illconsidered | February 13, 2009A fellow named Jim Prall left a comment here a few days ago mentioning some work he has recently done compiling information on the contributing authors of the most recent IPCC WG1 report.
I went to have a look and I must say what a terrific resource!
It is a common septic fallacy that the IPCC report is actually written by politicians and very few real scientists are involved. Like 95% of their talking points it is 100% bunk as a cursory investigation will reveal.
Well, cursory this listing is not! All 619 IPCC WG1 AR4 authors are listed here and for each there is a link to their personal…
illconsidered | February 12, 2009I guess Marc Morano has found out about google alerts and seems to pop up on blog posts that mention James Inhofe, or his 650 scientists and probably his own name (Hi Marc!) Nice way to use the tax payer's money.
He popped in on Things Break and TB gave him a nice spanking! Well done! : )
illconsidered | February 12, 2009As I mentioned briefly before, I have just returned from Australia and as you could imagine, the heatwaves and wildfires were a hot topic(how funny am I?).
So the death toll is expected to exceed 200 people. Southern Australia has been experiencing extreme drought for many years now, so the whole place is a tinder box. Increased risk of wildfires is an anticipated, and probably already observed, consequence of global warming.
You are never on solid ground when attributing a particular extreme event to such a slow moving change in the average of all events, which is what climate change is,…
illconsidered | February 12, 2009It's time to take a deep look at the world's oceans, from Straightgoods:
Google is adding the world's oceans to its extensive Earth mapping. In a phone conversation with David Suzuki Foundation staff, John Hanke, director of Google Earth and Maps, admitted, "We had really overlooked two thirds of the planet." Partly because of prodding from oceanographer Sylvia Earle, the company has embarked on a massive project as part of Google Earth 5.0 to map the oceans using sonar imaging, high-resolution and 3-D photography, video and a variety of other techniques and content.
As some of you might have…
illconsidered | February 10, 2009Here 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 the comments. You can email suggestions for specific items to include next time or additional sites to keep an eye on to a.few.things.illconsidered@gmail.com
Happy listening!
Quirks and Quarks:
Fruitless Fall (source page here) - "It's been a rough couple years for honeybees. Two years ago, hives…
illconsidered | February 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 Sipping from the internet firehose... February 8, 2009 Top Stories:Australian Firestorm, Indian Ocean Dipole, Chinese Drought Emergency Melting Arctic, Arctic Geopolitics, Fishing Ban, Antarctica, Grumbine, National Teachin, Dyer, Late Comments Food Crisis, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Temperatures, Ozone, Paleoclimate, ENSO, Glaciers, Sea Levels, Satellites…
illconsidered | February 7, 2009So last week I asked "how low", Things Break provided an answer, and Roger continued his love-to-hate realtionship with Real Climate folks. The sopa opera continues, spilling out into Real Life, as Gavin seems to want some formal retraction. Being called a thief is no small matter, and like most of Rogers conclusions, this is just not born out by the evidence. He is once again finding the smallest bit of wiggle room and prying it open until it is wide enough for his ego to fit through!
(And BTW, none of this matters if you are interested in what is actually going on in Antarctica.)
But…
illconsidered | February 5, 2009I know I said I would do a weekly "Climate Science for the iPod" feature on A Few Things, but the week after just one edition, I left for a business trip to Tasmania, Australia. So...not a good start!
I am not back yet, I am writing this in a hotel near Melbourne Tullamarine airport(ok, that's a boring link) on my way home (yea!) so still can not check all my podcast subscriptions to see what is fodder for blogging BUT in the meantime I would like to draw your attention to a three part series from CBC Radio called "Climate Wars" by Gwynne Dyer. There is a page here where you can down load…
illconsidered | February 3, 2009Just a quick update on my recent post noting Roger Pielke's lack of integrity:
Roger makes a note of my post and John Fleck's and adds this underhanded toss-off line: Hansen's forecast "did not survive the peer review process" and so did not "appear in PNAS". Of course, the alledged "prediction" of a super El Nino ("there is a good chance") from the draft was not submitted to PNAS for peer review. Roger is refering to Hansen's passing the draft to a few friends and colleagues, inadvertently distributing it more broadly (oops, Roger's not a friend!).
There is a must read exchage at John…
illconsidered | February 3, 2009I 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 have had that he still had some integrity stashed away in there somewhere. Now I know these are strong words, but I have to confess this really gets my blood pressure up, it is just the slimiest of tactics. (I will happily retract this post and apologize if Roger makes ammends for his ethical…
illconsidered | February 2, 2009In 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 ministry. While they have long tried to reduce their carbon footprint at 113th Street, the new convent, for which construction will begin in March, will help them be green from the ground up.
...read more from the New York Times here.
illconsidered | February 2, 2009 Sipping from the internet firehose...
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Sipping from the internet firehose... February 1, 2009 Top Stories:WGMS, Monaco Declaration, Solomon et al., Dead Zones, Y-D Impact, CO2 Warming, WEF, McKinsey Report Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica, Late Comments -- Irena, WFES, Polls, Survey, TVA, Particulates Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production, Liberia's Armyworm Plague Hurricanes, GHGs,…
illconsidered | 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?)
illconsidered | January 26, 2009 Sipping from the internet firehose...
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News January 25, 2009 Top Stories:US Forests, Antarctic Warming, Survey of Climatologists, IRENA, WFES, CBC Melting Arctic, Arctic Geopolitics, Wilkins Ice Sheet, Particulates, Late Comments Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures, Paleoclimate, ENSO, Glaciers, Sea Levels, Satellites Impacts, Forests, Climate Refugees…
illconsidered | January 24, 2009Nature 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 continent is warming by about 0.1 °C per decade. The cover illustrates the geographic extent of warming, with the 'hotspot' peninsula and West Antarctica shown red against the white ice-covered ocean.
That the antarctic seemed to be slightly cooling despite elevated greenhouse gas levels has been a…
illconsidered | January 21, 2009Now this is priceless! Some of the best GW satire ever, courtesy of Greenfrye....
illconsidered | January 20, 2009Michael 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!
illconsidered | January 19, 2009 Sipping from the internet firehose...
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skip to bottom Another Week of Climate Disruption News Information overload is pattern recognition January 18, 2009 Top Stories:Gwynne Dyer, WWI on Emissions, Plant Methane, Google Emissions, Coal Sludge, Aerosols, Magnetic Fields Melting Arctic, Arctic Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures, Paleoclimate, ENSO, Glaciers, Sea Levels,…
illconsidered | January 13, 2009It 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 stronger with the election of Obama and his reaffirmation of carbon controls and alternative energy as important goals.
But In it for the Gold has some bad news on that one and the denialist blogosphere is really picking up steam, so perhaps that was a bit of premature jubilation...sigh. Maybe when the…