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The consensus over global warming, which is as strong as ever among scientists, now appears unstable in the eyes of the public.
–London Times
If the conservative leaning London Times says so, then it must be true. But joking aside, as George Monbiot has bemoaned, people are not scientists and their opinions on climate change are generally [...]
Poor George Monbiot. Is screaming at a wall finally taking its toll?
In a entitled ‘The trouble with trusting complex science’ in Monday’s Guardian, Monbiot bemoans the illogical and tribalist political opinions associated with the climate debate. He aptly uses the words of science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke:
‘Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.’
Yet [...]
Here’s something good that came out of COP15: The Stupid Show
I could spend hours watching these snippets and interviews from Franny Armstrong and company. They are both alternately and simultaneously interesting, depressing, amusing and sometimes even inspiring.
Armstrong is the filmmaker responsible for the eco-documentary The Age of Stupid. During the climate change conference in Copenhagen [...]
A census on marine life in the Antarctic called The British Antarctic Survey seeks to shed some light on how the wide variety of animals that live on the Antarctic sea floor might react to climate change.
According to the survey, which began in 2005, ‘the Polar Regions are amongst the fastest warming places on Earth’. [...]
On Friday the annual meeting of UN climate chiefs took place in Bali, Indonesia. Officials from over 130 countries met with the principal aim of establishing trust between China and developing countries on the one hand; and rich countries – especially the United States – on the other.
Despite the call for harmony, Chinese foreign ministry [...]
Economic recession, ‘Climategate’ and other ensuing scandals may have shaken both the public’s faith in – and concern about – the realities of man made climate change. Yet a fickle media or confused citizenry have not been enough for most political establishments to break from some kind of platform that takes climate change and other [...]
‘I have turned down Johnny Depp this week and that is not something I ever expected to do’, jokes writer and sixth form teacher Saci Lloyd in an article from the January 17th edition of The Observer.
A former musician, cartoonist, script-editor and advertiser, Saci Lloyd is the author of two books taking the teenage world [...]
In news relating to today’s previous article on the report by UK government backed initiative Forest Footprint Disclosure, the WWF and the Food Climate Research Network have released a similar study. But while Forest Footprint Disclosure covers how global businesses are driving deforestation from the rainforest floor to the cash register, the WWF and FCRN [...]
Physicist and climate historian Dr. Spencer Weart offers a historical and cultural perspective on the current debate about climate science – specifically, how it might be viewed by the historians of the future. As a history graduate and lover of futurism, this imagined perspective naturally piqued my interest.
What stand out in Weart’s social history of [...]
It seems to be the logic of some right wing ‘journalists’ and uninformed people that the amount of snow falling in certain places lately – though noticeably not at the site of the 2010 Winter Olympics – somehow debunks the science of global warming or climate change. What’s being referred to as ’snowpocalypse’ – I [...]
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