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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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November 30, 2007

Oh no, not again

Category: climate science?

RP Sr's one-man kamikaze attack against the IPCC continues. RPs point appears to be that the IPCCs forcing-since-1750 of +1.6 W/m2 is not compatible with a current imbalance of about 0.85 W/m2. Sadly RPs link to the Hansen paper concerned...

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November 29, 2007

Makes us look sane

Category: not fun at all

UK teacher jailed over teddy row: "A British teacher has been found guilty in Sudan of insulting religion after she allowed her primary school class to name a teddy bear Muhammad."...

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Tortoise joke

Category: fun

Found amongst some old papers....

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You could have knocked me down with a feather

Category: climate science?

RP Sr sez: "We have shown in several studies that the downscaling of multi-year global model predictions by regional climate models is very strongly dependent on the lateral boundary conditions of the parent model". Good grief, really? Well you'd hope...

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November 27, 2007

I'll believe it's a crisis when the people who tell me it's a crisis start acting like it's a crisis

Category: climate grumping

From Instapundit via Quark soup....

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November 26, 2007

Polar amplification, again

Category: climate science

When I was a wee mustelid, I wrote about this; and there is an RC piece, and as far as I know, its all still valid. But this post is aimed at those who put an "s" into poles in...

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November 24, 2007

Physics Phun from CIP

Category: fun

Physics Phun from CIP...

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November 23, 2007

Hansen, again

Category: climate science?

Thaas outrageous, big Mammy refers. We had it as our journal club today, and the outcome was, no-one thought Hansen had done a convincing job. The paper itself is confusing ("like being inside Hansens head", as someone put it) and...

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Going down

Category: misc

Cruise ship sinking off Argentina says the BBC. And "Passengers and crew have been rescued off Argentina from a cruise liner, which began sinking after it hit ice. The M/S Explorer ran into trouble near King George Island in the...

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November 22, 2007

Sock it to 'em

Category: climate politics

A letter from the naughty coal people, and Hansens uncompromising reply, is at http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/NMAletters_20071121.pdf. I've been a bit critical of Hansen for over-egging the science sometimes, but exchanges like this are good to remind you of where you stand. [Update:...

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November 21, 2007

Sea ice again

Category: climate science

So, the question was, how much effect does removing the Arctic sea ice make to the rest of the world? In particular, what is the direct effect, ignoring all the feedbacks that would occur on SST and so on? Happily,...

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November 20, 2007

Tracy says...

Category: politics

They're cr*p, aren't they? Tracy Says was the name of a band at the UK Met Office. They got their name from the quote :-). Reading the appalling stories that "Two computer discs holding the personal details of all families...

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The impact on the stability of the Greenland ice sheet as well as on global weather patterns would likely be nearly unimaginable?

Category: climate science?

I have got complained at for responding to "The impact on the stability of the Greenland ice sheet as well as on global weather patterns would likely be nearly unimaginable" with "...as for the impact on the weather, there is...

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November 19, 2007

Subprime fun

Category: politics

Reading the torygraph business section I came across Deutsche Bank in ownership court row: "An American judge has prevented Deutsche Bank from repossessing 14 homes because the bank could not prove it owned the defaulting mortgages involved... Pooling involves taking...

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November 18, 2007

Pix from a trip

Category: photo

To Belgium, for Wouters thesis; and congratulations to him. Pix are on Flickr once you get past the bonfires. Now the new line from St Pancreas is in, it takes less than 2 hours to get there, and new posters...

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November 17, 2007

abrupt and irreversible?

Category: climate communication

So the AR4 synthesis is out. You can read the SPM and cherry-pick your favourite bit. The BBC has, and has selected climate change is "unequivocal" - fair enough but boring, because we've had that already - and may bring...

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