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March 31, 2009
Category: climate snarking
Well no, of course they haven't. It is yet more septic twaddle from Avery; David Appell has a screenshot, since he expects the original is so blatantly stupid that it will be taken down. And he was right, it is...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:26 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 25, 2009
Category: wikipedia
Via Durova I find Wikitruth Through Wikiorder which is worth at least a quick skim if only because, unlike most commentators on wiki, they don't seem to have totally lost the plot. Durova points out the obvious lack in their...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:29 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: economics
Well, that was the Beeb headline, to The UK Treasury has failed to sell all its government bonds in an auction for the first time since 2002. But in fact It wanted to sell £1.75bn of 40-year bonds, but investors...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:05 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 24, 2009
Category: politics
Hearing about the Obama plan on BBC R4, my first reaction was but this is an obvious disaster for the tax-payer; a give-away to those who invest in it. If I had spare cash and lived in the USA, I'd...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:35 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 23, 2009
Category: Morality
Paul points to Andrew Brown who has some curious list of "New Atheist" points. I shall take up the suggestion of treating it as a quiz, and find that I score: * There is something called "Faith" which can be...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:36 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 22, 2009
Category: rowing
It is spring, the daffodils are out, the hour has nearly changed, and longen folk to go down to the river again. In fact I've been rowing all winter (Emma blogged our last race in rather different weather), but this...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:19 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The recipe (apparently: I was out) is a jar with a little honey in it that you wish to soften; place in the microwave and accidentally type "20 mins" when you meant "20 secs"; go away and return when...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:18 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 20, 2009
Category: climate betting
Via Quark Soup, a reminder to look at the sea ice data. IJIS have a nice pic http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm which is better than the cryosphere today pix. I have a somewhat different take on it to DA: looking at that pic...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 7:20 PM • 27 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 18, 2009
Category: climate communication
mt has a a transcript of the Copenhagen closing plenary. Let's have a look. Better still, go read it yourself. I'm not going to cover it all. Our conclusion is that recent observations confirm that, given high rates of observed...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:45 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: fun
Janice is Menno Simons, who Ive never heard of, in the Which famous theologian are you? quiz on facebook. I'm an aetheist, which isn't a promising start, but I thought I'd have a go. Question 1 rather stumped me, since...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:15 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
