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illconsidered | October 9, 2010It seems that substantial evidence compiled by John Mashey has helped lead to an investigation into Edward Wegman's possible academic misconduct in the production of his very prominent report to Congress [PDF] on the Hockeystick.
See DesmogBlog for background, USA Today for the story, and Deep Climate for the details.
I will only add a couple of brief comments. Firstly, although the media buzz will be largely about the plagarism charges (and the apologists will focus there as well - copied doesn't mean wrong), there is much more to John's detailed evidence than this. Citations were not just…
mikethemadbiologist | October 8, 2010Maybe if the Obama administration and the Blue Dog (corporate) Democrats fought for an economic policy that made the middle-class' lives better, we wouldn't be faced with the looming political failure to deal with environmental problems. From Politico:
Most House Republicans envision killing Nancy Pelosi's special global warming committee if they claw their way back into the majority this November.
Wisconsin Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner wants to keep the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming alive so it can investigate climate science and police President Barack Obama's green…
illconsidered | October 4, 2010 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...October 3, 2010 Chuckles, COP16+, Tianjin, Right Livelihood, Loopholes, IUCN, Royal Society, Collisions, Pakistan Carbon Tariffs, Subsidies, IP Rentiers, Bin Laden, No Pressure, Cook, Post CRU Melting Arctic, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Food Corps, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs,…
tlambert | October 2, 2010Well, I thought that video was funny (though they flogged the joke to, err, death), but I also think this Monty Python sketch is funny:
That said, the idea seems more like something that Baldrick would have come up with than Baldrick's creator, Richard Curtis. Many people aren't going to find it funny, merely offensive, especially since it's not in the context of a comedy show. The resulting outrage from right wingers is something to behold, with the makers of the video called fascists and Nazis who are advocating murder and genocide. For example, the reliably crazy Lubos Motl (warning:…
tlambert | September 29, 2010David Karoly is giving a free talk on climate change in Sydney on 11 October. Details:
Climate change: Do you want the good news or the bad news?
Professor David Karoly will separate the truth from the spin on climate change, telling it how it is.
There are fascinating good-news stories about real world solutions that have already been implemented, globally, in Australia and in other countries.
But how far do we have to go to avoid dangerous climate change? What is Australia's fair contribution to a global response on climate change? How bad might climate change get if we decide to continue…
illconsidered | September 27, 2010The title is of course a reference to Alice in Wonderland, and particularily to the quote about believing 6 impossible things before breakfast (which Eli Rabbet upped to ten) and, again, of course applies so nicely to the climate contrarian community.
But I guess it is not quite a perfect fit for what I am posting about now, which is rather believing contradictory things, before, during or even after breakfast.
(cartoon source)
[Note: we could make this cartoon a perfect fit for Monckton just by adding another panel where the scientist suddenly turns to the Galileo-wannabe saying "WTF!? I…
illconsidered | September 27, 2010 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 YearsSeptember 26, 2010 Chuckles, Equinox, COP16+, MDG, FAO, MEF, CGI Thompson, Big Picture, Pakistan, Subsidies, Cook, Post CRU Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Weapon, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, GHGs, Temperatures, Feedbacks, Aerosols Ozone, Solar…
tlambert | September 23, 2010Heartland already had one of their Climate Change conferences this year, but they are holding another one in Sydney on Friday October 1st and it's FREE.
Speakers and topics:
Chris de Freitas: Developments in Climate Science: Potential Drivers of Emissions Policy Beyond 2012
Robert Carter: The Reconstruction of Past Sea-Level Change: Policy Implications
Senator Cory Bernardi: The Political State of Play of Climate Change Policy in Australia
David Evans: Is the Western Climate Establishment Corrupt?
Alan Moran: Lower CO2 Levels: Costs, Benefits and Possibilities
Barun S. Mitra: How Domestic…
illconsidered | September 20, 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 recognitionSeptember 19, 2010 Chuckles, COP16+, WEF-Asia, WEC, MDG, MEF, Bug, Pakistan Bottom Line, World Bank, Ecuador, Cook, Post CRU Melting Arctic, Megafauna, Arctic Lows, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Pavlovsk, Higher CO2, AgroBiz, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Riots, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes…
gregladen | September 16, 2010Scientists have been measuring sea ice very carefully since 1979. Prior to that, there are estimates that are of varying degrees of usefulness. I know for a fact that many New England lighthouses were attached to land by winter-long ice in places that have not had sea ice in any living person's memory, and there are similar bits and pieces of historical data suggesting that sea ice was once much more extensive in the Northern Hemisphere than at present.
Since 1979 there have been three years in which Arctic sea ice reached a rather alarming minimum size prior to reforming. We are in one…
gregladen | September 15, 2010There are two quick and fairly easy approaches to reducing US emissions of CO2 by several percent. These reduction would be at the household level, possibly decreasing the household cost of energy by between 20 and 30 percent (or more, depending on the household) and decreasing national total CO2 emissions by around 10% or so.
But these approaches are nearly impossible to implement. Why? Because people are ignorant and selfish.
The two methods are: 1) Replace existing technologies with more efficient ones and 2) Use energy less. I'm not talking about replacing technologies at a…
illconsidered | September 13, 2010 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Instability News Another Week of Climate Instability News Sipping from the internet firehose...September 12, 2010 Chuckles, ASEM, COP16+, Geneva, World Water Week, Bees:Study, Bees:Spin Future CO2, Boris Worm, Pakistan, Correa, Cook, Post CRU Melting Arctic, Narwhal, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Pavlovsk Experimental Station, Food Riots, Land Grabs,…
tlambert | September 11, 2010Judith Curry has started a blog.
Michael Tobis has written Tom Fuller off. Been there, done that. See ThingsBreak for the details.
tlambert | September 6, 2010John Cook has the details on a TV show on SBS tonight where the late Stephen Schneider answered questions from a room full of skeptics, followed by a live chat with David Karoly.
One of the skeptics was blogger Legal Eagle who writes about it here. I don't think she was correct about the science and the coverage of skeptics as I put in this comment to her post. Also worth a read are Roger Jones' comments here and here.
Robert Merkel argues that Legal Eagle was being intellectually lazy while Sinclair Davidson cranks the rhetoric up to 11, accusing those that disagree with Legal Eagle of…
illconsidered | September 6, 2010 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News September 5, 2010 Chuckles, Geneva, COP16+, Impact Theory, Bryozoans, Alroy, Lee, Pakistan Bottom Line, Environmental Risks, Grumbine, Cook, Lomborg, Input, IAC, Post CRU Melting Arctic, Tanker, Methane, Geopolitics, Cairn, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Land Grabs, Pavlovsk Agricultural Station Food Riot, Rome Meeting, The…
illconsidered | September 3, 2010I just had to highlight a couple of good laughs from this week's GWNews:
and this one:
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h/t to Kate at ClimateSight for highlighting the first one. Be sure to visit this page of hers for a bunch of other good ones inlined by commenters.
illconsidered | September 2, 2010(Note: due to blockages in the intertubes, this week's installment is late. Apologies to all whose week ground to a halt while anxiously waiting...)
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Information overload is pattern recognitionAugust 29, 2010 Chuckles, COP15, COP16+, COP15 Cash, Overshoot, Thermosphere, The Question, Pakistan Bottom Line, Subsidies, Cook, IAC Leak, Post CRU,…
tlambert | August 26, 2010Hey, remember how the Sunday Times retracted that bogus Jonathan Leake story which was based on "Research by Richard North"? Now the Sunday Telegraph has retracted and apologized for a bogus story by Christopher Booker and Richard North alleging that Rajenda Pachauri was making millions from his links with carbon trading companies. George Monbiot has the details.
Anyone noticing a pattern here?
illconsidered | August 25, 2010So over at Keith Kloor's place, we see Keith read a comment of Michael Tobis', (read it for your self here) in which he says: "Adaptation is crucial" and "adaptation and mitigation are not a tradeoff. They are two faces of the same coin." along with a whole bunch of, typical for Tobis, nuanced and intelligent points.
What does Keith want his readers to take away from that? That Michael Tobis is a hypocrite who does not really care about suffering humanity and his whole schtick is "the typical zero-sum talking point, that mitigation (curbing carbon emissions) has to take precedence over…
illconsidered | August 24, 2010 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...August 22, 2010 Chuckles, COP16+, Geneva, Kathmandu, AAS Report, McShane & Wyner, Zhao & Running The Question, China, Russia, Pakistan, World Bank, Overshoot, Basic Versions, IAC, Post CRU, Montford Melting Arctic, Antarctica Food Crisis, GMOs, Pavlovsk Agricultural Station, Food Production…