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March 28, 2007
Category: climate science
Following my previous post there has been discussion in the comments on "which graph to believe". Sadly this becomes ideological, for some. I think the major point is that the HPS '97 graph (the one here) just isn't used...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 11:11 AM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 24, 2007
Category: climate science
In 1998, there appears Climate Change Record in Subsurface Temperatures: A Global Perspective (Science 9 October 1998: 279-281) (subs req: sorry; abstract probably free) by Henry N. Pollack, Shaopeng Huang, Po-Yu Shen. The take-home message from that paper is...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 12:00 PM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 21, 2007
Category: misc
Today Broon delivered the 2007 budget. Listening to the news, it seems like mostly a nullity: just about everyone has had some taxes raised and others lowered (though we may gain a few hundred from tax changes). Fiddling because you...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:20 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 20, 2007
Category: climate communication
I have an "opinion piece" in Scitizen. Its called... "Lack of Errors in the IPCC Statement for Policymakers"... :-)...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:55 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 14, 2007
Category: climate communication
I have a guest post over at Ellee Seymour's blog. Its an attempt at explaining TGGWS for more political type folks. Meanwhile The Independent has an article on the faked graphs; sadly the online version hasn't got the pix....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 12:12 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 13, 2007
Category: septic tripe
TGGWS was rebroadcast on Monday. I didn't see it, but B did, and his eagle eyes spotted at least one figure that has changed: see if you can see the differences (LHS:new; RHS:old): Yes, thats right: they have put it...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:39 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate science
OK, so we're back to the question of whether T leads CO2 in the ice cores, the skepics favourite talking point. The std.answer is "OK, so there is a lead (maybe) but..." (Stoat passim). The "but" is a good enough...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 2:22 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 12, 2007
Category: climate science
Guest posting by (or rather, ripped from) Eric Wolff. It is indeed a very fundamental question about whether the CO2 leads or lags the temperature. If there was somewhere in the ice core record where CO2 increases and temperature does...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:21 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: septic tripe
Someone who probably wishes to remain anonymous has suggested a possible source for the rather odd "120 year temperature" plot that TGGWS used. Which is: its land-only data, 5y smoothed, from 1878 to 1988, replotted onto an 1880-2000 axis....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 2:15 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 10, 2007
Category: climate science
Well thats what RP Sr sez. Although he immeadiately gets cold feet and adds "Or, At Best Cherrypicking". I think he should make up his mind - if he is going to throw around a rather hard term like "errors"...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:32 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate science
Its evident that some people are still confused by the T/CO2 relationship, so I'll have another go in fairly simple terms. Let me start with the "official" position, if you like. There are two cases: the current one, where we're...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 1:32 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 9, 2007
Category: climate fun
Well of course, all the time. But in particular World Climate Report claims to be the webs longest running climate change blog (we'll leave aside the fact that it doesn't allow comments - how odd, I wonder why? - and...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:11 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate science
Thanks to BG, we have a screen capture of the solar graph from the silly "Swindle" prog; I've inlined it. Now this is nice, because it says S+C as source. Which means we can look-up the ever useful Damon...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:04 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 8, 2007
Category: septic tripe
My previous post refers. OK, so I went round to a friends to watch the thing. It was fun. My friends weren't scientists (one of them was a teacher just finishing preparing his classwork on witches, how appropriate), which meant...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:49 PM • 50 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 6, 2007
Category: climate science
*I* don't know. It depends on what you mean. Or perhaps as RP Jr said, "It is a little like saying, would you prefer a poverty rate of 10% or 8%? Well, lower is better, the question is how do...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 10:30 AM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 5, 2007
Category: climate communication
In the course of Why Channel 4 has got it wrong over climate change Robin McKie says: The Observer's travel desk already gets hate mail merely for highlighting interesting destinations that might seem to encourage carbon-producing air travel Well no....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:28 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
