climate opinion:
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
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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
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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
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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
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A reader writes in bafflement: William, I just can't tell, through what seems to be all the increasing cynicism (you also seem to be going a tad CAish), what you position wrt anthro climate change (how much, why, and what...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:14 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Says the latest Oxfam missive through our door. And their website has similar, sourced to the Stern report: ..the unfair way climate change affects people living in poverty. They are least responsible for the problem, have benefited less from levels...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 12:50 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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I mean, of course, the recent UNFCCC conference, not the city. There is a very negative BBC report. It seems to me that this is one of those scheduled meetings that has to be held even though nothing will come...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:57 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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For those old enough to remember the Oreskes-Peiser controversy, Deltoid makes interesting reading....
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:28 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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See here for Oliver Postgates view on Global warming. And what he has to say about childrens TV is good too. This because he put an advert in the Grauniad yesterday (which I can't find online; but I can find...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:05 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks