The largest iceberg break-up ever filmed
I find it hard to fully comprehend the scale of it
Dan Moutal
Quote of the day
We all know what to do, we just don’t know how to get re-elected after we’ve done it. –Jean-Claude Juncker Talking about financial reforms, but the exact same situation applies…
TEDx on spotting pseudoscience
TEDx has recently been used as a platform for pseudoscience, and in response they have published an open letter full of good advice on how non experts can spot pseudoscience.
How many gigatons of CO2?
Check out the Guardian Data Blog for the whole infographic
The consensus visualized
Any questions? via James Lawrence Powell
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…
Everything that is wrong with Instagram in one horrible video
… and this doesn’t even include the Twitter cards issue. CollegeHumor’s Favorite Funny Videos
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
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…
The world is neither black nor white
I am tired of the fact that the vast majority of the opinionated reporting on the situation in Gaza portrays it as a simple good vs evil fight, with the…
Rocket Science
via XKCD (of course)
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…
Hurricane Sandy and Climate Change
via Planet3.0
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…
The saga of Epsilon and Zeta
Check out XKCD for the whole story.
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…