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Envoronment
November 21, 2009
Stoat
Floods not linked to climate change shocker In shocking news just in, record heavy rain in the Lakes and extensive flooding has not been linked to global warming. Dr Bogus, spokesman for the Made-Up Institute of Twaddle, said "This is completely unprecedented. Normally, any unusual - or...
Gene Expression
When mammoths roamed Pleistocene Megafaunal Collapse, Novel Plant Communities, and Enhanced Fire Regimes in North America: Although the North American megafaunal extinctions and the formation of novel plant communities are well-known features of the last deglaciation, the causal relationships between these phenomena are...
November 20, 2009
The Island of Doubt
The hacked climate science email scandal that wasn't The hacking of the data is a worthwhile story, insofar as IT security goes, but the content is just plain banal. All we learn is that scientists are humans after all.
Built on Facts
Leaked Climate Change Documents Around ScienceBlogs, people who don't accept global warming as a real phenomena tend to get called denialists. In the interests of full disclosure, I should admit that I'm not a denialist but rather a global warming defeatist. Doesn't matter how...
Mike the Mad Biologist
Misinterpreting the Solution to the Manure Crisis and the Global Warming Problem... ...and how Levitt and Dubner fail to see that the Manure problem was not 'solved', only turned into a new problem that will also require wrenching change.
The World's Fair
Wendell Berry in Charlottesville "Burning the world to live in it is wrong."
November 19, 2009
Framing Science
Science and Yale Environment 360 on Climate Fatigue Some advocates on the left consider themselves part of the communication solution, but in fact are likely to be part of the problem.
Framing Science
TONIGHT: NOAA's Jane Lubchenco to Speak at AU For DC readers, an important lecture series on the AU campus...
November 18, 2009
Tomorrow's Table
Africa's Organic Peasantry An article in the Harvard International Review by Paul Collier paints a stark view of African peasantry. Collier presents a convincing argument that for African agriculture to become more productive, it needs modern agricultural technologies and new modes of organization...
Eruptions
SI/USGS Weekly Volcano Activity Report for 11/11-11/17/2009 Lots of huffing-and-puffing from volcanoes around the world, all wrapped up neatly in this week's USGS/SI Volcano Activity Report.
The Island of Doubt
Canada learns to love global warming Too precious not to pass along: Canadian Tourism Federation Welcome Video from Canadian Tourism Federation on Vimeo. In case there's any doubt. There is no "Canadian Tourism Federation."...
Eruptions
Mystery Volcano Photo #15 I'll try to stump readers again with a new Mystery Volcano Photo during this slow week in the world of eruptions.
November 17, 2009
A Blog Around The Clock
The Open Laboratory 2009 - the deadline is looming! Reminder: Deadline is December 1st at midnight EST! Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date (under the fold). You can buy the 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions at Lulu.com. Please use the submission form to add more...
A Blog Around The Clock
ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program...
November 16, 2009
All of My Faults Are Stress Related
Bloggers at the American Geophysical Union meeting The American Geophysical Union meeting has blogger activities planned.
Stoat
Rip her to shreds Shamelss fanboy stuff I'm afraid. The great Klotzbach wars have been playing for a little while now ([1], [2], [3], [4] etc etc), but the arbitrator has spoken and its time for the Dark Side to stop digging and...
Eruptions
Mystery Volcano Photo #14 So MVP #13 was apparently way too easy, so here's a bit more a challenge (I hope).
November 15, 2009
Stoat
Agreeing with Pielke, Sr Just to show how ecumenical I am, I agree with (most of) RP Sr's post Comment On News Article On Weather Modification Titled ""Playing With Weather Stirs Debate In China". Which basically says "stop being such a bunch of credulous...
All of My Faults Are Stress Related
What experiences bring minority students into the geosciences - and what ones drive them away? A 2007 article from the Journal of Geoscience Education identifies experiences that increase (and decrease) the likelihood that minority students become geoscientists.
Mike the Mad Biologist
Underwater Kites and Electricity Putting the wind turbines underwater.
November 14, 2009
Greg Laden's Blog
Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis Al Gore talking about his new book, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis....
Stoat
Volcano from space I like this one. It is from NASA though I've heavily hacked it around (I saw it today in a copy of Wired at Mr Polito's; oh yes, it is online too: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/gallery_volcanoes/3/, but I don't recommend visiting, the...
Stoat
Whom should I attack? I'm not a mass-media-audience type of blog, so I excuse myself from having to be kind to "my side"; I don't think I need to avoid worrying Joe Public about dissent in the "we believe in GW" side of the...
Stoat
What we learn from the APS revision Having just read Eli being unhappy on the APS I'm struck by a thought, which is that no-one at all seems to think they might learn anything useful about actual climate change from the APS statement or its revised version....
November 13, 2009
Stoat
Comments elsewhere Experimentally, I'm going to try to keep track of the comments I make on other blogs. I'll spare you the totally trivial ones, but I don't guarantee this to be especially interesting. One point of doing this will be to...
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“There's a big difference between informed skepticism and stubborn denial. If the price of not accepting something is the increased likelihood of disaster, then you're not longer being skeptical, you're being foolish.” Phyllograptus on Why I believe...
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Hurricanes
As the 2009 hurricane season picks up speed after a remarkably mild beginning, we look to the ScienceBlogs archives for the science behind the storms.
The Island of DoubtJuly 25, 2006
The real story of the hurricanes
Neuron Culture September 11, 2008
Hurricanes & Climate Change: A Round-Up Says Maybe More, Definitely Hotter
Corpus Callosum September 12, 2008
