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Charlie Martin is looking through some of James Hansen’s emails and found this: [For] example, we extrapolate station measurements as much as 1200 km. This allows us to include results for the full Arctic. In 2005 this turned out to be important, as the Arctic had a large positive temperature anomaly....
I was reading this post from Climate Quotes, wherein they demonstrate how the IPCC made a claim without proof, and when called on it, cast about for a source that turned out not to say any such thing. A lot of focus has been put on gray literature cited by...
Just Your Typical Interview on Scientific Issues..
..typical, at least, if you are a skeptic. Tom Nelson beat me to the punch on an observation I was about to make about this interview with Marc Morano [Check out this selection of questions from alarmist Randy Olson]: RO: Okay, so let’s start with this — do you have doubts about...
Digging into IPCC Working Group 3
Donna Laframboise and Richard Tol have some pretty devastating criticisms of the IPCC working group 3 report....
We Are Open and Honest With Everyone Who Agrees With Us
Phil Jones is now on the record saying that he doesn’t consider it normal scientific practice to share data and results with other scientists who wish to replicate his findings. And, it is pretty clear that Hughs tended to get a big fat pass from all his reviewers of published...
This is a very enjoyable presentation by Richard Lindzen on climate and global warming. Folks who have watched my video won’t find much new, but Lindzen is the horse’s mouth, as it were. Via Maggies Farm Requires RealPlayer, which scared me because for years RealPlayer was among the most annoying of...
Watts Up With That?
Dr. Nicolas Scaffeta has written an extensive summary of the state of climate science today. He’s done some very extensive analysis of the solar contribution that bears examination. Pay particular attention to this graph from page 49: WUWT readers may remember him from some previous papers and comments he’s written that...
Hockey Stick Illusion: “Shut-eyed Denial”
By John A A shout-out for a review of Andrew Montford’s “The Hockey Stick Illusion” by Matt Ridley in Prospect Magazine. Andrew Montford’s The Hockey Stick Illusion is one of the best science books in years. It exposes in delicious detail, datum by datum, how a great scientific...
UK ads banned for overstating climate change
From The Times Ed Miliband’s adverts banned for overstating climate change by Jonathan Leake, Environment Editor TWO government advertisements that use nursery rhymes to warn people of the dangers of climate change have been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for exaggerating the potential harm. The adverts, commissioned by Ed...
IOP fires back over criticism of their submission to Parliament
WUWT reported on Feb 27th of the IOP submission here:Institute of Physics on Climategate IOP issued a no holds barred statement on Climategate to the UK Parliamentary Committee. Some criticism ensued. Now IOP fires back: Concerns raised over Institute of Physics climate submission A statement submitted by the Institute of Physics (IOP) to a...
From an AP story interview, we have a what I’ll call a “Lubchencoism”. “There is a well-orchestrated and fairly successful effort under way to confuse and sometimes cherry-pick information,” Lubchenco said. Heh. Apparently she’s never reviewed how USHCN and GHCN came to have their station lists. But here’s the quote that had me...
Hathaway on the solar conveyor belt and deep solar minimum
From NASA News: Solar ‘Current of Fire’ Speeds Up What in the world is the sun up to now? In today’s issue of Science, NASA solar physicist David Hathaway reports that the top of the sun’s Great Conveyor Belt has been running at record-high speeds for the past five years. “I ...
G2 Weather Intelligence
NBC Nightly News coverage of the latest global weather "weirdness" by ace reporter Michele Kosinski. I'm a big fan of Michele -- who can forget the "moment of zen" below. Makes me laugh every time I see it ... And... ...
Latest dispatch From G2 Weather world headquarters. Note the sound of the crows and assorted song birds even as we begin the third big dig of the winter season -- nice reminder that spring is only 3 weeks away. Can't... ...
Rogue Iceberg to Affect Weather, Kill Penquins
Mertz Glacier going rogue -- targeting penguins. An iceberg the size of Luxembourg broke off from Antarctica after it was hit by another iceberg, reports Reuters. The separation could impact ocean circulation and affect marine life say researchers. The 78-km-long... ...
Blizzard Weather: "I wouldn't go out in this weather to deliver insulin to my grandmother."
The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cIntro - Blizzard Weatherwww.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorVancouverage 2010 ...
Hurry Up and Buy Those Flip-Flops—A Blizzard Is Coming
Interviewed by a bright young CNBC reporter (Krystina Gustafson) on my drive home from the airport last night on yet another rush to get home before the next big snow storm. Excerpt from the story below. Read the whole story... ...
Fox Business News Appearance: Snowstorms and Consumer/Retail Spending
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Climate Feedback - Blog Posts
Extent of ‘carbon outsourcing’ revealed
Posted for Richard Van Noorden from The Great Beyond More than one-fifth of the carbon dioxide produced by China in 2004 was emitted to provide goods and services for non-Chinese consumers, mainly in western Europe, the United States and Japan. The statistic comes from the latest study to look at an alternative...
Cross-posted from Daniel Cressey on The Great Beyond It’s been a busy week for climate change watchers. We had the British parliamentary hearing into climate-gate, the IPCC announced it was reviewing its procedures, American politician James Inhofe waded in with his own report, and then there was the usual plethora...
Olive Heffernan Cleo Paskal must be cursing the publishing gods. Had Paskal , author of Global Warring: How Environmental, Economic, and Political Crises Will Redraw the World Map, finished her book last fall – when 'climate security' was a buzzword in foreign policy circles - she'd have timed it perfectly,...
Olive Heffernan Last November, I took a trip to Exeter to visit the UK Met Office. The purpose of my visit was to meet with Chris Jones, a climate modeller at the Met Office's climate-change branch, the Hadley Centre. Jones is one of a team of scientists who – over...
Met Office calls for improved global temperature record
The UK Met Office has asked the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to create a new state-of-the art dataset of global land surface air temperatures for improved climate diagnostics. Three independent temperature datasets are currently being maintained by the Met Office, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and by the US National...
Alicia Newton Skeptical Science has entered the entered the iPhone app fray with a handy guide to answering common questions about climate change. It's reviewed in the UK Guardian , and also, a bit less enthusiastically, in The Telegraph. The app lists common arguments put forward by those...
Global Warming
Scientist Fires Back at Those who Deny Man-Made Climate Change
I ran across this blog entry from the San Francisco Chronicle that was written by Dr. Peter Gleick, who is the president of the Pacific Institute. According to their website, the Pacific Institute is a nonpartisan research institute that works......
American Attitudes about Global Warming are Shifting
Gallup just released their annual update on the American public's attitude toward the science of global warming. Gallup has been running this particular poll since 1997. To no surprise, the American public is less worried about the threat of global......
Scientists Concerned about latest Methane Releases in Siberia
Along a long-frozen seabed north of Siberia (Russia), large amounts of methane, which is a very powerful greenhouse gas, are bubbling up to the surface. Scientists are not sure if these emissions are new or have been going on for......
Commercial Food Production Impact on Warming Underestimated, says Author
The damaging impact of commercial food production has largely slipped under the radar of global environmental policy, although it is one of the biggest reasons the earth is warming, according to Anna Lappe, author of "Diet for a Hot Planet,"......
Climategate Scientist Testifies to British House Panel
Dr. Phil Jones of the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU), who was at the center of the climategate controversy with the stolen e-mails, testified before a British House of Commons panel on Monday. Critics have alleged that......
February was a Month of Extremes
No doubt, February 2010 will be long remembered for its extreme temperatures across parts of the globe and the snowstorms that pounded the Middle Atlantic region. I probably will not see a pattern set up like this for the rest......
The Blackboard
GISSTemp +0.71C: Slightly higher than January.
GISSTemp released their land/ocean anomalies for February. It’s 0.71C, just edging out January. Rebaselined anomalies and trends since 1980 are shown below, along with with a trend of 0.2C/decade shown for reference: This is a hot start for the year. Factoids about the GISSTemp data: This is the second highest...
RSS, UAH (v5.2) and the new revised UAH (v5.3) February temperature anomalies for the lower troposphere have been posted; anomalies during the observational record are shown below along with the multi-model mean for the surface temperature based on 20th century simulations extended into the 21st century using A1B :...
Not So Spherical Cows: More Toy Problems.
In discussions of the application of the Hansen/Lebedeff gridding method to “toy planet” data, a few people noted that the “toy” data used did not hightlight a known way bias can be introduced into a computed temperature trend as a result of dropping out a whole bunch of stations....
The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect is something of a charged subject on climate science blogs. Depending on who you ask, you might hear that it either accounts for the majority of modern warming or that it doesn’t exist at all. While it is undeniable (and fairly easily shown) that...
GISS Anomalies: More Spherical Cow.
The “toy planet” discussion of the “basic” anomaly method in its most idealized form was such a hit, I’ve decided to discuss how the ‘bias’ method used in section (3) of Hansen and Lebedeff 1987 — the method actually used by GISTemp– might be affected by deal with “the march...
UAH Betting Results: Based on V 5.2
Roy Spencer posted two versions of the UAH temperature of the lower troposphere! According to version 5.3, the temperature of the lower troposphere was 0.63C; according to version 5.2, it was 0.74C. Despite the fact that I my bet of 0.64 would have been closer to correct using the...
ScienceDaily: Earth & Climate News
More maize ethanol may boost greenhouse gas emissions
Mandated increases in the production of maize-derived ethanol will lead to land-use changes that boost carbon dioxide emissions enough to make the fuel a worse environmental option than burning gasoline, according to a new analysis....
Production of chemicals from wood waste made more environmentally-friendly and cheaper
Researchers have discovered that the bacterium Cupriavidus basilensis breaks down harmful by-products which are produced when sugars are released from wood. They also managed to incorporate the degradation process in bacteria which are in common industrial use. This breakthrough does away with the need to resort to costly and environmentally...
New study debunks myths about vulnerability of Amazon rain forests to drought
A new study has concluded that Amazon rain forests were remarkably unaffected in the face of once-in-a-century drought in 2005, neither dying nor thriving, contrary to a previously published report and claims by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change....
Phylogenetic analysis of Mexican cave scorpions suggests adaptation to caves is reversible
A new study of the scorpion family Typhlochactidae, a group of nine dark-adapted species endemic to Mexico, shows that specialized traits are not necessarily an evolutionary dead end. At least three reversals, or a return to generalized morphology, were found in a phylogenetic analysis....
World crude oil production may peak a decade earlier than some predict
In a finding that may speed efforts to conserve oil and intensify the search for alternative fuel sources, scientists in Kuwait predict that world conventional crude oil production will peak in 2014 -- almost a decade earlier than some other predictions....
Three FASTSAT instruments pass tests
The outer layers of Earth's atmosphere hold many secrets yet to be uncovered and three scientific instruments will fly soon on the FASTSAT-HSV01 satellite and seek to uncover them to benefit us here on Earth. Known as MINI-ME, PISA and TTI, these instruments recently passed a series of important final...
Climate Audit
Since the last hurricane related post, some news has occurred on the hurricanes front. Nature Geosciences article by Knutson et al. (2010) discussing the linkages between tropical cyclones and climate change / global warming — as an update to the IPCC AR4 statements Whether the characteristics of tropical cyclones have changed or...
A shout-out for a review of Andrew Montford’s “The Hockey Stick Illusion” by Matt Ridley in Prospect Magazine. Andrew Montford’s The Hockey Stick Illusion is one of the best science books in years. It exposes in delicious detail, datum by datum, how a great scientific mistake of immense political weight was...
As readers doubtless realize, I’ve been a bit inactive on the blog during the past week and will be inactive for a few more days. The Prospectors and Developers Association Convention is a big deal in the world mineral exploration business. I’ll be going to it this week. It’s in...
Phil Jones called out by Swedes on data availability issue
From an emailed PRESS RELEASE on March 5, 2010 Climate scientist delivers false statement in parliament enquiry It has come to our attention, that last Monday (March 1), Dr. Phil Jones, head of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (CRU), in...
Opening Night Reviews in the UK Press
Richard Drake sent in an interesting selection of opening night reviews for the Parliamentary Inquiry from UK parliamentary reporters, most of whom seem to be new to the climate wars and offering a relatively fresh perspective. Here are some excerpts as a teaser – the originals are accessible and recommended. Quentin...
UK Parliamentary Hearings Today
Try here- http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=5979. I got wrongfooted as I couldn’t get the other feeds. Start at 4 pm (11 am Eastern). Andrew Montfod (Bishop Hill) has article at Channel Four here with Channel Four feed apparently starting at 11 am Eastern here BBC feed here. I ...
Climate Sanity
Tree-rings: Proxies for Temperature or CO2?
This step begs the question (in the classical logical sense) about the usefulness of tree-rings as proxies for temperature. Surely tree-ring width is not solely dependent on temperature, is it? What about drought conditions? Usually we think of droughts as coinciding with high temperatures. Would higher temperatures...
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......
The Island of Doubt
One Strawbarb Pi, an entry in the Second Annual Pi Day Contest. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post......
Climatologists who are mad as hell and aren't going to take it anymore
Randy Olson says: There comes a point where the public DOES want to see the science community stand up for themselves. And as if on cue comes the release of another round of once-private emails among members of one section of the National Academies of Sciences alerting us to efforts to do...
I am pleased that activity on the Island of Doubt has increased in recent months. I manage to squeeze in a hour four or five days a week to write about what I think is the most serious public policy challenge of our time, and make what modest contribution...
"Balancing" climate education in South Dakota and elsewhere
Leslie Kaufman in the New York Times presents a disturbing tale of attempts by creationists to up their chances of slipping religion into science classrooms by piggy-backing it onto "balanced" instruction of climatology. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post......
The neverending hurricane-climate story
It's a sore spot for some climate change pseudoskeptics. Any time anyone makes any kind of claim about the effects of a warming planet on tropical storm activity, you can count on a deluge of rejoinders about how shaky the science on the subject really is. Read the rest...
Who are the people in your denial neighborhood?
As regular readers will know, I prefer the term "pseudoskeptic" over "denier" when it comes to those who insist we needn't be worried about climate change. This is because the common denominator among any set of such characters tends to be a misapplication of the scientific method, a failure to...
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
Warming Since 1995 Not Significant: Phil Jones
“PERHAPS the major environmental news of the week was a friendly interview of Phil Jones, the former head of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU), by BBC’s Roger Harabin. After the interview, a question and answer statement, with some corrections, was released by BBC. In the interview Jones stated that although there...
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...
Climate Change: Changing our World
Cut Carbon Output, Save Money, Help Save Planet, Simple Concept!
Obama's Homestar Plan Would Pay for Home Energy Efficiency RetrofitsSAVANNAH, Georgia, March 2, 2010 (ENS) - President Barack Obama today outlined the details of a new "Homestar" program that would help create jobs by encouraging American families to invest in energy saving home improvements. The...
Fears of Undersea Methane Leaks Already Coming True
Though immense amounts of carbon are known to be trapped in the peatlands of Siberia, a larger, often unrecognized carbon reservoir lies hidden just north of that frigid region, says Natalia Shakhova, a biogeochemist at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. The East Siberian Arctic Shelf...
Collision Calves Iceberg from Mertz Glacier Tongue, Antarctica
At 94 kilometers (58 miles) by 39 kilometers (24 miles) in size, the B-09B iceberg is comparable to the state of Rhode Island, which is wider but not quite so long. After lingering near the Mertz Glacier in Eastern Antarctica for several years, the massive iceberg collided with the glacier...
MEDIA ALERT: GATES OF DELUSION Media Distortions And +Real+ Climate ScandalsSince November last year, the public has been bombarded with the story of stolen emails from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, revealing a supposed "scandal" of scientific malpractice, stupidly and lazily named "climategate". Further...
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Sea Caves Reveal Rapid Rise in Ancient Ocean Levels
Sea levels can rise and fall fast, even during an ice age, according to new researchMallorca, February 12, 2010 - Spain's largest island, is not just a desirable place for a Mediterranean vacation; it's also a treasure trove of the geologic record. That's because of coastal caves that precisely record...
the Air Vent
Having the blog on which Climategate was noticed is kind of fun. At my request, my immediate family and friends don’t tell people about it though – haha. It didn’t stop the big-brother British anti-terror cops from finding me. Everyone in the media assumed that the tAV crowd doesn’t believe...
I’m back from the trade shows and fully exhausted. This time I was in St. Louis during a time when Barack Hussein visited. I’m told he discussed health care and there were dueling protests between two distinctly different classes of individual on either side of the street. St. Louis is...
For some of the new crowd here, tAV is considered a banned site (on and off) in China. I was able to get to WUWT but not tAV, then on a different trip, could get to both. It appears our free speech labor friends overseas see all of blogland as...
Improved Offset Temperature Calculation
Roman has been working into the wee hours of the night in order to provide climatology with an improved method for anomaly calculation. As before it uses seasonal information to calculate an optimum offset. It’s exciting to me because it represents one more of the true improvements coming from skeptical...
IPCC Ignored Wildfire Corrections — 3 times
Three times the IPCC was warned that the obviously, blatantly idiotic global warming wildfire claims in the 3000 page AR4 report were actually idiotic. Three times the warnings were ignored. Climatequotes – click the headline below to go to the article. ——— IPCC reviewers pointed out wildfire mistake, ignored by authors In a...
I’ve spent several hours today looking at gridded temperature but didn’t finish again. It was only at a quarter to eleven tonight that something struck me which seemed to need to be said. All my favorite blogs are overrun by new readers ready to slaughter any climate scientists AGW conclusions...
RealClimate
A letter from a reader (reproduced with permission): Dear RealClimate team: I have a background in biology and studied at post-grad level in the area of philosophy of science. For the last few years, I have been working on a book about the logic of argument used in debates between creationists and...
Imagine this. In its latest report, the IPCC has predicted up to 3 meters of sea level rise by the end of this century. But “climate sceptics” websites were quick to reveal a few problems (or “tricks”, as they called it). First, although the temperature scenarios of IPCC project a maximum...
Four new papers discuss the relatiosnhip between solar activity and climate: one by Judith Lean (2010) in WIREs Climate Change, a GRL paper by Calogovic et al. (2010), Kulmala et al. (2010), and an on-line preprint by Feulner and Rahmstorf (2010). They all look at different aspects of how changes...
Institute of Physics, CRU inquiry, transparency...
Methane is like the radical wing of the carbon cycle, in today’s atmosphere a stronger greenhouse gas per molecule than CO2, and an atmospheric concentration that can change more quickly than CO2 can. There has been a lot of press coverage of a new paper in Science this week...
Climate change commitment, Matthews and Weaver, adaptation and mitigation. CO2 emissions and concentrations....
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
Featured Website: NASA Global Climate Change
I have just added this excellent source to the CCV list of, "Websites and Blogs of note". Those looking for a comprehensive climate change portal will be impressed by the NASA Global Climate Change Website.It features a vast array of list of climate news and features in addition to...
Stephan Lewandowsky's latest piece about "Climate Debate"generates interest
If the commentary generated by Stephan Lewandowsky's piece at The ABC's The Drum is any indication, then Climate Change is sure to remain a contentious subject for some time yet. Here is a small sample from the more than 1,000 comments generated. Sinnical: Here we are just about on the...
The Truth about Decarbonisation
Coal burning output today equals 200,000 GWh a year, and in 2030, after over $250 billion in planned expenditure through "charges and compensation", coal generation output will be around 150,000 Gwh ... One of the most effective ways of concealing something is to hide it in plain sight – and...
Update on Politics & Climate Change in America
From the Mother Jones website, political blogger Kevin Jones offers a good insight in terms of Politics & Climate Change in present day America. The chart from Gallup, shows that public recognition of the seriousness of global warming has taken a steep hit over the past two years. This...
Business has little regard for ETS
In news that would trouble the Government, a survey of 5000 Australian companies found they they are not prepared for any changes associated with the introduction of a CPRS. Australian business owners are ignoring the government’s emissions trading scheme, according to research by RMIT University academics.In a national survey, 87.7...
ABC Chair Maurice Newman causing a stir ...
Critics of Maurice Newman's remarks on Wednesday suggest that he should refrained from commenting about Climate Change reporting because, amongst other things, he is not a Climate Scientist. Fair enough, but Tim Flannery is no Climate Scientist either yet the media, including the ABC have never had trouble with that...
Wandering Gaia
She’s about a foot tall, she sleeps a lot and we’ve named her Frida, after Frida K(o)ahlo. It’s incredibly distracting having what is essentially a teddy bear sitting in the gum tree outside the window. I keep having to go outside simply to stare up at her. She is mostly still,...
Perhaps the “pathetic” response of world leaders to the challenge of Copenhagen was what sowed seeds of doubt in people’s minds about the urgency of the climate threat we face. Scientists, politicians, the media, celebrities all got people keyed up about the importance of Copenhagen, so the damp squib meeting...
“We’ve found quite a few diamonds on the beach. We don’t look for them, we just stumble upon them. Sometimes one of the kids will bring one up from the bottom when they’re diving for crayfish. But we never take them. I always tell my kids to put it straight...
Climate change? Bring it on! That’s the message I’ve been hearing from Namibia’s farmers. The rain pattern disturbances that have so devastated East Africa over the past few years have proved an unexpected boon to Namibia’s farmers. This desert state, which in parts gets less than 2 mm of rain...
Namibia is most sparsely populated country in the world (after Mongolia), which is perhaps unsurprising since it consists almost entirely of the world’s largest desert, the Namib, after which the country was named. But, on crossing the border from Botswana, where we drove past the Okovango’s ‘pan-handle’ encountering few people,...
Unlike almost every other river on Earth, the Okavango river does not encounter any sea or ocean on its 1430 kilometre journey from its source in the hills of central Angola to where it spills into a vast wetlands even further inland in northern Botswana. Around 97% of the Okavango...
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