November 28, 2009
Category: climate communication
Perhaps sensing blood, Zorita explains Why I think that Michael Mann, Phil Jones and Stefan Rahmstorf should be barred from the IPCC process. I know little of Zorita; he appears to be a protege of von S (many of...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 12:15 PM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate communication
This from off in the comments at Slashdot, brought to my attention by planet30 (thanks VM). Yes, I kn ow I'm a layperson now myself, but some shreds of the old knowledge still cling. Related thought: just about everyone knows...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 11:48 AM • 33 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 27, 2009
Category: climate science
Ah, a fertile theme for post names. Excellent. So, much excitement over a new GRACE study in Nurture (Accelerated Antarctic ice loss from satellite gravity measurements, J. L. Chen et al.) indicating that Antarctica as a whole was losing mass:...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:29 PM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 24, 2009
Category: climate communication
Anyone who cares has found them by now so I won't trouble you with all the details. James "Gonad Watcher" Annan is fulfilling, with commendable neutrality, the role of arbitrator to which I appointed him, and I don't think there...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:33 PM • 99 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 22, 2009
Category: misc
Spot the problem: So, my Top Tip is, Don't drop your camera onto a hard stone courtyard. Apparently http://www.fixationuk.com/ may be able to help (thanks Andrew). Another Top Tip might be learn from your mistakes but that is just too...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 2:00 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 21, 2009
Category: climate grumping
In shocking news just in, record heavy rain in the Lakes and extensive flooding has not been linked to global warming. Dr Bogus, spokesman for the Made-Up Institute of Twaddle, said "This is completely unprecedented. Normally, any unusual - or...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 1:24 PM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 16, 2009
Category: climate science
Shamelss fanboy stuff I'm afraid. The great Klotzbach wars have been playing for a little while now ([1], [2], [3], [4] etc etc), but the arbitrator has spoken and its time for the Dark Side to stop digging and...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:25 PM • 32 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 15, 2009
Just to show how ecumenical I am, I agree with (most of) RP Sr's post Comment On News Article On Weather Modification Titled ""Playing With Weather Stirs Debate In China". Which basically says "stop being such a bunch of credulous...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:09 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 14, 2009
Category: photo
I like this one. It is from NASA though I've heavily hacked it around (I saw it today in a copy of Wired at Mr Polito's; oh yes, it is online too: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/gallery_volcanoes/3/, but I don't recommend visiting, the...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:14 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate communication
I'm not a mass-media-audience type of blog, so I excuse myself from having to be kind to "my side"; I don't think I need to avoid worrying Joe Public about dissent in the "we believe in GW" side of the...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:25 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks