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Over on my latest entry in the "How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic" guide, a commenter has taken issue with this passage:
Discerning a trend from noisy data is one of the most basic processes in scientifc research, so even though this argument has a naive appeal to the majority of us with no…
This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic.
Objection:
Temperatures plummeted over the last year (2007-2008). If you look at this data from the Met Office Hadley Centre you can clearly see that in…
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(skip to bottom) Information overload is pattern recognition September 7, 2008 Top Stories:Pfeffer, Mann, Elsner,…
Eli Rabett reports that Brian Schmidt reports that Inel reports a fake climate conference phishing scam.
Just thought I should report that!
How much money could a scammer get from that!? Hardly the same universal appeal as your typical "Nigerian banker wants to share $35 million with you" scam.
Oh…
As if this and this weren't enough, below we have McCain himself applying the "Palin lives near Russia" litmus test for foreign policy experience.
Around minute 2:30:
GIBSON: Can you honestly say you feel confident having someone who hasn't traveled outside the United States until last year,…
How cool is this?
I found that via yesterday's APOD.
It is video taken by Deep Impact looking back from 50 million km (31 million miles) away in space.
I was just kidding about that Sarah Palin-osmosis-experience crack...but apparently Frank Gaffney at TownHall.com takes it all seriously!
As that state's governor, Sarah Palin would know more by osmosis - if nothing else - about the necessity for U.S. anti-missile systems than either Messrs. Obama…
Just as an addendum to this post, I wanted to point out that Real Climate has a discussion of the paper in question[PDF].
The authors include not only Mike Mann, but also Bradley and Hughes, so we have the whole infamous MBH cabal in one place again! Let the mud-slinging begin!
But some useful…
There has been lots of discussion of this year's arctic sea ice extent. Last year was a shocking 23% lower record breaker. That's 23% lower than the previous record, for which one had to go all the way back to....2005! That's not 23% below the 1979-2001 average, but 23% below the lowest…
Okay, when I first heard this about McCain's VP pick, Sarah Palin:
I figured it was just an unscripted blunder by a marginal participant. But now I see this:
After I stopped laughing, I realized it is actually going to be one of their wingnut talking points. Sarah Palin knows about foreign…
Mann et al. has a new paper out that again reconfirms that the MWP was not as pronounced or as high a warming period as today's climate changes are bringing.
This is no longer surprising and is in close agreement with all other NH reconstructions that have been done, and all global…
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skip to bottom Top Stories:Accra Conference, Bihar Floods, Methane Burp?, Permafrost Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Arctic…
Hurricane Gustav is taking aim at the coast of Louisiana. Jeff Masters at Weather Underground is the goto place for the details of this storm.
If I am reading it all right, Gustav will be a major hurricane when it strikes the Gulf coast, possibly a category 4, and it may well strike New Orleans.…
Yesterday was the 200th edition of "Another week of GW News", and close to the 50th edition posted here on A Few Things Ill Considered.
Please join me in thanking H.E.Taylor for this remarkable effort that provides such a wonderful service to all of us interested in the issue of anthropogenic…
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(skip to bottom) August 24, 2008 Top Stories:Ghana, Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Arctic Geopolitics, Grumbine, World Water…
Roger Pielke Jr has another post promoting the whole Hockey Stick schtick. My "sceptic guide" entry on that is still here, and I don't have much more to say about it still to this day.
But as for the meta discussion...
I think it is self-serving and a real disservice to humanity for Roger to still…
From NASA JPL's Global Climate Change website, here is a very cool map of sea level rise around the world.
Despite what one might think at first, sea level, and sea level rise, is not uniform around the world.
Local sea level is a surprisingly complicated function of wind, currents and temperature…
Yesterday's APOD has a very cool multiple exposure picture of the moon passing through the earth's shadow, partially that is. It really gives a impressive sense of earth's shadow, even more than the usual total eclipse photos.
So Bill Maher is interviewing a sitting US Senator about evolution. This Senator is not so sure about evolution ("the scientific communty is a little divided on that") and Maher is a little sceptical that intelligent people could actually believe in a talking snake:
You're a Senator. You are one…
Check out a cool post (bad pun not intended...unless you thought it was good) on the physics of making ice cream from Green Gabbro!
From yesterday's DemocracyNow headlines:
The Washington Post reports F. Chase Hutto III, a senior aide to Vice President Cheney, is the leading contender to become a top official at the Energy Department. The promotion would put one of the administration's most ardent opponents of environmental…
I poke into Jennifer Marohasy's blog from time to time, though I am no longer a regular commenter. I gave that up a couple of years ago but still take any special cases as opportunities to chime in again. She's one of those standard types of sceptics, the "scientist" from another discipline just…
John McCain like to talk about renewable energy and flash photos of windfarms like this one in his campaign ads, but does he actually support wind and solar energy development? He also vapidly criticised congress for being on holiday - "Tell them to come back and get to work!" - and not fixing…
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(skip to bottom) August 17, 2008 Top Stories:World Water Week, Electric Bicycles, Grumbine, Melting Arctic, Geopolitics,…
Via Truthout, here is some interesting and important background on the Russian-Georgian conflict that is going on right now, because as usual, these things do not just happen out of the blue despite the dazed and confused coverage in the mainstream media:
When he was president, Clinton promised…
For the second year running, the formerly mythical "Northwest Passage" has opened in the far north of Canadian waters.
(image and story at NASA's Earth Observatory newsroom)
Also in this weeks dispatches: images of Lake Faguibine in Mali drying up, locusts in West Africa, pyramids in Egypt, and…
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