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illconsidered | November 28, 2011(not an original moniker in the title, someone remind me where it came from so I can give credit where credit is due!)
While I think the approriate response to ClimateGate 2.0 is to ignore it, I also think the mainstream media is doing mostly just that so it is safer to bring your attention to this good rebuttal to the whole affair from potholer54 on YouTube:
I think the most telling quote echoing around the denialosphere right now is this one from Jonathan Overpeck:
The trick may be to decide on the main message and use that to guid what's included and what is left out.
It's supposed to…
illconsidered | November 28, 2011 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 Global Warming News Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsNovember 27, 2011 Chuckles, COP17+, Horn of Africa, Schmittner et al. CRU2, SREX, GCF, Ecocide, Cook, Post CRU Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Antarctica Food Crisis, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures, Aerosols, Paleoclimate ENSO,…
tlambert | November 27, 2011Peter Hadfield (potholer54) talks on the deceitful quoting of the emails stolen from CRU in 2009
Juliette Jowit in The Guardian puts some more of them in context.
tlambert | November 22, 2011Some more of the emails stolen from the Climate Research Centre in 2009 have been released. This time they are accompanied by a readme with out-of-context quotes that asserts the purpose of the release is information transparency, but that's an obvious lie, since they've sat on them for two years and released them just before Durban conference. The timing suggests that the people behind the theft and release have a financial interest in preventing mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions. It is most unlikely that there is anything incriminating in these emails -- if there was, it would…
illconsidered | November 21, 2011 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 Global Warming News Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is notWisdomNovember 20, 2011 Chuckles, COP17+, CVF, Horn of Africa, SREX, NY State Lee et al., WEO, BEST, Subsidies, GCF, Cook, Post CRU Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy, European I-131 Melting Arctic, Polar Bear, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Prices, Food Production…
tsmith | November 15, 2011I rarely write about climate change. As much as it's been hashed out amongst climate scientists, and even many of the former "climate skeptics" have now changed their tune, I readily accept that climate change is happening, and is happening largely due to human activities. More importantly for my field, climate change is also having effects on human health in a number of different ways, from the movement of insect vectors into new areas, to warming of the seas leading to more extreme weather conditions, to the loss of coral reefs and the freshwater that these reefs protect from the…
illconsidered | November 14, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Global Warming News Information Overloadis Pattern RecognitionNovember 13, 2011 Chuckles, COP17+, Horn of Africa, Bangkok, BEST, Curry, OWS, WEO Oceans & Fires, Bottom Line, Subsidies, Greenland, Cook, Post CRU Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy, I-131 in Europe Polar Bears, Methane, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Food Prices, Food Riots, Food vs. Biofuel…
tlambert | November 8, 2011Australia's carbon tax has been passed by the Senate. Be entertained as Piers Akerman goes barking mad:
This is the day the Western tradition of science-backed advancement of the human condition was rejected in favour of paganism. ...
We are witnessing the beginning of the end game for Australia as we know it. ...
The rest of the globe's population is wondering why we ever permitted ourselves to be lied and deceived back into the Dark Ages.
Oddly enough, despite Australia's return to the Dark Ages, New Limited's server was still able to serve up Akerman's rant.
illconsidered | November 8, 2011Peter Sinclair has a good run down of recent politically motivated FOIA fishing expeditions into climate and other scientist emails.
It includes mention of the recent good news in the ATI v UVa case where the court agreed with UVa that the ATI and their lawyers could not be trusted to see emails UVa has claimed should be exempt from the FOIA request for the purpose of challenging that excemption. Ouch. But good call, I am sure.
Peter also includes mention of an excellent non-climate science related example of the same tactic in the case of a Wisconsin history professor, William Cronon,…
illconsidered | November 7, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Sipping from the Internet Firehose...November 6, 2011 Chuckles, COP17+, BASIC, Horn of Africa, Bangkok, G20, BEST, Curry, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Koolaid, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Agro-Corps, Food Prices, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Feedbacks, Paleoclimate,…
gregladen | November 2, 2011You've heard about "ClimateGate." ClimateGate was a very successful but illegal campaign by anti-science to discredit climate science and climate scientists. Rest assured, the climate science is fine and the climate scientists are just trying to do their jobs, and doing quite well at that. Nonetheless, a combination of inaccurate representation of the contents of various emails written between climate scientists and what amounts to unethical treatment of climate science by the press resulted in a shift among the general populous in the US from about half of the people thinking that Global…
illconsidered | October 31, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another Week in the Ecological Crisis Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsOctober 30, 2011 Chuckles, COP17+, Rogelj, Maplecroft, BEST, OWS, WCRP, Monnett The Cree Prophecy, Bottom Line, Subsidies, Planet 3.0, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Agro-Corps, Food Prices, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, Monsoon…
illconsidered | October 30, 2011The fallout from the BEST project results continues, with the denialosphere frantically trying to disown and defame Richard Muller. Marc Morano is at his shrillest pitch ever, and believe me that is as shrill as shrill gets! I guess it works at some level, because he did make me look at his website. That high pitched squeaking broke down all my intellectual safeguards and I followed a link from his almost daily inbox spamming.
Today's (approving) hysteria was about an article in the DailyMail which gives you the general flavour of the treatment Muller is receiving. Given his own rather…
illconsidered | October 24, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week in the Ecological Crisis Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not WisdomOctober 23, 2011 Chuckles, COP17+, Horn of Africa, Monsoon, BEST Albedo, Drought, OWS, Monnett, Subsidies, GFI, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Megafauna, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Food Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, IP Issues, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes,…
tlambert | October 22, 2011The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature algorithm seems to work quite well, with coverage by the Economist, the BBC, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the London Telegraph, the Daily Mail, the Los Angeles Times, US News and World Report, the Guardian, the Washington Post, the Independent and CNN.
Here is the BEST algorithm:
State that "reported global warming may be biased by poor station quality".
Collect funding from Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation.
Make the utterly predictable finding that warming is not a product of poor measurement.
Brief reporters.
If only I had used…
gregladen | October 19, 2011
Fool Me Twice
Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America" was officially released last night in Minneapolis with appropriate fanfare and celebration. Everyone who gets to know Shawn likes him from the start and quickly learns to respect him and eventually hold him with a certain amount of well-earned awe, and like any book, we've all seen this one coming for quite some time. (I have an old pre-release copy in which every page is "00" but, surprisingly, the front cover is just like the final form.)
Shawn gave a talk at the release party, but since he is held in such high…
illconsidered | October 17, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another Week in the Ecological Crisis Information Overloadis Pattern RecognitionOctober 16, 2011 Chuckles, OWS, COP17+, Horn of Africa, Carbon Bill, Drought Monsoon, Bottom Line, Subsidies, Ecocide, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Megafauna, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, Food Production…
gregladen | October 13, 2011...I'd like to talk about an observation I made while writing for a now defunct monthly rag about global warming back in the early 1990s, and have always wanted to pursue formally, as a research project. Since I've not gotten to it yet, I thought it might be fun to outline the idea more informally, to give you, literally, a sketch or two that makes the point....
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illconsidered | October 10, 2011 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 in the Ecological Crisis Sipping from the Internet Firehose...October 9, 2011 Chuckles, COP17+, Horn of Africa, Pakistan, EU & Tar Sands, Planet 3.0 Grumbine, Drought, Maathai, Subsidies, Ecocide, BS Detector, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics Food: Crisis, Prices, Riots, Food vs. Biofuel, Land Grabs, IP Issues…