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Category: climate snarking
The color of solar cells -- and their short energy payback -- are trivial factors when considering the huge climate benefit they provide in avoiding the release of CO2 from the combustion of fossil fuels. That was a central point...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 2:57 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate snarking
This stuff just gets weirder; maybe you should just read Brian for some sense instead. Anyway, so as the Breakness Institute (-it all fits together, folks, with the Emeriti) point out, Romm has silently changed his headline from "Meet Trash...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:56 PM • 31 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate communication
Roger is having a spot of trouble: everyone is being nasty to him. Once upon a time the mighty Prometheus bestrode the world like a Colossus and ate big fish for breakfast, but now it seems Roger swims with the...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:49 PM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate snarking
We all hate science by press release which is why we all love the good old stodgy UKMO (now rebranded the Met Office, note no dot) who would never write Met Office warns of catastrophic global warming in our lifetimes...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:51 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate snarking
I hate blogs that force you to jump through hoops to post comments, especially when those hoops don't work. So I could mail Gareth to complain about my inability to comment on "The inner mounting flame" but I'm too impatient,...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 8:05 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate snarking
Well no, of course they haven't. It is yet more septic twaddle from Avery; David Appell has a screenshot, since he expects the original is so blatantly stupid that it will be taken down. And he was right, it is...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:26 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate snarking
Nowadays I seem to rely on wikipedia for my news stories. Not necessarily for the truth, but that something has occurred. So this little thread at global warming piqued my interest (note, BTW, how the poor dear septics don't even...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:27 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate snarking
http://climate.columbia.edu/blog/ defines "abrupt climate change" as: A large-scale change in the climate system that takes place over a few decades or less, persists (or is anticipated to persist) for at least a few decades, and causes substantial disruptions in human...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:34 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate snarking
I've already used Clowns to the left of me.... And then I run across an opinion article in today's Guardian: "Let's Get Real on the Environment." by David Appell nicely counterbalanced by Yes. We Can.. Oh dear oh dear. To...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:46 PM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate snarking
The pollsters in question being Bray and von Storch, who get ratty on Prometheus about Gavin "too sexy for my model" Schmidt's RC piece dissing their latest survey. Slightly confusingly, although the piece is signed by B+vS, it says I...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 2:58 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks