Bill Doskoch: Media, BPS*, Film, Minutiae

Curated knowlege, trenchant insights & witty bon mots

Is the planet on track for a very warm year?

This catch-up tweet is ironic, coming on a morning when there is a skiff of snow on the ground, but planet Earth appears to be on track for one of its warmest years  ever. But Britain’s the Met Office has been wrong in its predictions before.

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Sat, November 27 2010 » * Big Picture Stuff, Main Page » Comments Off

Interest in global warming heated up on U.S. blogs

The U.S.-based Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for Nov. 8-12 found global warming to be a top-five topic among U.S. bloggers. This is the 10th time that has happened since the index began in January 2009, but the twist this time is that it is global warming believers baying the loudest:

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Fri, November 19 2010 » * Big Picture Stuff, Main Page, Media » Comments Off

A house united in ignorance cannot stand

The NYT’s Timothy Egan on the wilful ignorance (if that’s the right term for it) of far-right Americans and the media that abets them.

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Fri, August 27 2010 » * Big Picture Stuff, Main Page, Media » 1 Comment

Unmistakable, undeniable

A small sample of the front page of this morning’s Globe and Mail: Here’s the Newseum’s capture of the front page on a .pdf. Compare to how the same story plays on the web: http://twitpic.com/29ped1 Not the same, eh?

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Thu, July 29 2010 » * Big Picture Stuff, Main Page » Comments Off

Oddly enough, I turned out to be right

Back in early March, the UK’s Met Office released a review of climate science conducted since the last IPCC report. The conclusion? “(It) confirms our planet is changing rapidly and man-made greenhouse gas emissions are very likely to be the cause,” said a news release.

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Mon, June 7 2010 » * Big Picture Stuff, Main Page » Comments Off

Canadian climate scientist sues N-P for libel

Andrew Weaver, holder of the Canada Research Chair in climate modelling and analysis, has filed a libel lawsuit against the National Post and three of its writers who have pounded him in their columns. Weaver wants the paper to not only remove what he sees as false allegations from its website(s; the paper is part [...]

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Wed, April 21 2010 » * Big Picture Stuff, Main Page, Media » Comments Off

Hot air continues to leak out of Climategate balloon

Another review of the work of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in Great Britain has found no misconduct or malpractice, but did have suggestions for how its work could be improved, post-Climategate.

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Fri, April 16 2010 » * Big Picture Stuff, Main Page, Media » Comments Off

More air out of the Climategate ‘scandal’

A British parliamentary panel has found no evidence that scientists at University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) had misrepresented global warming-related data. However, it did have some constructive criticism for them — and admitted their inquiry wasn’t the final word.

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Wed, March 31 2010 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off

UN wants IPCC process reviewed

From the BBC: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has asked the world’s science academies to review work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Work will be co-ordinated by the Inter-Academy Council, which brings together bodies such as the UK’s Royal Society. The IPCC has been under pressure over errors in its last major assessment [...]

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Thu, March 11 2010 » * Big Picture Stuff, Main Page » Comments Off

Meet the skeptics

The Globe and Mail had a weekend feature on some of the top climate skeptic bloggers, including Canada’s own Stephen McIntyre.

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Tue, February 23 2010 » * Big Picture Stuff, Main Page » Comments Off