Thinking beyond pipelines: A rebuttal
My latest post on the Keystone XL pipeline was, unsurprisingly, not well received by some of the Planet3.0. I argued that I don’t think the fighting the Keystone XL pipeline…
Dan Moutal
Thinking beyond pipelines
The Keystone XL pipeline proposal, which would transport diluted bitumen from the Alberta tar sands to refineries on the gulf of Mexico coast, is in the news again because of…
Canadian Environmental regulations are falling behind
Scott Vaughan, Canada’s departing Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, released his final report. In it he describes how the development of Canada’s natural resources is running dangerously ahead…
Jon Foley on why environmentalists disagree with each other
I think a lot of debates we see in the environmental community boil down to people having different “theories of change”. A theory of change is simply that: a theory…
Confused?
via XKCD
Obama on Climate
Having the leader of the free world state so clearly that we must respond to the threat of climate change is absolutely a good thing. Having him state that the…
Aaron Swartz, 1986-2013
Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. I think a lot of what people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity -Aaron Swartz, 1986-2013 The past weekend open-access advocate and…
The colour of hot or inadequate heatmaps
The recent Australasian heatwave has been so unprecedented that the Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology has had to add a new colour (purple) to represent the hottest region:
Calamari!!!
The first ever video of a Giant Squid in its deep-ocean habitat.
Richard Alley: Ice sheets and sea level in a warming world
(h/t Peter Sinclair)
Santa’s regret
via Skeptical Science
Bah Humbug!
Physicists who want to protect traditional Christmas realize that the only way to keep from changing Christmas is not to observe it. (via xkcd) That is all.
The relativity of wrong
A recent comment on Planet3.0 gave me an excuse to post a link to Isaac Asimov’s excellent essay on the Relativity of wrong, and I realized that I had never…
The web we lost: XKCD edition
XKCD sums up the problem perfectly: I’m gonna call the cops and get Chad arrested for theft, then move all my stuff to the house across the street. Hopefully the…
Ready for the end
Frankly I don’t understand what all the fuss is about
The web we lost
I might sound old when I start rambling about the way things used to be, but Anil Dash’s post about how the web used to be before the rise of…
About that IPCC cosmic rays game changer…
… or nothing to see here. Move along folks. All of this cosmic nonsense was pre-debunked by Richard Alley in his great AGU talk from 2009 titled: The Biggest Control…