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December 24, 2008
Merry Christmas to all my readers, and even more to my writers. Here is a festive image, tastefully coloured in by me. And now for the quiz. In the spirit of "5 advances in climate science" I ask for the...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:12 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 23, 2008
Category: climate communication
Nurture offers us ...how far our understanding of climate change has come in the past twelve months. But its a bit thin, especially for just a pick of the top five; there are of course others we could have mentioned....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:32 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 21, 2008
Category: climate communication
Hansen again. He seems to have got bored with saying climate sensitivity is 6 oC, and now agrees with JA that its 3 oC. Hurrah. Less excitingly, his estimate for all-ice-sheet melt on 2-3 x CO2 is now "it would...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:17 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 19, 2008
Category: climate snarking
http://climate.columbia.edu/blog/ defines "abrupt climate change" as: A large-scale change in the climate system that takes place over a few decades or less, persists (or is anticipated to persist) for at least a few decades, and causes substantial disruptions in human...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:34 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 17, 2008
Category: tech
Perl would be Voodoo - An incomprehensible series of arcane incantations that involve the blood of goats and permanently corrupt your soul. Often used when your boss requires you to do an urgent task at 21:00 on friday night. From...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:13 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 15, 2008
Category: tech
I have a twitter feed, http://twitter.com/wmconnolley. Quite what its for, I'm not sure. Maybe it will turn out to be useful. Maybe I can embed it into my blog or something. Did I mention that I have a pointless facebook...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:41 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate snarking
I've already used Clowns to the left of me.... And then I run across an opinion article in today's Guardian: "Let's Get Real on the Environment." by David Appell nicely counterbalanced by Yes. We Can.. Oh dear oh dear. To...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:46 PM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 13, 2008
Category: climate fuels
Because Kevin Anderson says that it is "improbable" that levels could now be restricted to 650 parts per million (ppm). Which blows Hansens target 350 out of the water. Not that it requires a luminary of KA standing to do...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:34 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 12, 2008
Category: people
Naturally enough, there is a wiki article [[Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley]]. And of course what to say about his views on GW is a source of controversy: being wiki, it can't just say he is talkin' tosh,...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:45 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 11, 2008
Category: climate fuels
Every now and again the question of how much CO2 nuclear power plants produce, compared with other forms of power production, comes up; and whenever it does, I've forgotten where I last saw the figures. So now someone (thanks S)...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:10 PM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
