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Changing Climates, Changing Minds: The Great Stink of London
Originally posted at Skeptical Science Effective action for solving Victorian London’s sewage crisis was put off for decades, due to chaotic governance, concerns about financing, the interference of...
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Eocene Park: our experiment to recreate the atmosphere of an ancient hothouse...
Originally posted at Skeptical Science Fifty million years ago, during the Eocene Epoch , the world had a very different climate, with temperatures much higher than today’s, especially at the poles....
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Subcap Methane Feedbacks. Part 4: Speculations
Originally posted at Skeptical Science Previous articles in this series have reviewed recent research on methane sources from beneath permafrost and ice sheets. Part 1 looked at subcap fossil methane...
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Subcap Methane Feedbacks. Part 3: Methane from beneath the ice
Originally posted at Skeptical Science The previous two parts (one here and two here) of this series examined the evidence for seeps of geological methane through the cap provided by permafrost and...
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Subcap Methane Feedbacks. Part 2: Quantifying fossil methane seepage in...
Originally posted at Skeptical Science The previous article in this series looked at the recent discovery of significant releases of fossil methane through the thawing permafrost in Alaska. In this...
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Subcap Methane Feedbacks, Part 1: Fossil methane seepage in Alaska
Originally published at Skeptical Science. As permafrost thaws, methane is released as the vegetable matter in the soils decomposes. This methane bubbles to the surface in lakes and ponds and...
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Living in Denial in Norway
Originally published at Skeptical Science. Norway is one of the most wealthy countries on Earth, with the very highest levels of human development, it is among the most generous donors of foreign aid...
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Living in Denial in Canada
Originally posted at Skeptical Science. In an earlier article, I reviewed sociologist Kari Norgaard’s book Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions and Everyday Life in which she records the response...
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Keeping the Cork in the Oil Sands Bottle
Originally posted at Planet 3.0 Are the bitumen deposits in NE Alberta the biggest carbon bomb on the planet or will their exploitation have hardly any effect on the climate? Will the Keystone XL (KXL)...
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Under construction
If you stumble upon this blog, please note that it will take me a few weeks to get it fully functional, with all of my posts from elsewhere migrated over. Thanks!
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Terminology: Tar Sands or Oil Sands?
Generally speaking, people who are opposed to the extraction of bitumen in NE Alberta prefer to refer the sands as “tar sands”. The oil companies and the governments of Alberta and Canada prefer “oil...
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Modelling the permafrost carbon feedback
Originally posted at Skeptical Science A recent modelling experiment shows that climate change feedbacks from thawing permafrost are likely to increase global temperatures by one-quarter to a full...
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Big Oil and the Demise of Crude Climate Change Denial
Originally posted at Skeptical Science From 1989 to 2002, several large US companies, including the oil companies Exxon and the US subsidiaries of Shell and BP, sponsored a lobbying organisation called...
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Book review: Rising Sea Levels: An Introduction to Cause and Impact by Hunt...
Originally posted at Skeptical Science “My other piece of advice, Copperfield,” said Mr. Micawber, “you know. Sea-wall height twenty feet, maximum storm surge nineteen feet six inches, result...
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Global Warming: Not Reversible, But Stoppable
Originally posted at Skeptical Science Let’s start with two skill-testing questions: 1. If we stop greenhouse gas emissions, won’t the climate naturally go back to the way it was before? 2. Isn’t there...
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Fugitive methane emissions in BC: correspondence with Ministry of Environment
An email discussion with environmental journalist Stephen Leahy prompted me to look into the amount of fugitive methane emissions from the natural gas industry in NE British Columbia. The data on...
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Fugitive emissions from BC’s natural gas industry
The environmental consequences of the expanded development of unconventional gas in North Eastern British Columbia, as laid out by Tyler Bryant and Matt Horne in The Tyee, include: risks of groundwater...
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A Miss by Myles: Why Professor Allen is wrong to think carbon capture and...
Originally posted at Skeptical Science on 11 June 2013, written by Andy Skuce and rustneversleeps A recent opinion piece in the British newspaper Mail on Sunday by University of Oxford climatescientist...
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BC’s revenue-neutral carbon tax experiment, four years on: It’s working
Originally published at Skeptical Science on June 27th, 2013 Carbon taxes get the market to tell the environmental truth. Stewart Elgie British Columbia is the only jurisdiction in North America with a...
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Update on BC’s Effective and Popular Carbon Tax
Originally posted at Skeptical Science on July 25th, 2013 Stewart Elgie and Jessica McClay of the University of Ottawa have a peer-reviewed article in press in a special issue of the journal Canadian...
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