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Category: general
So I will be in Fiji for a one week stop over on my way home from Tasmania to Vancouver and I do not expect to have much internet access and/or time. I think I will schedule a few "Climate...
Posted by coby at 5:33 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: general
(why am I thinking about cocaine now?) So recently two very prolific climate contrarian commenters picked up their toys and went home. Skip did a nice piece on that surprise event. crakar was one of my most prolific commenters,...
Posted by coby at 8:07 AM • 36 Comments •
Category: general
Let's continue the Hockey Stick Open thread, as suggested by skip, under a new title. A great place to pick it up is skip's most excellent response to a comment from crakar. He totally nailed all of crakar's various diversions...
Posted by coby at 7:17 AM • 43 Comments •
Category: editorial
Check out WAG's simple, yet quintessential message on his Blog Action Day post, aptly titled "The only thing you need to know about global warming"...
Posted by coby at 3:09 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: general
Comments on the Hockey Stick is Broken article have really overrun, so they are now closed. I have not had the time to pipe in as much as I would have liked. I have however seen the requests for an...
Posted by coby at 3:54 PM • 153 Comments •
Category: general
Please place any additional comments/replies about CO2 and H2O and absorption and greenhouse gases etc here... [Update: I meant additional to the digression on the "did greenpeace lie" thread.]...
Posted by coby at 10:33 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: general
I have tried to make it quite clear a few times that regardless of no new record, there is no evidence that the underlying rising trend in global surface temperatures has reversed or stopped. But absent a short term rising...
Posted by coby at 1:15 PM • 84 Comments •
Category: general
Lots of FUD about climate models get thrown around in the Climate Wars, but what is it they are really doing anyway? The contrarians would have us believe they just take in a bunch of contrived parameters and spit...
Posted by coby at 8:29 AM • 39 Comments •
Category: general
So a couple of regular supporting commenters have said they will abandon AFTIC unless I do something about a couple of regular antagonistic commenters. It is a difficult question for me as I do appreciate having help answering the various...
Posted by coby at 8:07 AM • 39 Comments •
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