March 31, 2006
Category: climate science
Its not often I get a paper into Science (although admittedly I'm last author) so I'll mention it here: Significant Warming of the Antarctic Winter Troposphere J. Turner, T. A. Lachlan-Cope, S. Colwell, G. J. Marshall, W. M. Connolley, 31...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:28 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 30, 2006
Category: climate opinion
Via Chris Mooney, I find Bush talking nonsense on GW again at a press conference. Chris Mooney thinks Bush is rubbish, but actually cuts the Bush quote off to early. Bush sez: We -- first of all, there is --...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 2:58 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 29, 2006
Category: climate communication
I stole my headline from RP Jr, who links to the Nature article. RP Jr modestly makes no comment; RP Sr is so modest as to not even mention it (though he is puffing the distinctly dodgy Scarfetta and West...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:18 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 28, 2006
Category: climate news
Need a hint? Its Bowie....
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:41 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate economics
Said the headline in this mornings Grauniad. And by the evening it had become Labour fails on climate change on the Grauniad blog; though the spin was Beckett unveils new measures to cut CO2 or Climate change programme unveiled. And...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:05 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 26, 2006
Category: climate opinion
Over at an ID blog (I promise I don't read it regularly folks, blame RPM for pointing it out... looking closer I see the text there is somewhat wrong, this is probably the official version but its much the same)...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 8:07 AM • 31 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 24, 2006
Category:
Scientists forecast metre rise in sea levels this century says The Grauniad. I strongly suspect they have garbled things, though I admit I haven't read the original Science paper. I have read the NCAAR/UCAR press release Arctic, Antarctic Melting May...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 2:34 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 23, 2006
Category: wikipedia
A while ago, Nature did a study comparing wikipedia to Britannica (you can read my take on it here - oh, just look at the title I used :-). Now it seems that Britannica weren't very happy about the results,...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:39 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate news
I am a minor coauthor on a paper to appear in Science. Sadly thats all I can tell you, since the embargo on this paper has been set for 2:00 pm U.S. Eastern Time on Thursday, 30 March 2006. Well,...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 12:08 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 21, 2006
Category: misc
A reader foams at the mouth: You see, I set up Mozilla Firefox so that the default font is Verdana 18 point, because that's a size I am comfortable with, being a quintedecarian. Then all these WWW graphic designers say,...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:59 AM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 20, 2006
Category:
A variety of stories have come in recently (or at least fairly recently - I'm a bit behind the times, and it was a heavy weekend, wot with E getting chickenpox and the central heating failing) about CO2 levels, e.g....
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 2:13 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 17, 2006
Category: climate science
So... where to start? Back in the dim and distant days of a year or so ago, or back to the TAR, there was a problem: temperature trends at the surface and upper atmosphere were incompatible with how the models...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:25 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: wikipedia
The Economist has a survey on Open-source business (subs req). The usual suspects - apache, linux - come up, and of course so does wikipedia. And naturally enough (since this is a pile of econ journos who know b*gg*r all...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 12:17 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 16, 2006
Category: fun
Sorry folks, its time for the silly and offensive post! Many years ago, there was a Steve Bell carton, sometime around the Iran-Contra stuff I think, showing a panel of generals or stuff with names like "Peentangler" and the protagonist...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 2:11 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 15, 2006
Category: climate fun
RP Sr is advertising a "balanced" climate meeting. And why is he so confident of balance? Well, check out the list of organisers and speakers. You could play bingo with them :-). And if that isn't enough, good ol' Sonja...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:18 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate economics
Whenever people ask me about the possibility of us running out of fossil fuels, I usually reply that I'm no expert on oil reservoirs but that there are markets out there that are, and if we were going to run...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 1:16 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks