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illconsidered | August 1, 2008Michael Tobis has another interesting and thoughtful post up about some of the differences between good scientific work and "Lawyer's science. Always worth reading him.
illconsidered | July 23, 2008The background for this post is The Great Global Warming Swindle and the recent judgement [PDF] by the British media regulator OFCOM regarding complaints of misleading the public and misrepresenting the science. Tim Lambert has a detailed look at the ruling here.
All in all it looks like the ruling was a mixed bag and will provide fodder for both sides of the climate disruption PR battle.
So on to the subject of the post.
Roger Pielke Jr. over at Prometheus rather predictably rises to the defense of Martin Durkin's socially destructive and cleary deceitful propoganda. His point is all about…
illconsidered | July 14, 2008Save the planet! Ditch your flatscreen TV!
Or so the breathless Telegraph would have us believe. But they got one thing wrong: all of it.
Eli Rabbet has the very gory, very detailed details.
illconsidered | July 10, 2008Roger Pielke Jr is back at his own teapot, blogging up a tempest or two again. Whether you agree with his points or not, he usually makes for provocative reading and comment threads can be very entertaining and informing. I have not hung around there for quite a while but will pay more attention from now on I think.
Anyway, this post is about his post from last Wednesday, titled "Climate Science and National Interests" - rather more general than its actual subject.
His implicaion would seem to be there is some hypocrisy on the part of the usual climate change activists and the IPCC but not…
illconsidered | July 3, 2008Poor me, I sat down to a relaxing Sunday morning breakfast last weekend here in Tasmania where I am on business and instead I was assaulted by an atrocious piece of crap "reporting" on the global warming "debate" that framed the whole thing as thoughtful concerned skeptics against True Believers. They even had pictures of burning witches at the stake, I kid you not. And the "investigating" reporter went so far out of his way to disagree with one side (the scientists representing the science as it is very widely understood and non-controversial among the experts), so out of his way that he…
illconsidered | April 30, 2008Michael Tobis is always worth reading, but he has a particularily well done essay up on Gristmill about some of the deeper implications and causes of the current global food crisis.
Visit his post about it here, and after bookmarking his site, click through to the Gristmill article he has linked.
I think he dismisses too much the importance of biofuel demand in the current equation, but that is a minor disagreement. He correctly identifies the real problem as one of food distribution being governed by financial mechanisms only, and the lamentable lack of any other metric aside from ability…
illconsidered | November 13, 2007"Optimism is a moral imperative. That said, it needs to be reality-based optimism. Sometimes the things we want to work aren't the things that are going to work."
says Michael Tobis on Gristmill. It is a good essay on dealing with what he calls the "train wreck of development, energy, food, environment, and warfare, all driven by a hugely overpopulated planet", and on the folly of false solutions.
It is worth the read!
illconsidered | November 5, 2007Reading a post on Deep-Sea News, and considering some of the recent worries about it I've read and considered on my own it occurs to me that, like flouride in drinking water, ocean fertilization is promising to be a great excuse to dump all kinds of crap in the ocean.
Got some industrial waste? If you can find some dubious mechanism whereby it may cause some plankton blooming, why not get paid to dump it in the ocean instead of paying to properly dispose of it?
Stay tuned for all kinds of abuses and misuses....
illconsidered | November 5, 2007Congratulations to Chriss Mooney whose book, Storm World, was just named one of the best books of the year by Publisher's Weekly. Head on over and congratulate him!
illconsidered | October 29, 2007Real Climate has a good post on geo-engineering and why it is only fitting as a final act of desperation, not a policy platform. It expresses very well all my own misgivings (it's a terribly dangerous one-chance-to-get-it-right experiment on the entire planet, it commits the human race to centuries of climatic meddling, it will ultimately be more expensive and harder to agree on than simply reducing CO2) so I won't enumerate them here, just go read it all there.
But I will emphasize one of the points Ray Pierrehumbert mentions that is too often overlooked.
As anyone who follows the science…
illconsidered | October 24, 2007So this will be the last of my catching up posts, hope it was not too tedious. This one will not be article by article, I must succumb to the reality that I won't read everything I want to.
So I have missed out on alot of fellow Science Bloggers stuff, namely Chris and Sheril's last 40 posts, William's last 17, and Tim Lambert's last 23. (But don't miss this gem, the definitive response to the "judge finds nine errors in AIT" canard."
Gone are 61 posts from DesmogBlog, 84 from the Gristmill, 105 from Climate Progress, 8 from Climate Feedback (Natures blog, which seems to be getting going a…
illconsidered | October 24, 2007There is of course no better source of climate science blogging than Real Climate. Their posts are seldom rarely read and forget or anything less than very meaty and informative. Thankfully for people who get behind (cough) they do not post every day or even every week. Nevertheless, I have accumulated 9 unread RC posts...
So reviewing from latest to oldest we have an article on the Younger Dryas, a climatic episode aroung 8K years ago during which time temperatures in and around Greenland dropped dramatically for some 1000+ years. It is an ongoing controversy as to what caused it and…
illconsidered | October 23, 2007As with In It for the Gold, Eli Rabbet's Rabbet Run is another quality blog that can't be just marked as read. So I have no other option but to settle down for a bit of focused reading and catch up on Eli's latest 19 posts!
(Eli, if you are reading this, you might want to update my entry in your blogroll to the new ScienceBlogs address!)
His latest is about the recent reports of a decline in oceanic absorbtion of airborne CO2 emissions. I am planning an article about that too, it is important news, so will leave it at that for now. Next, is a rather graphic examination of his toilet (no…
illconsidered | October 22, 2007Well, Goggle reader is a great tool, but it sure has a way of shaming you when you let your daily reading slip...especially for a couple of weeks. Of course I subscribe to many other blogs and feeds. but Michael Tobis' In It for the Gold is not one I like to just "mark all as read" when I get behind. Consequently, I am now looking at almost 30 unread entries!!
So what has he been up to...?
His latest article notes that Al Gore has responded, (or rather a spokesperson) to that British judge's critique of An Inconvenient Truth on the Washington Post's blog. Since he gives a big hat tip to…