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climate change
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17 December 2016
Please Write to Your MPs Asking Them To Support Fossil Fuel Divestment
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It's is now clear that the incoming Trump government will be the most environment-hostile, and fossil fuel-friendly US administration i...
10 June 2012
Which Would You Rather Have: The Planet, Or A Patent?
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One of the more controversial approaches to the already controversial field of climate change is geoengineering, which Wikipedia defines ...
01 October 2011
Registry of Interests
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This is a list of my main sources of income, and of any other work-related benefits, as of 1 October 2011. I will update thi...
06 September 2010
The Value of Clear Code is Clear
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Here's an interesting move in the highly important area of climate science: We are pleased to announce the creation of the Climate Code ...
21 June 2010
Something in the Air: the Open Source Way
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One of the most vexed questions in climate science is modelling. Much of the time the crucial thing is trying to predict what will happen b...
20 June 2010
Should Retractions be Behind a Paywall?
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"UN climate panel shamed by bogus rainforest claim", so proclaimed an article in The Times earlier this year. It began [. pdf ]:...
15 February 2010
Lies, Damned Lies and Climate Science
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If, like me, you were wondering where on earth (and atmosphere) we now stood with climate science in the wake of recent events, here's t...
09 February 2010
Of Open Science and Open Source
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Now here's an idea : Computer code is also at the heart of a scientific issue. One of the key features of science is deniability: if you...
14 December 2009
Canadians *Do* Have a Sense of Humour
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Want a good laugh ? One hour ago, a spoof press release targeted Canada in order to generate hurtful rumors and mislead the Conference of Pa...
11 December 2009
Preserving Patents Before the Planet
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I don't think this needs much comment: The Chamber's Global Intellectual Property Center (GIPC) has been front and center in this d...
08 December 2009
Nothing to See Here, Absolutely Nothing At All...
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As we all now know, Climate Change is fake. Sure the precarious resource and geo-political struggle fossil fuels continues to place us in ar...
02 December 2009
James Hansen: the RMS of Climate Change
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Under the rather, er, dramatic headline "Copenhagen climate change talks must fail, says top scientist", we have the following : I...
27 November 2009
Openness as the Foundation for Global Change
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What do you do after Inventing the Web? That's not a question most of us have to face, but it is for Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Heading up the...
23 November 2009
Of Credibility, Openness and Scientific Tribalism
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I've steered clear of the Climate Research Unit (CRU) break-in since emotions are still running high, while information content remains ...
25 September 2009
Won't Someone Please Think of the, er, Plants?
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I've tweeted this , but it's so good, I just have to blog it too: CO2 is not a pollutant. CO2 makes Earth green because it supports ...
30 May 2009
How Open Source Will Save the World (Really)
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Apparently, I'm not the only one to think that open source will save the world - literally : Could open source software save the planet?...
24 March 2009
We Have a Choice
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as civilization collapses, we're going to see horrific scarcities, creating massive personal and collective stresses that will break bot...
14 March 2009
Why We Need Open Data
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Despite the good-natured ding-dong he and I are currently engaged in on another matter, Peter Murray-Rust is without doubt one of the key i...
08 January 2009
Trees Will Save the World
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We need more trees. This is what they did 500 years ago: The massive depopulation of the Americas via smallpox, hepatitis and other diseas...
07 January 2009
Climate Change Implies Open Access
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One of the answers to What Will Change Everything? is - reasonably enough - climate change. But interestingly it focuses on the way that ...
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