TalkClimateChange

I’ve been reading  the new study by Sloan and Wolfendale on the theory of cosmic rays and cloud formation in regards to global warming. I’ve also been reading the associated press coverage.
This theory was advanced in the book by Svenmark called "The Chilling Stars" and is a theory that has been repeatedly attacked by […]

My childhood was spent living and working on farms in Northern Canada, followed by living in some of the most populous cities in North America - so I can draw some contrasts between the urban and rural lifestyles.
Mark recently wrote here that over 50% of us world-wide now live in urban areas, and as […]

But which way?
I’ve been intrigued by the number of different interpretations following Nature’s recent publication predicting a temporary lull in global warming on which Daryl recently commentated.
Right now I am in the midst of putting together a post contrasting the different reactions, and - crucially - the impact this has on the world’s decision […]

There is a popular body of thought within the climate change debate which says that we would be better off focusing on adaptation to climate change rather than trying to prevent it. Focusing on our current problems, they say, and on those that might be brought about in the future as a result of […]

Al Gore, new thinking on the climate crisis

Al Gore’s latest 30 minute slide-show is now available on You Tube, with a predictable range of comments from You Tube viewers.
Let us know what you think?

We recently kicked off a debate on our discussion forums on the pro’s and con’s of nuclear power. Pitting Rod of Atomic Insights and Matt from TalkClimateChange against each other, we asked if nuclear power really is a safe and abundant source of pollution free power, or is it a dangerous and expensive fix to […]

 
My life was made easy today when Leo Hickman of The Guardian Climate Change blog wrote a great post expressing many of the sentiments that I frequently write about here.
So rather than trying to write one of those difficult Monday posts myself I’ll simply give you Leo’s opening and closing statements (which could have […]

We’ve had a long cold winter in many parts of the Northern Hemisphere, which has got me thinking: what if the world cools off and returns to the temperatures of our great grandfathers, or even worse, we start sliding even lower?
This is purely a hypothetical exercise - I am not saying there is any basis […]

Returning from the Easter break and getting back to work I had two thoughts on my mind; where is my next blog post coming from (having not read the news for four days I was short on inspiration), and how to put a more positive spin on the topic of climate change? TalkClimateChange covers […]

Much ado has been made about the UK’s latest budget presented by Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling last week.
Green groups universally panned Darling for failing to take a hard line on environmental issues, and particularly for failing to implement a 2 pence tax increase on petrol.
“This was billed as the greenest budget ever. But […]

I think we can all agree the unintended consequences of mandated levels of bio-fuels have had some really devastating results globally. The World Food Programme says the increase in food costs has devastated their 2008 hunger relief programs. Mono-agriculture has reduced crop diversity and added to the problems of nitrogen contamination of water systems as […]

This post was orginally published at EcoWorldly
In an excellent post, Andrew Revkin of the New York Times dot Earth blog poses the question - “Where would carbon dioxide emissions be if everyone on Earth was using fossil fuels at the same pace, per capita, as the United States is now?”
Using some simple math, Revkin presents […]

We have all heard the stories, how “Big Oil” and “Big Coal” have organized an unscrupulous posse of scientists for hire to sow the seeds of doubt across the media and the population in general. These evil corporations went so far as to place a $10,000 US bounty on any research papers discrediting the IPCC […]

La Marguerite, an environmental psychology blog, writes a great post today which identifies the real challenges that we face from climate change. I’ve borrowed from it extensively in this post because it provides such a neat summary of the issues that TalkClimateChange ‘talks’ about.
Marguerite refers to a recent article by John Tierney of the […]

Once in a while we notice something which even the most ardent climate change advocate should really question.
We all know that the world is currently warming, as a result of human activities, right? Well, maybe not. Maybe the world is not warming at all? Anthony Watt, a former meteorologist uncovers an important issue with […]