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February 27, 2008
Category: misc
I appear in the Times The Top 50 Eco Blogs. The accolade is somewhat blunted by the heading "FROM DARYL HANNAH AND AL GORE TO THE SCIENCE AND ECONOMICS OF CLIMAGE CHANGE, THE VERY BEST OF THE WEB" but I...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:21 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: misc
A vain attempt to shame me into fitness by making my times public. I may update this. 2007/12/04: 7:50 and 7:45 (?). [update] 2008/02. 2570 and 4954....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:18 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 21, 2008
Category: not fun at all
...said the oily US spokesman on R4 tonight, as it turns out the US has been telling us porkies about torture flights. Though I doubt our govt asked too hard, since it enabled them to make denials when it was...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:11 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate communication
Just a quick post, since I'm at work, to note our appearence in USA today. This is an upcoming BAMS paper, but clearly making USA today is far more important :-) It grew from http://www.wmconnolley.org.uk/sci/iceage/ but Tom and John finally...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:26 AM • 42 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 17, 2008
Category: climate fuels
A little while ago, I ventured into aircraft CO2, and as good as said that the climate impact of aircraft fuel use should be weighted up by a factor of 2-3 because of various side effects: I thought of water...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:30 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: not fun at all
In order to prove my financial acuity, when Northern Rock fell to about 200p and the govt guaranteed its deposits, I bought £250 worth, believing it would bounce back. Its now down to 90p, and the news now is that...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:01 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 11, 2008
Category: misc
People love to compare Wikipedia to Open Source but guess what: bad, incorrect code doesn't compile. Bad, incorrect information on the net lives on and non-experts hardly ever notice the mistake [1], via Alice. True enough, though plenty of cr*ppy...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:22 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 9, 2008
Category: misc
I'm ploughing my way through the Mad Bish's Speech. As Paul notes, its turgid stuff. At least you have to give him credit for getting religion back in the headlines....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:30 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 7, 2008
Category: climate snarking
More gumf from the Grauniad. Supposedly based on something in PNAS: anyone seen it? The usual suspects: the Potsdam folk and Tim Lenton and so on. Sadly (?) the online version doesn't have the appalling map that the print edition...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:08 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 5, 2008
Category: photo
Is a photo essay I bought years ago and rarely looked at. I was going to get rid of it, but then flicking through I came across this wonderful picture. It looks like some bizarre sci-fi drawing, but is in...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:30 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: fun
Seen in a local Oxfam bookshop. Are you familiar with the Profanisaurus? Mind you, its better than Trinny and Susannah....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:23 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate fuels
A very interesting report by the Wall Street Journal reporting that "Citigroup Inc., J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and Morgan Stanley say they have concluded that the U.S. government will cap greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants sometime in the next...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:55 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 4, 2008
Category: climate betting
Gareth inquires if bets are still available for 2008. The answer is yes (although I reserve the right to remove them at a moments notice when things turn against me). At the moment, NH ice seems to be back to...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:13 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 3, 2008
Category: misc
Here is a test: this a definiton of X. What is X? Definition: The fulfillment of what exists potentialy insofar as it exists potentialy is X: namely, what is alterable qua alterable , alteration: of what can be increased and...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:51 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 2, 2008
Category: climate fuels
A post from Eli about offsetting CO2 emissions from flights raises once again an issue in my mind, which I don't think I've whined about here (do remind me if I have): why is aircraft CO2 special, and requires offsetting,...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:06 PM • 42 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
That was my starting point, anyway. And I'll aim to get back to it soonish. But I got sidetracked by the emission theory of vision, an idea so stupid that only a greek philosopher could possibly have thought it up,...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:12 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
