October 30, 2007
Category: misc
Taking a walk from a course at lunchtime I come across Wolvercote cemetary and little signs pointing to "J R R Tolkien, author". So I follow them. And there he is, along with Edith aka Luthien (checking up on wiki...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 10:50 AM • 9 Comments •
October 26, 2007
Category: climate science
There is a paper by Roe and Baker out in Nature Science arguing that Both models and observations yield broad probability distributions for long-term increases in global mean temperature expected from the doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide, with small but...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 7:29 AM • 26 Comments •
October 23, 2007
Category: climate science
AF (ie, Airbo(u)rne Fraction, ie the proportion of emitted CO2 that stays in the atmos, the rest being sunk in land or ocean) is in the news; I wrote up part of it recently (and detected some nonsense about it...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 9:42 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: climate communication
Shock horror! Worlds press responds sensibly to a press release. Well it was one of ours, and the response seems to be to ignore it, which is fair enough. But a touch surprising, since its yet another iceberg breaking off...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 9:38 AM • 9 Comments •
October 22, 2007
Category: septic tripe
A brief break from bashing my own side, to point up the stupidies of the Evil Ones, to prove that I haven't Gone Over myself. Its not terribly entertaining, as we replace issues of judgement and representation with lying, but...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:04 PM • 12 Comments •
Category: climate science?
An old line from Steve Bell, BM of course being Margaret Thatcher (as I recall, this was in the context of "batting for Britain" and Mark Thatcher). Ahem. Anyway. Thatcher, of course, as the destroyer of our coal industry in...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 1:20 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: photo
Sciblogs has channels (e.g env, which is where I live, except for posts like this, which go onto chatter) and they are looking for new pix to adorn the banners, which will rotate on a weekly basis. The instructions are:...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 12:07 PM • 1 Comments •
October 21, 2007
Category: climate science
Via R4 and mt, Scientists fear climate change speed-up as oceans fail to hold greenhouse gases. Its about the North Atlantic, which is absorbing less CO2 over the last 10 years (note that the article, wrongly, says holds half; Slioch,...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:23 PM • 12 Comments •
October 18, 2007
Category: climate communication
I seem to have got onto some stupid PR spam list. The latest comes from Nat Geog, and is typically silly. It sez: As you probably know, most people have a hard time seeing exactly where on the planet global...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:38 AM • 11 Comments •
October 17, 2007
Category: climate communication
You can read the party line on the AIT 9 "errors". I think its too kind; e.g. on SLR and Katrina Gore is misleading; on evacuation he is simply wrong. But the lake Chad bit was interesting....
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:28 PM • 6 Comments •