A Few Things Ill Considered
Archives for September, 2008
Climate Conference Scam
Posted by coby on September 7, 2008 Eli Rabett reports that Brian Schmidt reports that Inel reports a fake climate conference phishing scam.
One more reason GW is good for us
Posted by coby on September 5, 2008 Better grapes. (h/t MT)
It doesn’t stop
Posted by coby on September 5, 2008 As if this and this weren’t enough, below we have McCain himself applying the “Palin lives near Russia” litmus test for foreign policy experience.
Moon transiting Earth
Posted by coby on September 4, 2008 How cool is this?
I was just kidding!
Posted by coby on September 3, 2008 I was just kidding about that Sarah Palin-osmosis-experience crack…but apparently Frank Gaffney at TownHall.com takes it all seriously!
Real Climate on latest temperature reconstruction
Posted by coby on September 3, 2008 Just as an addendum to this post, I wanted to point out that Real Climate has a discussion of the paper in question[PDF].
The other Arctic sea ice loss
Posted by coby on September 3, 2008 There has been lots of discussion of this year’s arctic sea ice extent. Last year was a shocking 23% lower record breaker. That’s 23% lower than the previous record, for which one had to go all the way back to….2005! That’s not 23% below the 1979-2001 average, but 23% below the lowest previous measurement! 2005,…
Experience by osmosis
Posted by coby on September 2, 2008 Okay, when I first heard this about McCain’s VP pick, Sarah Palin: I figured it was just an unscripted blunder by a marginal participant. But now I see this:
Past decade is warmest in at least 1,300 years
Posted by coby on September 2, 2008 Mann et al. has a new paper out that again reconfirms that the MWP was not as pronounced or as high a warming period as today’s climate changes are bringing.
Another week of GW News, September 1, 2008
Posted by coby on September 1, 2008 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