Dan Moutal
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A new normal
Unsurprisingly XKCD nails it, but head on over there to read the mouseover text, I am sure it perfectly describes more than a few Planet3.0 readers (and writers!). And we wouldn’t want it any other way.
Silence of the labs
The CBC’s Fifth estate devotes 1 hour to exploring the sorry state of federal science in Canada.
Crowded
(h/t The Disaffected Lib)
It’s not the spill that matters
On and on go the discussions about the potential risks of a spill but not enough people are talking about the much larger risk of unmitigated climate change. [more]
Coincidence
“Global warming, huh? By pure coincidence every scientist was right” Homer Simpson
The Entire IPCC Report in 19 Illustrated Haiku
Merry Christmas
Canada’s climate policy delayed again
At this rate Canada’s emission regulations should be ready by 2025.
Canada is once again delaying emissions regulations in the oil and gas sector, despite major pipeline projects that continue to put intense scrutiny on the energy industry’s environmental track record
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The regulations were first promised seven years ago, and Alberta has recently criticized the federal government for delays in introducing them.
Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline gets one step closer to reality
From the bad-news department.
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Climate Change 2013 Working Group I: The Physical Science Basis
The IPCC has released a very snazzy video that summarizes the fifth assessment report.
Arctic and American Methane in Context
Real Climate gives the recent methane news some proper context. The bottom line is that since methane is a short lived GHG it would take a very sudden and very massive release of methane for it to have a large effect on the climate. And that is unlikely. [more]
Warming at 4 Hiroshima bombs per second: a widget to raise awareness about global warming
A frustratingly stubborn climate myth is that global warming stopped in 1998. It hasn’t. In fact the earth is currently accumulating extra heat at a rate of 4 Hiroshima nuclear bombs per second!
To help drive home the point climate change hasn’t stopped, or paused, but has continued unabated the friendly robots over at Skeptical Science have created this widget showing just how quickly the earth is accumulating energy. [more]
A Summary of COP19
Reuters nicely summarizes the outcome of the COP19 UN climate negotiations in Warsaw, Poland.
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