I thought it a good time to lay down a primer on how to talk with a climate skeptic, especially when they’re trying to swindle you. First, it’s good to know that most skeptic arguments begin with a fact. At best, this fact is taken out of context. At worst, this fact (or data . . . → Read More: Scientist In Residence: Danny Richter on Confronting Climate Change Skeptics
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By Archie Teuthis, on  January 19th, 2011  10 comments  Bringin' It, Conservation & Environment, Environmental Sciences, Scientist!, Weather  carbon dioxide, climate change, denier, fossil fuel, global warming, IPCC, John Tyndall, NASA, Scientist In Residence, skeptic By Dr. M, on December 15th, 2010 Leave a comment Conservation & Environment, Environmental Sciences, Industry & Government, Weather climate, climate change, Danny Richter, diatoms, Op-Ed, Scripps DSN will be featuring some guest posts from Danny Richter – A Ph.D Student at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego studying diatoms stems from an interest in their potential to affect global biogeochemical cycles, and ultimately the climate. He is active in attempting to influence national climate policy by lobbying in California and in DC . . . → Read More: Where’s the Ocean Love?
By RickMac, on November 29th, 2010 4 comments Conferences, Conservation & Environment, Opinion Cancun, climate change, COP16, Enough's Enough, Justin Bieber, kittens, United Nations Beginning this morning and running through December 10th, the 16th edition of the Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP16) will attract political and environmental delegates from around the globe to move on those climate change decisions that were previously made at COP15 in Copenhagen. Hopes are that . . . → Read More: Cop16 Climate Talks Resume In Cancun
By Dr. M, on November 15th, 2010 5 comments Conservation & Environment, Editor's Desk, Industry & Government, Mining, Oil Spills American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, BP, carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, carbon sequestration, clean energy, climate change, conservaton, deforestation, Democrat, emmissions, Endangered Species Act, Environmental Sciences, EPA, George Bush, green jobs, greenhouse emmissions, Joe Biden, National Parks, offshore drilling, Oil Spill, public land, Recovery Through Retrofit, Republican, smart grid, U.N., White House Obama’s Pledge on the Environment “We cannot afford more of the same timid politics when the future of our planet is at stake. Global warming is not a someday problem, it is now. We are already breaking records with the intensity of our storms, the number of forest fires, the periods of drought. By 2050 . . . → Read More: From the Editor’s Desk: Obama and the Environment
By Dr. M, on November 11th, 2010 One comment Bringin' It, Carnivals & Link Love, Conservation & Environment, Industry & Government, Weather climate change, John Boehner, Republican In case you haven’t already read it, head over to Southern Fried Science where WhySharksMatter delivers an elegantly written, sincere, and ultimately balanced letter to John Boehner. Boehner is the soon-to-be Speaker of the House and will be leading the Republican majority on a predicted anti-climate change agenda. As a scientist, however, I am deeply . . . → Read More: An open letter about climate change
By Kevin Zelnio, on November 10th, 2010 7 comments Conservation & Environment, Environmental Sciences, Industry & Government, Weather atmosphere, CH4, Clean Air Act, climate change, Climate Contrarianism, graphs, methane, trends Confronting Climate Contrarianism looks into the claims made climate contrarians and how they (mis)use the scientific literature. —————————————————————– In a textbook example of climate contrarians misusing the primary literature for an anti-scientific agenda, Robinson et al. (2007) are seemingly flippant about decades of research showing how humans have affected the climate since the onset of . . . → Read More: Confronting Climate Contrarianism II: Methane Accumulation in the Atmosphere
By Kevin Zelnio, on November 8th, 2010 5 comments Conservation & Environment, Editor's Desk, Education, Environmental Sciences Best of Zelnio, carbon dioxide, climate change, Climate Contrarianism, CO2, communication, From the Editor's Desk, global warming, Yale Project on Climate Change Communication In 2007, there was a peer-reviewed article published by Arthur Robinson, Noah Robinson, and Willie Soon titles “Environmental Effects of Increased Carbon Dioxide.” Just focusing on the title, what is the first that comes to your mind? Do you think this is an article describing the latest research on how human-generated carbon dioxide emissions . . . → Read More: From the Editor’s Desk: Confronting Climate Contrarianism
By Kevin Zelnio, on November 5th, 2010 Leave a comment Carnivals & Link Love, Conservation & Environment Best of Zelnio, Biocalcification, climate change, CO2, Pteropod, Scientific American I wrote a piece on the plight of our favorite “winged” mollusc, the pteropod, in arctic seas over at Scientific American’s guest blog. [...] To grasp how our input of CO2 feeds back upon polar foods webs we can use the unassuming pteropod mollusk, commonly called the sea angel because of its modified wing-like (ptero-) . . . → Read More: To Catch a Fallen Sea Angel: How a Mighty Mollusc Detects Ocean Acidification
By Dr. M, on October 20th, 2010 Leave a comment Conservation & Environment, Coral bleaching, climate change, Coral, global warming If the impending coral death in the Caribbean didn’t make you nauseous… International marine scientists say that a huge coral death which has struck Southeast Asian and Indian Ocean reefs over recent months has highlighted the urgency of controlling global carbon emissions. Many reefs are dead or dying across the Indian Ocean and into the Coral . . . → Read More: Worst coral death strikes at Southeast Asia
By Dr. M, on October 18th, 2010 One comment Conservation & Environment, Coral, Environmental Sciences, Natural Disaster, Weather climate change, Coral, coral bleaching, global warming, reef, Temperature, warm water And to end you day on a uber-depressing note, sure to give you at least some nightmares Scientists studying Caribbean reefs say that 2010 may be the worst year ever for coral death there. Abnormally warm water since June appears to have dealt a blow to shallow and deep-sea corals that is likely to . . . → Read More: Caribbean Coral Die-Off Could Be Worst Ever
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