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I've been using Google Reader recently, following the lamented death of Planet Fleck, and I suppose I have to admit its better. Here are some "shared items" if, for some reason, you want to read what I read.

January 31, 2010

Hurrah: Copenhagen dampens banks' green commitment

Category: climate economics

Says the Grauniad. Not the "Hurrah", I added that. The Grauniad doesn't come out for it being good or bad news. But I think it is. Emissions trading is a waste of time and an enormous waste of money, promoted...

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January 28, 2010

How I found glaring errors in Einstein's calculations?

Category: science

Three posts in one day. And all of such high quality. You lucky people. Pascal has a go at explaining the std.nutters. Some of it is the usual correct stuff, but some of it is wrong: What you need, over...

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Sea ice again?

Category: climate betting

At some point I need to decide if I'll re-start the by-now-traditional sea ice bet for the summer. Before we start arguing over the details, remember that there is a lot of inter-annual variablity so we need to disagree *a...

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Airbourne fraction, again

Category: climate economics

This was an ask stoat question, and probably a fairly easy one, so I'll have a go. First of all, what is it? AF (ie, Airbo(u)rne Fraction, is the proportion of human emitted CO2 that stays in the atmosphere, the...

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January 26, 2010

Grave face

Category: photo

Going through the photo backlog. From Jenny's village....

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January 25, 2010

Himalayan glaciers to disappear by... when?

Category: climate science

Reader enragedparrot asks the rather sensible question, which appears to have been somewhat neglected in the vast war of words of 2035, 2350, and quite what is the source for what: if 2035 is badly wrong, what is the right...

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January 24, 2010

I love this so much

Category: fun

Sometimes I have to admit I'm completely outclassed, and people who can find this kind of stuff win hands down....

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Book writing not rewarding, on average

Category: books

From http://www.philcooke.com/book_publishing via mt's shared posts: Here's the reality of the book industry: in 2004, 950,000 titles out of the 1.2 million tracked by Nielsen Bookscan sold fewer than 99 copies. Another 200,000 sold fewer than 1,000 copies. Only 25,000...

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January 23, 2010

Rowing and Rugby

Category: rowing

In which I yet again abuse science blogs to discuss matters of little import to general readers. But it's my blog, so there. The rowing was the Head to Head, which involves rowing the 2 km form the Railway bridge...

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January 22, 2010

Beautiful

Category: climate science

Isn't this beautiful: Story behind it from withouthotair.blogspot.com/2010/01/wind-farm-wakes....

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