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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.

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August 31, 2007

The pathetic AAPG

Category: septic tripe

For a long time the AAPG enjoyed the dubious distinction of being the only organisation with any kind of scientific credibility that maintained an officially septic position on climate change, as reported by the official journal of record, wikipedia. That...

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Multi-scale analysis of global temperature changes and trend of a drop in temperature in the next 20 years!?!

Category: septic tripe

Tim Lambert provides the abstract of Zhen-Shan and Xian; MW was kind enough to send the text. I've seen it before... probably via Monckton or one of the std.septic channels. Lambert describes it as "just a rubbish paper that should...

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August 30, 2007

Sawyer: prophetic or wot?

Category: climate science

Two sources point me towards a Neville Nicholls letter about a 35 year old paper by Sawyer, but Inel gets the hat tip. Nicholls uses the paper to demonstrate that concern about GW is nothing new (it also blows the...

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Survey: Less Than Half of all Published Scientists Endorse Global Warming Theory?

Category: septic tripe

Back to the septic tripe I fear (thanks Fergus). From dailytech.com, whatever that is, we have someone "updating Oreskes". And the work has been submitted to... yes you guessed it, E+E. Bit of a hint there re quality. Does this...

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August 29, 2007

Fun from a Czech physicist, and other wiki tales of glee

Category: septic tripe

Have a look at this edit, where Lumidek loses his rag. Slightly less wacko, but not losing touch with the septic, the AAPG seems to be coming closer to reality whilst being careful not to get there. Meanwhile someone calling...

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The value of polling scientists

Category: climate communication

There have been various attempts to survey scientists opinions about climate change. Wiki has an article on this: Scientific opinion on climate change. Check the recent history for another attempt... :-) All of these attempts have various methodological problems which...

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August 24, 2007

NERC strategy

Category: climate communication

NERC has a new strategy draft out (I think its public - if you can't read it, its not...). And it has an ambitious goal: UK to lead the world in the prediction of the regional and local impacts of...

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August 23, 2007

Hard To Tell If Wikipedia Entry On Dada Has Been Vandalized Or Not

Category: wikipedia

From The Onion, Hard To Tell If Wikipedia Entry On Dada Has Been Vandalized Or Not. Sadly the actual article is boringly factual (or it was; I've had a go at improving it but I doubt it will last. I...

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Projection / Prediction

Category: climate communication

I'm now hopelessly confused about the distinction between climate projection and prediction. I used to be happy with what I thought was the case: that given the range in model results, and no good way of knowing the best, calling...

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August 21, 2007

Bayeux

Category: photo

We recently visited Bayeux, to see the famous tapestry, but I thought the cathedral was better. And its free! So I shall bore you with my photos, if you click here....

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Climate protests at Heathrow: why?

Category: climate grumping

If you live outside the UK, chances are that you haven't noticed the climate "camp" protests at Heathrow. Despite various forecasts of direct action, there seems to have been very little action and a lot of sitting around. I'm left...

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Runaway tipping elements of no return

Category: climate science

RC laid into tipping points a while back but now they are back in fashion, it seems: via Tim Lenton, reported at RC today. But they seem as vague and ill-defined as ever. I still retain my antipathy to the...

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August 20, 2007

Theisraelproject.org spam

Category: climate communication

Israeli Climatologists Available for Comment on Hurricane Dean and Climate Change Developments says my inbox, and continues Nearly two years after Hurricane Katrina devastated much of the U.S. Gulf Coast, another dangerous Atlantic hurricane is gaining strength in the Caribbean....

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August 19, 2007

Sensitivity by Schwartz, and Irreducible imprecision

Category: climate science

JA has a nice entry on Schwartz' sensitivity estimate pointing out where the probable errors are. I too found the 5-y timescale rather low. Fitting in with James's assessment that S is wandering out of his field, I was surprised...

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August 12, 2007

Corbyns cr*p predictions

Category: septic tripe

Its been obvious for quite a while that there is no trend in solar to explain climate trends; this is the bleedin' obvious but Lockwood managed to get a paper out of it a while back. Of course neither paper...

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August 11, 2007

The reaction to Smith

Category: climate science

Doug Smith and colleagues have a new paper in Science Improved Surface Temperature Prediction for the Coming Decade from a Global Climate Model. The abstract is Previous climate model projections of climate change accounted for external forcing from natural and...

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