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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...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 10:50 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 7:29 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 9:42 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 9:38 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:04 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 1:20 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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:...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 12:07 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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,...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:23 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:38 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:28 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate science?
[Ooh err. DC points out that she may mean 10 oF. Being American, this is possible. Being a scientist, it shouldn't be (but were she being a scientist there should be a unit symbol, so this is probably the newspaper,...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:47 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 15, 2007
Category: climate grumping
Yes, blog action day, time to post something. mt is as ever sensible, as is Gavin: if you aren't prepared to take action when your lakes get covered with toxic scum; or when even on a clear day, you cannot...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:51 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 13, 2007
Category: politics
Another little break from AIT, this time inspired by CIP to scrappleface. Apologies for the caps, its directly lifted and I didn't want to change it (read: couldn't be bothered to type it all out again). Or perhaps he really...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:54 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate science?
On with the boring. Disclaimer: this is nit-picking, for the question "is Gore accurate?". On the wider issue, I'm with the judge and with RC: Gore is basically correct. First off, its not really Tuvalua, its vaguer: "that's why the...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:34 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 12, 2007
Category: climate communication
We'll be back with our usual programming of attack-mustelid on Gore :-) in a moment, but as a little interlude global cooling gets back in the news in the Cristian Science Monitor (thanks to ES). I rather like William Connolley,...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:06 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 11, 2007
Category: climate communication
Yes indeed, time to weigh in on the great issue of the day: Mr Justice Burton vs Al Gore. My first point was going to be, that it was a poor idea to have judges deciding science. Its still a...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 8:38 AM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
