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June 30, 2006
Category: climate science
With hurricanes over Czech and Rain in New Mexico and the truely bizarre shuttle flying even though unsafe, is there any time or space for another round of hockey stick wars? No... don't go away, its interesting, really it is!...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:57 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 26, 2006
Category: climate communication
This makes sense to me... but I doubt the world will heed him...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:25 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 24, 2006
Category: climate communication
In my last post I called it the NAS report, sorry. I had expected a proper analysis form some (disinterested?) party by now. Perhaps that was optimistic. Its a long report, and the important bits are dense, and have previously...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:41 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 22, 2006
Category: climate communication
The long-awaited NAS report Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years is out. Roger Pielke says the NAS has rendered a near-complete vindication for the work of Mann et al as a first reaction. I've skimmed the first 4...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:41 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 21, 2006
Category: wikipedia
[[Global Warming]] became a "featured article" on wikipedia about a month ago (long tedious arguments about the stylistic wording, and about the reference format) and today was the "featured article of the day" on the front page. Which has lead,...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 1:38 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 19, 2006
Category: climate communication
There is a lot of interest in the last Nature. Indeed so much that I'll just blip through it... First off, the "open peer review" debate continues (as first blogged by JA), see here (for most of these links I...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 9:29 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 18, 2006
Category: misc
Via JA I find David @ Tokyo who blogs about Caribbean Loses Drive For Secret Ballot At Whale Meet. Now I find this a bit weird... the caribbean nations don't have any interest in whaling; they are interested only because...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 8:26 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 15, 2006
Category: climate communication
Says The Canadian Free Press (warning: it has lots of stupid ads on it). I wonder what it is? But not very much. What does it *say*? Well, its an attempt to counter Gores movie (oh good, that means people...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 10:43 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 14, 2006
Category: misc
Today and yesterday I went on a management training course. This is a complete reversal of policy by me, who has previously avoided them like the plague. Partly this is a feeling that since I am now quasi-managing two people...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:54 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 13, 2006
Category: fun
Someone made me a possible new banner... I'm not sure... what do my faithful readers think? Would it make you more likely to read the blog? Or would you rather I just found something interesting to say about science? Update:...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:14 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 12, 2006
Category: not fun at all
Terrible story from todays guardian: Killing themselves was unnecessary. But it certainly is a good PR move. Oddly enough I don't see this in the blogosphere... maybe because there isn't much else to say. Or people are too busy with...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 2:32 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 8, 2006
Category: climate communication
The UK has appointed a special representative on climate change says the BBC. Interesting. Does this prove that we're taking climate change seriously, or does it prove we're more interested in words than action?...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:08 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 5, 2006
Category: climate science
So says Science. But for the life of me I can't see why. Hat tip: CB and (!) LM....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:03 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate fun
NSIDC has made a select set of images viewable through the popular interactive desktop application, Google Earth. Currently, Google Earth users can view images showing permafrost, snow, sea ice extent, and photographs of glaciers. Distribution of permafrost, snow, and ice...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:15 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 2, 2006
Category: climate science
We had a talk at work today by a chap (eminent mathematician I think) about looking at the distribution of extremes in the temperature record and trying to say something about detection. The problem is that extremes are statistically rather...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 9:44 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 1, 2006
Category: fun
I've just downloaded Gmail drive for windows. There is a linux version, this is the windows one (shame, I didn't even add a z). Via the medium of sending emails to your google account, it lets you store files remotely....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:17 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
