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January 29, 2009
Category: climate snarking
Nowadays I seem to rely on wikipedia for my news stories. Not necessarily for the truth, but that something has occurred. So this little thread at global warming piqued my interest (note, BTW, how the poor dear septics don't even...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:27 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 26, 2009
Category: fun
Make of it what you will. A flea and a fly in a flue Were trapped so what could they do? "Let us flee" said the fly "Let us fly" said the flea So they flew through a flaw in...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 11:50 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 23, 2009
Category: climate opinion
You know the old T-shirt slogan: "Help the police. Beat yourself up". Anyway, Nurture have the traditional Inuit-imperilled-by-climate-change stuff, only its a bit more interesting because they link to a paper that actually tries to quantify the effects. Or it...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:08 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 20, 2009
Category: politics
Courtesy of A+S's Inaug party (great idea - thanks again), we watched the Inaug live on BBC, though I had to leave before the post-match analysis. I enjoyed it - it was a good show. His speech was well delivered,...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:11 PM • 72 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate communication
Poll one wasn't condusive to the right headlines and the journal adopted a policy of "that EOS should not accept summaries of opinion polls". Opinion poll two produced unambiguously the right answer, was published in EOS, and is splashed about....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:41 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 18, 2009
I've been re-reading Neuromancer whilst putting my daughter to bed. Fear not, she gets stuff like The Tales of Beedle the Bard instead. Of the two, N is far and away the better book (wiki tells me that the novel...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:00 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 17, 2009
Category: rowing
First outing this year, on a day that fitted the description of english weather "all four seasons in a day". Happily that included summer, since I was down to shorts and a tee-shirt in the sunshine portion. We couldn't...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:08 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
While browing the Dictionary of Philosophy, on my way towards Hobbes, I stopped at Hegel, and noticed a comment about his "orbits of the planets", something to the effect that the view that he proved, from first principles, that there...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:36 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 15, 2009
Category: climate betting
Asks climatematters@columbia. But they ask it in a way that suggests they think the trend is going to be steep. So I offered them the standard bet. We'll see. Meanwhile, anyone interested in whether 2009 is likely to be a...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:06 PM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Every now and again, its nice to be reminded that no matter how irritating the overenthusiasm of the greenies can be on occaision, the real wackos are on the septic side. If you can't cope with the long words at...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:43 PM • 76 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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