Monday, August 05, 2013

Ask Google to stop supporting Senator Inhofe and others who deny and obstruct science

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Last week, a group of us Google Science Communication fellows sent a letter to the Chairman and CEO of the Google, pasted below, expressing ...
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Has global warming continued?

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Enter "Has global warming" into a search engine, and the autocomplete function will suggest the word "stopped". That ...
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Thursday, July 11, 2013

This is what you call extreme weather, Toronto edition

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The thunderstorms in Toronto earlier this week broke that city's seemingly unbreakable one-day rainfall record, set in 1954 by the meteo...
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Monday, July 08, 2013

New videos on Communicating Climate Science

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The videos from the AGU Chapman Conference on Communicating Climate Science are now available . There are several great talks on the histor...
Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Awaiting a Canadian response to Obama's climate speech

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For about a decade, the explanation for a lack of coherent Canadian climate policy was the lack of a coherent American climate policy. How c...
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Some of Rolling Stone's "10 Dumbest Things Ever Said About Global Warming" are not so dumb

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There's no shortage of dumb things said about global warming. Compiling a list of the ten dumbest requires wading though thousands and t...
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Monday, June 10, 2013

Follow the AGU Chapman "Communicating Climate Science" conference online

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This week's Communicating Climate Science: A Historic Look to the Future conference is being web-cast . It is not an empty gesture....
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Tuesday, June 04, 2013

America's big three: corn, soybeans and wheat

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Last night, after a scare from the tough Indiana Pacers, the Miami Heat's "big three" of LeBron, Wade and Bosh advanced to the...
Monday, June 03, 2013

How scientists can talk about public policy

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The latest episode of the Climate Report ( mp3 ), a monthly podcast hosted to Tom Bowman, features a fun interview with yours truly about...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Kiribati's battle against sea-level rise: the perception and the reality

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Last year, I published an article (Donner, 2012) reflecting on years of field work in Kiribati: Tarawa, the most easily accessible atoll ...
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Thursday, May 09, 2013

The letter to Minister Oliver from climate scientists and energy experts (en francais)

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Yesterday, Mark Jaccard posted a copy of the letter recently sent by 12 Canadian climate scientists and energy experts to Natural Resou...
Tuesday, May 07, 2013

Talking about climate change in a hot and cold world

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There's been a small burst of skepticism about the science of climate change in the media in the past few months, as if arguments usuall...
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Engaging the public without disengaging from science

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Today, COMPASS published a commentary in PLOS Biology on the journey from science outreach to meaningful engagement. This post is part of...
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Thursday, April 25, 2013

Who is right about the oil sands: James Hansen, Joe Oliver or none of the above?

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Years ago, when I was on the editorial board at the Silhouette , McMaster University's campus weekly, we received lots of letters to ed...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

How not to report about climate science

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Exhibit C: Early 21st Century Science Reporting Reminder: Please do not lean against the glass. April 7, 2013 (Reuters) - Climate chan...
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Monday, April 08, 2013

Can climate science live up to expectations?

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There's a huge demand for local and regional climate projections. Policy-makers, planners and everyday people all over the world are loo...
Thursday, April 04, 2013

The Vancouver Accord: Reaching international agreement on climate policy, in class

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The students in Geography 312 (Climate Change: Science and Society) just completed a mock UN climate summit. Like the real UN Framework Co...
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