October 31, 2006
Category: climate economics
It looks now rather unlikely that I'll bother read much more Stern, and will instead lazily rely on others. Tim Worstall seems to be doing some reading, and (surprise!) doesn't believe Sterns economic numbers. SR is getting lots of good...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 7:49 AM • 6 Comments •
October 30, 2006
Category: climate opinion
For those old enough to remember the Oreskes-Peiser controversy, Deltoid makes interesting reading....
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:28 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: climate economics
Though of course I havent read the whole thing or anywhere close. I wonder if anyone ever will. Maybe it will be fun reading for Christmas! Or maybe not... Looking at Part I. First science nugget: "a doubling of pre-industrial...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 8:55 AM • 13 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: climate communication
The IPCC TAR has gone awol. Try http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/index.htm . OTOH http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/ is still there. How odd....
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:25 AM • 1 Comments •
October 29, 2006
Category: climate economics
It seems to be open season on pre-posts on the Stern Review, so I'll pick some bits out of the Beebs coverage. To start with: Even worse, these costs will not be shared evenly. There will be a disproportionate burden...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:15 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: misc
Daniels half-term homework included seeing a Tudor building, which we only discovered rather late... Sunday in fact. But since it was a lovely day, perhaps the last of a rather extended summer (so I sneaked down to the end...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 12:24 PM • 0 Comments •
October 28, 2006
Category: climate science
From the Grauniad: Cold weather's 25,000 deaths toll is scandal, say charities - so bring on global warming, they said. Except, of course, they didn't. The article doesn't even mention global warming. But if people die in heatwaves its all...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:17 AM • 8 Comments •
October 27, 2006
Category: climate science
Its a week for re-runs, now the gives us Sea change: why global warming could leave Britain feeling the cold / No new ice age yet, but Gulf Stream is weakening / Atlantic current came to halt for 10 days...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:01 AM • 0 Comments •
October 26, 2006
Category: climate communication
Just a quick pointer towards an article in Newsweek (which now appears under MSN? Odd...) Remember Global Cooling? quoting yours truly. The article isn't entirely satisfactory, in that it doesn't really point out the errors Newsweek made then - indeed,...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 11:27 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: climate economics
Don't you just hate it when the newspapers write up something based on selective leaks and insider info, and then fail to ptoperly report on the real thing because its been done already? Well, I'm not going to do that...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 9:12 AM • 4 Comments •