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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...
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 --...
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...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:18 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 28, 2006
Category: climate news
Need a hint? Its Bowie....
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...
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)...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 8:07 AM • 31 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 24, 2006
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...
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,...
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,...
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,...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:59 AM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 20, 2006
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 1:16 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
