospheric carbon dioxide that is causing climate change is also negatively affecting the marine environment....
Dinosaur had vibrant colors, microscopic fossil clues reveal
Deciphering microscopic clues hidden within fossils, scientists have uncovered the vibrant colors that adorned a feathered dinosaur extinct for 150 million years....
Seabed biodiversity of the Straits of Magellan and Drake Passage
A study of animals visible to the naked eye and living in and on the seabed -- the "macrobenthos" -- of the Straits of Magellan and Drake Passage will help scientists understand the biodiversity, biogeography and ecology of the Magellanic region....
Climate Audit
Ralph Cicerone, President of the US National Academy of Sciences, has weighed in on the CRU and data sharing controversies – he’s now in favor of data sharing. While it’s nice that he’s seen the light, he has previously (in best Sir Humphrey style) manipulated the NAS panel terms of...
Is here. I’ll comment later. See RA-10 here and RA-47 here 4 p.m. A couple of quick points. Readers should understand that I have limited expectations from this sort of inquiry. What I do expect is that the authors not make untrue statements that can be easily disproven....
IPCC AR4 reported: The Netherlands is an example of a country highly susceptible to both sea-level rise and river flooding because 55% of its territory is below sea level where 60% of its population lives and 65% of its Gross National Product (GNP) is produced. Dutch newspaper Vrij Nederland reported today...
The Hockey Stick and the Milankovitch Theory
The 20th century warming counters a millennial-scale cooling trend which is consistent with long-term astronomical forcing. MBH99 According to the UMass researchers, the 1,000-year reconstruction reveals that temperatures dropped an average of 0.02 degrees Celsius per century prior to the 20th century. This trend is consistent with the “astronomical theory” of climate...
IPCC and the Antarctic Boot Cleaning Manual
Anthony and Jeff Id have both covered climatequotes observation that IPCC WG2 (section 15.7.2 Economic activity and sustainability in the Antarctic) cited a guide for cleaning boots: IAATO, 2005: Update on boot and clothing decontamination guidelines and the introduction and detection of diseases in Antarctic wildlife: IAATO’s perspective. Paper...
The Penn State Collegian once again is first on a story, breaking the news that the Penn State Inquiry has finished its inquiry and that results will be available later this week. They report: Penn State President Graham Spanier addressed the inquiry and the panel’s work during the Board...
springcoppice
The photograph on the left is currently doing the rounds as an email forward, under the subject line "Hundreds gather to protest global warming." There's a laugh there, no doubt about it, and it comes from the disparity between the anticipation established by the subject line, and the presence of...
Taking the Long View (in a Short Time)
Today's BBC Radio 4 "Thought for the Day" was COP15-focused, as these fascinating negotiations draw to a close. Abdal Hakim Murad's topic was, states the BBC's website, the claim that "Humility is needed to heal the environment." The scope of his short piece was of course considerably wider than that...
Climate Change Is, Like, Such A Big Deal
Overheard recently on the bus: “And I was like, I like you so, like, I want to know whether you, like, like me too.” The constant use of “like” has become a cliché of “youth speak,” a kind of white noise getting in the way of clear and concise communication....
A major new exhibition at the Royal Geographical Society’s Kensington headquarters seeks to shed light on those who made vital contributions to the expeditions of the past, but whose names have been overshadowed by the glorification of lead explorers. The AHRC-funded “Hidden Histories of Exploration,” curated by Felix Driver and...
An interesting talk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for the TED series is available here, on the topic of "The Dangers of the Single Story" (hat tip: Dusty Araujo). It's a simple premise: that the mono-vocal becomes the offensive, oppressive or downright dangerous, and Adichie carefully constructs her talk from a...
Sad news today: “The internet is killing storytelling.” Recently there’s been much debate about the role of storytelling in helping us understand, and take steps towards managing / mitigating, the human contribution to our changing climate. Robert Butler, Alette Willis and Robert Macfarlane (following Bill McKibben) have all thought through...
Climate Change Views
The Expedient Fallacies of Denialists
" ... Thousands of peer-reviewed scientific papers support that conclusion. These papers are by qualified climate scientists, which I am not. No citation here of scientific data will persuade a single individual determined not to be persuaded. So instead, I pose a different question: how credible is the denialists' rejection...
Melting Arctic Could Cost $2.4 Trillion by ...
It's not only a big number but a huge story on on just about every newswire. What you ask? That "Arctic melt could cost trillions". Find below the source ... The Pew Environment Group today released a report that for the first time quantifies the global cost of the Arctic’s...
Protecting People and the Planet - Climate Change and Human Rights
We draw your attention to a University of California Berkeley Law School entitled Protecting People and the Planet: A Proposal to Address the Human Rights Impacts of Climate Change Policy (PDF 1.88MB). The Report recommends that the cop mandate the UNFCC to:Institute a new process with particular attention to the...
Coalition Direct Action Plan - ACTU says Abbott has it wrong
ACTU argues that the Coalitions policy reflects Abbott's past view that Climate Change is "crap". The federal opposition’s response to climate change fails to grasp the enormous challenge of moving Australia onto a cleaner energy footing, and ignores the economic and environmental risk of doing too little too late.“Mr Abbott...
The Collapse of the Global Warming Grand Narrative
The views of Emeritus Professor Philip Stott, Professor emeritus of biogeography at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. At one of his old blogs he once wrote: "...'Global warming’ has become the grand political narrative of the age, replacing Marxism as a dominant force for controlling...
Emissions Reduction Fund - A brief Economic view
Views from a multi-authored economics blog from within the University of Melbourne The Coalition have announced their climate change policy. It certainly isn’t cap and trade. The question is: what is it?The main part is an Emissions Reduction Fund. It appears that this is a fix pot of money that...
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