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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....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 11:41 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 11:30 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:31 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:05 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:23 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 11:41 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 12:11 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:20 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:57 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 11:50 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 15, 2006
Category: climate communication
So says... yes you guessed, its the Guardian again. My first thought was, oh how typical, not "because its right", but for electoral reasons. But thats probably wrong thinking: if the grass roots are pushing for it, then splendid. However......
Posted by William M. Connolley at 1:10 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate communication
Nude Scientist (thanks Eli) has a feature on wot bits of AR4 will be controversial. Which I think is a bit premature and maybe a bit silly too, but I guess they have to write something in the absence of...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 12:33 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: septic tripe
Todays grauniad has a piece by Monckton, "This wasn't gibberish. I got my facts right on global warming". Its in the "response" column, where people get a chance to reply. Sadly its all more gibberish. But also somewhat sadly the...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:31 AM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 5, 2006
Category: climate science
JA wigs me on having said Stern appears to have got one thing right... he has taken the IPCC view as standard, slightly updated. That was pre-report, based on a quick flip through the consultation paper. But on closer inspection...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:42 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
