illconsidered | January 13, 2011Over on the history of CO2 thread, that old chestnut of an issue has been raised, namely that there's this one paper in one journal, notorious for publishing anti-science papers on climate (a field well outside its focus), that has shown wild flucuations in CO2 to levels well above today's in times as recent as 60 years ago. Therefore....Not the IPCC.
The paper is by Ernst G Beck and the journal is Energy and Environment, 2009 (sorry, all my primary links are stale...anyone?)
Here is the graph, supposedly showing global CO2 levels:
This picture is at-a-glance completely implausible.
To…
illconsidered | January 10, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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illconsidered | January 6, 2011I have always like this graphic from Global Warming Art:
It puts the current CO2 rise into sharp perspective in terms of historical flucuations, both in its magnitude and rapidity.
Well, even better for impact is the video below from Youtube user CarbonTracker:
Especially intriguing is watching the seasonal rise and fall, the collective breathing of earth's plant life.
(passed down from Lou Grinzo to MT to here)
illconsidered | January 5, 2011Check out an hilarious post from Denial Depot where he applies a keen sense of climate skepticism to the movie Jaws. Here is his synopsis, to whet your appetite:
A group of so-called government funded "experts" whip up alarmist fears of a killer shark off the coast of Amity, a sea side town. Their goal is to destroy the local tourist industry, send Amity back to the dark ages and thus achieve their underlying socialist agenda of wealth redistribution. The heroes of this tale are the local major and business leaders who lead a successful audit of the alarmist claims and by doing so manage to…
illconsidered | January 4, 2011(Apologies to those whose week can not begin until they have read each and every link in the weekly news roundup, the fault is mine, het was on time as usual...)
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Instability News Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsJanuary 2, 2011 Chuckles, COP16, 2010, 2011+, Gleick, CableGate, Weather, Australia, Crocs, Pakistan Bottom Line, Subsidies, The Question,…
illconsidered | December 27, 2010 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Global Warming News Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is notWisdomDecember 26, 2010 Chuckles, Solstice, COP16, Bolivia, COP17+, Season's Greetings, Roundups, Weather AGU, IPBES, CableGate, Pakistan, Subsidies, Amstrup, Thermodynamics, Cook Melting Arctic, Polar Bears Food Crisis, Agro-corps, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Temperatures,…
illconsidered | December 25, 2010For readers and passers by, I offer all this gift of music, which I found utterly amazing and enthralling the first time, and many subsequent times, I heard it.
illconsidered | December 20, 2010 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Global Warming News Information Overload is Pattern RecognitionDecember 19, 2010 Chuckles, Solstice, COP16, COP17+, UN GCF, CableGate, AGU, Amstrup, Weather, Pakistan Bottom Line, Subsidies, Year End, CSRRT, Cook, Post CRU, Shrinkology Melting Arctic, Megafauna, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, GCDT, Food vs. Biofuel, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production…
illconsidered | December 16, 2010A recent model study of some hypothetical effects of biological feedbacks of climate sensitivity to doubled CO2 came into the comments here. The paper was referenced in an article on the Register and is being misused as a revelation that the world is not going to warm so much after all.
mandas had a good go at it, identifying the assumptions and qualifications that the paper explicitly enumerated and the Register article completely ignored. I thought readers might also be interested in this video debunking from "potholer54" on youtube.
Just an aside: it is funny how worthless models are…
illconsidered | December 15, 2010Okay, we really need a topic change around here and I have about 40,000 (or is it 40??) tabs open in Firefox waiting to spark a conversation. Some are months old news now, somewhat more than stale. That gives you all an indication of the gap between my intentions and my performance these days....I have an hour before my travels back to Czech Republic begin, and I will be out of contact for a couple of days, I think the time is now.
So, lets just do a bit of a topic dump and see what catches on.
India is building a wall along its border with Bangledesh. I wonder how people who consider the…
illconsidered | December 13, 2010 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Global Warming News Sipping from the Internet Firehose...December 12, 2010 Chuckles, COP15, COP16 Grind, COP16 Deal, COP17, Cablegate, Winter, AGU, Pakistan Bottom Line, Subsidies, WB, IEC, Thermodynamics, CSRRT, Cook, CCPI Melting Arctic, Megafauna, Greenland, Antarctica Food Crisis, Global Crop Diversity Trust Project, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs,…
illconsidered | December 6, 2010 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Instability News Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsDecember 5, 2010 Chuckles, COP15, COP16, Kyoto, 4 Degrees+, CableGate, Cable Talk, Pakistan Subsidies, GEE, Weather, The Question, Why, Thermodynamics, Cook, Post CRU Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Fisheries, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs,…
illconsidered | December 3, 2010Okay, the "Globally and Seasonally averaged" thread has grown to over 500 comments and thus reached its point of diminishing return in terms of the time it would take to read it and the utility of doing so. And while on the one hand I don't like to feed what is drifting towards to troll-like behaviour, the conversation continues and I don't want to stifle it. It began with a comment of mine at Judith Curry's blog about who is a denier and who is a sceptic. See the update in the original article for why Richard clearly falls out of the sceptic category.
So I am going to close that thread…
illconsidered | November 30, 2010Although I just play the role of a scientist on the internet, my father actually is one. As well as being a medical doctor, he is a retired professor of biophysics. I am telling you this because he has recently co-authored a book on a subject that might interest readers of ScienceBlogs: fluoridation of human water supplies. The book is entitled "The Case Against Fluoride: How Hazardous Waste Ended Up in Our Drinking Water and the Bad Science and Powerful Politics That Keep It There" and you can read a detailed review of that book here [PDF].
At my request, he has written up a guest post…
illconsidered | November 29, 2010Consensus is a dirty word when it comes to climate change experts, but put in just about any other context, expert consensus is what we all would want. This Marc Roberts cartoon casts that issue in the best light:
Just imagine getting medical assistance from Lord Cristopher Monckton... Oh look! We don't have to imagine.
I began to think that Viscount Monckton might be a formidable opponent during the debate. Then he told me that he has discovered a new drug that is a complete cure for two-thirds of known diseases - and that he expects it to go into clinical trials soon. I asked him…
illconsidered | November 29, 2010 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Instability News Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not WisdomNovember 28, 2010 Chuckles, COP15, COP16+, WMSoC, Schneider & Hook, CSRRT, Reforestation, GreenPeace, Pakistan Carbon Tariffs, Subsidies, UNCFG, Ecuador, GFI, Psych, Year in Review, Cook, Post CRU, IEC Melting Arctic, Megafauna, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food…
illconsidered | November 27, 2010Oh boy, get out the tinfoil. Here's one the conspiracy nuts will howl over.
The temperature record that has been showing the lowest anomaly in the recent decades, HadCRU, the dataset managed by the UK's Met Office and the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (CRU), is about to be revised upwards.
Met Office scientists have reviewed the whole sea surface temperature data set between 1850 and 2006 to take account of this bias. A paper has been submitted to the Journal of Geophysical Research which looks in more detail at all the biases in sea-surface temperature measurements from…
illconsidered | November 24, 2010As fate would have it, no sooner does a disengenous commenter here point out the unusual cold and snow falling on my hometown of Vancouver, Canada than I come accross this amusing comic from Jen Sorenson:
illconsidered | November 23, 2010The wheels continue to fall off the Wegman Report.
"It kind of undermines the credibility of your work criticizing others' integrity when you don't conform to the basic rules of scholarship," Virginia Tech plagiarism expert Skip Garner says.
Further down:
Allegations under review
"The matter is under investigation," says GMU spokesman Dan Walsch by e-mail. In a phone interview, Wegman said he could not comment at the university's request. In an earlier e-mail Wegman sent to Joseph Kunc of the University of Southern California, however, he called the plagiarism charges "wild conclusions that…
illconsidered | November 23, 2010Shorter Lost final scene: "yeah, okay, we never knew WTF was going on either, but thanks for watching!"