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August 30, 2008
Category: news
Hurricane Gustav is taking aim at the coast of Louisiana. Jeff Masters at Weather Underground is the goto place for the details of this storm. If I am reading it all right, Gustav will be a major hurricane when it...
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August 26, 2008
Category: Announcements
Yesterday was the 200th edition of "Another week of GW News", and close to the 50th edition posted here on A Few Things Ill Considered. Please join me in thanking H.E.Taylor for this remarkable effort that provides such a wonderful...
Posted by coby at 8:06 AM • 2 Comments •
August 25, 2008
Category: news
Sipping from the internet firehose... This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H.E.Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup...
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August 22, 2008
Category: editorial
Roger Pielke Jr has another post promoting the whole Hockey Stick schtick. My "sceptic guide" entry on that is still here, and I don't have much more to say about it still to this day. But as for the meta...
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August 21, 2008
Category: science
From NASA JPL's Global Climate Change website, here is a very cool map of sea level rise around the world. Despite what one might think at first, sea level, and sea level rise, is not uniform around the world....
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Category: general
Yesterday's APOD has a very cool multiple exposure picture of the moon passing through the earth's shadow, partially that is. It really gives a impressive sense of earth's shadow, even more than the usual total eclipse photos....
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August 20, 2008
Category: general
So Bill Maher is interviewing a sitting US Senator about evolution. This Senator is not so sure about evolution ("the scientific communty is a little divided on that") and Maher is a little sceptical that intelligent people could actually believe...
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Category: other blogs
Check out a cool post (bad pun not intended...unless you thought it was good) on the physics of making ice cream from Green Gabbro!...
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Category: news
From yesterday's DemocracyNow headlines: The Washington Post reports F. Chase Hutto III, a senior aide to Vice President Cheney, is the leading contender to become a top official at the Energy Department. The promotion would put one of the administration's...
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Category: editorial
I poke into Jennifer Marohasy's blog from time to time, though I am no longer a regular commenter. I gave that up a couple of years ago but still take any special cases as opportunities to chime in again. She's...
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