It's not enough to bash in heads, you have to bash in minds
Sad day. After 74 years Eastman Kodak has discontinued production of Kodachrome film. While I only used Kodachrome for a brief while (from the time after I started shooting slides to before I discovered Velvia), it was the professional standard for decades. This is the film that the lion’s share of images before the 90s... Continue Reading →
The arctic sea ice is melting fast, currently the area is near that of June 2007, which was the June with the lowest sea ice area on record. Given all of this, we should expect the deniers who were previously claiming that the sea ice had recovered (and by extension that global warming was bunk)... Continue Reading →
Everyone can breath a sigh of relief. The upcoming ice age that was predicted by deniers has been called off. The cause of this ice age was a lack of sunspots and a diminished solar output. But: The sunspot cycle is about to come out of its depression, if a newly discovered mechanism for predicting... Continue Reading →
I photographed this Sandhill Crane today at the Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary Watch out! They are aggressive. I could spend weeks photographing these amazing animals!
In Britain, cops have the power to search you if you take a picture of a "sensitive" area, but they won't tell you which areas are "sensitive," because they're so "sensitive." The British Journal of Photography is trying to use the UK Freedom of Information Act to find out which places in Britain have such... Continue Reading →
India wants per capita emissions because it has a growing population. China wants credit for reducing its population and being the workshop of the world. Australia wants credit for being hot. Russia wants credit for being cold. The US argues it is too rich to cut emissions; the Africans that they are too poor. The... Continue Reading →
The BC NDP were rightfully chastised for irrationally opposing the carbon tax introduced by the BC Liberals, and instead proposing a climate change policy that would be both ineffective at reducing GHG and harmful to the economy. This cost the BC NDP most of the support it traditionally enjoyed form environmentalists, and possibly lost them... Continue Reading →
Humans prefer cockiness to expertise The research, by Don Moore of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, shows that we prefer advice from a confident source, even to the point that we are willing to forgive a poor track record. Moore argues that in competitive situations, this can drive those offering advice to increasingly exaggerate... Continue Reading →
Taken in my backyard The lack of posts here, has been partially due to me (finally!) dropping film and getting my first DSLR. Expect more pictures posted here, and a new site devoted entirely to my photography (hopefully soonish). UPDATE: And here is a different version (made with a Velvia preset in Lightroom):
If your explanation for a scientific consensus is vast conspiracy, rather than the outcome of the scientific method, you're almost certainly engaged in cognitive dissonance rather than rational thinking. -Vikingcoder
Let’s face it the current conservative coalition between libertarians and social conservatives never made any sense. One wants the government out of our lives, the other wants the government to enforce morality. The two are diametrically opposed on far to many issues. Is there a better conservative coalition? Perhaps, and it first reared it’s head... Continue Reading →
I applaud the Governor General for not being a hypocrite, and I denounce much of Europe for being one. I am of course referring to this: "Neanderthal" and "blood lust" were some of the phrases animal-rights campaigners used today to describe Jean's cultural encounter in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, in which the Queen's representative sliced off... Continue Reading →
A given economic growth rate can be sustainable only if the average impact per unit wealth declines at an equal or greater rate. -Michael Tobis
Given that I have highlighted some of the more amusing arguments against the Waxman-Markey Climate Bill (and no, it wont cost American families $3,100 per year) , it is only fair that I state my position. The short answer is best summed up by Paul Krugman in the New York Times: The legislation now on... Continue Reading →
Or why it is so important to read the original reserch: (h/t The Intersection)
Something most cap and trade proponents don’t seem to get: The cap isn’t really a cap at all. While the cap in cap-and-trade is entirely virtual, realized only through pricing or administrative actions like penalties, the concrete image of a placing a physical object like a cap over emissions reassures that there is a limit... Continue Reading →
I was pretty sure we hit rock bottom when Rep. John Boehner (R - OH) claimed that “the idea that carbon dioxide is a carcinogen that is harmful to our environment is almost comical”, but apparently I was wrong. Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) defended his anti-global warming position on C-SPAN by arguing CO2 should not... Continue Reading →
Here we go again! Via RealClimate we have another silly graph from Monckton: This is in response to Andy Revkin’s article in the New York Times on how industry scientists in 1995 concluded that ‘impact of human emissions of greenhouse gases such as CO2 on climate is well established and cannot be denied’ As RealClimate... Continue Reading →
Harper’s Conservative government has had a troubled relationship with science. From demoting, then removing the National Science Adviser, to appointing a creationist science minister, Harper’s Conservatives have never held science in high regard. Now comes word that Harper is appointing two anti-science climate deniers to important federal scientific bodies. The scientific community is justifiably appalled.... Continue Reading →
Yes I know that there were other important issues that British Columbian’s had to consider when going to the polls yesterday, but that isn’t how that rest of the world saw it. To anyone outside of BC who had any interest in global warming policy the election was little more than a referendum on the... Continue Reading →
A new study published in Geophysical Research Letters reinforces what what countless other studies in the past have found: That changes in the sun are not responsible for the global warming in recent decades. Here is the abstract: Although controversial, many observations have suggested that low-level cloud cover correlates with the cosmic ray flux. Because... Continue Reading →
Barry Gardiner a UK Labour MP has written a great article on the importance of conserving biodiversity and our failure to recognize it. Over, the last three months, climate change has had 1,382 mentions in British national newspapers. Yet, during the same period, biodiversity was mentioned just 115 times. We have ignored the circus and... Continue Reading →
Originally posted on April 15, 2009 at 7:35 pm Mark Jaccard has recently released an analysis of the BC NDP’s main policy to deal with global warming concluding that: if BC were to try to reach its aggressive GHG emissions reduction target without emissions pricing for non-industrial emitters, relying instead on industry and government funds... Continue Reading →
Despite having been debunked numerous times, the global cooling myth still lives on, most recently as part of a column by George Will. Hopefully a new paper by David R. Easterling and Michael F. Wehner published in Geophysical Research Letters will finally kill this myth. Of course given the outright dishonesty of deniers, I don’t... Continue Reading →
Deniers have known all along that they were lying. Even industry scientists concluded that: The scientific basis for the Greenhouse Effect and the potential impact of human emissions of greenhouse gases such as CO2 on climate is well established and cannot be denied… The contrarian theories raise interesting questions about our total understanding of climate... Continue Reading →
Forests' role as massive carbon sinks is "at risk of being lost entirely", top forestry scientists have warned. The International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) says forests are under increasing degrees of stress as a result of climate change. Forests could release vast amounts of carbon if temperatures rise 2.5C (4.5F) above pre-industrial levels,... Continue Reading →
This is absolutely insane: A controversial Alberta bill will enshrine into law the rights of parents to pull their children out of classes discussing the topics of evolution and homosexuality. The new rules, which would require schools to notify parents in advance of "subject-matter that deals explicitly with religion, sexuality or sexual orientation," is buried... Continue Reading →
Is this video from a parallel universe or did the Republican Party become anti-capitalist all of a sudden?'
Just in case anyone wasn’t yet convinced that the BC NDP’s opposition to the carbon tax was pure political posturing, it turns out that a couple of years ago the BC NDP was in favour of a carbon tax… at least until it was proposed by the BC Liberals. Prior to the BC Liberal government... Continue Reading →
As if last month’s stupid denier arguments weren't stupid enough, this is what Rep. John Boehner (R - OH) said in regards to the recent EPA endangerment finding: the idea that carbon dioxide is a carcinogen that is harmful to our environment is almost comical. Every time we exhale, we exhale carbon dioxide. Every cow in the world, you... Continue Reading →
It’s official, after years of inaction during the Bush era the EPA has finally responded to the the Supreme Court decision ordering the EPA to determine if GHG pose a threat to human health, and if so to regulate them under the clean air act. In a decision that was two years in the making,... Continue Reading →
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