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June 30, 2010
Category: politics
More kinjy stuff :-). Mostly Iraq inquiry publishes legal advice to Blair on war and in particular 30.07.02 Goldsmith advice to Prime Minister re: Iraq. Hugo regrets that the prevalence of electronic instruments may prevent adequate supplies of piano wire...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 11:04 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate communication
Sorry, typo on the first letter, hope you aren't too disappointed :-). And nothing to do with the video: which is just a song I'd forgotten how much I liked. We owe so much to YouTube. Anyway, on with...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 9:44 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 27, 2010
Category: climate communication
This post is about the ridiculous "hide the decline" video. I watched it when it first came out. It wasn't funny, it was dull. Apparently it has now been pulled from YouTube, but who cares? But... because the thing is...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 9:23 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 26, 2010
Category: rowing
'You are old', said the youth, 'and your jaws are too weak For anything tougher than suet; Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak - Pray, how did you manage to do it?' 'In my...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:51 PM • 32 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 24, 2010
Category: climate politics
An unfair headline; but I think it is a known phrase: the "Dumb America" phenomenon, wherein the public has the hubris to believe that they really have something valuable to contribute to discussions that they can hardly begin to understand...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 2:50 PM • 28 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 23, 2010
Category: climate snarking
I thought I've have a go and see if I couldn't tweak JA a bit. This is about Expert credibility in climate change by Anderegg et al.. Which tells us what we already know: that there aren't many "skeptics" and...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:14 AM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 22, 2010
Category: economics
Some fairly random thoughts on the budget. * VAT up to 20%: excellent. Calculating 17.5% was always so tedious. Score: +1. * Child benefit and public sector pay will be frozen - for no clear reason we (as in, our...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 2:49 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 20, 2010
Category: bees
Yes, another of those posts about the tedious details of my life that you care nothing about. And also an advert for my honey, hurrah. In the middle you'll see my beehive. I've finally done most of the honey-related stuff...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:38 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
There is a review of "Merchants of Doubt" by Oreskes at the Economist. This quote shows roughly their take: In this powerful book, Naomi Oreskes and Eric Conway, two historians of science, show how big tobacco's disreputable and self-serving tactics...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:07 AM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 19, 2010
A post about "Engineering the Software for Understanding Climate Change" by Steve M. Easterbrook and Timbo "Not the Dark Lord" Johns (thanks Eli). For the sake of a pic to make things more interesting, here is one: It is their...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:10 PM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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