illconsidered | April 3, 2009Giant Razor Clawed Crabs pose no threat, experts say At least I thought it was funny.
illconsidered | April 2, 2009In case anyone has noted my recent absence in comment threads since Friday, March 27, 2009, well, I have a good excuse!
illconsidered | April 1, 2009Michael Tobis finds an illustrative example of misleading with a scientific accent.
On a related topic, Robert Grumbine examines how to actually answer the question "Does CO2 correlate with temperature?" (More Grumbine Science recently added to the blogroll here, btw).
I have a couple of Sceptic Guide postings on that here and here.
illconsidered | April 1, 2009Guest post from het, provider of the weekly feature "Another week of GW News"
Sandbag Central
(source: Boston.com)
When I see scenes like the 'sandbag central' Fargo stadium --- thousands of people shovelling sand, making and piling sandbags, fighting together for their city --- my heart swells. It is the community of shared adversity.
CBC-TV had a camera crew wandering around the stadium interviewing people and they zeroed in on one little blonde haired girl of 7 or 8 years. "Why are you doing this?" asked the interviewer. "For my city, for my family," said the little girl. But the thing…
illconsidered | March 30, 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 roundup
skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Sipping from the internet firehose... March 29, 2009 Chuckle Top Stories:Red River, Earth Hour, Recession, MEFEC, Changing Borders Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica, Particulates, Mt. Redoubt, Chameides, Late Comments Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Satellites Impacts, Forests, Corals, Climate Refugees,…
illconsidered | March 27, 2009This was passed on to me for posting by het, just as a human interest angle to this current event
My brother David lives 50 feet from the Red River north
of Winnipeg about half way between Lockport and the perimeter
highway. You may have heard about the flooding across
the river at St. Andrews. Below I have copied an email received
from him last night.
> I've been getting calls and emails about the Red River and flooding, so I thought
> I would write and let you know.
>
> On monday, after work, we had the most amazing experience. The river ice was groaning
> and moaning and…
illconsidered | March 25, 2009I may be very late to the party, but I would still like to refer readers to Chris Mooney's Op-Ed response to the recent George Will fiasco.
Congratulations, Chris, it is very well presented and important material. I can't however share your warm fuzzies for the WaPo's change of heart, because, well somehow presenting two sides to a debate, you know, bat-shit crazy versus intelligent reality, still falls a little short for me!
illconsidered | March 23, 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 roundup
skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Information overload is pattern recognition March 22, 2009 Top Stories: Earth Hour, Maldives, US Polls, Copenhagen Melting Arctic, Polar Bear, Arctic Geopolitics, Grumbine, Late Comments Food Crisis, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures, Sea Levels, Satellites Impacts, Forests, Wacky Weather, Wildfires, Floods & Droughts, World…
illconsidered | March 20, 2009James Hrynyshyn at Island of Doubt yesterday put up a really interesting examination of the Copenhagen Conference's efforts to deal with just what is the "safety limit" for global warming. I won't add much accept to lament the fact that "as much as possible as soon as possible" is too vague for public policy goals.
Because really, that is the only correct answer to the question politicians want scientists to answer: how much do we need to reduce CO2 emissions?
Have a read.
illconsidered | March 19, 2009If tribal cultures could consider the seventh generation, we with our much greater power should be considering the seventieth. The thirty year horizon that economists and politicians consider very long range is just a blink in the geological history of our planet. Now that we dominate surface processes of the earth we have taken over the responsibility for its sustenance. Our obligation to our descendants and our world doesn't end when the discount rate kicks in.
That's Michel Tobis
Believe in something! Even if it's wrong, believe in it.
That's Glenn Beck.
Sometimes being ridiculed is…
illconsidered | March 18, 2009While on the subject of being talked about, a columnist writing for Pajamas Media recently took a pot-shot at me and my How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic series.
No publicity is bad publicity, right? Plus, a close second to imitation, mockery is another of the most sincere forms of flattery, at least in the blog world, so I'm not complaining.
On to some substance in a moment, but one thing I found rather remarkable was that even though they get some 450,000 hits per day, my traffic barely registered a blip, despite a prominent link in the first paragraph! The main thrust of the article was…
illconsidered | March 17, 2009While on the subject of interviews, I was recently contacted with an interview request by the website The Reef Tank. Loath to turn down any opportunity to talk about myself (what do you expect, I'm a blogger fer cryin' out loud!) I filled out the question sheet they sent over and you can read the interview here.
Given the marine life focus of their site, we discussed ocean acidification and the PETM event after a couple of blogging generalities.
They also asked my opinion of aquariums, with a warning it is controversial. I did not have much to say, and I guessed that the controversies must…
illconsidered | March 16, 2009If you're in the same boat as I am (ie, you have a job and/or a life) you probably never get a chance to read every last article linked to in the latest "Another Week of GW news" posting (or even 1 in 100!) So I just wanted to point to the set of stories about "spin batteries" or nanoball-batteries (scroll down a couple of pages from this page anchor), an example of which is here at New Scientist.
Cell phones recharging in 10 seconds and electric car batteries in 5 minutes, sounds promising!
illconsidered | March 16, 2009Elizabeth Kolbert, journalist and author of "Field Notes from a Catastrophe", is interviewed by Yale Environment 360 editor Roger Cohn.
The interview was put on their site mid-last week and readers might find it quite interesting.
Kolbert discussed a wide range of issues: how the media and scientists are both responsible for the lack of public understanding on climate change; the Obama administration's chances of passing climate-related legislation; and the prospects of geoengineering the planet to mitigate the effects of warming. On whether there is a moral or ethical dimension to this issue…
illconsidered | March 16, 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 roundup
skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News March 15, 2009 Top Stories:Copenhagen, Nanoballs, Spin Battery, Particulates, Polls, Planetary Skin Melting Arctic, Arctic Geopolitics, Antarctica, Methane, CC Debate, Maldives, Earth Hour, Recession, Late Comments Food Crisis, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures, Paleoclimate, Glaciers, Sea Levels, Satellites Impacts, Forests, Corals, Wacky…
illconsidered | March 9, 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 roundup
skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Information overload is pattern recognition March 8, 2009 Top Stories:Capitol Coal Protest, Patterns, Green Cars, Recession, Open Access Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica, Methane, Pseudoscience, The Pipeline, Daylight Saving, Late Comments Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, ENSO, Glaciers, Sea Levels, Satellites…
illconsidered | March 6, 2009
Heartland Institute is hosting a "scholarly" event in New York this weekend. Here is a description of what to expect.
illconsidered | March 4, 2009Michael Tobis is famous.
(Okay, just until the rabid dogs of the right wing noise machine find another bone to obsess over.)
For the record: Michael Tobis is an intelligent, thoughtful and concerned man who does not deserve to be ridiculed, but rather read closely and contemplated. Pielke is a **** ****** and ******** ****. (Sorry, I violated my own comment policy) who is simply playing a very different game than the rest of us.
Morano and Beck (why that last name??!!) and the rest of the echo chamber are not worth much more than a guffaw.
Maybe there will be something to learn or achieve by…
illconsidered | March 4, 2009Great name, eh?!
Drop by and welcome a new member of ScienceBlogs.
Hi Kim!
(She used to be here)