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November 29, 2008
Category: climate betting
Sea ice again. I was reading Gareth who had been reading Monbiot. And so I did too. After I'd waded through the goo and the dribble about Bush, the first item of substance was A new summary of the science...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:30 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 27, 2008
Category: climate science
Is it a Pearl Harbor if it has to happen twice? says Nature, discussing a list of stuff that Joe Romm thinks might lead to the second-world-war scale of effort against climate change. #1 is Arctic goes ice free before...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:14 PM • 33 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 22, 2008
Category: Morality
Climate change seems to have gone a bit thin recently - James has got bored - and its distinctly chilly here, with snow in the air and a most glorious sundog. So lets talk about morality....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 10:46 AM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 18, 2008
Category: fun
Just been playing with incredibots.com and it was good fun so I'm letting you all know. Daniel found it....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:31 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 15, 2008
Category: science
I'm reading Anathem because Paul told me to. And because I'm enjoying it. And because its good and thick and will sustain lots of time. Read Paul's review if you're interested in an overview; I'm not going to do that,...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:44 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 14, 2008
Category: misc
And other miscellania. That one is from the Indy: "she had once awoken from an afternoon nap to discover him sitting at his computer watching his online character - whom he had named Dave Barmy - having sex with an...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:40 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 10, 2008
Category: climate science
Really, why are you reading this? Read something of substance instead. Last time I said I ought to read Oresekes again carefully. I have.Summary: nothing has changed. She is still wrong. Note: in all the following, I abbreviate the authors...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:49 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate people
Though I must point out that this is "mad" in the sense of "angry", not "nut job". I mean RP Jr, and he is annoyed with Oreskes, saying What is it about the climate change debate that causes previously excellent...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:23 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate grumping
Nuture has a letter from David Gremillet who says: Scientists are becoming increasingly concerned about the environmental impact of their work... reduce our carbon footprint by attending fewer scientific conferences... Regular long-distance flying can easily triple an academic's carbon footprint....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:58 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 9, 2008
Category: fun
Sometime the deepest of philosophical issues are best understood in image form. Perhaps they should be transcribed into stained glass in some great cathedral: Here we have the problem of pain (I think thats the right phrase) part 1 and...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:17 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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