climate change
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 22, 2010Okay, "A Team" was a little to simple, and it was taken. Instead I would like to inform readers of the "CSRR" Team, or CSRRT. I will let the press release speak for itself:
NAME: Climate Science Rapid Response Team (CSRRT)
WEBSITE: www.climaterapidresponse.org
WHO & WHAT: The CSSRT is a match-making service between top scientists and members of the media and office holders and their staffs from various levels of government. Our group consists of dozens of leading scientists who wish to improve communication about climate change. The…
illconsidered | November 22, 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 RecognitionNovember 21, 2010 Chuckles, COP15, COP16+, GGCS, Kiribati, CSRRT, AGU, Pakistan Carbon Tariffs, IEC, EcoCops, Psych, Winter Weather, Cook, Post CRU Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Agro-corps, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures, Paleoclimate…
illconsidered | November 18, 2010Real science is about the gathering of multiple lines of evidence, bulding on previous research that built on research before that. One of the hallmarks of denialism is choosing a single study or dataset out of a multitude simply because it is an outlier that confirms their prefered viewpoint.
On the "It's the sun, stupid" thread, mandas has provided a very nice listing of some of the many different examinations of solar forcing on recent climate change.
As with all robust scientific findings, the methods and datasets are different but the general conclusions are all the same: solar forcing…
illconsidered | November 18, 2010November 17 marked the one year anniversary of the hacking of CRU mail servers and the release of thousands of emails between climate scientists.
Though irrelevant to the scientific case for anthropogenic climate change, the event was significant in the public relations sphere. I have not found the time to do a proper memorial write up though I think it is important to reassess and reframe the controversy with the benefit of hindsight. But as luck would have it, a young climate blogger named Kate at Climate Sight has written a piece as well laid out and written as I could ever have hoped to…
illconsidered | November 15, 2010 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Instability News Sipping from the Internet Firehose...November 14, 2010 Chuckles, COP15, COP16+, G20, APEC, IEA, Kiribati, Cities, Fighting Back, Montreal Protocol, Pakistan Bottom Line, Subsidies, UNCFG, IP Issues, IEC, Post CRU Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Agro Corps, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs,…
illconsidered | November 12, 2010More entertaining than informative, greenman's latest Crock of the Week surveys the history of climate change in the movies!
Gotta dust off those old Mad Max VHS tapes again...
illconsidered | November 10, 2010A great and substantive post up at Skeptical Science on La Nina and what we should expect (and not expect) in terms of its impact on global temperatures.
Read it all!
(image borrowed from Skeptical Science)
La Ninas typically redistribute the global heat budget in such a way as average surface temperatures are depressed from where they might otherwise have been, and we are several months into a strong one now.
(image borrowed from Skeptical Science)
Be on the lookout for lots more "global warming stopped!" bull.
illconsidered | November 9, 2010Another good video from greenman:
It is very discouragin to hear a 60 year old science program explaning exactly the same basics of climate change that Inhofe and half the new republican congress claim today is an IPCC hoax.
illconsidered | November 8, 2010 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsNovember 7, 2010 Chuckles, Pre Cancun, Post Nagoya, Geoengineering Ban, Election Reaction, Pakistan SOS Fund, GFIs, UN CFG, IEC, 2 Degrees, Living Planet Report Melting Arctic, Walrus Food Crisis, IP Issues, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures, Feedbacks, Aerosols,…
illconsidered | November 7, 2010[Update: I am closing this thread as it is now over 500 comments long. However, because the discussion is still ongoing it will continue on this post. There is also the possibility of Chris S coming back with his own analysis of Richard's data.
This is a quick summary of what we can conclude thus far.
Richard thinks he is a sceptic. I am sorry to say that he is not. A sceptic considers all available material and evaluates evidence objectively. We know Richard does not do this because he has several times cited material that he admits himself he has not read. A sceptic will consider all…
illconsidered | November 5, 2010Judith Curry has become quite a blog sensation, and did so long before starting her own. I have expressed my frustration with her in the past for a seemingly reckless affinity for "hit and run" postings. I will appreciatively grant that she comments alot, and engages many conversants extensively, but she has posted many very inflammatory or technically flawed diatribes in the past, the kind sorely needing defending or ammending, and left the clear and substantive rebuttals unanswered or inadequately answered. Frequently interested readers were left with only vague promises of "more on that…
lborkowski | November 4, 2010The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-HABITAT, is tasked with promoting "socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all." The agency's new executive director, former Barcelona mayor Joan Clos, gave his first formal address to the UN General Assembly and outlined some of the priorities for improving settlements in the coming the years.
Clos started with some good news: between 2000 and 2010, the lives of 230 million slum dwellers were improved - an achievement that exceeds the Millennium Development Goal target of…
sastyk | November 3, 2010The election is over and the results are depressing, much as expected - it was not a good night for anyone who believes that the most important work of government in hard times will be protecting ordinary people. This is a stretch to imagine at the best of times, and this was not them.
There's a larger question, however, that emerges out of the ashes of our usual political self-incineration - what will ordinary people will do with their fear now that the election is over?
Over the last few weeks, a series of articles have emerged that observe that the language of voter anger, so ubiquitous…
sastyk | November 2, 2010The Peak Oil Hausfrau revealed that the news about the climate isn't all bad: it is good for the minions of hell:
However, legal experts say that Hell's colonization of land owned by various Satanic holding companies is all perfectly legal. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, an avid property-rights advocate, observed, "Some people say that Demons belong in Hell. I tend to agree, but Satan has purchased this real estate through legitimate and proper channels. What would happen if we tried to just nullify all the contracts that we didn't like? Chaos, that's what!"
Several sources in…
sastyk | November 2, 2010Stuart Staniford is turning his customary care and attention to recent climate change drought projections, and the results are frightening, but also critically important. There's a summary of his posts on this subject here - read them all.
Sharon
illconsidered | November 1, 2010In the spirit of letting things speak for themselves, I just wanted to juxtapose two recent stories I came across, each about conspiratorial meetings you are supposed to find significant.
Story number one involves billionaires from finance, oil and coal and health care industries:
Koch Brothers Convened Right-Wing Meeting in June
New details have emerged on the right-wing groups spending tens of millions of dollars to influence the upcoming midterm elections. The website ThinkProgress reports the billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch held a secretive meeting with influential right-…
illconsidered | November 1, 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 31, 2010 Chuckles, COP15, COP16+, Nagoya, Geoengineering, Extinctions, Fisheries, Pakistan GFIs, UNGCF, Kasatochi & Salmon, Cook, Multinational Deniers, Post CRU Melting Arctic, Narwhals, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes…
illconsidered | October 25, 2010 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Instability News Sipping from the internet firehose...October 24, 2010 Chuckles, COP16, Nagoya, Sukhdev, National Green Tribunal, CCVI, Pakistan Bottom Line, IP Rentiers, Economists, Cook, Free Access Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Agro Corps, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, GHGs, Temperatures, Feedbacks,…