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Check out the new home of Maribo!! simondonner.com/blog Recent stories include: What do you get when you cross art history and climate change? Changing tides, by more (or less) than you ...

http://simondonner.blogspot.com/2014/03/maribo-has-moved.html

Maribo has set sail for new waters! The new site will continue to talk about climate change and other issues at the science-policy interface. We'll also experiment with dispatches from the field...

http://simondonner.blogspot.com/2013/12/on-move-reflections-on-seven-years-of.html

The Toronto Star asked "how much of the tragedy was caused by nature, and how much was caused by human actions?" Here was my answer: Canada and other developed countries are good at disast...

http://simondonner.blogspot.com/2013/11/what-does-typhoon-haiyan-tell-us-about.html

Michael Tobis of Planet3.0 has kindly handed me the Woody Guthrie Award for "thinking" earth science bloggers. In the process, he's said many nice things, all of which I wish were true. On t...

http://simondonner.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-guthrie-think-critically-and-hope.html

If you're looking to escape the dreary weather, head to the Beaty Biodiversity Museum on UBC's campus to learn about our field work on the coral reefs of Kiribati. As part of the Extreme Ada...

http://simondonner.blogspot.com/2013/10/coral-reefs-and-extreme-adaptations-at.html

The article Climate change prediction: Erring on the side of least drama? by Brysse et al. published earlier this year presents evidence that assessments of climate change science have leaned to...

http://simondonner.blogspot.com/2013/10/creating-supportive-environment-for.html

The release of the IPCC report caused a short surge in public interest about climate change, according the Google Trends search data. Like a river after a flood, the waters have receded. Ten days...

http://simondonner.blogspot.com/2013/10/has-flood-of-interest-in-ipcc-and.html

One of the most telling little figures that I've come across in the new IPCC report is this Chapter 3 comparison (Fig. 3.21) of changes in human-derived carbon dioxide in the oceans, global m...

http://simondonner.blogspot.com/2013/10/sea-level-rise-demonstrates-continued.html

The new IPCC report reminds that through the fits and starts of climate warming, we continue to steadily carbonate the ocean. From the Summary for Policymakers: Measurements of CO2 partial ...

http://simondonner.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-oceans-on-acid-and-bacon.html

The Fifth IPCC assessment report on the physical science of climate change will be released tomorrow. It is probably the largest, most comprehensive scientific assessment in history.  Not just o...

http://simondonner.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-pause-in-public-understanding-of.html

Each spring, the ice on the lake near the family cottage meets its demise. As the days lengthen and warm, the ice gets thinner and thinner. No one ventures onto the lake for fear of breaking ...

http://simondonner.blogspot.com/2013/09/did-climate-scientists-make-mistake-in.html

On Friday, Matt Gurney in the National Post blasted climate scientists, arguing that "repeated false claims have had the effect of turning a lot of people, including my fellow agnostics and I,...

http://simondonner.blogspot.com/2013/09/false-claims-by-contrarians-not.html

Another assessment of the role of drought in the Syrian conflict from long-time foreign policy expert William Polk : The domestic Syrian refugees immediately found that they had to compete not...

http://simondonner.blogspot.com/2013/09/drought-was-beyond-syrias-capacity-as.html

This is an updated post from two years ago: One of the perverse thrills of paddling in Vancouver is cozying up to the massive container ships parked out in English Bay. A little while back, I ...

http://simondonner.blogspot.com/2013/09/flying-flags-of-convenience-in-climate.html

The Syrian conflict has become a humanitarian tragedy incomparable to others in recent history. Over 2 million people, 10% of the country, have fled during the ongoing conflict according to the...

http://simondonner.blogspot.com/2013/09/has-climate-change-played-role-in.html

Gas prices in BC, home to N America's only carbon tax (CP ) An op-ed by Elizabeth Nickson in Friday's Vancouver Sun relied on confused and un-factual "facts" to claim that a carbon tax, lik...

http://simondonner.blogspot.com/2013/08/climate-change-not-carbon-taxes-is-war.html

Image by Olimpia Zagnoli, New York Times Back in Mr. Wardle's high school economics class, we were once asked to look for a correlation between any two datasets. I searched through the small...

http://simondonner.blogspot.com/2013/08/does-temperature-really-cause.html

Last week, a group of us Google Science Communication fellows sent a letter to the Chairman and CEO of the Google, pasted below, expressing our disappointment that the company held a fundraiser i...

http://simondonner.blogspot.com/2013/08/ask-google-to-stop-supporting-those-to.html

Enter "Has global warming" into a search engine, and the autocomplete function will suggest the word "stopped". That we need to stop. Let's flip this around: "Has global warming continued?" ...

http://simondonner.blogspot.com/2013/07/has-global-warming-continued.html

The thunderstorms in Toronto earlier this week broke that city's seemingly unbreakable one-day rainfall record, set in 1954 by the meteorological oddity known as Hurricane Hazel .

http://simondonner.blogspot.com/2013/07/blog-post.html

The videos from the AGU Chapman Conference on Communicating Climate Science are now available . There are several great talks on the history of climate science , effective and ineffective public ...

http://simondonner.blogspot.com/2013/07/new-videos-on-communicating-climate.html

For about a decade, the explanation for a lack of coherent Canadian climate policy was the lack of a coherent American climate policy. How could our federal government move forward with actions l...

http://simondonner.blogspot.com/2013/06/awaiting-canadian-response-to-obamas.html

There's no shortage of dumb things said about global warming. Compiling a list of the ten dumbest requires wading though thousands and thousands of inane extrapolations about climate change impac...

http://simondonner.blogspot.com/2013/06/some-of-rolling-stones-10-dumbest.html

This week's Communicating Climate Science: A Historic Look to the Future conference is being web-cast . It is not an empty gesture. The organizers are trying to mix in questions from the onl...

http://simondonner.blogspot.com/2013/06/follow-agu-chapman-communicating.html

Last night, after a scare from the tough Indiana Pacers, the Miami Heat's "big three" of LeBron, Wade and Bosh advanced to the NBA Finals. Unlike the other major North American sports, in baske...

http://simondonner.blogspot.com/2013/06/americas-big-three-corn-soybeans-and.html