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Mind of Dan: Successful Predictions
This talk, by Ray Pierrehumbert, is an excellent response to Naomi Oreskes’ observation that: “climate scientists are so busy talking about stuff they don’t understand that they never get around to taking credit for what they got right.“
Continue readingMind of Dan: The History of Climate Change Negotiations in 83 seconds
Or why I don’t expect much progress from the current meeting in Doha
h/t New Anthropocene
Mind of Dan: A lack of interest in Doha
Perhaps you have heard that delegates from around the world have gathered in Doha to discuss what to do about the climate problem. Perhaps you hope that something worthwhile will come out of the negotiation.
While I certainly do hope that something worthwhile is achieved by the delegates at Doha, I can’t seem to garner much interest in the efforts of the United Nations to deal with climate change.
Continue readingMind of Dan: Katharine Hayhoe on the Sandy/Climate connection
Katharine Hayhoe on Twitter (or rather the service TwitLonger since 140 characters is obviously not enough) explaining climate change’s influence on Sandy, and the difficulties in communicating the nuances involved to the press: As a scientist in a field where consensus is constantly challenged, I’m a bit sensitive about being pitted against
Continue readingMind of Dan: A unique visualization of Sandy
The website hint.fm/wind/ (which understandably is currently very slow) has an incredibly interesting visualization of the wind patterns over the entire continental United States. An instantly recognizable feature tonight is Hurricane Sandy.
Continue readingMind of Dan: The saga of Epsilon and Zeta
Check out XKCD for the whole story.
Continue readingMind of Dan: An upside to all of this lack of attention
John Nielsen-Gammon thinks that perhaps it is better that climate change isn’t being given much attention in the 2012 election Maybe it’s a good thing that the major political parties are not engaged in a pitched battle over climate change. Maybe this presents us with an opportunity to remove the
Continue readingMind of Dan: Loss of Arctic Sea Ice … and of a ‘Giant Parasol’
via the YALE forum on CLIMATE CHANGE & THE MEDIA
Continue readingMind of Dan: The demise of balance as bias has been greatly exaggerated
A least that the bastion of liberalism that is PBS News Hour. DeSmogBlog and Climate Progress have more.
Continue readingMind of Dan: Symphony of Science: Our Biggest Challenge
The latest from the awesome Symphony of Science. This is what auto-tune was made for! h/t Peter Sinclar
Continue readingMind of Dan: 4 amnesiac bloggers
Stephan Lewandowsky has identified the 4 remaining bloggers that he asked to post a link to his survey about climate denialism and conspiracy theories (paper here). They are: Dr Roger Pielke Jr (he replied to the initial contact) Mr Marc Morano (of Climatedepot; he replied to the initial contact) Dr
Continue readingMind of Dan: A line by line response to Mitt Romney’s climate response to Science Debate 2012
Bellow is Romney’s response (in the blockquotes, my comments are in normal text) to the Science Debate 2012 question on climate: The Earth’s climate is changing and there is concern about the potentially adverse effects of these changes on life on the planet. What is your position on cap-and-trade, carbon taxes,
Continue readingMind of Dan: Quote of the day
John Nielsen-Gammon’s conclusion after a thorough debunking of Steve Milloy’s junk science: it took five pages to retort six pages of falsehoods. This is the epitome of junk science.
Continue readingMind of Dan: Where have I heard this before?
Take a guess what the conspiracy is: The experimental evidence does not agree with ______, and an elite knows it does not agree, but because its political they cover it up. Every now and again an experimental result might break through claiming a result that disagrees with ________. But what
Continue readingMind of Dan: Short-term needs vs the long-term
President Obama promised to save the branch. My promise to you is that there will be plenty of firewood for you and for your family.h/t Ugo Bardi Romney’s ‘joke’ about how Obama promised to heal the planet, while Romney would promise to help you and your family was quickly and
Continue readingMind of Dan: Quote of the day
Uncertainty regarding global warming appears to be a legitimate basis for postponing action, which is usually identified as ‘costly.’ But this idea is almost unique to climate change. In other areas of public safety, such as terrorism, nuclear proliferation, inflation, or vaccination, an ‘insurance’ principle seems to prevail: if there
Continue readingMind of Dan: Climate Change: Lines of Evidence
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