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December 31, 2007

Happy New Year

Category: misc

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December 30, 2007

While the youthful glue / sits on thy skin like morning dew

Category: misc

Reads a bit oddly, doesn't it? Yet Donno insists on this reading in her Penguin edition of the Marvell poems, instead of the more obvious "Now therefore, while the youthful hue / Sits on thy skin like morning dew". Certainly...

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December 28, 2007

The Gods of the Copybook Headings

Category: misc

You know you're getting old when you start liking Kipling. Still, at least I'm not quoting MacDonough's Song at you. The solstice is past and the bleak days are getting longer. Unless you're south, of course. As I pass through...

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December 21, 2007

Yikes!

Category: fun

Yikes! Said my daughter this morning. I thought the gentle art of saying Yikes had died out. How pleasant to be mistaken. Now all I need is for someone to say Zounds! in my presence. Meanwhile... you've seen the BAS...

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December 18, 2007

The case of the vanishing post

Category: climate snarking

According to google reader, RP Sr posted the below today to his "blog" (only its not really a blog cos it doesn't allow comments), in a post entitled Question The Weblog Real Climate. And indeed he did; the comment is...

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December 17, 2007

Sutera and Speranza?

Category: septic tripe

Lindzen sez Respected Italian professors Alfonso Sutera and Antonio Speranza disappeared from the debate in 1991, apparently losing climate-research funding for raising questions. This sounds like tripe - they continue to publish; and if they ever said anything about GW,...

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Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:02 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

World Doesn't End in 2100

Category: climate communication

Mt wisely points out that the World Doesn't End in 2100. Its a fair point, and one that is often forgotten. However... its one that I have come to increasingly downweight as time goes by. For two reasons. One is...

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December 16, 2007

At last, the truth

Category: climate fun

Guess who has finally admitted my conclusions on the role of humans on global warming, and climate change, in general, are mistaken....

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Last years summer: Lathkilldale

Category: photo

At this grey time of year, a reminder of Lathkilldale in 2006....

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December 15, 2007

Bali round up

Category: climate grumping

Just to remind you, my prediction was that Bali was going to be a waste of time. But I'm open-minded, and happy to be persuaded otherwise. I rather suspect that any benefits are going to be hard-to-analyse-or-see, though possibly no...

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December 14, 2007

The official nutters list!

Category: climate people

Yes, its now available: 100% self-certified. Mostly its the obvious suspects, lots of Emeritus, and the familiar trick of puffing up your CV with a reference to the IPCC gold standard; in many cases "IPCC expert reviewer" is a credential....

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December 13, 2007

Shrubbery?

Category: climate betting

Eli suggests I start hedging. Well no. Mostly because the sums people have been prepared to put up so far are trivial. But partly because getting over-exciting about one exceptional year would be really silly, and there does seem to...

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December 12, 2007

Convection in the Antarctic Ice Sheet Leading to a Surge of the Ice Sheet and Possibly to a New Ice Age?

Category: climate science?

"Convection in the Antarctic Ice Sheet Leading to a Surge of the Ice Sheet and Possibly to a New Ice Age" is a 1970's Science paper by Hughes. Its all superceeded stuff now - the idea that the ice might...

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December 11, 2007

Misrepresented

Category: climate science

Everyone has their own spin on things, but its still not nice to be misrepresented, especially in support of someone elses agenda. RP Sr would like the 2003 heat wave to be unrelated to GW. It may well be; it...

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December 10, 2007

Tropical trends

Category: climate science

The issue of reconciling tropical temperature trends at the sfc and in the troposphere rumbles on, although in a not very serious way: its a good subject for research, but it doesn't seem to be a major septic playing point,...

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December 9, 2007

Buy our tat!

Category: not fun at all

I thought I'd take advantage of a rant (sorry, yes, another one) to push some of our tat that we're selling (we hope) on ebay. So there is the disc firing robot, the ATV buggy, and the nervous alligator science...

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