illconsidered | October 22, 2010From the "just because it's beautiful" department, have a look at the image sequence below.
Thanks again to APOD!
Water Dance from Alex Cherney on Vimeo.
illconsidered | October 21, 2010The sorry saga continues...
WASHINGTON (October 21, 2010) - Yesterday, the University of Virginia made two court filings in its fight against Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's politically motivated investigation of climate scientist Michael Mann.
In its most strongly-worded court filing to date (pdf), UVA characterized Cuccinelli's investigation as "an unprecedented and improper governmental intrusion into ongoing scientific research" and said that Cuccinelli is targeting Mann because he "disagrees with his academic research regarding climate change."
UVA also argued that Cuccinelli'…
illconsidered | October 19, 2010Okay, what with the "made in China" phenomenom and the boom in Japanese electronics long before, we are all familiar with bad translations in our product packaging and instructions, but this goes a bit beyond that!
Below are the washing instructions for a pair of jeans my wife bought today. Read carefully!
I think I will suggest the traditional marital roles next time laundry day comes around, because I don't see how I can win with this one!
illconsidered | October 19, 2010Readers here are probably already familiar with the Wegman report "strange scholarship" scandal but if not read up on it a bit at Eli Rabbet's place. The mess goes much deeper, but the relevant aspect is an ongoing plagarism investigation into Wegman by George Mason University. The GMU investigation was pushed forward by a formal complaint by Raymond Bradely because passages from his text, Paleoclimatology: Reconstructing Climates of the Quaternary, were copied and placed verbatim, uncited and without quotation marks into Wegman's report.
Now, to the subject of this post. I don't recall…
illconsidered | October 18, 2010If you have a spare couple of hours, I am sure the YouTube below is well worth the time. I don't, so I can't comment on anything but my expectations and the approval of Dessler's performance from Eli Rabett and Deltoid.
Thanks, Eli, for the link.
illconsidered | October 18, 2010Okay, so this one is a bit of a tear-jerker and I usually like to avoid mixing sentimentality with environmentalism, but it is very informative and interesting if sad. It is greenman3610's Climate Crock of the Week from about three weeks ago and as usual well worth watching.
I tend to be skeptical about anthropomorphizing our fellow earthlings, but I'll be damned if that wasn't a very affectionate mama walrus hugging her baby! If walruses weren't so ugly they just might top polar bears in terms of public concern...
illconsidered | October 18, 2010No, not how much I will write now, but the approximate value of the two pictures I will post, using standard conversion rates.
(see Eli's place for source and commentary)
(this one from Global Warming Art)
But don't let your lying eyes and faculties of reason fool you, we are on the cusp of a new ice age!
illconsidered | October 18, 2010 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Global Warming News Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsOctober 17, 2010 Chuckles, Tianjin, Busan, COP16+, CBD, ICAO, ASPO, Jung et al., Lacis et al., Pakistan Bottom Line, Carbon Tariffs, Global Institutions, BAD, Living Planet Report, Haigh Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Monsanto, WFD, Pavlovsk Agricultural Station, GMOs, Food…
illconsidered | October 18, 2010Just to pick up an ongoing conversation where we left off over at the recently closed How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic thread, I wanted to provide a more serious answer to a likely unserious visitor because I think myhrr's issue deserves an answer, even if myhrr obviously doesn't. Kind of like the "we can't predict the temp 2 weeks from now" argument, this one has an intuitive appeal to perfectly fine people who are just not well informed for whatever reason.
myhrr is wondering why CO2, being heavier than air, does not just stay close to the ground. Okay, he actually claims entire…
illconsidered | October 12, 2010Okay, the main page for How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic has over 500 comments now, so as I should have done long ago, I am closing comments there.
Please post any miscellaneous comments that don't fit better elsewhere on this site here on this thread, thanks!
illconsidered | October 11, 2010File this one in the "sad but true" department: Donald Duck learns what Glenn Beck is really about.
And apparently he was not happy about it!
illconsidered | October 11, 2010 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Instability News Information overload is pattern recognitionOctober 10, 2010 Chuckles, Tianjin, Copenhagen Accord, COP16+, ASEM, Syed, Haigh, Pakistan Bottom Line, Carbon Tariffs, Finance, No Pressure, Cook, Post CRU Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, GHGs, Temperatures, Feedbacks Aerosols,…
illconsidered | October 9, 2010It seems that substantial evidence compiled by John Mashey has helped lead to an investigation into Edward Wegman's possible academic misconduct in the production of his very prominent report to Congress [PDF] on the Hockeystick.
See DesmogBlog for background, USA Today for the story, and Deep Climate for the details.
I will only add a couple of brief comments. Firstly, although the media buzz will be largely about the plagarism charges (and the apologists will focus there as well - copied doesn't mean wrong), there is much more to John's detailed evidence than this. Citations were not just…
illconsidered | October 5, 2010A few days ago, an environmental organization from England released what can charitably be called an appaling video in support of their campaign to reduce carbon emission 10% per year starting now, in 2010. The group is called 10:10 and the page originally containing the video, now containing an apology, is here. It was removed very quickly following very negative reactions from across the spectrum of environmental ideologies.
The video is a very graphic depiction of various people chosing not to go along with the 1010 campaign being blown to bits, replete with blood and gore spattered on…
illconsidered | October 4, 2010For any fellow Vancouverites out there, you can catch a free screening of "A Sea Change" (a movie about ocean acidification) at UBC. It's at the Norm Theatre in the Student Union Building this Tuesday, Oct 5, at 6:00 pm. It's being put on by the Student Environment Centre.
illconsidered | October 4, 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...October 3, 2010 Chuckles, COP16+, Tianjin, Right Livelihood, Loopholes, IUCN, Royal Society, Collisions, Pakistan Carbon Tariffs, Subsidies, IP Rentiers, Bin Laden, No Pressure, Cook, Post CRU Melting Arctic, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Food Corps, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs,…
illconsidered | September 30, 2010Most of us interested in climate science understand the uniqueness and importance of deep ice cores. It is truly a remarkable record of many aspects of past climate including dust, methane, sea level proxies and carbon dioxide.
The video below (a YouTubed TED Talk)is a very fascinating look at what it takes to retrieve one.
(warning, the last 3 or four minutes are a Rolex commercial)
Cheers to Thingsbreak for posting it where I could see it!
illconsidered | September 27, 2010The title is of course a reference to Alice in Wonderland, and particularily to the quote about believing 6 impossible things before breakfast (which Eli Rabbet upped to ten) and, again, of course applies so nicely to the climate contrarian community.
But I guess it is not quite a perfect fit for what I am posting about now, which is rather believing contradictory things, before, during or even after breakfast.
(cartoon source)
[Note: we could make this cartoon a perfect fit for Monckton just by adding another panel where the scientist suddenly turns to the Galileo-wannabe saying "WTF!? I…
illconsidered | September 27, 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 YearsSeptember 26, 2010 Chuckles, Equinox, COP16+, MDG, FAO, MEF, CGI Thompson, Big Picture, Pakistan, Subsidies, Cook, Post CRU Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Weapon, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, GHGs, Temperatures, Feedbacks, Aerosols Ozone, Solar…
illconsidered | September 26, 2010We now return to previously scheduled programming.
Though some of us wonder if life will ever be the same again!