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Mad About Science Denial? This Book Is For You and your Uncle Bob!

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Michael Mann has a specialty or two. Climate simulation modeling, analysis of proxy data, the study of global teleconnections, Northern Hemisphere surface temperatures over historic time scales, etc. A while back, Mann’s research interests and activities converged, I assume by some combination of design and chance (as is often the case in Academia) with a … Continue reading Mad About Science Denial? This Book Is For You and your Uncle Bob! →


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The New Andrew Revkin Fan UPDATED

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See below for update. Andrew Revkin has a new kind of fan. These are fans that agree with much of what Revkin says, or at least feel comfortable in his community of commenters. These fans feel their views are substantiated by what they read in Revkin’s New York Times column, Dot Earth. They seem to … Continue reading The New Andrew Revkin Fan UPDATED →


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New Research Demonstrates Link Between Greenhouse Gas Pollution and Global Warming

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New Research on the Effects of CO2 Pollution A paper just published in Nature reports on the direct measurement of the effects of human greenhouse gas pollution on the heating of the Earth’s atmosphere. This is empirical verification of anthropogenic global warming. Since the Industrial Revolution, when humans started polluting the Earth’s atmosphere with copious … Continue reading New Research Demonstrates Link Between Greenhouse Gas Pollution and Global Warming →


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The Serengeti Strategy

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What is the Serengeti Strategy? “The Serengeti Strategy” is a term coined by climate scientist Michael Mann in which “special interests faced with adverse scientific evidence … target individual scientists rather than take on an entire scientific field at once.” His invention of the analogy must have been an interesting moment, given the context. In … Continue reading The Serengeti Strategy →


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Thinking Big About Clean Energy

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I want to put a solar panel on my roof so that I am releasing less greenhouse gas into the environment. But then I hear that manufacturing solar panels causes the release of greenhouse gasses, so I have to subtract that from the good I think I’m doing. But then I realize that the people … Continue reading Thinking Big About Clean Energy →


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Calculating The Carbon Cost Of … well, anything.

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There is currently a twitter argument happening, along with a bit of a blogging swarm, over a chimera of a remark made by John Stossle and Bjorn Lomborg. They made the claim that a million electric cars would have no benefit with resect to Carbon emissions. The crux of the argument is that there is … Continue reading Calculating The Carbon Cost Of … well, anything. →


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Wall Street Journal: Misleading Statistics in Climate Change Editorial

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The Wall Street Journal recently published and editorial by Bjorn Lomborg which uses misleading statistics to justify utterly inappropriate delays in addressing climate change. I would like to direct you to a response to that editorial: In WSJ op-ed, Bjorn Lomborg urges delay with misleading stats


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