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Global Warming: Planet Hits Natural Pause Button (featuring Shaun Lovejoy)
Global temperatures between 1998 and 2013 indicate a slowdown in global warming, but this was due to natural cooling fluctuation and not due to any decrease in greenhouse gas emissions. This has been proved by statistical analysis of the temperatures, conducted by McGill University physics professor Shaun Lovejoy.
(Exerpt from Jayalakshmi K, International Business Times)
Hungry for something healthy and new? Why not make dinner with crickets tonight!
McGill Student Jakub Dzamba desigs cricket incubator to feed growing interest in insect farming
Published on July 23, 2014 | Journal Metro
by: Mathais Marchal
McGill University Student Uses Pulse Energy API to Create the McGill Energy Map
To encourage more active commuting among McGill staff
Published on July 14, 2014 | Pulse Energy News
by: Meena Mohan
Flexibility and configurability are two of our guiding principles when it comes to developing great, user friendly software.
Showers available for bike commuters
To encourage more active commuting among McGill staff
Published on June 15, 2014 | McGill Reporter
by: McGill Reporter
Out of the classroom and into the rainforest
The Panama Field Studies Semester offers McGill undergraduates a unique opportunity to experience the complexity of environmental issues up-close
Published on June 9, 2014 | McGill News
by: Hannah Hoag (MSc '99)
AstroMcGill Presents: Public Astro Night
This Thursday: "Gamma-ray Astronomy: The Atmosphere as a 3D Display", by Dr. Jean-François Rajotte. It will be followed by night-sky observations (weather permitting).
McGill Fossil Fuel Decisions Shift
The McGill University board of governors has included “grave environmental degradation” as allowable criteria for divestment.
Published on June 10, 2014 | The Gazette
by: Karen Seidman
Many students at McGill University are celebrating a fundamental shift in how the university will decide whether to stop investing in fossil fuel companies.
McGill Nonlinear Physics Professor and Climatologist Shaun Lovejoy: Global Warming is not a "Natural" Occurrence
Opinion: Research Shows the Global Warming isn't natural
Published on June 9, 2014 | The Gazette
by: Shaun Lovejoy
Last year, the Quebec Skeptics Society laid down a challenge: “If anthropogenic global warming is as strong as scientists claim, then why do they need supercomputers to demonstrate it?”
My immediate response was: “They don’t.”
McGill Students Fiona Yuan and Christopher Tegho win at 2014 Scotiabank EcoLiving Student Leadership Award
Yuan and Tegho are in their last year of electrical engineering at McGill University and are keen about sustainability and energy conservation. Together they designed an “energy management and power disaggregation” system that helps homeowners and businesses better monitor, control and manage the energy use of individual appliances.
Podcast: Environment or Economy: At the Muskoka Summit
Published on June 4, 2014 | CBC
Ideas with Paul Kennedy
Following on the heels of Green Growth: Can Profits Save the Planet?, IDEAS presents the Muskoka Summit, a biennial conclave with some of the world's most respected ecologists debating one of the crucial questions of our time -- is it possible for economists to understand and appreciate the 'real' value of the environment?