It's not enough to bash in heads, you have to bash in minds
Now with more globe-y-goodness Isn't it pretty? This new fancy 3-ball was created by Ali Lupu. Go check out his other work and while you are over at his place tell him to hurry up and release his amazingly illustrated children's book!
If you put all the water on Earth in one place it would look like this: Yes that is a lot of water, but compared with the rest of the planet it really is a tiny ball via Boing Boing UPDATE: Here is another image which also does the same thing with earth's atmosphere. Again a surprisingly tiny... Continue Reading →
Canada has no real plan to meet its stated 2020 GHG emissions goals, and has no idea how much its hodgepodge of sector specific regulations will cost. In his latest report, Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development Scott Vaughan says Canada would need to reduce emissions by 178 million tonnes over the next eight... Continue Reading →
XKCD is always a great way to cheer up on a Monday morning. Here is just a snip from the latest brilliant comic that is sure to please at least some Planet3.0 readers:
I think Tamino is right: Some have criticized Microsoft for “supporting” the so-called “Heartland Institute.” The basis of this is that Microsoft provides free software because the so-called “Heartland Institute” is, at present, legally classified as a nonprofit organization. There have even been suggestions to pressure Microsoft no longer to allow the so-called “Heartland Institute”... Continue Reading →
By now the news is stale, but on Friday Heartland pulled down the highly offensive billboards comparing the acceptance of mainstream climate science with such despicable people as the Unabomber. They, however, refuse to apologize: We do not apologize for running the ad, and we will continue to experiment with ways to communicate the ‘realist’ message on the... Continue Reading →
This absurd and extreme guilt by association that Heartland is pushing should be countered by making it abundantly just clear how absolutely absurd it really is. And while we are at it why not make people laugh a little. (image via Dan Johnson on Facebook) UPDATE: Let the meme begin: Nine out of 10 psychos agree: Heartland’s bonkers climate billboards need company! UPDATE... Continue Reading →
TransCanada applies for Keystone XL pipeline permit: TransCanada Corp has asked the U.S. government for approval to build the $7.6 billion Keystone XL oil pipeline which has been put on hold due to environmental concerns. Is anyone surprised?
In a press conference, Environment Minister Peter Kent said that the perceptions of scientists being muzzled has been caused by journalists who want to set their own agenda of who they talk to and when. Yes it is simple. If Journalists would just stop asking questions, the government wouldn't have to stop the scientists from... Continue Reading →
Nature News has more
David Appell spots a nice little calculation in the recently published Levitus 2012 paper on ocean heat content: We have estimated an increase of 24 x 1022 J representing a volume mean warming of 0.09°C of the 0-2000 m layer of the World Ocean. If this heat were instantly transferred to the lower 10 km... Continue Reading →
John Nielsen-Gammon takes a look at claims that the mean surface temperature has stopped warming: There aren’t that many full-blown El Niño events, but they seem to be following a steady upward trend. There are more La Niña events, and they too clearly follow a steady upward trend. Finally, the many neutral years also so... Continue Reading →
... Pass climate change legislation. Via Nature news and the BBC.
If people believe that sustainability and economic growth are incompatible then why would their place their bets with economic growth? I asked this on Twitter, Google+ and Facebook, but figured there is a decent chance that the Planet3.0 community will provide a better answer. But just in case I will post any interesting responses I... Continue Reading →
I have never been a fan of earth hour and was contemplating writing an article explaining why I find it is pointless, but Maggie Koerth-Baker saved me the trouble: This Saturday, thousands of people will voluntarily spend an evening without electrictricity. No lights. No television. No computers. They'll eat dinner by candlelight, maybe light up a bonfire in... Continue Reading →
Many in the climate/sustainability world are understandably preoccupied with the notion of collapse. After all, it is reasonably argued that if we do not change the course of our civilization then collapse is inevitable. This is undoubtedly true, as any civilization that is not sustainable must either change and become sustainable or face an ever-increasing... Continue Reading →
The Columbia Journalism Review talks to gasp actual lawyers in an attempt to answer the legal questions surrounding the Gleick/Heartland document leak.
One of the most troubling aspects of the leaked Heartland Institute documents was the revelation that they were planning to create a school curriculum for K-12 students that “that shows that the topic of climate change is controversial and uncertain – two key points that are effective at dissuading teachers from teaching science” indicates that... Continue Reading →
Originally published on Feb 24, 2012 @ 2:44am One of the early claims made accusing Peter Gleick of faking the Heartland memo (before he admitted to being the source of the other documents) had to do with his writing style. Supposedly it matched the writing style of the memo. Anthony Watts even suggested people perform... Continue Reading →
Note: This is just a personal account of my thinking and subject to change upon further reflection. First I need to stress that I have no real journalism training. I never went to journalism school, and my only real experience as a 'journalist' has been blogging for the past 7 years. This means I never... Continue Reading →
This excerpt of a comment by climatehawk1 gets to an important point that usually doesn't get enough attention and deserves to be promoted: If Gleick’s reputation is “in ruins,” what about Heartland’s, inasmuch as they have engaged in very elaborate, systematic, long-running misrepresentation? Scientists are held to an impossibly high standard, while Heartland and others... Continue Reading →
Keith Kloor is claiming that the Gleick/Heartland stolen documents incident is a new low in the climate wars. But is it? Is tricking Heartland into sending some documents really any worse than hacking into a server at CRU and stealing a bunch of emails? I don't think so. Is tricking Heartland into sending some documents... Continue Reading →
Over the weekend Planet3.0 reported that the Heartland Institute was threatening to sue anyone who commented on the leaked documents. Well yesterday they sent letters to Desmogblog, Greg Landen, David Appell and others demanding the retraction of blog posts discussing the leaked documents. Joseph Bast the president of the Heartland Institute has this to say about these... Continue Reading →
The Heartland Institute is obviously not happy about those leaked documents. In fact they are so unhappy that they have threatened to sue anyone who has dared comment on the documents stating in a press release that "The individuals who have commented so far on these documents did not wait for Heartland to confirm or... Continue Reading →
Debunking myths and falsehoods is not always as straight forward as it might seem. Thankfully John Cook and Stephan Lewandowsky have produced a Debunking Handbook that is straight forward.
Here we go again. Just like in 2009, on the eve of a major UN climate conference some hacker or group of hackers released a bunch of emails illegally obtained from a server belonging to the University of East Anglia’s Climatic research unit (CRU), with the hopes of derailing the UN talks, or at least... Continue Reading →
The scope of the science that goes behind a single headline is greater than almost anyone realizes.
The decision to approve the keystone XL pipeline might have been delayed until 2013 (which the cynic in me says is just so that it can then be approved without hurting Obama in the next election), but that doesn’t mean the argument over the tar sands is over. In fact, as James Annan recently pointed... Continue Reading →
Going Down the Up Escalator: Created by dana1981 at Skeptical Science (here and here). Temperature data are noisy, it isn't hard to find a few years where this noise drowns out the slow and steady warming signal. This is expected. Bottom line: this graph makes it abundantly clear that any claims of cooling are wrong.... Continue Reading →
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