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December 21, 2006
Category: fun
Today is the solstice, hurrah, days get longer from now on. And we've just come through our first hard frosts of the winter into Fog. So here is a joke, told to me by Daniel from his friend Adam: One...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:03 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate economics
... as said by the wise CIP in the comments. Although I wasn't quite sure how to interpret it. BTW, this is yet more Stern stuff - sorry. So the first thing to say is... I'm not really happy expressing...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 2:54 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 19, 2006
Category: climate economics
OK, I'm desperately trying to understand Stern, and failing. Things just don't seem to connect together properly. Possibly if I actually read the entire thing carefully... but who has the time. So, if anyone can explain to me: Stern sez:...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:36 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate communication
NERC has a bold new initiative... the NERC Climate Change Challenge. As they say Scientific evidence demonstrates clearly that human activity is changing the planet's climate. But there are still sceptics who dispute the data and its interpretation. If you...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 9:16 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 18, 2006
Category: climate science
RP Sr has yet another post The Relevance of Nonlinear Effects In the Climate System pushing the usual stuff: Thus if we accept that small perturbations can result in significant changes in the climate system through nonlinear interactions, then all...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 2:24 PM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 15, 2006
Category: not fun at all
Or, perhaps more politely, 'National interest' halts arms corruption inquiry. From the grauniad article: A major criminal investigation into alleged corruption by the arms company BAE Systems and its executives was stopped in its tracks yesterday when the prime minister...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 7:18 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 13, 2006
Category: climate science
I was at the NCAS conference today (since it was in Cambridge it would have been impolite not to go). Tim "Da Man" Palmer spoke about, ermm, sort of a merge of NWP and climate scales. But thats not the...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 12:48 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 10, 2006
Category: climate science
Having had a couple of comments on this, I realise that some of the required background on Bayesian statistics is waaaay over some peoples heads. This is probably no fault of theirs. Let me make some faint attempt at explanation,...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 2:45 PM • 32 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 9, 2006
Category: climate opinion
Says the latest Oxfam missive through our door. And their website has similar, sourced to the Stern report: ..the unfair way climate change affects people living in poverty. They are least responsible for the problem, have benefited less from levels...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 12:50 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 8, 2006
Category: climate science
This post is just to get you to read James Annans post about: An Inconvenient Truth. Which is his (& Jules) attempt to get his paper about climate sensitivity published. Since the paper is sound, and sensible, and very clear...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:48 AM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 5, 2006
Category: climate science
I've listed a few of Moncktons mistakes in previous posts; and RC has a nice article about his misunderstanding climate sensitivity. Adam points out in a comment that Monbiot is now saying (in the comments) ...what happened to the debate...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 1:27 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 1, 2006
Category: climate economics
The Cambridge Energy Forum organised a day-conference on Sustainable Energy - 1 Dec.2006. Sadly I had a program meeting in the morning and children to pick up after school so I only got to go to bits of it: which...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 1:48 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
