This is what happens when your eyes are larger than your stomach Now what?
Biting off more than you can chew
Quote of the day
A market system that fails to price the full cost of carbon is socialism -Dan Moutal
Burden of proof
David Mitchell does it again: More Mitchell goodness here and here
David Mitchell explains the power of a carbon tax in less than 5 minutes
David Mitchell explains the power of a carbon tax in less than 5 minutes using… furniture as an example? Yes furniture! Just watch it. And if you liked that, then you will love this.
Sanity is overrated
I seriously wonder about my sanity when I get songs like this stuck in my head
Cosmic clouds?
The connection between cosmic rays and clouds has always been tenuous. The connection between cosmic rays and climate even more so. But that hasn’t stopped the cosmic ray driven climate (and therefor not caused by GHG emissions) theory from getting more attention than it deserves. From every single study that doesn’t outright disprove the notion... Continue Reading →
The worlds most exonerated climate scientist
Here we go again! Time after time the claims made by deniers about the conduct of climate scientists (in this case Michael Mann) fail to live up to the hype. This time it is the National Science Foundation that found that, like all the previous investigations that resulted from the leaked climategate emails, the scientists involved... Continue Reading →
Calling a spade a spade, using colourful language
By now it is all over the internet, and I am late getting to it. But it is still worth mentioning. Apparently some people are offended by the fact that Al Gore called a spade a spade the bullshit coming from deniers exactly what it is: Bullshit. The model they’re using in that effort was... Continue Reading →
Quote of the day: Real conservatism, part 2
More sense coming from John Huntsman: The minute that the Republican Party becomes the party – the anti-science party, we have a huge problem. We lose a whole lot of people who would otherwise allow us to win the election in 2012. When we take a position that isn’t willing to embrace evolution, when we... Continue Reading →
Quote of the day: Real conservatism
To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy. – Jon Huntsman, 2012 Republican presidential candidate This is what real conservatism looks like. And we need more of it, lots more. (h/t Joe Romm)
In the belly of the beast
Scott Denning is not the type of person who you would expect to give talks at the Heartland Institute’s Climate Change Conference. After all Scott Denning is a well respected climate scientist, a professor in the department of atmospheric science at Colorado state university. While The Heartland institute is a bastion of anti-science denialism, not only denying the... Continue Reading →
How it’s done parts 2 and 3
John Abraham is at it again: part 2 And part 3 And for those who missed part 1 here it is.
This is Not Cool. Heatwave 2011.
Peter Sinclair hits another home run:
Green madness: how the green movement lost its way and alienated the public
Like it or not (I obviously don't) the green movement has failed. It has failed to inspire the public to care about the environment we all depend on, it has failed to make the public understand the gravity and scale of our current environmental problems, and it has failed to get politicians to do anything... Continue Reading →
Raven
At the summit of Dog Mountain
Symphony of Fire
It used to be called the symphony of fire, now it is called the celebration of light which sounds like Christmas to me. Thankfully it is still a bunch of fireworks set off to music.
Public relations tactics might influence the public and politicians, but not reality
We’ve won the public opinion debate, and we’ve won the political debate as well, … But the scientific debate is a source of enormous frustration. -Joe Bast, president and co-founder of the Heartland Institute Both public opinion and political debates are frequently, affected by things other than reality. The scientific debate on the other hand isn’t.... Continue Reading →
A trip to the Reifel Bird Sanctuary
A trip to the Reifel Bird Sanctuary is always a good time... especially when I have my camera with me: I seem to have an unhealthy obsession with Sandhill Cranes Here are the rest of the pics:
Irregular Climate Episode 21: Ironic frozen deniers
This episode: German nukes, safety nukes, underwater nukes and jelly nukes, another pseudo-scandal in a teapot, the true cost of gas, GHG emissions reach record breaking levels and the weather goes berserk while crazy deniers predict an ice age, The disgusting harassment of scientists, Christy Crocks, the Kyoto protocol is finally dead, and a delicious... Continue Reading →
Wind power blows
In The Know: Coal Lobby Warns Wind Farms May Blow Earth Off Orbit In The Know: Coal Lobby Warns Wind Farms May Blow Earth Off Orbit Panelists debate whether the U.S. is doing enough to heed the warnings of coal industry scientists who say turbines could blow the Earth right into the sun.
The true cost of gasoline
Of course the same applies for coal. More-so actually because coal pollutes far more than gasoline. The fact is that thanks to negative externalities the price of fossil fuels is artificially low. And that is the main reason why we use so many, and why clean energy has a hard time catching on. But as... Continue Reading →
“Earth facing mini-ice age!!” say the media. Now for the science….
Potholer54 is at it again: Sceptical Science provides us with a nice graph that explains all of this in detail: And Real Climate sums it up: According to these results, a 21st-century Maunder Minimum would only slightly diminish future warming. Moreover, it would be only a temporary effect since all known grand solar minima have... Continue Reading →
Not so black, bird
Ravens are such beautiful birds, and more colourful than you might think. See more @ Eye of Dan
Restoring the scientific method, Heartland style [UPDATED]
The Heartland Institute is doing for global warming what it did for tobacco: The theme of the conference, Restoring the Scientific Method, acknowledges the fact that claims of scientific certainty and predictions of climate catastrophes are based on post-normal science, which substitutes claims of consensus for the scientific method. This choice has had terrible consequences... Continue Reading →
Get the book: Climate Change Denial
John Cook, a regular contributor to the Irregular Climate podcast and the mastermind behind SkepticalScience.com, along with Haydn Washington an environmental scientific have written the must read book: Climate Change Denial: Head in the sand: The book examines the phenomenon of climate change denial. It looks at the many techniques of literal denial, where ‘skeptics’... Continue Reading →
White Peacock
Taken today at the Vancouver Zoo
Wherein I agree with Marc Morano
We must not tolerate the same pathetic GW Bush strategy of accepting the alleged AGW science but rejecting so-called solutions -Marc Morano I am as surprised as anyone, but I actually agree with the above quote from Marc Morano. Of course not in the way Morano would like. No, he is angry that politicians accept... Continue Reading →
Irregular Climate Episode 20: Dead trees make for good reading
This episode: Extreme weather, Wegman strikes again, conservative science vs liberal science, no science in science class, climategate still nothing to see here, blame Canada, self-debunking deniers tie themselves in knots, renewable energy and a book with John Cook, bad news from the melting arctic, and a bunch of foul-mouthed rapping climate scientists.
How it’s done
How to argue for climate science in a hostile environment: John Abraham, on a right wing radio news program, is polite but manages to get his point across very effectively. Hopefully he will be invited back to discuss the CO2 lags temperature crock that the host brought up right at the end.
Economists are not the enemy
Far too often economists are pitted against environmentalist, when in reality basic economic theory supports strong action on global warming and other environmental issues. The sooner the wider environmental community realizes this the sooner real progress will be made. (h/t Michael Tobis)
Conservatives win majority; Greens elect leader Elizabeth May, the first Green elected anywhere in North America!
I was underwhelmed by all major parties during this election. But this might just be my decent into cynicism. To the Conservatives', who won a majority government, credit, they have done a decent job over the past few years (albeit in a minority government), and as long as you ignore science and the environment (more... Continue Reading →
65 Years
The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.