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July 31, 2010
Category: editorial
A few random items on expertise, elitism and credibility. The first is from an interview with the late Stphen Schneider about the recent PNAS paper on the relative expertise of "convinced" and "unconvinced" climate science activists, an interesting read:...
Posted by coby at 8:23 AM • 44 Comments •
July 30, 2010
Category: general
An excellent article by Michael, again, and an interesting comment thread underneath. I have rarely seen RPJr more forthcoming and clear about his whole angle in the climate policy debate. I also have to confess I see very little value...
Posted by coby at 9:30 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Announcements
This is not a reference to the recent three decades of rapidly increasing global temperatures, rather it is a reference to an aniversary of the first appearance of the term "global warming" in the peer reviewed literature. The paper was...
Posted by coby at 7:57 PM • 178 Comments •
Category: general
I lived in Tampa Bay, Florida for 6 months or so. They say it is the lightning capital of the world, I don't know, but there was an awful lot. I loved it! This is not Tampa, but you get...
Posted by coby at 4:51 AM • 4 Comments •
July 29, 2010
Category: humour
Dr Roy Spencer, normally a darling of the septics, is getting the full denialist savaging over at his own blog for daring to defend the physical basis for the greenhouse effect. CanadaFreePress saw "NASA" in his job title and must...
Posted by coby at 7:01 AM • 10 Comments •
July 27, 2010
Category: roundup
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years 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...
Posted by coby at 4:47 PM • 1 Comments •
July 26, 2010
Category: Announcements
I am a skeptic. Not a climate skeptic, not in the sense of the improperly commandeered word we use in the climate debates. In my experience they know little of real skepticism as a general rule. But me, I really...
Posted by coby at 6:37 AM • 45 Comments •
July 24, 2010
Category: humour
Brilliant! When faced with enemy graphs, remember that if extent is dropping then clearly we are looking at the wrong metric. Perhaps we should look at volume instead, unless that is dropping too, in which case we should look at...
Posted by coby at 1:18 AM • 46 Comments •
July 23, 2010
Category: politics
"I don't think that anyone disagrees with the fact that we actually are in a cold period that started about nine years ago." Um...okay. I guess that's true if your definition of "anyone" excludes every single scientific agency that concerns...
Posted by coby at 8:01 PM • 22 Comments •
July 22, 2010
Category: multi-media
From Climate Crock creator Greenman: R.I.P....
Posted by coby at 11:01 AM • 0 Comments •
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