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January 30, 2008
Category: septic tripe
Morano can't jump the shark, because in his case it comes pre-jumped. But he does his best here. Nice to see Eli getting so much publicity, he deserves it. But why Morano is reduced to commenting on blogs, surely his...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 2:42 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate fuels
Following in the tracks of DeSmog again. So, the $1.8B carbon capture and storage commercial scale demo has fallen apart due to excess costs (or possibly other things: here is what they say; there seems to be some dispute over...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 2:24 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 26, 2008
Category: climate communication
I must be getting old, I'm starting to seriously think of switching our paper order from the Grauniad to the Times. Which forms a lead in to: this piece which provides two interesting points: In the National Statistics omnibus survey,...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 2:50 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate science
Well, he says so himself: This is probably the most provocative hypothesis I have ever (and will ever) advance: The long-term increases in carbon dioxide concentration that have been observed at Mauna Loa since 1958 could be driven more than...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 2:35 PM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 25, 2008
Category: misc
A colleague at work has parents who keep bees, and has instrumented their hives. See here for the top level, and the webcam. As well as being jolly fun, its also quite useful. Looking at the weights of the...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:02 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 24, 2008
Category: climate science
I've been putting off collating all the misc bets that came in. But here we go: $333 (ie about 3p :-() against Joe Romm on an ice-free Arctic by 2020. P Farrington-Douglas, E200, same terms. On next years Arctic sea...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:48 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 21, 2008
Category: climate fuels
Well, its more interesting than CorbynWatch. So, Nature sez: New power stations across Europe could be routinely fitted with carbon-dioxide capture and storage (CCS) technology within two years under a proposal by the European Commission....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:04 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate snarking
James is too busy worrying about his shares so I shall have to continue Corbynwatch. He's popped up in the Times, making the implausible claim that his forecasts for November were correct. Quite where he is going to find -17...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:51 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 20, 2008
Category: misc
There I was, happily listening to R4 about some nonsense about obese kids, when suddenly I'm listening to a "Dr Stoat". Good heavens. He does indeed seem to exist, it wasn't my ears, e.g. here. He's a GP, not a...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:17 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 17, 2008
Category: climate communication
Is Fred Singer worth listening to(o)? It sounds unlikely - certainly when I heard him speak he provided nothing but disinformation. Sadly I may never know for sure, because their site was broken when I tried it. If anyone does...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 2:30 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 16, 2008
Category: climate science
Why is climate modelling stuck? asked mt, and Bryan weighs in too. So I don't see why I shouldn't too. This is no kind of comprehensive list or manifesto, the way mt's is. Just some random thoughts....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:18 PM • 36 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 10, 2008
Category: photo
Don't you just hate bloggers who post a whole pile all at once? Sorry. Anyway, some scans from a film that sat in my F801s for ages. Miranda and the Alien Spacecraft The Fairy Dress...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:02 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate communication
Thanks to R for pointing out a list of every skeptic argument encountered online as well as how often each argument is used. Clear winner is "the sun" but its nice to see that old chestnut of 1970's cooling still...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:36 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate snarking
RP Jr has a whole succession of posts, starting here. I was going to point out why it was all rather pointless, but it seems so obvious and tedious to wade through that I'm not going to bother. This probably...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:32 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate fuels
Clean coal - as in burning and capturing the CO2 - is an idea being floated. There are obvious problems (apart from anything else, the capture and storage costs extra energy and so burns even more coal...), and AFAIK only...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 8:14 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 5, 2008
Category: climate fuels
A mind-bogglingly stupid article in the Times came my way. Someone has built a small aeroplane powered by batteries. So far nothing exciting. But then to report the claim Ms Lavrand said that the fuel cost per hour of the...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:22 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
