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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
Category: climate fun
From the grauniad: Surfers fear smaller swell as Atlantic wave farm approved. Well you can't make everyone happy....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:37 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 17, 2007
Category: climate science?
Inel drags me into the polar bear wars again by quoting the Heartland Institute: "Real-world evidence shows polar bear numbers are increasing rapidly throughout the Arctic". She offers no evidence against this, which is fair enough as they offer no...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:23 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate snarking
A reader writes... I trust you will critique Ingrid is born; Humberto and Felix--a sign of climate change?. Naturally I'm stupid enough to fall for that sort of a challenge....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 7:30 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 16, 2007
Category: climate fun
Looking back over the past sea ice record, I see that a min year is very rarely followed by another record. But some people are getting so carried away by this years ice, they might not realise that. So does...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:37 PM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 15, 2007
Category: climate science
A reader writes... why don't I write about the Arctic sea ice? The answer is, what is there to say that others haven't already? Cryosphere today seems to be a good source, from which my graph is taken. Actually...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 7:53 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 14, 2007
Category: misc
I happened to be visiting ESA's page, and found its image of the week, which is Rotterdam. So I thought I'd look at googles version and - its much better. And of course you can scroll in to far better...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:33 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
