May 29, 2008
Category: climate science
At last some news on the climate front, and JA has a nice posting on it. I'd say its a bit early to be expresssing an opinion. They have found something; quite how it affects the record needs chewing over....
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:00 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 23, 2008
Category: photo
Last sunday was the Champs head (named after the pub where they meet rather than their status :-) and it was a lovely day and we got to borrow Christs first boat which was lovely too. We were sort of...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 10:19 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 20, 2008
Category: climate economics
Ha. Now you know I really have gone over to the Dark Side. Prompted by British funds back Rockefellers' green rebellion to bring in new ExxonMobil chairman. The complaint appears to be that The firm has refused to follow rival...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:30 PM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate fuels
Originally this was going to be about politics, and the answer was going to be "not as much as his poll ratings suggest". But then I found a speech on Opec/Oil and the answer has to be, "yes he's crap"....
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:18 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 17, 2008
Category: misc
Cycling back from town yesterday, I saw: in a chestnut tree of moderate height in the middle of an open field miles from the river, a heron. And three crows flying at it, "dive bombing" it is tempting to say...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:51 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 15, 2008
Category: misc
I love the language and thought in Leviathan: Feare of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, RELIGION; not allowed, SUPERSTITION. And when the power imagined is truly such as we imagine, TRUE RELIGION. Concision...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:37 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate communication
Grauniad again, of course:. Its obvious b*ll*cks, at least as measured by my own experience: most of the damage is caused by roads, buildings, farming practices, and so on. Can it really be true that 90% of env damage is...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:46 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 14, 2008
Category: climate snarking
Lucia lost the plot some time ago, mostly by cherry-picking her time period, using a weird data-fitting method and failing to understand what she was looking at. Now RP Jr follows her down the rabbett hole and bizarrely describes her...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:05 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 8, 2008
Category: climate betting
The summary of betting on sea ice refers. If you look in my comments, you'll find any number of well intentioned people advising me that its time to close up the bets before I take a bath. But I haven't....
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:03 PM • 35 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate betting
As I said before, I don't think much of the latest prediction of cooling. But apparently , the authors take it seriously, and believe it as a prediction (pers comm). So RC has decided to see if they are serious....
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:17 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks