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I've been using Google Reader recently, following the lamented death of Planet Fleck, and I suppose I have to admit its better.
Here are some "shared items" if, for some reason, you want to read what I read.
April 30, 2007
Category: climate science
Unless I haven't been paying attention, the mighty Madhav Khandekar's "Questioning the Global Warming Science: An Annotated bibliography of recent peer-reviewed papers" has been met with total indifference. Until now... Its supposed (I think) to be a sort of Peiser-done-properly....
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 2:28 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 27, 2007
Category: climate communication
Prompted by the proofs of my review of AIT for Met Apps (oh, the fame!) I looked at the site again and found The Science. What they list there is very thin and with no useful links. I would have...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:22 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 25, 2007
Category: climate communication
Just when you thought the Great Global Warming Swindle rubbish had died down, Bob Ward has to go and stir things up again. So it gets into the Grauniad and the Scotsman too. Predictably enough, the scientists talk about the...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 8:55 AM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate science
While I still have a possible bet in the pipeline, Brian Schmidt now has a real bet lined up for a total of $6-$9k. Personally I think that 0.15 oC/decade is more likely than not, but that less is a...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:16 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: fun
News just in....
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:36 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 23, 2007
Category: climate communication
So says The Vancouver Sun (thanks to DR). In principle it would be a good idea: show the two together, note where they disagree, and go off to find what the actual data says. Which would rapidly show up how...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:53 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Having been away for the past two weeks i've missed most of the exciting "Framing Science" stuff. I feel most sympathetic to the PZ view... In that addressing your message to your audience seems fairly obvious. But I rather like...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:46 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 21, 2007
Category: climate communication
I've just listened to that Jeffrey Sachs, the international economist, giving the 2007 Reith Lecture called "Bursting At The Seams". I was only half listening but woke up when he said: Now like the ozone crisis, public awareness has been...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:43 PM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 20, 2007
Category: climate science
Thin day today, and anyway my plane leaves at half five. Some friends are off to see Mozarts grave but I opt for a sit in the cafe in front of th Dom. The pic follows in the tradiation...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:47 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 19, 2007
Category: climate science
Rowan Sutton: on the amplification of warming over land. That the land warms more than the oceans is well know; but as RS points out the *why* is somewhat less well known. I would have said, unthinkingly, its because of...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:25 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks