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April 28, 2008
Category: climate economics
"Tesco to put carbon scores on goods" says The Torygraph. Sounds like a good idea in principle. Do go on ...The labels - which will be put on 30 products, including tomatoes, potatoes, orange juice, light bulbs and washing detergent...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:08 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 22, 2008
Category: misc
Monday: to The Junction, that singularly unappealing Cambridge venue, for Bellowhead who were superb. You can find them on Youtube but its not the same as watching them live. They're on UK tour now... If you're in Cambridge and that...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:14 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 19, 2008
Category: climate snarking
Says the FT, via DSB. Since I've already argued that Stern is over-bleak, Im surprised he has got more pessimistic. Whats up?...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:04 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 16, 2008
Category: climate snarking
Just a provocative title, to point you towards I accept Bill Gray's climate bet offer - will he seal the deal? by Brian Schmidt. My feeling is that Gray will wimp out - I'll even put money on it if...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:42 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 15, 2008
Category: climate snarking
1.5 m sea level rise this century, that is. Nature sez the "estimate released today says that it could be as as much as 1.5 metres (4.9 feet) by the end of this century". Their source seems to be Reuters,...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:45 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 13, 2008
Category: fun
Do you realise that bufapopo doesn't get a single google hit? Its outrageous. Badger would be appalled. [Seems pretty clear that youre not going to get it, so I'll have to tell you. Read on...]...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:40 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 12, 2008
Category: climate science?
I've realised that I've been dismissing a load of nonsense merely on the grounds that its discussing short trem trends, without troubling to look at those trends. But everyone else is talking about them, so why shouldn't I? So Anyway,...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:59 PM • 39 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 11, 2008
Category: misc
Last night we had the first ice-cream van of the summer around our streets. But we didn't stop it and buy one....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 11:03 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 8, 2008
Category: misc
To the annual parish meeting. Thankfully I am no longer a parish councillor so am not obliged to go; but since a friend told me it was on I turned up. Of those who did, most were parish councillors, one...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:39 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 7, 2008
Category: climate communication
Predictably enough, the Grauniad has picked up on Hansens target 350 stuff. And what he said before about W Ant now seems to have got transmogrified into: Hansen said that he now regards as "implausible" the view of many climate...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:29 AM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
