Playing Games with Climate Change
Gaming, especially online gaming, is part of modern culture. Whether you’re playing scrabulous on facebook, or tennis on that new Wii you got for Christmas, you…
Read articleSince we’ll be doing a bit of math today in class (plus this video kind of makes me think of how climate change science is debated)
In my hunt for things to incorporate in a lecture later today, I came across this great video (Ma and Pa Kettle) on the mathematics divide.…
Read articleMore Intuitive Ways of Looking at Climate Data
[Original source; Hat Tip – OIIFTG] I really like this graph for two reasons: It does a great job representing the current warming trend over…
Read articleChocoholics Rejoice, For You Can Help Mitigate Global Warming*
*Just buy these chocolate bars: The label reads: REDUCING YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINT JUST GOT A WHOLE LOT TASTIER! Put your feet up and treat yourself while…
Read articleAn Apocalypse (just for kicks)
Our vows have been long since forgotten, and she has exhausted her patience. Through shearing and tainting and scarring she continued to provide. With increasing frequency…
Read articleRe: Google Trending The Webosphere
Dave Ng has a fun post below comparing Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and Climate: If we do expand the scale so that you can see the…
Read articleGoogle trending the webosphere – comparison of volume of “Paris Hilton” vs “Britney Spears” vs “Climate Change” searches.
…Which is kind of sad really. Here is what it looks like. The axes imply relative number of searches since it doesn’t seem like you get…
Read articleMainstream Media and Science: Climate Change, 1995-2004
[source] Thus, by way of the institutionalized journalistic norm of balanced reporting, United States television news coverage has perpetrated an informational bias by significantly diverging from…
Read articleScientists Protest ‘Geoengineering’ to Capture CO2
[World Ocean Nitrate Distribution via NOAA’s handy dandy Ferret] For the first time, a group of scientists (oceanographers) have written a letter to one of the…
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Future Earth (and Ocean) Science
By Dave Semeniuk,
Nature has run a free supplement in this week’s issue, which includes 15 essays written by scientists on their respective areas of Earth science. The overarching…
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