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September 29, 2009
Category: climate science?
So says Krugman. He means, of course, that the scientists are predicting disaster but no-one is listening. Or rather, that people listen but then find doing anything too inconvenient. Since this happened over fishing I find it not at all...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:39 PM • 67 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 28, 2009
Category: climate snarking
We all hate science by press release which is why we all love the good old stodgy UKMO (now rebranded the Met Office, note no dot) who would never write Met Office warns of catastrophic global warming in our lifetimes...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:51 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 27, 2009
Category: misc
Sarah (whose blog is rather emptier than James' so-called EB) is walking from Cambridge to the Sea to celebreate her age; and she invited company; so I joined her for stretch today from Ely to Littleport. It was a...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:35 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 22, 2009
Category: climate science
Off on an email list we've been discussing wildfires and their connection to global warming. I've always been somewhat cynical about the connection, which appears in the popular press [1] to amount to "fires are hot, global warming is, err,...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:55 PM • 38 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 21, 2009
Category: rowing
Subtitle: Snow white and the seven dwarves, though it is some time since I've been snowy white (even if I am wearing my SEH MCR 1988 top and my "these are older than you are young lady" rowing shorts)...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:03 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 16, 2009
Category: climate economics
Says Nature. Well, good, is my first reaction. It is set at €17 (and phased in) whereas €40 was apparently the minimum considered worthwhile. Furthermore "the plan is to phase in higher carbon prices over time, but Sarkozy failed to...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:55 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 12, 2009
Category: books
Everyone else blogs about what they've read (everyone? Well, this is a blog, who cares about accuracy. Bryan does and I'm sure other people do to). And I happen to notice that my queue of books-I've-finished-reading looks quite good...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:33 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 10, 2009
Category: not fun at all
Tim Lambert normally does the Iraq war, for example this. But I was struck by a recent Economist (you know, those left-wing pinkos) article bemoaning Iraq's descent into a police state. Which is a shame, because in the nearly-unmitigated disaster...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:14 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 6, 2009
Category: spirituality
The normally sensible mt has a post The Elephant in the Room that I've been meaning to rip to shreds for ages (oh, by the way, if anyone feels tempted to say "how unfair ripping mt to shreds when...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 2:31 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 5, 2009
Category: fun
mt has been writing about religion and I even got Paul to comment. I'm going to do my take in a bit, but in the meantime a bit from Nude Scientist caught my eye: Another favourite climate nostrum was upturned...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:46 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
