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February 3, 2009
I have made it pretty clear before that I am no fan of Roger Pielke Jr. Everytime I stick my nose in there the smell seems to get a little worse.
His latest effort at sabotaging productive discourse on climate science and policy is a really low blow, putting to rest any lingering hopes one might…
February 2, 2009
In setting out to construct an environmentally advanced building to replace the trio of connected brownstones that they now call home, the Episcopal sisters of the Community of the Holy Spirit were taking a giant step in their decade-long journey to weave ecological concerns into their daily…
February 2, 2009
Sipping from the internet firehose...This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H.E.Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundupskip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Sipping from the internet firehose... February 1, 2009 Top Stories:WGMS…
January 29, 2009
"Growth is not finite". Well, that was easily settled!
For some reason, this bothers Michael Tobis. He's such a downer, we mustn't invite him to the next economic recovery party (there will be one anyday now, won't there?)
January 26, 2009
Sipping from the internet firehose...This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H.E.Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundupskip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News January 25, 2009 Top Stories:US Forests, Antarctic Warming, Survey of…
January 24, 2009
Nature magazine recently published a paper showing that Antarctica has actually been warming about .1oC/decade since the 1950's. It was the cover story:
A new reconstruction of Antarctic surface temperature trends for 1957-2006, reported this week by Steig et al., suggests that overall the…
January 21, 2009
Now this is priceless! Some of the best GW satire ever, courtesy of Greenfrye....
January 20, 2009
Michael Tobis presents an interesting case study on the denialist echo chamber at work.
I guess if you copy/paste a falsehood often enough it just becomes true!
January 19, 2009
Sipping from the internet firehose...This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H.E.Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundupskip to bottom Another Week of Climate Disruption News Information overload is pattern recognition January 18, 2009 Top Stories…
January 13, 2009
It was feeling for a while that the faux debate over climate change was waning and maybe engaging in it was more distraction than a constructive effort. That feeling started after the very striking change in mainstream climate change coverage that followed An Inconvenient Truth.
It got a bit…
January 13, 2009
A frequent commenter on many of my "How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic" articles has just taken me to task for what he sees as revealing inconsistencies.
'paul', who is generally respectful but still very antagonistic to the whole AGW concept, quotes me from various places saying at one time "The…
January 12, 2009
Another Week of Climate Disruption News Sipping from the internet firehose...This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H.E.Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup(skip to bottom) January 11, 2009 Top Stories:Coal Sludge, Tim DeChristopher Melting…
January 9, 2009
So it seems there is another advantage to owning a hybrid! It can double as an emergency generator in case of a blackout:
WHERE WAS YOUR HYBRID WHEN THE LIGHTS WENT OUT?
Ever been caught with no power in the midst of a winter storm and not have a generator? Well, if you have a hybrid, you may…
January 8, 2009
A video story from ABC news here tells how Glacier National Park has gone from somewhere between 120 and 150 glaciers 100 years ago to a couple of dozen today. Yikes! And a scientist they interview who has spent years monitoring them has gone from predicting they will be completely gone by 2050…
January 8, 2009
So I get a lot of "sceptical" comments on the "How to Talk to a Sceptic" guide, as one might well imagine. They cover quite a range from subtly misguided to poorly informed to angry political rants. I always try to answer if it seems like there might be a point.
A recent comment, made on the main…
January 7, 2009
Real Climate has a brief discussion of some recent research connecting the Younger Dryas cooling with a comet impact event.
They point to Open Mind which has some very interesting discussion.
Just FYI...
January 7, 2009
I must confess, not looking at the numbers or anything, I have always mentally dismissed the impact of air travel on humanity's carbon footprint. But looking at the very cool video below my impression is a bit different!
Notice how the day-night terminator moves through the scene:
Anyone know…
January 6, 2009
Here are this week's climate related podcasts (and some on only tangentially relevant subjects!).
NOTE: Presentation of content in this list does not imply endorsement of the views expressed within and I may or may not have listened to it myself! Please highlight good, bad or interesting aspects in…
January 6, 2009
One of my first questions when I came to sci.environment for an education a few long years ago was "Does anyone know of a good resource for climate related information I can put on my mp3 player?"
I did not get much or any response then, but since I have found a few interesting podcasts that often…
January 5, 2009
I found this YouTube clip via Crooks and Liars of James Hansen on Democracy Now. It also contains some highlights of other Democracy Now interviews, including one of Science Blogs' own Chris Mooney.
He talks about the political muzzling he has experience under both parties during his time at NASA…
January 5, 2009
Another Week of Climate Disruption News Sipping from the internet firehose...This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H.E.Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup(skip to bottom) January 4, 2009 Top Stories:Tennessee Coal Sludge, YD Impact Theory,…
December 30, 2008
The following article is a guest post by H. E. Taylor, who you might recognize as the one who graciously provides us with the weekly GW news roundups.The Ecological Crunch and the Dyer Scale
When I saw the headline, "50 percent of all species disappearing"[2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] my first thought…
December 29, 2008
Another Week of Climate Disruption News Sipping from the internet firehose...This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H.E.Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup(skip to bottom) Another Week of Global Warming News Sipping from the internet firehose…
December 22, 2008
Another Week of Climate Disruption News Sipping from the internet firehose...This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H.E.Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup(skip to bottom) December 21, 2008 Top Stories:Poznan, AGU, Abrupt Climate Change,…
December 17, 2008
How's this for jaw dropping, mind-boggling, unintentional irony?
Question to the Bush administration at this year's UN climate change talks:
If you look back over the course of the last few years, is there anything you would have done differently or is there anything you wished had happened but…
December 16, 2008
My first Common Lisp programming job was for Mercury Scheduling (no longer around) working on the back end of airline crew control software. The main focus was assisting crew controllers in scheduling personnel on flights. We had to satisfy literally hundreds of constraints from union regulations…
December 15, 2008
...interviews who??
Fatih Birol is the Chief Economist for the International Energy Authority, the agency that the whole world (or at least the "official" part of that world) relies on for forecasts about energy production and demand. This is the organization that governments around the world like…
December 15, 2008
Sipping from the internet firehose...This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H.E.Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup(skip to bottom) December 14, 2008 Top Stories:Poznan, EU 20/20/20 Plan, Recession Melting Arctic, Wilkins SatWebCam, Methane,…
December 13, 2008
Via last Thursday's APOD, I came to this site where I downloaded an excellent, high-res video about some recent research out of Germany. Over the last 16 years, a team of astronomers have taken images of a tiny patch of sky that is the very center of the milky way. By doing this they have been…
December 11, 2008
This is too hilarious for words, seven lumps of coal wearing scarves and toques singing Christmas carols about "clean coal" and energy independence!
There are six to chose from, I didn't get far but my favorite is transcribed below:
Frosty the Coalman, is a jolly happy soul,
He's abundant here in…