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November 30, 2007
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...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:55 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 29, 2007
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."...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:04 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: fun
Found amongst some old papers....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:04 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:13 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 27, 2007
Category: climate grumping
From Instapundit via Quark soup....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:54 AM • 87 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 26, 2007
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...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 9:35 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 24, 2007
Category: fun
Physics Phun from CIP...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:47 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 23, 2007
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...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 9:28 AM • 62 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:20 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 22, 2007
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:...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:08 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 21, 2007
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,...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 10:12 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 20, 2007
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...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:17 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 9:42 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 19, 2007
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...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 7:40 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 18, 2007
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...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:55 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 17, 2007
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...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:13 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
