November 30, 2006
Category: climate science
The "dams produce lots of methane" arguement has come up again, in Nature (subs req): In the specific case of Balbina, there is now a rough consensus: in terms of avoiding greenhouse-gas emissions, a fossil-fuel plant would have been better....
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 11:41 AM • 11 Comments •
Category: climate science
Climate change sceptics lose vital argument says the New Scientist. This is a novel twist on a paper in Nature: Gulf Stream density structure and transport during the past millennium; David C. Lund, Jean Lynch-Stieglitz and William B. Curry; doi:10.1038/nature05277....
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 11:30 AM • 5 Comments •
Category: climate communication
There is a fun wiki user page collecting a rebuttal of Moncktons nonsense. Mostly I'm impressed by peoples patience in bothering to follow it all through. One thing sticks out to me: Moncktons apparent use of references that totally fail...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:31 AM • 6 Comments •
November 28, 2006
Category: climate science
From Science 17 November 2006: Vol. 314. no. 5802, p. 1064 DOI: 10.1126/science.314.5802.1064a: A closer look at the Atlantic Ocean's currents has confirmed what many oceanographers suspected all along: There's no sign that the ocean's heat-laden "conveyor" is slowing. The...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:05 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: climate science
The BBC reports The Global Carbon Project says that emissions were rising by less than 1% annually up to the year 2000, but are now rising at 2.5% per year. And then provides various reasons why this is so, including...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:23 AM • 8 Comments •
November 23, 2006
Category: misc
Of the Green blogs in the UK. Hmm, am I green? Maybe... Sadly since I'm not in the top 10 I don't get listed on the main page only in the see-also bit....
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 11:41 AM • 7 Comments •
November 22, 2006
Category: climate economics
Via Prometheus, I find a review of Stern by Nordhaus. First an aside: N is the first mainstream commentator I've seen to point out that the Great War on Terror was undertaken "with no discernible economic analysis"... as I've pointed...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 12:11 PM • 19 Comments •
November 19, 2006
Category: misc
We had a brief holiday on the Norfolk coast this weekend; and were lucky to have two days of near-perfect weather. Or at least blue skies - it was still pretty cold and somewhat blowy. Here you see our shadows...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:20 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: climate opinion
I mean, of course, the recent UNFCCC conference, not the city. There is a very negative BBC report. It seems to me that this is one of those scheduled meetings that has to be held even though nothing will come...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:57 PM • 5 Comments •
November 17, 2006
The AMS has a Draft statement on climate change, vn 7.0. I found it via RP Sr, who dislikes it, for the obvious reasons: it fails to reflect his hobbyhorses: which are, as ever, downplaying the role of CO2 in...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 11:50 AM • 10 Comments •