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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Posted on August 22, 2008 5:59 PM • 0 Comments •
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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Posted on August 20, 2008 8:03 AM • 22 Comments •
John McCain like to talk about renewable energy and flash photos of windfarms like this one in his campaign ads, but does he actually support wind and solar energy development? He also vapidly criticised congress for being on holiday -...
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Posted on August 18, 2008 9:27 AM • 0 Comments •
Global Warming is happening too slowly. Or so says Dan Gilbert, psycholgist and author of the book "Stumbling on Happiness". Watch this video for a psychologist's explanation of why we are failing to act in the face of the global...
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Posted on August 6, 2008 6:50 AM • 3 Comments •
Roger comes down on Junkscience for a refreshing change, usually prefering to disguise himself and mingle with the sceptics. Of course, if you read him carefully, he is not one, he just plays one on "the internets". It is all...
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Posted on August 4, 2008 10:30 AM • 3 Comments •
Via Prometheus I read this article from the AFP that describes some new findings about land mass in the river delta that is Bandladesh. Apparently it is growing and has been for the last 32 years at about 20 km^2/year....
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Posted on August 1, 2008 12:44 PM • 5 Comments •
Via the contest notification I posted about here, I just watched a very effective video they say was conceived, written and directed by a 10 year old boy. Watch it below, it is about a minute:...
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Posted on July 31, 2008 11:44 AM • 16 Comments •
Sizzle: A Global Warming Comedy is a new film from scientist turned filmmaker Randy Olsen ("Rediagnosing the Oceans", "Flock of Dodos") and rather than being a film about global warming, it is a film about the making of a film...
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Posted on July 30, 2008 10:47 AM • 5 Comments •
Science Blogs had an event July 15 they called "Sizzle Tuesday" where a few dozen bloggers were given advanced screening copies of Randy Olson's new film "Sizzle". Seems it went well, there are links to 46 reviews on the Sizzle...
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Posted on July 29, 2008 10:37 AM • 0 Comments •
The background for this post is The Great Global Warming Swindle and the recent judgement [PDF] by the British media regulator OFCOM regarding complaints of misleading the public and misrepresenting the science. Tim Lambert has a detailed look at the...
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Posted on July 23, 2008 10:27 AM • 3 Comments •
