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June 26, 2007
Category: climate communication
G points out that the IPCC AR4 comments are now available. Presumably due to JA's efforts :-). A quick browse didn't throw up anything funny (the Courntey bit is pathetic rather than funny). I made a minor comment to the...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:48 PM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A weird one. Planktos is a for-profit company that appears to intend to sequestrate CO2 by causing algal blooms. Anyone with more info on this is invited to comment. And they will sell you CO2 offsets. For example: The average...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 12:52 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate science
Gosh this is fun... you wait ages for a paper on a warm event and then 2 come along together :-). Anyway, thanks to FB for pointing out How unusual was autumn 2006 in Europe? in Climate of the Past....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 12:45 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 22, 2007
Category: climate science
Asks RP Sr's paper in GRL (or rather, ask Thomas N. Chase, Klaus Wolter, Roger A. Pielke Sr and Ichtiaque Rasool). Interestingly, they conclude "not really". This of course is contrary to what everyone knows, so their paper has been...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 9:42 AM • 51 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 21, 2007
Category: septic tripe
We now know what Vaclav Klaus thinks. And the answer is... some very stupid things. On the "science", he says No in answer to "If it is a reality, is it man-made?" and "if it is a reality, is it...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 11:15 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 19, 2007
Category: climate science?
Not quite "we're all going to die" again, but close. But this time by James Hansen, and published in Proceedings of the Royal Society.There is an the Indescribably-over-hypeded write up of it. Featuring: nothing short of a planetary rescue will...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:52 AM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 18, 2007
Category: climate economics
A colleague told me about an interesting article I'd missing in the grauniad: The inconvenient truth about the carbon offset industry. Which I fear merely confirms my lack of trust of these things....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 9:12 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate science?
Prompted by a fight at wikipedia over whether PC is an astrophysicist, a meterologist, a meterological consultant, or something else, I looked at "weather action"s website for his proofs of success (ah, for those who don't know, PC claims to...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:30 PM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: fun
Well of course we are - everyone does. But are we all going to die of global warming? Lovelock thinks so, and so does a member of Royalty: we are "all going to die like the dinosaurs and another species...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 12:46 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate science
Nature has a brief report on a PNAS paper, "Transient climate-carbon simulations of planetary geoengineering" by H. Damon Matthews and Ken Caldeira. BTW, before I get going, look at the sidebar on the right of PNAS - there is a...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:15 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 15, 2007
Category: science
David J.C. MacKay has a draft book out online, http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/ , which is worth a browse. He is due to give a talk here in a bit, which should prove interesting. The book is an attempt to look at renewable...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 12:56 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 14, 2007
Category: climate opinion
Vaclav Klaus says We are living in strange times. One exceptionally warm winter is enough - irrespective of the fact that in the course of the 20th century the global temperature increased only by 0.6 per cent - for the...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 11:55 AM • 51 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate fuels
World oil supplies are set to run out faster than expected, warn scientists but this turns out to be the usual suspects. Its in response to BP: BP's Statistical Review of World Energy, published yesterday, appears to show that...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 8:23 AM • 37 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: fun
A reader enquires the right-wing blogosphere and US media is reporting that Al Gore planned a rock concert in Antarctica in July, but when contacting BAS was told that it's mid-winter and a bad time to make the attempt (e.g....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:37 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 12, 2007
Category: misc
At Flickr. And I've been to Hathersage (which is rather a long way from Dinas Cromlech)....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:50 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 11, 2007
Category: climate communication
Still don't have a full report on Climate change prediction:a robust or flawed process? but I do have a brief word of Lindzens tactics (being a skeptic he has "tactics", of course, unlike the Good Guys who just tell it...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:31 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
