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I was invited by Dr Hans Barnard of the Cotsen Center for Archaeology at UCLA to give a short guest lecture to his honors collegium class today on reconstructing crop yields from climate models and using lake core sediment charcoal as a paleofire proxy. I was in august company as Dr. Emily Lindsey, paleontologist and AssistantContinue reading “Guest lecture in “The Anthropocene: An Archaeological Perspective””

My great grandmother was born in a village called Shigawake on the Gaspé, an historic peninsula on the Maritime (Atlantic) coast of Quebec. My family still has a house there. I grew up with stories of the tremendous winter storms that raged when we were away in Upper Canada, and observing the evidence of themContinue reading “Gaspe winters”

In his capacity as AAG president, Glen MacDonald wrote the following statement on 29 January 2017: Creating and Preserving Actionable and Policy-Relevant Geography Ensconced in our academic environs, as students or as faculty, we are sometimes accused of being removed and aloof from the issues of the real world and our research regarded as beingContinue reading “Responses from geographers”

Smithsonian.com: Canadian Scientists Explain Exactly How Their Government Silenced Science. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwzZWmlDQ

The Atomic Origins of Climate Science http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/the-atomic-origins-of-climate-science?mbid=gnep&intcid=gnep&google_editors_picks=true

NASA doing the job it was born to do: http://climate.nasa.gov/images-of-change?id=597#597-landslide-in-glacier-bay-national-park-and-preserve-alaska

“In theory, statistics should help settle arguments. They ought to provide stable reference points that everyone – no matter what their politics – can agree on. Yet in recent years, divergent levels of trust in statistics has become one of the key schisms that have opened up in western liberal democracies. Shortly before the NovemberContinue reading “How statistics lost their power”