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Category: climate communication
The story so far: some nut attacks Rahmstorf, comparing him to Aryan physics in a letter to the German TV channel ZDF. The usual fools get confused, the usual fools propagate the nonsense. But this time there is a...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 10:13 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: septic tripe
Clearly, everyone wants to have a long discussion about GW etc etc, and maybe I haven't provided a venue for this for a while. But I've now found an excuse, prompted by (or perhaps more accurately, simply ripping off) mt,...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:55 AM • 70 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: septic tripe
A while ago I reported Watching the Deniers say that "There will be no US Congressional investigation into "Climategate": or how global warming sceptics got duped" and commented that Even the wackos aren't really wacko enough to take on...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:58 PM • 87 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate tripe
Right, the previous thread has spilled off a discussion of Jastrow, Nierenberg and Seitz and their representation of a Hansen et al. figure. I have the feeling that the JNS paper may have appeared in multiple places, but the one...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:26 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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
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
Category: septic tripe
It seems shame to root thorugh the trash, but people do, and JM points out the following weird ref in t' Wegman report: Valentine, Tom (1987) "Magnetics may hold key to ozone layer problems," Magnets, 2(1) 18-26. The odd thing...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:09 PM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate tripe
We interrupt your schedule of cats and rowing for a brief snark at the denialists: courtesy of mt, who clearly ventures where angels fear to tread, we have Newsletter: NZCLIMATE TRUTH NO 244 by Vincent Gray: THE FLAT EARTH... The...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:19 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: generic stupidity
Eli has a wonderful post on the McLean mess. So wonderful I can't resist ripping bits of it off :-). McLean et al. quote: "But as it is written, the current paper [Foster et al. draft critique] almost stoops to...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:43 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate communication
I liked Freakonomics, so I'm a bit sad to see the (inevitable) sequel being so hopelessly wrong. Probably this is a case of the old rule: whenever you see people write about stuff you know, they get it wrong. Joe...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:02 PM • 50 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
