Climate Delusions
Climate Delusions Talk
Today the Royal Society of Canada invited Dr. Mark Jaccard, Professor with the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University to talk about climate change modelling. He presented a very good talk about how and why we will not be meeting any of the emission reduction targets.
Abstract: Two decades of research into the risk of human-induced climate change has focused on climate science and the costs of greenhouse gas mitigation. It is increasingly obvious, however, that the research focus must include understanding the reasons why humans have been incapable of effective action in spite of scientific consensus on the climate threat, economic consensus on the relatively modest cost of mitigation, and continuous commitments by political leaders. This talk will combine science, economics, policy design and human cognition to explain how self-interest biases in human cognition have fostered delusions about the problem and its solution – and what to do about these.
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- Mark Jaccard calls out Stephen Harper on oil sands (deepclimate.org)
- A brief guide to the scientific consensus on climate change (dailykos.com)
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The Queen of Green @ BCIT
The Queen of Green
Last Thursday (October 27th) Lindsay Coulter, David Suzuki‘s Queen of Green spoke at BCIT. She presented discussion and tips on how to turn a home into a healthy and sustainable environment. Some of her tips include:
- avoid canned foods, the can contains a BPA lining;
- if you want people in the office to throw out less garbage, label the garbage can “landfill”;
- the “Christmas shrimp ring” is one of the worst things to eat this holiday season;
- when buying products think of their “end of life” , e.g. silicon (currently) cannot be recycled;
- and there was so much more (you had to be there).
Some tips I already new about, but others where an eye opener. She also talked about the benefits of forest bathing, and idea that came out of Japan.
On another note: David Suzuki just finished airing an interesting 3 part series on nano technology on CBC. You should check out The Nano Revolution: Will Nano Save the Planet? Part 3 talks about how nano technology has the potential to clean up the environmental mess we have created.
Related articles
- BCIT- Big Info Session Nov 2 (tamanawisgtp.wordpress.com)
- Forest Bathing (marksdailyapple.com)
Energy conservation drivers
I have been busy getting back in to course work for this fall; but I though it would be good to set up a poll to see what people think about what will drive energy conservation. Please contribute by taking my poll.
Related articles
- Bucks: Friday Reading: Embracing Energy Conservation (bucks.blogs.nytimes.com)
- Going Green: Energy Conservation During Record-Breaking Heat (blogsouthwest.com)
- eeS Group explores Energy Efficiency vs. Energy Conservation (ees2001.wordpress.com)
