climate communication:
Predictably enough, the Grauniad has picked up on Hansens target 350 stuff. And what he said before about W Ant now seems to have got transmogrified into: Hansen said that he now regards as "implausible" the view of many climate...
Posted on April 7, 2008 3:29 AM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Suppose you read a press release that started... Bleak first results from the world's largest climate change experiment and continued Greenhouse gases could cause global temperatures to rise by more than double the maximum warming so far considered likely by...
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Posted on April 6, 2008 6:13 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Liberation blog says Il est fondé sur des contreverités factuelles impardonnables pour un scientifique censé respecter un minimum de règles éthiques dans sa communication avec le public (thanks, R). I think they've ripped off their fig (a) from someone elses...
Posted on April 1, 2008 6:38 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
While we're on things that will keep coming back, I suppose for balance I ough to lay into Hansen, who is once again pushing his climate-sensitivity-is-6oCstuff. Well, it wasn't, and it still isn't. So there....
Posted on March 17, 2008 6:37 PM • 30 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
My scientific swansong is a paper with Tom Peterson and John Fleck about the famous 70's cooling myth. John and I wrote up a post for this on RC as the global cooling mole, and its now been added to...
Posted on March 7, 2008 4:53 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I feel very uncomfortable about the fate of the Brown/Pielke/Annan poll. For the record, I can't remember whether I voted or not or was even asked; but I too would have been a 5. As I said, there were flaws...
Posted on March 2, 2008 5:12 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Just a quick post, since I'm at work, to note our appearence in USA today. This is an upcoming BAMS paper, but clearly making USA today is far more important :-) It grew from http://www.wmconnolley.org.uk/sci/iceage/ but Tom and John finally...
Posted on February 21, 2008 4:26 AM • 42 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I must be getting old, I'm starting to seriously think of switching our paper order from the Grauniad to the Times. Which forms a lead in to: this piece which provides two interesting points: In the National Statistics omnibus survey,...
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Posted on January 26, 2008 2:50 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Is Fred Singer worth listening to(o)? It sounds unlikely - certainly when I heard him speak he provided nothing but disinformation. Sadly I may never know for sure, because their site was broken when I tried it. If anyone does...
Posted on January 17, 2008 2:30 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Thanks to R for pointing out a list of every skeptic argument encountered online as well as how often each argument is used. Clear winner is "the sun" but its nice to see that old chestnut of 1970's cooling still...
Posted on January 10, 2008 5:36 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Mt wisely points out that the World Doesn't End in 2100. Its a fair point, and one that is often forgotten. However... its one that I have come to increasingly downweight as time goes by. For two reasons. One is...
Posted on December 17, 2007 5:45 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
So the AR4 synthesis is out. You can read the SPM and cherry-pick your favourite bit. The BBC has, and has selected climate change is "unequivocal" - fair enough but boring, because we've had that already - and may bring...
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Posted on November 17, 2007 6:13 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
For some reason I've been honoured by a burst of comments from Piers "Solar" Corbyn, a man not ashamed to be associated with TGGWS. PC defends his predictions of the mighty storm surge (without mentionning whether or not he predicted...
Posted on November 10, 2007 6:03 PM • 27 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Shock horror! Worlds press responds sensibly to a press release. Well it was one of ours, and the response seems to be to ignore it, which is fair enough. But a touch surprising, since its yet another iceberg breaking off...
Posted on October 23, 2007 9:38 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I seem to have got onto some stupid PR spam list. The latest comes from Nat Geog, and is typically silly. It sez: As you probably know, most people have a hard time seeing exactly where on the planet global...
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Posted on October 18, 2007 4:38 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
You can read the party line on the AIT 9 "errors". I think its too kind; e.g. on SLR and Katrina Gore is misleading; on evacuation he is simply wrong. But the lake Chad bit was interesting....
Posted on October 17, 2007 5:28 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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