Here is another scathing critique by Roger Pielke Jr. on misrepresentations of climate change in the media. This time the target is a NYT article by Justin Gillis, and now also an editorial. I have been in Pielke’s class and run the numbers, and his point of the mis-attribution of economic damage for measuring disaster impact is […]
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Cardinal Pell on Climate Change
Here is a speech Cardinal Pell gave last week on Climate Change. This was taken from Crisis Magazine, and can also be found on The Tablet and Catholic Culture. He has also spoken before on the issue. Climate Change, Galileo, and the New Inquisition George Cardinal Pell Four centuries ago Galileo was condemned by the […]
The Shape of the World
There is an interesting article on the Time Atlas and its most recent update. The Atlas has redesigned the shape of Greenland, due to climate change. This is an interesting case of how the idea of climate change shapes our ideas of the world. There is a heated debate ensuing, as the BBC article: The […]
Hurricane Irene and Climate Change
There is plenty of debate about how, if and in which way Hurricane Irene is related at all to climtae change. This plays directly into my Master’s Thesis, where I make the distinction between physical climate change and the idea of climate change. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_id-D6nUXc] Let me use the example of Hurricane Irene, which landed on […]
Tornados and climate change
There have beenmany discussions amongst experts and on the press about the relationship between the high US tornado frequency of 2011 and climate change. Many climate change proponents, Al Gore among them, have attributed the trend to climate change, and there is a constant tendency of attributing disasters to climate change. Others have denied this […]