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I've been using Google Reader recently, following the lamented death of Planet Fleck, and I suppose I have to admit its better.
Here are some "shared items" if, for some reason, you want to read what I read.
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 :-)))...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:17 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks