illconsidered | December 25, 2009Happy Holidays to all regular and part time readers out there!
Frosty the Coalman, is a jolly happy soul,
He's abundant here in America and he helps our economy roll.
Frosty the Coalman's getting cleaner every day
He's affordable and adorable and helps workers keep their pay.
There must have been some magic in clean coal technology,
For when they looked for pollutants there were nearly none to see.
Oh, Frosty the Coalman, is a jolly happy soul,
He's abundant here in America and he helps our economy roll.
Thumpity thump thump, thumpity thump thump look at Frosty go,
Thumpity thump thump,…
illconsidered | December 21, 2009 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I ho8pe you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup
skip to bottom Information overload is pattern recognition December 20, 2009 Chuckles, Copenhagen, COP15 Dailies, Copenhagen Accord, COP15 Rhetoric, COP15 Demos, COP15 REDD 550 ppm Leak, +2C Impact, AGU, Bottom Line, Carbon Tariffs, Open Access, Sunspots, CRU Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Temperatures, Aerosols, Paleoclimate, Satellites…
illconsidered | December 18, 2009WUWT's Willis Eschenbach has supposedly uncovered how Evil scientists have fabricated a warming trend in Darwin. Deltoid has the details on why those pesky adjustments were actually made. Of course those details were cleverly hidden, like Jone's decline, where no denialist would ever find it: in the peer reviewed literature!
This fake investigation is called cherry picking, digging through the batch to find the slightly off colored examples. But what happens if you look at the whole bowlful all at once, as did this Italian Medical bio-technologist? (Yes, yes, not a climatologist, not even…
illconsidered | December 14, 2009You can hear the interview Paul Huttner of Minesota Public Radio did with me here. My part starts just after minute 7 of Part 2 and is about 6 minutes long. The show page is here.
Listen to Part 1:
and/or part 2:
I hope the association with Real Climate was not over stated, I really am just a link on their site.
illconsidered | December 14, 2009 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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 Climate Disruption News December 13, 2009 Chuckles, COP15, COP15 Dailies, COP15 Tools, COP15 Alternate Forums, COP15 The Editorial, COP15 Demonstrators GermanWatch, Mediterranean Flood, CRU, Bottom Line, Carbon Tariffs, In the Balance Melting Arctic, Arctic Mode Switch, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Pledges, Baseline…
illconsidered | December 11, 2009I have had these tabs open in Firefox for quite a while now hoping to have the time to comment on them in a bit of detail but time is not on my side (sorry Mic).
So I would just like to list them briefly and recommend them for your review.
From Balloon Juice:
Especially early in this story's life cycle, when you could hardly expect an average reporter to make much sense of the science, a sheaf of personality stories (e.g.) complained about the defensive attitude among climate researchers. Again, you have to wonder what people expect. Taken collectively the "science" of warming denial has…
illconsidered | December 11, 2009For anyone near the computer on Sunday 6PM CST I will be on Minnesota Public Radio's Jet Streaming program for a very brief interview. After the fact I will link to an MP3 file.
he interview has already been taped and I think it went pretty well, but we will see how it was from the other end of the phone line!
MPR's audio streaming is here.
illconsidered | December 9, 2009The Guardian has run a front page editorial on the Copenhagen summit along with 56 papers in 20 languages.
I read it at Real Climate who "takes no formal position" on its statements. I suppose it is to avoid the acusation of being political...
Well, I have rarely read an editorial I agree with more. And I say that with the utmost formality!
It was released under Creative Commons license, so I will reproduce it here in its entirety:
Copenhagen climate change conference: Fourteen days to seal history's judgment on this generation
Today 56 newspapers in 45 countries take the unprecedented step…
illconsidered | December 9, 2009Here is a fabulous boil down approach to the climate debate.
The main site is called "Information is beautiful" and like Robert Rhode's Global Warming Art, it provides a compelling and beautiful graphical presentation of an otherwise rather dry and technical topic.
What do people think? Too simplistic? Too technical for a lay audience?
illconsidered | December 8, 2009greenman has done a fine job of debunking the various exagerations, misrepresentations and lies circulating about the recent Swiftwacking of CRU (aka Climategate).
I recommend having a look, below:
illconsidered | December 7, 2009The Globe and Mail has an article by Thomas Homer-Dixon and Andrew Weaver on "responding to the sceptics" that can be read here. It is rather shorter than How to talk to a climate sceptic, having only 4 points.
This is the overview of their Q&A:
"GLOBAL WARMING HAS STOPPED."
Nonsense.
"RECENT WARMING IS MOSTLY DUE TO AN INCREASE IN THE AMOUNT OF RADIATION COMING FROM THE SUN."
Rubbish.
"THE CLIMATE IS ALWAYS CHANGING."
Yes, but so what?
"SCIENTIFIC UNCERTAINTY IS SO GREAT THAT WE CAN'T MAKE FIRM POLICY DECISIONS."
Wrong.
Of course they offer a lot more detail, which you can read…
illconsidered | December 7, 2009 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I ho8pe you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup
skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News December 6, 2009 Chuckle, Copenhagen, CPRS, SCAR, Ocean CO2, 4 Degrees, Naughties, CRU Inquiry, Other Hacks, CRU Hack Bottom Line, Tim Garrett, Lancet, Copenhagen Diagnosis Melting Arctic, Polar Bear, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, GHG Pledges, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures, Aerosols,…
illconsidered | December 3, 2009I heard about it too late for the live webcast, but you can watch this event at this link.
I don't know if this will be a permanent link.
It was "live blogged" by Steve Easterbrook and David Roberts.
illconsidered | December 1, 2009Well, I see no one takes my advice on anything!
The Associated Press
LONDON -- Britain's University of East Anglia says the director of its prestigious Climatic Research Unit is stepping down pending an investigation into allegations that he overstated the case for man-made climate change.
The university says Phil Jones will relinquish his position until the completion of an independent review into allegations that he worked to alter the way in which global temperature data was presented.
The allegations were made after more than a decade of correspondence between leading British and U.S.…
illconsidered | December 1, 2009If you do not know what climategate refers to you probably got here via some odd typo in a google search. If you do but have not yet read Real Climate's post on it, you should do so. It is too late to rename the whole affair, but I thing "Swifthack" would have been more apropos.
Climategate is big news and not just in the climate blogosphere, all the major newspapers have opined. Here in cyberland, I have seen a doubling of traffic without really writing a thing about it or having a high traffic site link to me, I am assuming general interest in the story is the reason. Most of what I…
illconsidered | November 30, 2009 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I ho8pe you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup
skip to bottom Another Week of Global Warming News Information overload is pattern recognition November 29, 2009 Chuckle, Copenhagen, CHOGM, G77, Save-the-Jungle, Copenhagen Diagnosis, CS Statement, CSIRO, Health & CC Bottom Line, Patents, Broken Promises, Garrett, Solar, CRU Hack Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica, EAIS Losing Mass Food Crisis, Land Grabs, Food Production Hurricanes,…
illconsidered | November 24, 2009 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I ho8pe you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup
skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News November 22, 2009 Chuckle, Copenhagen, APEC, Clouds, Bristlecone Pine, Carbon Sinks, Knorr, Mammoth Extinction Bottom Line, Carbon Tariffs, 6 Degrees, Open Access, Superfree, CRU Hack Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, WSFS, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures, Ozone, Paleoclimate, ENSO,…
illconsidered | November 23, 2009Visitor's Time : Nov 24 2009 7:30:10 am
Visit Number : 500,000
Location
Continent : Europe
Country : Spain
State/Region : Madrid
City : Madrid
Hello Spain! and visit number 500K. Who would have imagined....?
illconsidered | November 23, 2009So I'm back from Fiji, actually for over a week now, and while I could get internet there but chose not to, I have yet to get internet here in our new home in Vancouver. Bloody Telus. I only arranged for it 3 months ago...I did get an iPhone though, so email and basic webbing is covered for a while.
Anyway, glad to be home, tons to catch up on, hope the internets flowed along without me and all that. I hear the conspiritorial cat is well out of CRU's bag and the jig is up on the Global Warming hoax. I guess the Greenland ice sheet will be well refrozen by now, and the sea levels have…
illconsidered | November 23, 2009 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I ho8pe you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup
skip to bottom Another Week of Climate Disruption News November 15, 2009 Chuckle, Copenhagen, APEC, France & Brazil, WSFS, Montreal Protocol, Merida Message, Front Line Nations, Polls Younger Dryas, Himalayan Glaciers, Williams & Zabel, Bottom Line, CSIRO, Amazon, CO2 Forcing, Superfree, G20 Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Land Grabs, Food Production…