Monday, September 30, 2013

The oceans, on acid. And bacon.

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The new IPCC report reminds that through the fits and starts of climate warming, we continue to steadily carbonate the ocean. From the Summa...
Thursday, September 26, 2013

The pause in public understanding of climate change

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The Fifth IPCC assessment report on the physical science of climate change will be released tomorrow. It is probably the largest, most compr...
Thursday, September 19, 2013

Did climate scientists make a mistake in predicting the decline of Arctic sea ice?

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Each spring, the ice on the lake near the family cottage meets its demise. As the days lengthen and warm, the ice gets thinner and thinn...
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Monday, September 16, 2013

False claims by contrarians, not scientists, caused Matt Gurney's cynicism about climate change

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On Friday, Matt Gurney in the National Post blasted climate scientists, arguing that "repeated false claims have had the effect of t...
Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Drought was beyond Syria's "capacity as a country"

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Another assessment of the role of drought in the Syrian conflict from long-time foreign policy expert William Polk : The domestic Syrian ...
Monday, September 09, 2013

Flying flags of convenience in climate change debates

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This is an updated post from two years ago: One of the perverse thrills of paddling in Vancouver is cozying up to the massive container sh...
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Tuesday, September 03, 2013

Has climate change played a role in the Syrian conflict?

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The Syrian conflict has become a humanitarian tragedy incomparable to others in recent history. Over 2 million people, 10% of the country,...
Monday, August 19, 2013

Climate change, not a carbon tax, is a war on the poor

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Gas prices in BC, home to N America's only carbon tax ( CP ) An op-ed by Elizabeth Nickson in Friday's Vancouver Sun relied on ...
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Monday, August 12, 2013

Does temperature really cause depression? Correlation vs. Causation in "big data"

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Image by Olimpia Zagnoli, New York Times Back in Mr. Wardle's high school economics class, we were once asked to look for a correlat...
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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...