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September 29, 2008
Category: climate science
Do you ever have the experience of a book you've bought from abe or ebay turning up, and you can't remember why you bought it? I got "The long-term impacts of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide" by MacDonald today (The Long-term...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:26 PM • 19 Comments
September 28, 2008
Category: climate fun
Inel notes that Monckton thinks he was misrepresented on Earth: The Ratings Wars. Which is most amusing: something at last that Monckton and I agree on: E:TRS is misleading (though we're talking about different progs in the series, of course)....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:44 PM • 2 Comments
Category: climate snarking
Or so says some spam for terradaily that made it to my inbox (which is just a rehash of the Berkley press release, though thankfully without the stupid flood picture). This is obvious b*ll*cks, as google shows. The wiki page...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 2:40 PM • 10 Comments
September 25, 2008
Category: climate communication
I decided to skip over the synthesis - how can I judge that, before reading the chapters its supposed to synthesise? I'll come back to it. Previous: Part I. Chapter 2 "Future carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels" is by...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:40 PM • 4 Comments
Category: climate science
AL (and V1S, sorry!) pointed me to http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/aggi/, which lead me to http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/iadv/, from which I selected Barrow, as being in the Arctic, and CH4, as being methane, and 2000-2008, as being a small enough interval that you can see...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:42 PM • 15 Comments
September 24, 2008
Category: fun
I just found google charts (thanks NB) and you can see some nice ones here and maybe even discuss wheat yields. But for raw pointlessness I offer you: (yes, I didn't even manage to get the scaling right). Anyone found...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:08 PM • 3 Comments
Category: climate science
Various wild excitement about methane emissions from the Arctic shelf... Hot Topic, Inel and The Indescribably Overhyped, which latter reveals "exclusively" what Magnus translated several weeks ago....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:36 PM • 17 Comments
September 23, 2008
Category: fun
I was going to have a 6,000th comment contest to line up with Seeds 1,000,000th comment contest. But the number bumped up while I wasn't watching. Oops. So I retrospectively declare the winner to have been Dave Rado for this....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:24 PM • 4 Comments
Category: politics
I felt sure that I'd used this as a title before. But google assures me that no-one has used the phrase, which I fund rather hard to believe. Maybe I can copyright it. Its a useful phrase. I'm sure I...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:32 PM • 2 Comments
Category: climate betting
It looks like I'm safe for this year. I'm being just a teensy bit premature, but its rather unlikely to change, people want to pay up :-) and others have said it anyway (irritatingly that link will probably fade, so...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 1:19 PM • 11 Comments
September 20, 2008
Category: bees
I've just opened up the hive for the annual end-of-summer honey extraction and anti-varroa treatment. This year its apiguard, which is a bit tedious because you have to do it in two goes at 2 week intervals. But the disappointment...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:40 PM • 4 Comments
September 19, 2008
Category: climate tripe
I've been down the pub so no chance for any sensible or sober posts. Roll on wikipedia. So we come to [[William Nierenberg]] and its revision history. Alas, this is an example of wikipedia at its worst: a process-obsessed zealot...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:12 PM • 23 Comments
September 18, 2008
Category: climate fuels
Just a short post to draw your attention to mpgillusion.blogspot.com. Update: now on RC...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:59 PM • 6 Comments
Category: economics
Scenario one: you borrow some money. You exchange the money for shares. The shares go up, you exchange the shares for more money than originally, and so pay back the loan and you have a profit. If you get it...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:02 PM • 8 Comments
Category: climate communication
Zut alors: le Nierenberg vieux est arrivee! And you can join in the fun. I'll be posting up scans (well, actually, photos) of the text as I go along. Aside: I got this thanks to the wonders of the...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:28 PM • 11 Comments
Category: climate science
My paper with Tom Peterson and John Fleck (trailed here) is out in BAMS; you can get it now (for free! [Update: also direct from BAMS]). Nice, isn't it: And thats just the first page! For those who weren't paying...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:10 PM • 17 Comments
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