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May 29, 2006
Category: climate communication
The first blog I read was Quark Soup, back in the days when the M&M controversy was interesting... gosh that was a while ago. Then he got burned out; now he is back, at http://davidappell.blogspot.com/. Good. DA doesn't much like...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:15 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: misc
Aegypt is the name of a fantasy book by John Crowley, as well as the title of yet another non-climate-science post by me. I have loved several of Crowleys books - notably The Deep; Engine Summer; and Beasts. Which left...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:52 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 24, 2006
Category: climate communication
And the forum is: http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange/. Go have a look. Why? From the welcome message: We are creating a moderated newsgroup/mailing list for the discussion of environmental science, economics, policy and politics, especially as related to global change issues such as...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:52 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 21, 2006
Category: misc
Today (and to a lesser extent yesterday) was a deeply depressing grey day of rain. To make it worse, it would occaisionally stop, and lighten a bit, just to tempt you into the idea things were getting better. Left...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:38 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: misc
I've just had my 400th comment. You can't see it, cos I deleted it as distasteful :-) Williams blog rule for lots of comments: don't talk about science :-)))...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 1:49 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 20, 2006
Category: misc
Apparently Seed has a feature called "ask a science blogger" and there is a question of the week. This weeks is "If you could shake the public and make them understand one scientific idea, what would it be?". If anyone...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 7:18 AM • 55 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 17, 2006
Category: climate economics
Stoat, the blog that has abandoned science in favour of economics, about which I know little. But wait for the musing post on model skill scores... Anyway, the last post got lots of interesting comments - thank you - dear...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 11:38 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 15, 2006
Category: climate communication
Following on from Tim Lamberts post on Lindzens latest nonsense I found this from Henderson (as-in C+H). Its from the same conference....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:35 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate economics
Interesting little snippet on the news this morning: the EU carbon trading scheme is in some trouble, with prices heading down, because countries have issued excessive permits. Oops: someone has been careless (or naughty: I wonder which?). But thats for...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:26 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 14, 2006
Category: misc
When I were a lad (a long time ago) I went to the science museum (with my mother? father? both? I forget...) and remember the wonderful gallery of models of steam engine valve gear, models of old engines (some original...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:17 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: misc
For one reason or another, I usually seem to disagree with Kevin Vranes about most things (actually I suspect that we *agree* on most things, and the disagreements are only about the exciting stuff on blogs). But I do like...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:21 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 11, 2006
Category: climate science
The grauniad has an article in the IT section about "A cracking alternative to cement". They claim that cement is 10% of anthro CO2 (or 5-10% lower down; although that includes asphalt, which for some reason counts as cement based....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:26 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 8, 2006
Category: climate communication
Yes, the CCSP report is now out (thanks het for the link), and it looks like the story has a happy ending after all: there is no longer a discrepancy in the rate of global average temperature increase for the...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 8:33 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 7, 2006
Category: misc
I needed a new pair of trousers (shorts, actually) at short notice. My wife bought me a pair at Tesco's (sort of like Wal-Mart, if you're not from the UK). Looked very nice, cost £4. At that price, I joked,...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:03 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 4, 2006
Category: climate communication
The Grauniad echoes Nature (subs req, but since the Grauniad appears to have copied Nature fairly thoroughly you're not losing much) in saying that the US govt has leaked (do they use that phrase? well I shall) the IPCC AR4...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:29 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate science
This is about "Model projections of the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation for the 21st century assessed by observations" by A. Schmittner, M. Latif, and B. Schneider (here if you have a GRL subscription). Its interesting for two reasons: another data...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 9:59 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
