Climate Scientists Michael Mann, author of The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines
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We have a Steacie Library Hackfest coming up and our there this year is Making a Difference with Data. And what better area to make a difference in than the environment and climate change?
I think this post might signal the birth of a new all-consuming blogging obsession -- climate change in general and specifically how the realities of climate change play out in the Canadian context, especially as it relates to public policy.
How climate change may be fueling Canada’s fire season
A more than unusually obscure headline perhaps. Here's the link. I noticed, because my watchlist contained a pile of changes like:
Professor Mann Rocks. The threats and false accusations levelled at Prof. Mann and his colleagues are a true sign of the bankrupt nature of the pseudo-sceptics' deceitful and wholly bogus arguments. There has been a concerted effort to discredit Professor Mann, the perpetrators need to be caught and punished.
Prof. Mann's and his colleagues' 'Hockey-stick' has been amply validated, confirmed and extended by numerous subsequent studies.
For instance: http://www.skepticblog.org/2013/04/17/the-hockey-stick-slaps-back/
Dr. Mann is precisely correct that the Keystone XL pipeline must not be approved and that for it to be approved sends the wrong signal. The US is falling behind China in terms of renewable energy and that should be a cause for embarrassment. Renewable energy is desirable for many reasons including energy independence and not supporting objectionable foreign regimes.
As a species we need to reduce our impact, by numerous means, energy-efficiency, insulation, renewable energy, nuclear. All fossil carbon needs to remain in the ground.