Around the Web: What About the Planet?, Partisan polarization on climate change and more on the science and politics of climate change

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We have a Steacie Library Hackfest coming up and our there this year is Making a Difference with Data. And what better area to make a difference in than the environment and climate change?
I think this post might signal the birth of a new all-consuming blogging obsession -- climate change in general and specifically how the realities of climate change play out in the Canadian context, especially as it relates to public policy.
A more than unusually obscure headline perhaps. Here's the link. I noticed, because my watchlist contained a pile of changes like:

Whew! Thank goodness the climate experts aren't infallible!

“… in 2007 Prof Wadhams [of Cambridge University ] predicted that sea ice would be lost by 2013 after levels fell 27 per cent in a single year. However by 2013 ice levels were actually 25 per cent higher than they had been six years before. In 2012, following another record low Prof Wadhams changed his prediction to 2016.
The view was supported by Prof Maslowski [of the Naval Postgraduate School] …”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/10/07/experts-said-arctic-sea-i…

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