Shaun Lovejoy

 

Outreach Page

2021

Interview on the occasion of Earth Day 2021, 22 Avril, avec Guylaine Jean radio Plaisir (en Français, 20 minutes).

Quand nos élites imposent la Justice Sociale: 14 Avril: , Press-toi à Gauche

2019

Montreal Gazette, Oct. 17, Opinion: Underfunding leaves Climate Science in a sorry state, Precipitation is only one of the numerous climate science challenges that urgently require further research.

2018

Huffington Post, 25 Sept. 2018: Quebec's Next Government Must Respect Both Fiscal And Carbon Budgets

Huff Post Quebec, 25 Sept. 2018: Quel budget est le plus important: fiscal ou de carbone?

August 23, 2018: Analyzing extreme weather and climate: a new statistical tool. McGill Press release on the new paper: Lovejoy, S., 2018: Spectra, intermittency, and extremes of weather, macroweather and climate, Nature Scientific Reports.

May 14, 2018: New approach to global-warming projections could make regional estimates more precise. McGill press release.

Global news article: May 16, 2018: "Western provinces should brace for hotter temperatures than expected by 2050"

2017

Assessment of Abbot and Marohasy's claim that most of the warming is natural (highly cited by climate skeptics)

Climate Closure: the videoclip (16 minutes, August 2017)

The Huffington Post (March 24): What Is The Temperature Of The Earth's Surface?

Le Huffington Post (Français, March 23): Quelle est la température de la surface de la Terre?

How accurately do we know the temperature of the surface of the earth? Real ClimateBlog (March 2017), The Climate Dynamics paper: Lovejoy, S. (2017),

Stochastic Seasonal, Interannual Prediction (StocSIPS)

January 2017:

The revolutionary STOChastic Seasonal, Interannual Prediction (StocSIPS) system for atmospheric forecasting has been awarded a Fessenden Professorhip (McGill).

A new review paper describing the science of StocSIPS can be downloaded here.

For operational monthly, seasonal and annual temperature forecasts, click here.

2016

Dec. 6, 2016 Climate Contest:

Keenan’s Giant Natural Fluctuation model unveiled

A nonspecialist account:

Lovejoy, S., The $100,000 Giant Climate Fluctuation, The Huffington Post, 12 August, 2016

Lovejoy, S., L. del Rio Amador, R. Hébert, and I. de Lima, 2016: Giant natural fluctuation models and anthropogenic warming, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43,  doi:10.1002/2016GL070428.

The French language Huffington Post Quebec blog
S. Lovejoy, 2016: La grande fluctuation naturelle a un prix: 100 000 $, Le Huffington Post Quebec, 9 Août, 2016, Huffington Post blog (in French).

Canadian Dimension, March 21, 2016: Carbon prices: an opportunity for combining sane climate policy with social justice

2015

The Lorenz lecture of the American Geophysical Union is now online (Dec. 2015). For the pdf: “Why the warming can’t be natural, nonlinear geophysics of climate closure”

The Lorenz lecture streaming video: Register (free), then go to the Climate Channel

Climate Closure (Oct. 23, 2015): Climate Closure, Eos, 96doi:10.1029/2015EO037499. Print version.

Harnassing the butterfly effect (August 18, 2015), McGill press release. Tirer parti de l'effet Papillon (en Français)

Harnassing the butterfly effect: Questions and Answers

Interview on harnessing butterflies with Sonali Karnick on CBC Radio's Homerun show, 5:20pm, August 19, 2015

Lovejoy, S., 2015: Using scaling for macroweather forecasting including the pause, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, doi: DOI: 10.1002/2015GL065665.

Headway Magazine, p3, Spring 2015 issue, Research Highlights: The Unnatural Truth about Global Warming

En Français:

en tête, p3, Printemps 2015, Actualités: Le Réchauffement Climatique n'a Rien Avoir avec la Nature

EGU Today, Wednesday, April 15 2015, daily column.

Divest McGill

Opinion, La Presse, 14, Mai, 2015

op-Ed The Gazette Feb. 10, 2015

op-Ed Le Devoir (Français), Feb. 10, 2015

McGill Daily, Feb. 16: Over 100 faculty members sign letter in support of divestment

Interview on the Daybreak Show Mike Finnerty, Feb. 11, 2015: Divest McGill: Interview on the CBC Daybreak show, with comments by the chair of the McGill board of governors 

2014

Comments on The "Friends of Science" Advertising campaign (English/Français) (Nov. 2014)

Radio

Interview on Radio Canada International, April 17 2014 on "Global warming: 99% certainty “not natural”

Interview on the Tommy Schnumacher show on CJAD, on the "Pause" in global warming Sept. 18, 2014

Interview on Radio Canada International, Nov. 18, 2014: How a study of Mars weather can help forecasting on Earth

Radio discussion on Radio Ville Marie:"Je vote pour la science" discussion sur l’activisme et le climat, Radio Ville-Marie, 91.3MHz, Dec. 15, 2014.