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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 to...

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The consensus visualized

Any questions? via James Lawrence Powell

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How many gigatons of CO2?

Check out the Guardian Data Blog for the whole infographic

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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. The letter makes it clear...

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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 to climate/sustainability.

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The largest iceberg break-up ever filmed

I find it hard to fully comprehend the scale of it

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About that IPCC cosmic rays game changer…

… or nothing to see here. Move along folks. All of this cosmic nonsense was pre-debunked by Richard Alley in his great AGU talk from 2009 titled: The Biggest Control Knob: Carbon Dioxide in Earth’s...

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Mitigating Near-Term Climate Change While Advancing Human Development

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The web we lost

I might sound old when I start rambling about the way things used to be, but Anil Dash’s post about how the web used to be before the rise of walled gardens like Facebook is definitely must read: So...

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Ready for the end

Frankly I don’t understand what all the fuss is about

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The web we lost: XKCD edition

XKCD sums up the problem perfectly: I’m gonna call the cops and get Chad arrested for theft, then move all my stuff to the house across the street. Hopefully the owners there are more responsible.

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Climate 2013: Perspectives of 8 Scientists

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The relativity of wrong

A recent comment on Planet3.0 gave me an excuse to post a link to Isaac Asimov’s excellent essay on the Relativity of wrong, and I realized that I had never posted it here. So here it is for the...

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Bah Humbug!

Physicists who want to protect traditional Christmas realize that the only way to keep from changing Christmas is not to observe it. (via xkcd) That is all.

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Santa’s regret

via Skeptical Science

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Richard Alley: Ice sheets and sea level in a warming world

(h/t Peter Sinclair)

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Jonathan Haidt: How common threats can make common (political) ground

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Calamari!!!

The first ever video of a Giant Squid in its deep-ocean habitat.

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The colour of hot or inadequate heatmaps

The recent Australasian heatwave has been so unprecedented that the Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology has had to add a new colour (purple) to represent the hottest region: But the Australia’s Bureau of...

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Aaron Swartz, 1986-2013

Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. I think a lot of what people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity -Aaron Swartz, 1986-2013 This past weekend open-access advocate and activist Aaron...

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