And that’s if we’re lucky. A study commissioned by 20-governments finds that, unless our leaders reverse course on climate change, it will claim the lives of 100-million people by 2030. And, for those like our own miscreant government, that argue it would be economically unwarranted to move quickly to decarbonize
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Andrew Weaver To Run For B.C. Greens
UVIC climate scientist (and Nobel Peace Price recipient) Andrew Weaver will be running under the GP banner in B.C.’s next provincial election. Imp’s
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Bye Bye Arctic Sea Ice!
From here. The lowest level on record with a couple weeks left in the melt season. More room to drill, I suppose.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Mann Vs. Steyn, Part II
An update on the unfolding defamation suit climate pitting climate scientist Michael Mann against Mark Steyn and The National Review. The NR has offered its response to Mann’s contentions here. It will fight, and not retract nor remove the post in question. Obviously, IANAL, and U.S. defamation laws make it a tough slog
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Denier Comes To T.O., Denies
Susan Crockford tells Sun News that polar bears are doing A-OK. But Susan Crockford gets paid $750 a month from the Heartland Institute to say such things. And she’s been brought to town by, among others, Tom Harris and ICSC. In any case, her thing is dog evolution, not bears. So
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Glacier Collapse In Jasper National Park
Global warming comes to Jasper National Park? The circled area shows the bit that fell off. Turns out this post from yesterday was correct, but named the wrong glacier. From CTV: Parks Canada said a large amount of glacial ice fell from the side of Mt. Edith Cavell and
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Bye Bye Angel Glacier?
Angel Glacier is a glacier in Jasper National Park. As noted in the wikipedia article, like so many Canadian glaciers it was much larger once, but has been melting furiously under the onslaught of global warming. According to this fellow on twitter, a large chunk of it might just have
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: A New Civilization for a New Epoch
Goodbye Holocene, hello Anthropocene. The Holocene epoch of the past 12,000 years is said to be giving way to a new epoch, one in which man will be the key shaper, hence the name “Anthropo – cene.” The most significant feature of the new epoch will be a far harsher
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Medieval Warm Period And Other Sciency Stuff
Potholer has a nice video discussing the reality of the Medieval Warm Period (it probably was) and its significance to the AGW debate (probably not much). Also some nice stuff on the way various deniers have fiddled with graphs and charts in an effort to “break” the hockey stick:Just the
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Consensus is Sound. We Have Much to Do.
The conversion of UC Berkley climate skeptic, Professor Richard Muller, to global warming believer has rocked the denialist community. Muller’s project took three years to prove the IPCC wrong and, instead, proved that the UN panel actually understated both the degree of warming and the role man made emissions played
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Prominent Climate Change Denier Dies.
Alexander Cockburn, RIP. That is all.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Wegmania: The Denouement
The longer version can be found here, but, essentially the serial plagiarism of Ed Wegman and his protege Yasmin Said has begun to catch up with them. They are both off the editorial board at Computatoonal Statistics, and Said seems to be out entirely at George Mason University. Congrats to DC and John Mashey,
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Richard Epstein Off The Heartland Expert List
As regular readers may know, I spent a good part of May 2012 trying to convince that subset of the Heartland Institute expert list who were also legitimate scientists to distances themselves from HI for their disastrous billboard campaign, with some modest success. Well, one of the people I emailed was Richard Epstein,
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Hydroelectric Vs. Tar Sands
We get the following from Prston Manning over the weekend: Preston Manning is calling out “hypocritical” federal NDP Leader Tom Mulcair for “preaching” to Alberta while turning a blind eye to energy problems in Quebec. […] The problem with Mulcair’s position, Manning said, is that the former Quebec minister of
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Yes Men Strike Back
Clever lads. Hope they don’t get sued. Here are some of the people they faked into thinking the vid was real. Here’s the “making of” story
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Gleick Unchained!!!
Peter Gleick, who instigated the series of events that has seen the Heartland Institute–a far right U.S. “think” tank that has shilled for both big-tobacco and big-oil–brought to its knees (with my help, mind you) has been given back his post at The Pacific Institute. BOOYA! The PI sank into intellectual pansydom
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Jan Veizer Didn’t Even Know He Was On Heartland List–Also, He Deplores My Actions
This morning I recieved an email from Jan Veizer, a geologist at the University of Ottawa. He too is on the Heartland Institute expert list:From: REDACTEDTo: bigcitylib@hotmail.comSubject: RE: Jan Veizer And The Heartland InstituteDate: Sat, 2 Jun 2012 14:48:04 +0000I was not aware of this and and do not appreciate
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: A Note On Carbon Emissions
From one of Mike De Souza’s fine pieces on Canada’s GG emissions policy, noting a statement made by Environment Minister Peter Kent in the HOC earlier this month: “This reduction is due to technological innovation and equipment turnover, increased reliability across operations and the avoidance of upgrading emissions by exporting
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: I’m From The Church And I’m Here To Help
A bit snarky, because I get what he means. Anyway, here’s CPoC MP Michael Chong on AGW, from Dennis Gruending’s latest: Chong said that faith groups can play an important role in the climate change debate. “The science has been clarified yet a sizeable number of people disbelieve. They are
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Heartland Loses Another!
Economist Peter Cramton ( a specialist on auction theory and practice) sent me the following email today: Dear Mr. Murphy, I do believe that climate change is one of the key challenges of the day. As such, I have done considerable research in support of effective climate policy (see http://www.cramton.umd.edu/papers/climate/).
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