October 30, 2008
Category: politics
Says Seed. CIP said that a while ago, but less politely. I'd prefer Obama, but I don't have a vote. Looks like the money is on Obama: 1-9 on, whereas McCain is 5-1. [Updates: Eli notes that Nature is endorsing...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:24 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 23, 2008
Category: generic stupidity
One of the more regrettable aspects of having children - other than the entire lack of a life - is interaction with the school inspectors. And the insanity reaches its peak in the inspection of after-school clubs. Its all such...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:16 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 22, 2008
Category: climate science?
MW points out the regrettable Global Conference on Global Warming 2008 (GCGW-08). The wot? you might well say. Its not one of those, is it? It doesn't quite appear to be one of those. In fact, it even appears to...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 2:23 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 18, 2008
Category: climate science
Fergus is interested in the effects of El Nino on sea ice. So I looked at http://climexp.knmi.nl/. At first I thought it didn't have sea ice, and it doesn't in the indices, but it does have in the monthly data,...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:26 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate communication
So says Schellnhuber (ht ht). I imagine he really did say it, because its in quotes. But the same page says "Schnellhuber charged that 20 per cent of the loss of the ice sheet on Greenland could be directly linked...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:17 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: bees
In theory I have a blog about bees, called with a stunning lack of originality williams bees. However, its moribund, and I can't be bothered to maintain more than one blog, so for the record: I'm down to one...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:48 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 14, 2008
Category: climate communication
With regard to our BAMS paper, and the links to various commentaries at the bottom, John says: I actually have begun to feel despair every time I read a comment thread on a blog post about the paper... people generally...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:05 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate snarking
The pollsters in question being Bray and von Storch, who get ratty on Prometheus about Gavin "too sexy for my model" Schmidt's RC piece dissing their latest survey. Slightly confusingly, although the piece is signed by B+vS, it says I...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 2:58 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 13, 2008
Category: economics
REM, of course. Or perhaps more appropriately, Its the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine). I won't elaborate on the I-feel-fine for the sake of not tempting fate, not that I'm superstitious mind you....
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:54 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 10, 2008
Category: climate science
Via their blog, Nurture have some commentary on sea ice by Serreze & Stroeve. Its all pretty vapid: With sharply rising atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, the change to a seasonally ice-free Arctic Ocean seems inevitable. Very good, but The only...
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