Expert Consensus on the Economics of Climate Change is a report from the Institute for Policy Integrity1, and comes to me via Slate via Twitter. I read the paper and failed to find the obvious flaws, so over to you. They ran a 15-question online survey… We invited the 1,103 experts who met our selection…
Data or Dogma? (full title “Data or Dogma? Promoting Open Inquiry in the Debate over the Magnitude of Human Impact on Earth’s Climate”) is the hearings promoted by U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), chairman of the Subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness. Happily, this is one of those questions we can answer easily: when you’ve…
Storm Desmond brings flooding and disruption to parts of UK says Auntie, and so it seems – the flood warning map is a sea of severe. Or you can have Storm Desmond: major incident declared as police urge people to evacuate home. I don’t usually do severe weather posts, but I thought I’d make an…
At some point SB moved wordpress versions, and when this occurred old links broke. Every now and again when I come across an old post I fix them up, but you can’t, so here is the sekret decoder ring. Things like: http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2007/11/hansen_again.php turn into http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2007/11/23/hansen-again/ Which is annoying, because whilst you can get from “new”…
In fact I’m not quite as certain of the Right Thing as my headline suggests; but if I’m going to nail my colours to the mast in advance of the UK’s parliament’s probable vote next week, I may as well be definite. It puts me with Jeremy Corbyn and against most of the UK pols.…
UK cancels pioneering £1bn carbon capture and storage competition says the Graun: Two projects had been in the running to build plants demonstrating CCS at commercial scale. One was backed by Shell and SSE at Peterhead. The White Rose consortium was based at Drax, the UK’s largest power plant, but was in trouble after Drax…
It looks somehow so serene. All that flawless blue sky. Hopefull Evil Uncle Vlad won’t flail out in quite the same way that Good Uncle Sam did after 9/11. It is a much smaller matter, of course; but the Commies, errrm, aren’t really reliably sane. Unlike, errrm, the Yanks. The FT gives me hope: although…
Whenever I descended into the den of iniquity that is WUWT, I’d get “CAGW” flung at me. And I’d always reply that they had made it up1. See for example my If it isn’t catastrophic we’ve got nothing to worry about, have we? or comments in When will it start cooling? But now, alas, the…
An interesting paper in Nature Communications (David B. Kemp, Kilian Eichenseer and Wolfgang Kiessling, doi:10.1038/ncomms9890), and yet oddly unreported, or at least not in the corner of the blogosphere that I watch (did I miss you? Sorry, tell me). True, its not easy to interpret, but even so I’m surprised. I was hoping that someone…
It’s not Rice terraces in Yunnan of course: it’s Caribbean brain coral, from the Royal Society photo competition. The winner, tadpoles, is cute, but looks to be a rip-off of the rather better newt. Unless its a common idea. The fish is good, too: As is the snake. I like abstracts: A friend of mine,…