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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.
climate opinion:
Category: climate opinion
I've said this before - in Carbon Tax Now - but you could be excused for missing it, because that was mostly about carbon taxes, oddly enough. So I'll be more explicit, here, and argue for solving GHG emissions...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 1:14 PM • 133 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate opinion
This is actually a comment made at Early Warning about the current Eurozone crisis. Any number of people, too numerous to mention, believe that the situation there (or here? We're not part of the Euro, but are economies connect closely)...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 9:08 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate communication
Back in 2008, I examined the Oreskes vs Nierenberg affair and concluded that Nicolas Nierenberg was correct and Oreskes was wrong. And then NN capped that by actually writing stuff up into a paper, published in July of this year:...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:17 PM • 32 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate science
So often you get folks who have some brilliant theory, but unaccountably lack the courage to write the thing up and submit it for publication. However, I'm pleased to report that Nicolas Nierenberg is not such a man, and he...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:47 PM • 38 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate communication
Or have I used that one before? It seems only too likely. But perhaps not: I don't seem to have had a decent go at him for four years. Anyway, it makes a change from CRU-investigation navel-gazing (I'll get back...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:54 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate communication
It seems to have become axiomatic in some parts that Gore can do no wrong; Joe Romm has a long column (disclaimer: the column is too long for me to bother read it all) devoted to this implausible assumption, with...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:40 PM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate opinion
You know the old T-shirt slogan: "Help the police. Beat yourself up". Anyway, Nurture have the traditional Inuit-imperilled-by-climate-change stuff, only its a bit more interesting because they link to a paper that actually tries to quantify the effects. Or it...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:08 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate opinion
So says the Independent. The substance seems to be Just over half - 54 per cent - of the 80 international specialists in climate science who took part in our survey agreed that the situation is now so dire that...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:29 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate opinion
Apologies - back to climate, but opinion, not science. Bray and von Storch ride again! See Nature's blog and a long write-up of their results. In the blog, they attack Singer for taking stuff out of context, and the skeptics...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:53 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate opinion
Vaclav Klaus says We are living in strange times. One exceptionally warm winter is enough - irrespective of the fact that in the course of the 20th century the global temperature increased only by 0.6 per cent - for the...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 11:55 AM • 51 Comments • 0 TrackBacks