July 20, 2007
Category: misc
Its summer, which is why its poured with rain. More floods, etc etc. Here it was only somewhat wet, though it stopped in time for the friday evening pub visit. And it was also the last day of school: Miranda...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:02 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 16, 2007
Category: misc
Sez the Grauniad. So far so dull. More interesting was TVs and computers are the "electronic babysitters" for a generation of children who are losing out on family life and becoming more materialistic, a report says today. The study paints...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:08 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate snarking
The goal of Climate Science on this subject (of glacier advance and retreat) is to present documentation that the frequently stated claim that glaciers are retreating everywhere is an inaccurate statement sez RP in response to his first comment. Of...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 12:54 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 13, 2007
Category: septic tripe
Since we were on TGGWS-wanabe's (can it really be true that no-one has pointed out to her that her CO2 graph is junk? Why is it still there?) it seems appropriate to note that a heavily-cut version has aired in...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 7:20 AM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 12, 2007
Category: climate science
The egregious Soon has a paper, Variable solar irradiance as a plausible agent for multidecadal variations in the Arctic-wide surface air temperature record of the past 130 years which is a weasel-worded title if ever I saw one. But anyway:...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 12:04 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 11, 2007
Category: septic tripe
So whats new you ask? Well nothing, but its worth pointing out. The issue in question is What do we learn from Glaciers in the Highest Altitudes In The Alps? which found (quick reminder) that though low-altitude glaciers were retreating,...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:59 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 10, 2007
Category: septic tripe
Eli has the septics latest example of TGGWS-style graph faking - take a look. Or it could just be incompetence, I suppose (theirs, not Eli's)....
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 12:59 PM • 75 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: tech
I'm using VNC to view unix through windows and very nice it is. One irritating feature was lack of cut-n-paste between the VNC window and the outside world, but I could live with that. Then I wanted to run a...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 9:36 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate science
You couldn't get a more perfect example of desperation than: At the recent International Symposium on "Landform - structure, evolution, process control", University of Bonn, Germany, June 7-10, 2007, that I attended, there was evidence presented of the retreat of...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 9:14 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 5, 2007
Category: climate science
Very little other than the bleedin' obvious I fear. Inel laments her lack of access; but http://blog.petedecarlo.com/ has read it and provides a copy of the Nature comment, but not the Proc Royal Soc original. Not having read the original,...
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