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September 26, 2007
Category: climate science?
Not a very good title I fear. I'm referring to Lovelock and Rapley propose cure for global warming wherein James "we're all doooomed I tell 'ee" Lovelock and Chris "used-to-be-my-director" Rapley propose a load of floating pipes to haul up...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:10 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate science
Look at my nice picture. It shows a height-latitude zonal mean of (modelled) temperature, a difference of two 20 year means: 2080-2099 minus 2000-2019. This is for the far-future but we'll pretend its a rough proxy for the present...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 1:28 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate grumping
Via desmogblog, a Nasa article about snow melting in Greenland: NASA Finds Greenland Snow Melting Hit Record High in High Places. A new NASA-supported study reports that 2007 marked an overall rise in the melting trend over the entire Greenland...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:33 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 25, 2007
Category: climate politics
He does if you read FP Passport, whatever that is (thanks Inel). He says Nobody is really arguing about the science. Everybody acknowledges the cost of doing something is a lot less than the cost of doing nothing. Everybody acknowledges...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 10:00 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 24, 2007
Category: climate science
Eli had a note on this, forgetting of course that I had scooped this long ago :-). Its worth noting that the paper got slightly weaker after review: the published version says Whatever the cause of the 1age overestimate, our...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 11:38 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate communication
I assume this is all mostly a matter of stupidity and mischief making rather than any concerted attack, but the 1971 R+S science paper makes an unexpected comeback. Tim Lambert has the story; Lubos falls for the lies (I'm being...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 8:54 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 22, 2007
Category: politics
So much cynicism just has to be correct. From CIP. Mind you, I think he is too kind to Petraeus....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:04 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 21, 2007
Category: fun
Ethon is in danger of deletion. As it says "Google for "ethon + prometheus -wikipedia" gives a handful of hits from nonreliable sources". Eli unreliable? But at least I now know what all that liver stuff was about....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 12:20 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 19, 2007
Category: misc
Stein already took the better title. I only mention this because we had that Mike Baillie at BAS a week ago, talking about his theory that comets caused a couple of notable events - the black death amongst them -...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:54 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 18, 2007
Category: climate politics
Yes, thats right, all the power plants will be in Northern Ireland, ha ha. Anyway Huhne plans zero-carbon Britain sez the grauniad. Interesting. The policy paper is here, reassuringly titled "final". Nice to see a major party advocating this stuff....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:04 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
