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September 25, 2006
Category: climate science
Head in a Cloud has a post about a GRL paper: Luis Eduardo Antunes Vieira and Ligia Alves da Silva of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil, entitled "Geomagnetic modulation of clouds effects in the Southern Hemisphere Magnetic Anomaly...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:18 AM • 1 Comments •
September 21, 2006
Category: climate economics
A thing called the U.S. Climate Change Technology Program Strategic Plan has been released (thanks to commenters at RC for the link). It seems (of course, I haven't read the whole thing...) to be a set of options for reducing...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:52 AM • 9 Comments •
Category: climate communication
Yesterday I noted with approval a letter from the Royal Society asking Exxon to stop funding climate change denial. RP Jr, bizarrely, finds this inconsistent with the open and free exchange of ideas. Its bizarre because Exxons funding of these...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:38 AM • 14 Comments •
September 20, 2006
News just in... California is suing its own governor over his Hummer... no, of course not. But California sues carmakers over global warming. California sued six of the world's largest automakers over global warming on Wednesday, charging that greenhouse gases...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:15 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: misc
I really must try to interact more with the other Seed bloggers. As a minor help towards that, I'm going to paste here the link I always lose to the internal fora. I assume it won't work for outsiders....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 11:40 AM • 3 Comments •
September 19, 2006
Category: wikipedia
And you can read about it at http://citizendium.org/. Predicatably enough, wikipedia already has an article on it. Will it fly? Who knows... [Update: Nature has an article on this, featuring a brief appearence by yours truely... I don't get to...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:21 PM • 3 Comments •
September 18, 2006
Category: climate communication
Over at pharyngula (which I *cannot pronounce... I could never be a biologist) there is an account of the silly ID's folks attack on Chris Mooney for not having the right credentials to talk about the science. Its a silly...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:04 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: climate communication
The AMQUA (American Quaternary Association, bet you didn't know that) takes AAPG (American Association of Petroleum Geologists) to task for giving Crichton its journalism award for State of Fear, with the laughable assertion that "It is fiction, but it has...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:40 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: climate science
Nature has a review on its front cover (subs req, of course) that pretty well says forget solar forcing for explaining current climate change ("brightening of the Sun is unlikely to have had a significant influence on global warming since...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 8:33 AM • 5 Comments •
September 17, 2006
Category: climate economics
Says the Guardian. The full report is here (by the Tyndall follk) but the summary (by FOE/Coop) is here. There is a clear void between the scale of the problem and the actual policy mechanisms proposed well I can agree...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:36 PM • 3 Comments •
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