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illconsidered | March 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 Climate Disruption News Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsMarch 27, 2011 Chuckles, Fukushima Heroes, Bad News, Fukushima Reactions, Fukushima Talk WWD, WMD, Earth Hour, WikiLeaks, Young, Ruddiman Bottom Line, UNGCF, The Question, Effectiveness, Cook, BEST Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, Land Grabs, GMOs,…
tlambert | March 24, 2011In a recent speech Julia Gillard asked:
I ask who I'd rather have on my side:
Alan Jones, Piers Akerman and Andrew Bolt.
Or the CSIRO, the Australian Academy of Science, the Bureau of Meteorology, NASA, the US National Atmospheric Administration, and every reputable climate scientist in the world.
Julie Bishop, deputy leader of the Opposition, comes back with the name of Joanne Simpson:
And comments from legendary atmospheric scientist the late Dr Joanne Simpson, the first woman in the world to receive a PhD in meteorology and formerly of NASA, who authored more than 190 studies and…
illconsidered | March 23, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Global Warming News Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is notWisdomMarch 20, 2011 Chuckles, Equinox, Fukushima Reactions, Fukushima Talk, Inspiration, WikiLeaks Bottom Line, Thermodynamics, Attribution, Google, Sock Puppetry, Cook Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Food Prices, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle,…
tlambert | March 22, 2011Media Watch examines the coverage of climate change on commercial talkback radio. While Ian Plimer and Bob Carter are frequently on talkback radio,
Not one orthodox climate scientist - not one - has been interviewed by any of the climate sceptics on Fairfax stations.
As for 2GB, its management said it didn't have time to respond to our questions. But we've been able to find no evidence that Alan Jones or Chris Smith have interviewed any orthodox climate scientists this year.
Talkback radio personality Andrew Bolt comes back with
Chris Smith: Out of our journey of one kilometre there are…
tlambert | March 20, 2011Ian Enting, author of Twisted: The Distorted Mathematics of Greenhouse Denial and the definitive list of errors in Plimer's Heaven and Earth has a talk on Ockham's Razor on the public debate on climate science:
the central issue is that if there was a real case against a significant human influence on climate, why is so much of what passes for public debate based on fabrication? If Ian Plimer had a real case, why does he misrepresent the contents of dozens of his cited references and fabricates so many of his graphics? More importantly, since Plimer is only one individual, if his fellow…
illconsidered | March 17, 2011I am off traveling again so the posting will be quiet for a while and the comments unattended for a couple of days. So be nice and don't forget three or more links lands you in the "unapproved" queue.
Before I go, I thought I would share the YouTube below that came to my attention via a "friend" request. I am a big fan of Climate Crocks and a couple of other climate YouTubers but this is quite different. It is thin on science but very energetic, young and slick, I can't help but think it is a very good approach because after all, we are in a PR battle not a scientifc one.
What do people…
tlambert | March 15, 2011Here's the original story on March 4:
An Israeli model has been hospitalised after being bitten on the breast by a snake during an ill-fated radio stunt. ...
She received a tetanus shot and stayed for observation, but has suffered no long-term damage from the incident.
Here's the Daily Mail version on Mar 15 after being sexed up:
But surgically enhanced Israeli model Orit Fox got more than she bargained for when the massive boa constrictor took objection to her over familiarity and reacted by biting into her breast.
However, it was the snake who came off worse because, while Ms Fox need a…
tlambert | March 14, 2011Cardinal Pell's response to the Greg Ayers dissection of Pell's parroting of Plimer is telling -- he is unable to offer any sort of scientific argument and just blusters:
"Ayers, when he spoke to the House, was obviously a hot-air specialist. I've rarely heard such an unscientific contribution."
"I regret when a discussion of these things is not based on scientific fact," Cardinal Pell said. "I spend a lot of time studying this stuff."
Cardinal Pell told the Herald statements by Dr Ayers to the hearing were "all abuse and waffle about poor old Plimer", before defending the geologist as a man…
illconsidered | March 14, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Information Overloadis Pattern RecognitionMarch 13, 2011 Chuckles, Abraham et al., Fukushima, The Question, WikiLeaks Bottom Line, Thermodynamics, Cook, Post CRU Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Prices, Food Riots, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Aerosols, ENSO, State of the Oceans,…
illconsidered | March 8, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Global Warming News Sipping from the Internet Firehose...March 6, 2011 Chuckles, Cancun, COP17+, Suzuki, Tim DeChristopher, Glory, NYT-Fracking, Barnosky Carbon Tariffs, Subsidies, Thermodynamics, Cook, Post CRU Melting Arctic, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Prices, Food Riots, FAC, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures,…
tlambert | March 6, 2011Shorter Clive James on Queensland floods:
I get my climate science from poems.
'Shorter' concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard. We are aware of all Internet traditions.⢠Acknowledgement copied from Sadly, No!.
illconsidered | February 28, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Instability News Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsFebruary 27, 2011 Chuckles, COP17+, G20, Vulnerability, Cablegate, Sock Puppets, Pakistan Subsidies, E&E Threat, Cook, Post CRU Melting Arctic, Methane Feedback, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Agro Corps, Food Prices, Food Riots, Food vs. Biofuel, IP Issues, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs,…
tlambert | February 26, 2011Julia Gillard has done a backflip and agreed to introduce a budget-neutral carbon tax after last year promising not to introduce one.
In a matching backflip John Humphreys has come out against the tax, describing it as a "grab for cash" after writing a report in 2007 that favoured a carbon tax:
Our government is currently using an approach of regulation and
subsidy while considering the possibility of implementing a carbon
trading scheme. We would be better served if the government replaced
all of these options with a revenue-neutral carbon tax. A carbon tax
is preferable to a carbon trading…
illconsidered | February 26, 2011Thingsbreak has a great overview of recent research on ice loss in the Antarctic (east and west) and Greenland.
For anyone who has had enough of the freedom vs responsibility of the press discussion (mandas?), perhaps there are some interesting bits in Thingsbreak's post to mull over.
I have posted on sea ice dynamics before (here), the two topics are not unrelated as stable ice shelves act as resistors to out flowing glaciers. Lost sea ice leads to faster glacial outflow which leads to thining ice sheets.
[Update: I have just observed out my window that it is snowing, I imagine this can…
tlambert | February 23, 2011In Richard's Bean play The
Heretic
anthropogenic global warming is a hoax perpetrated by a worldwide
conspiracy of climate scientists.
In David Williamson's play Heretic the role of nurture in
anthropology is a hoax perpetrated by two young Samoan women on March 13, 1926.
When you boil down the premise of each play down to its essence, it
sound ridiculous and it is. It does make for a good story -- the lone
heretic standing up to the scientific orthodoxy and proving them
wrong. And from most accounts each play was enjoyable to those who
swallowed the premise, but it each a case a good story…
tlambert | February 22, 2011Bill Hughes, Director of Multi-Science Publishing threatens to sue Gavin Schmidt unless he retracts this statement:
"The evidence for this is in precisely what happens in venues like E&E that have effectively dispensed with substantive peer review for any papers that follow the editorâs political line."
In comments, let's compile a list of E&E papers that would not have been published as they were had they been given substantive peer review.
illconsidered | February 21, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Instability News Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is notWisdomFebruary 20, 2011 Chuckles, COP17+, G20, Min & Pall, Schaefer, Epstein, Dirty Trick, Sri Lanka & Pakistan Bottom Line, Subsidies, Cook, Cablegate Melting Arctic, Megafauna, Methane, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Food Prices, Food Riot?, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes…
tlambert | February 19, 2011Remember how David Bellamy claimed that his TV career was ended (something that happened in 1994) because of an article he wrote in 2004? Now Johnny Ball is making similar dubious claims of persecution:
But his bookings have dropped by 90 per cent over the past year and the 72-year-old has blamed this on harassment by extreme environmentalists who object to his dismissal of climate change as "alarmist nonsense".
Mr Ball, father of TV and radio presenter Zoe, told The TES a website featuring pornographic images was posted online bearing his name, while another blogger stated he "should not be…
tlambert | February 18, 2011Eugene Volokh is taken in by a story in the Daily Mail:
So reports the Daily Mail (UK) reports:
Residents in Surrey and Kent villages have been ordered by police to remove wire mesh from their windows as burglars could be injured....
Locals had reinforced their windows with wire mesh after a series of shed thefts but were told by community police officers that the wire was âdangerousâ and could lead to criminals claiming compensation if they âhurt themselvesâ....
something appalling is going on, either in English tort law, or in English police practices, or both.
Something appalling…
tlambert | February 17, 2011When Willis Eschenbach was caught lying about temperature trends in Darwin, I pointed out that the Australian Bureau of Meteorology trends agreed with those from the NOAA and asked:
I suppose the next argument is that the NOAA and the BOM are conspiring together to falsify the temperature record.
And something like that has happened, of course. Joanne Nova writes:
A team of skeptical scientists, citizens, and an Australian Senator have lodged a formal request with the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) to have the BOM and CSIRO audited.
Now, the likely outcame of this will be similar…