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January 31, 2007
Category: septic tripe
DeSmog Leaks Advance Copy of Think Tank's IPCC Attack it says, and it is so. Presumptuously it calls itself the Independent SPM, but I think Septics SPM is more appropriate. Wot they have done is to draw up their own...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 9:38 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 28, 2007
Category: climate communication
More exciting leaks from the AR4, and a tale of two newspapers. Which, I'm sad to say, results in a resounding victory for the US. The rubbish story is Experts split over climate danger to Antarctica; Scientists challenge 'cautious' UN...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 12:16 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate science
My saner readers, I'm sure, aren't in the habit of reading Lubos; and indeed neither am I; so we have Ken Brook to thank for drawing Peer-reviewed global cooling to my attention. Its long on words but, oddly enough, rather...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:00 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 26, 2007
Category: politics
No not me, sadly :-( RP has a nice article on and exceprting a piece by Richard Benedick on Climate Policy. One bit that struck me: These UN mega-conferences have by now developed a predictable pattern. Considerable time is occupied...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 2:20 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: misc
I used to play Go at university and after, but rather dropped out when I had children. Recently I've started playing online again, though its a somewhat inhuman way of playing. One of the themes of those times was that...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:14 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 25, 2007
Category: climate communication
There is a r4 prog on Running the rule over Stern's numbers tonigh (8 pm). Apparently I get my 5 mins of fame at some point during it, we shall have to see. Update: Well, I was indeed there, for...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 11:13 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 24, 2007
Category: climate fuels
Having been rather negative about bio-fuels, I'll be positive and mention The ethanol program in Brazil. And the abstract is: The number of automobiles in the world has been growing fast and today requires one quarter of the global petroleum...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 11:27 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: fun
Not quite up to Albuquerque levels, but may well be the once-in-a-year event for Cambridge. We woke up to... a white blanket enveloping everything, or so it looked at first sight. On second sight it was a bit thinner...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:30 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 23, 2007
Category: climate science
Eli (normally a sensible chap) says: I think a lot of this revolves around the dichotomy between the rise to be observed by date x, the rise committed to (in the sense of there is no way of stopping it)...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 12:42 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate communication
In the Grauniad this time: "Global warming: the final verdict" (oh good, we can stop work and do something else!). One for Roger: A draft copy of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, obtained by...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 12:03 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 18, 2007
Category: fun
This is a recipe for peanut butter cookies. It was my sons homework last weekend. It worked out very well so I shall put it here so I don't lose it. You need: 75g butter; 50g peanut butter (we used...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 1:10 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 17, 2007
Category: climate science
I'm getting a bit annoyed with people pushing over-inflated estimates of SRL in the near future. Richard Alley apparently said There is no consensus on how much Greenland's ice will melt in the near future, Dr. Alley said, and no...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:30 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 16, 2007
Category: misc
There is a Science Blogging Anthology and an old post of mine on RC - the global cooling myth is in it. Apparently the book was produced in 3 weeks, such is the modern scheme, and is available via "lulu"...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:30 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate communication
In my review of AIT I deliberately obscured any science message by talking about carbon offsetting :-). But I did say: Pretty animations of 5m sea level rise flooding Manhattan and whatever. No mention of timescale. Its very dubious showing...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:33 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: misc
The House of Lords discussed Antarctica recently....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:21 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 15, 2007
Category: septic tripe
Volume 7, Number 4 (October-December 2006) of World Economics has a "dual review" of the science and economics of Stern. You need a subscription (or a friend...) to read wot those usual suspects Robert M. Carter, C. R. de Freitas,...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 10:02 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
