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February 27, 2007
Category: climate fun
Yes, its... well I'm not quite sure what it it, but its wacky, and all the planets are taking part. See here. Page 1 is only silly; but page 2 gets seriously wacky: The "cause and effect" of these remarkable...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:10 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate science
So says Howat et al. in Science (why hasn't this made it into the blogosphere before? Or did I miss it?). Interestingly, though the most recent change is a decrease: Using satellite-derived surface elevation and velocity data, we find major...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 8:53 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 24, 2007
Category: fun
Sounds like a dumb idea and it seems to be one. So I looked up the Global Warming entry. Which I suppose you could compare to the wiki version. Unlike the wiki version the Consa one is just about fact...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:01 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 23, 2007
Category: climate communication
There is a new website called IPCCfacts. Presumably this is a reflection of the fact that the general public can't cope with reading the SPM, much less the full report when it emerges. The "facts" section is a bit thin...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:40 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: not fun at all
Well yes indeed, but in this particular case I'm referring to the funding for the Natural Environment Research Council, which has been cut in order to help pay for the govts failed attempt to rescue the Rover car company; and...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:59 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 21, 2007
Category: wikipedia
Coming back from the pub, I find the edit comment Someone added a bunch of none sence. First of all, it's not a giant beaver the creates the wind. Second, it's impossible that the people you mentioned knew about beavers....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:30 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 20, 2007
Category: fun
Thanks to G for http://www.cheatneutral.com/....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:35 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 15, 2007
Category: climate communication
If you happen to be free in Cambridge tonight (7:45) , you can hear me talk at the Cambridge Humanist, in between a country walk and a pot luck meal :-). Usual subject......
Posted by William M. Connolley at 12:06 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 14, 2007
Category: misc
I'm happy to say that in one respect at least the UK leads the world: the proportion of the U15's having sex. According to UNICEF we storm ahead with 38%, way ahead of our nearest rivals the repressed Swedes (figure...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 11:04 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate science
I thought I'd expand a bit more on why Svensmarks figure 4 is unacceptable (fig 4 of arXiv; fig 6 in Cosmoclimatology: a new theory emerges). Bear in mind that there is more wrong in the article than just this,...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 7:09 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate people
...but also about global warming. See here. And also Lubos's blog. And what did he have to say? President Klaus also expressed his opinion on the recent finding of the UN scientific panel on global warming. In his opinion, warming...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:26 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 10, 2007
Category: climate science
Yes, clouds and cosmic rays are back, via the indefatiguable Svensmark, at arXiv. But excitingly there is an Antarctic twist, in that the clouds connection explains the "Antarctic climate anomaly, ie why Antarctic and rest-of-work are out of sync. Errrm,...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:45 PM • 59 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 8, 2007
Category: climate science
Its probably a measure of how accepted the bulk of the AR4 SPM is, that the most interesting discussion about it seems to center around the sea level rise uncertainty ranges. There does indeed seem to be some confusion here......
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:34 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 5, 2007
Category: fun
In my rapid skim of the junk that the Independent put out, I missed the classic I've just used as a headline. Hat tip to Coby for actually reading the stuff. To quote Coby: It makes James Inhofe sound reasonable....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:43 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: misc
Nature, in the course of editorialising on the vast waste of money that is the US return to the moon plan (although they don't say that), sez, making the analogy with the return to the South Pole in the IGY:...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 8:57 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate communication
From the washington post on the AR4: Global Warming Unstoppable, Report Says. Hmmm. Which is worse? The press reporting the skeptics saying GW isn't happening / isn't human / isn't a problem. Or the press telling us we're all doomed...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 8:47 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
