tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186812092011-09-01T13:35:32.192-07:00A layman's take on the science of Global Warming featuring a guide on How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic.cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.comBlogger2051100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-19078734239243335572007-09-27T14:46:00.000-07:002007-09-27T14:52:18.852-07:00

Just a quick update to my farewell post to note that the new RSS feed is working now and A Few Things Ill Considered is properly integrated in the Science Blogs site.I have a few posts up already, nothing too substantial yet, and the first installment of "A Week of Global Warming News" from HET is in place.See you all over there!

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-84470508941114085412007-09-20T16:43:00.000-07:002007-09-21T08:30:33.014-07:00

This posting is my last here on blogger, A Few Things Ill Considered has moved over to Science Blogs. I am very excitied about the move and pleased to be in the company of such notables as Tim Lambert, William Connolley and Chris Mooney, and many other quality bloggers that I don't yet read regularily.The new URL is http://scienceblogs.com/illconsidered and the RSS feed can be found here, please

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-58380376041808754412007-09-18T12:53:00.000-07:002007-09-18T13:05:36.333-07:00

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup(skip to bottom) Top Stories, NorthWest Passage, Polar Bears, Boiling Lakes, Monsoon, African Floods, APEC Hurricanes, Ozone, Sea Levels, ENSO, Satellites, DSCOVR Impacts, Coral, Desertification, Wacky Weather, Floods & Droughts, Biofuel & Food Mitigation, Transportation, Aviation, Sequestration, Adaptation Journals, Misc. Science Kyoto,

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-38200114061920164042007-09-10T16:05:00.000-07:002007-09-10T16:14:12.331-07:00

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup(skip to bottom) Top Stories, APEC, Arctic, Polar Bears, Greeek Wildfires, Times Atlas Hurricanes, Felix, Fitow, Henriette, & Gabrielle, ENSO, DSCOVR Impacts, Tropical Rainforests, Wacky Weather, Heatwaves, Floods & Droughts, Biofuel & Food Mitigation, Architecture, Sequestration Journals, Misc. Science Kyoto, Carbon Tax, Optimal Carbon

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-6183258692495238452007-09-03T16:55:00.000-07:002007-09-05T19:12:33.504-07:00

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup(skip to bottom) Top Stories, UNFCCC in Vienna, Greece on Fire, Arctic, Tropical Rain, Milankovitch, Free Access Hurricanes, Felix & Henriette, Katrina, Temperatures, Sea Levels, Satellites, DSCOVR Impacts, Forests, Coral, Wacky Weather, Floods & Droughts, Biofuel & Food Mitigation, Sustainable Buildings, Sequestration, Adaptation

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-13911321081893056462007-08-26T23:31:00.000-07:002007-08-26T23:41:44.345-07:00

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup(skip to bottom) Top Stories, Nasty Weather, Greek Crematorium, Arctic, Modelling Hurricanes, Dean, Sepat, Sea Levels, Satellites Impacts, Rainforests, Wacky Weather, Floods & Droughts, Biofuel & Food Mitigation, Transportation, Architecture, Sequestration, Adaptation, Geoengineering Journals, Misc. Science Kyoto, Carbon Trade, Carbon Tax

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-84390463503482803702007-08-19T18:56:00.000-07:002007-08-19T19:05:05.454-07:00

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup(skip to bottom) Top Stories, Monsoon, Arctic Sea Ice, Glacier Strip, Biofuels vs Forests, Supergyre, Atlantic Currents, Tipping Points Hurricanes, Dean, Sepat, Flossie, Mish-Mash, GHGs, Temperatures, Sea Levels, Satellites Impacts, Forests, Floods & Droughts, Biofuel & Food Mitigation, Aviation, Plane Stupid, Sequestration,

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-50642903958466523662007-08-12T18:33:00.000-07:002007-08-12T18:34:21.130-07:00

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup(skip to bottom) Top Stories, Monsoon, Decadal Model, Arctic Sea Ice, Arctic Soot, GPS'd Glaciers, Sunspots & Rain, Hansen Hurricanes, Temperatures, ENSO, Glaciers, Sea Levels, Satellites Impacts, Corals, Wacky Weather, Floods & Droughts, Biofuel & Food Mitigation, Transportation, Plane Stupid, Sequestration, Adaptation Journals,

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-75596955409043497102007-08-08T19:20:00.000-07:002007-08-08T20:03:21.526-07:00

... or a fool and their 15$ parted?I see via Deltoid that JunkScience is offering $100,000US for anyone who can prove the theory of Anthropogenic Global Warming. The problems?there is no such thing as proof in these kinds of scientific theoriesJunkScience explicitly states they are the sole and subjective arbiter of all terms and conclusionsthey want proof of the difference in global social,

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-50599646783479353152007-08-06T16:29:00.000-07:002007-08-06T16:30:31.041-07:00

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup(skip to bottom) Top Stories, South Asian Floods, GWB's Summit, European Heatwaves, Asian Particulates, North Pole Flag, Hansen Hurricanes, Hurricane Frequency, el Niño, Glaciers, Sea Levels, Satellites Impacts, Wacky Weather, Floods & Droughts, Biofuel & Food Mitigation, Transportation, Architecture, Sequestration, Geoengineering

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-70897766028358417782007-07-30T23:53:00.000-07:002007-07-31T00:11:58.610-07:00

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup(skip to bottom)Another Week of GW News, July 29, 2007 Top Stories, Extreme weather, Floods, Heatwaves, GW & Precipitation Paper, Ozone, Hansen, Darfur Hurricanes, Temperatures, Glaciers, Sea Levels, el Niño, Satellites Impacts, Forests, Floods & Droughts, Biofuel & Food Mitigation, Transportation, Geoengineering, Adaptation Journals,

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-20366105531295766022007-07-24T10:47:00.000-07:002007-07-24T11:00:07.589-07:00

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup(skip to bottom) Top Stories, Australian Cap&Trade, CU-Boulder SLR Report, North Pole Swim, Darfur Hurricanes, Proenza, Temperatures, el Niño, Glaciers, Tuvulu, Satellites Impacts, Forests, Wacky Weather, Floods & Droughts, Rats, Biofuel & Food Mitigation, Aviation, Building Codes, Adaptation, Planktos Journals, Misc. Science Carbon Trade

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-87526764104456249152007-07-16T09:28:00.001-07:002007-07-16T12:04:42.351-07:00

What if the world were a cage of lab rats and GHG emmissions an accumulation of fecal matter? Blogger ThrobGoblin lays it all out for you here.This is one of 13 panels that tell the whole amusing story!

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-55004595371239050652007-07-15T17:31:00.000-07:002007-07-15T17:41:13.872-07:00

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup(skip to bottom) Top Stories, Solar Forcing, US Northeast Impacts, Live Earth, Consensus Hurricanes, Man-yi, Proenza Ouster, Ozone, ENSO, Glaciers, Sea Levels, Satellites Impacts, Forests, Wacky Weather, Floods & Droughts, Rodents, Biofuel & Food Mitigation, Architecture, Sequestration, Geoengineering, Adaptation Journals, Misc. Science

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-90994455621202511952007-07-13T14:55:00.000-07:002007-07-13T15:04:13.782-07:00

(via fellow Vancouverites DesmogBlog)Tony Jones does an excellent job of exposing the fraud that is Albert Einstein....er, I mean Martin Durkin (I always get those two mixed up!), the producer of The Great Global Warming Swindle. You can watch his entire interview on YouTube in two parts, embedded below.Suffice it to say, you won't ever hear this kind of reality based journalism on US mainstream

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-18980297904056733302007-07-11T19:13:00.000-07:002007-07-11T19:28:56.522-07:00

If there were any sharks left for Bob Carter to jump, he would have jumped them with this article on fellow climate ostrich Jennifer Marohasy's blog. Like most of the denialist campaign, he no longer even pretends to argue the science, (because of course every last word of the IPCC reports has been completely demolished so many times before, right?) merely verbally masterbates about what a

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-44722986020779058732007-07-08T13:52:00.000-07:002007-07-08T14:02:14.525-07:00

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup(skip to bottom) Top Stories, Live Earth, Greenland DNA, US Weather, Hansen, UHI Hurricanes, NHC flak, Glaciers Impacts, Rainforests, Wacky Weather, Floods & Droughts, Biofuel & Food Mitigation, Aviation, Sequestration Journals, Misc. Science Kyoto, Carbon Tax, Carbon Trading Politics, International, Security America, Britain, Europe,

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-11112179666382212822007-07-03T14:23:00.000-07:002007-07-03T14:33:35.888-07:00

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup(skip to bottom) Top Stories, Worldwide Wacky Weather, Live Earth, Antarctica, AR4 WG1 Comments, IPAT Hurricanes, Temperatures, Glaciers, Satellites Impacts, Tropical Rainforests, Desertification, Floods & Droughts, Biofuel & Food Mitigation, Aviation, Sequestration, Planktos Journals, Misc. Science Kyoto-2, Carbon Trade, Optimal Strategy

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-56243793834185050272007-06-28T10:24:00.000-07:002007-06-28T10:32:57.679-07:00

I just had a reader ask me this via email:Hi Coby,I'd like to know what models assume with regard to the relationship between radiation transmission through CO2 and its concentration in the atmosphere. Is it a linear decrease with ppm, exponential?A sceptic website makes a big issue of this, on the grounds that a 10% (say) increase in CO2 will not produce a 10% decrease in

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-24912463555186429762007-06-25T18:29:00.000-07:002007-06-25T19:45:23.083-07:00

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup(skip to bottom) Top Stories, Humour, Rolling Stone, Chinese CO2, Forests, Ocean Temperatures, Hansen & Independent Hurricanes, Temperatures, Sea Levels, Satellites Impacts, Rainforests, Darfur, Wacky Weather, Floods & Droughts, Biofuel & Food Mitigation, Transportation, Architecture, Sequestration, Adaptation, Planktos Journals,

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-86121547513866215462007-06-18T11:49:00.001-07:002007-06-18T11:49:39.753-07:00

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup(skip to bottom) Top Stories, YesMen, Heat waves, Live Earth Hurricanes, GHGs, Temperatures, Glaciers, Kilimanjaro, Sea Levels, NEO Impacts, Darfur, Rainforests, Wacky Weather, Floods & Droughts, Biofuel & Food Mitigation, Transportation, Architecture, Sequestration, Adaptation, Geoengineering Journals, Misc. Science Kyoto-2, Carbon Trade

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-58066607223791022042007-06-14T10:53:00.001-07:002007-06-14T10:55:00.280-07:00

Just in case you thought that E. G. Beck actually has any integrity...

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-26717136878743901342007-06-13T07:51:00.000-07:002007-06-14T10:21:32.938-07:00

George Monbiot calls it quits with a final response in his ongoing debate with Alexander Cockburn. Cockburn finally produced his "references" and of course it is not scientific publication, it is the usual frequently debunked bunk. It is also completely devoid of logical argument and is instead a laudry list of opinion from the usual suspects.The whole exchange is archived here.

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-41977554919763270802007-06-11T10:25:00.000-07:002007-06-11T10:26:49.301-07:00

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup(skip to bottom) Top Stories, BAS report, Gonu Hurricanes, GHG Stats, Glaciers, GOfIaS report, Sea Levels, el Niño, NASA/NOAA report Impacts, Tropical Rainforests, Wacky Weather, Floods & Droughts, Biofuel & Food Mitigation, Transportation, Sequestration, Geoengineering Journals, Misc. Science Kyoto, Kyoto-2, Carbon Tax, Carbon

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-78042193003216416862007-06-05T12:46:00.000-07:002007-06-05T13:18:23.888-07:00

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup( skip to bottom) Top Stories, G8, Bush Climate Strategy, DPMC Emissions Trading Report, APEC, Hansen Hurricanes, GHG Stats, Glaciers (& Greenland & WAIS), Satellites Impacts, Wacky Weather, Floods & Droughts, Biofuel & Food Mitigation, Aviation, Sequestration, Geoengineering Journals, Misc. Science, NASA Tipping Point Kyoto, Carbon Trade

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-77571647551151212402007-05-31T12:12:00.000-07:002007-05-31T12:34:05.846-07:00

Michael Tobis has been stamping his feet quite a bit since a few days ago about the recent publication of a new Joint Statement of the National Academies [PDF] of all the G8 countries.Why? Because it is both emphatic in nature and invisible to the press. He highlights these four points:"Our present energy course is not sustainable." "Responding to this demand while minimizing further climate

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-891706879524996992007-05-31T07:40:00.000-07:002007-05-31T07:50:16.601-07:00

George Monbiot has another article in response to Alexander Cockburn's recent articles attacking the theory of anthropogenic global warming on Counter Punch and The Nation. It is a good shredding of the usual "corruption" charges leveled at the entire field of working climatologists.ZMag has a nice one-stop shop for all the relevant links.

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-68657245959045231652007-05-30T07:59:00.000-07:002007-05-30T08:10:27.647-07:00

For anyone interested in some live blogging on the climate change issue or anyone in the London scene, there was this comment from Rohit Bhargava at the Climate Response Blog.You might also be interested in a live blog happening around now around the Corporate Climate Response event in london. The Climate Response Blog is an ongoing real time conversation from an event that is part of the Green

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-39604067500984340182007-05-29T09:34:00.000-07:002007-05-30T08:11:07.587-07:00

(no, this is not about me!)Over at Real Climate they have a debunking of another whooper from E. G. Beck. Just as he did with his ludicrous CO2 reconstruction, Beck tries to take science forward by putting the gears in reverse (is this really what a modern day Galileo would do?).But even better than that, he apparently has to resort to good old fashioned fraud too. Read the details.

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-61586384209732296502007-05-27T13:01:00.000-07:002007-05-27T13:30:04.193-07:00

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup(skip to bottom) Top Stories, Accelerating CO2 Rise, G8 Leak, G8 Controversy, APEC meetings, Bonn meeting Hansen SLR paper, Ayles Ice Island, Global Energy Budget from the Moon, Pleistocene Impact Hurricanes, GHG Stats, Glaciers, Satellites Impacts, Tropical Rainforests, Floods & Droughts, Biofuel & Food Mitigation, Transportation,

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-15216877014193287892007-05-23T13:17:00.000-07:002007-05-23T13:26:28.140-07:00

Having already revealed the defintive proof of Global Warming, at last the real (non-anthropogenic of course) cause of Global Warmng is uncovered:(Please don't pester me with all that scientific clap-trap about penguins and polar bears living at opposite poles...stupid facts and their liberal agenda)

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-5016452884054884052007-05-22T12:24:00.000-07:002007-05-22T12:31:41.978-07:00

In case anyone out there actually thinks Michael Crichton has intelligent things to say about the Global Warming issue, I recommend reading Reasic's recent post that steps through Crichton's many assinine arguments presented in a speech from a few years ago.It is pretty long, but such an effort should at least be skimmed through!Thanks for the good work, Reasic.

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-35369871886294096792007-05-20T17:56:00.000-07:002007-05-20T21:06:30.682-07:00

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor here is this week's GW news roundup(skip to bottom) Top Stories, Southern Ocean CO2 Saturation, Antarctic Melting, UNSD meeting, UNFCCC meeting, Upcoming G8 meeting, Pleistocene asteroid Hurricanes, GHG Stats, Temperatures, Glaciers, Sea Levels, Satellites Impacts, Climate Refugees, Tropical Rainforests, Wacky Weather, Floods & Droughts, Biofuel & Food Mitigation,

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-13579812476260904202007-05-13T19:37:00.000-07:002007-05-13T19:55:39.705-07:00

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup(skip to bottom) Top Stories, CO2 Burp, Carbon cycle, Extreme temperatures, Coral, WGIII comments, Antarctica Hurricanes, GHG Stats, Temperatures, Glaciers, el Niño, Satellites Impacts, Tropical Rainforests, Wacky Weather, Floods & Droughts, Biofuel & Food Mitigation, Transportation, Arcitecture, Sequestration, Geoengineering Journals,

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-75591034133997488362007-05-11T15:41:00.000-07:002007-05-11T15:51:33.122-07:00

I received an email from a fellow Canadian who is a student and green activist. He has just started a project to collect 1000 business logos of companies who are taking environmentally friendly initiatives.You can see the 5 collected so far here, 995 to go! Anybody aware of any appropriate companies who might like credit where it is due should let them know. Contact info is available at the

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-68272078533682800482007-05-08T16:15:00.000-07:002007-05-08T16:44:44.207-07:00

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup(skip to bottom) Top Stories, IPCC AR4 WGIII report, IPCC AR4 WGI report, Inspiration Hurricanes, GHG Stats, Intensity, Arctic Sea Ice, Sea Levels, Satellites Impacts, Tropical Rainforests, Wacky Weather, Floods & Droughts, Biofuel & Food Mitigation, Architecture, Sequestration, Adaptation, Geoengineering, Iron Hypothesis Journals, Misc.

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-55648998736487566322007-05-03T17:35:00.000-07:002007-05-03T18:25:16.456-07:00

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup(skip to bottom) Top Stories, WGII draft leaks, PETM theories, Methane from plants, Warming Island, Earth Day Hurricanes, GHG Stats, Chinese CO2, Temperatures, Glaciers, Satellites Impacts, Wacky weather, Floods & Droughts, Biofuel & Food Mitigation, Transportation, Arcitecture, Sequestration, Geoengineering, Adaptation Journals, Misc.

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-80024940000246782342007-04-26T23:03:00.000-07:002007-04-26T23:10:08.328-07:00

With all the talk about the negative impacts of Global Warming I thought I would share this story, which should get one tick mark in the "Pros" column! Real estate speculators, get out your calculators...Global warming creates an islandNUUK, Greenland April 24 (UPI) -- An island has separated from mainland Greenland because of global climate change.The Independent reported that the melting of

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-46518457526989060362007-04-23T00:35:00.000-07:002007-04-23T01:03:27.847-07:00

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup(skip to bottom) Top Stories,Australian drought, UNSC Climate Change, CNA report, Earth Day, Hansen,Norway, Bright Line, WGII, WGIII leaks, Bala paper, Arctic current Hurricanes,GHG Stats, Temperatures, Glaciers, Sea Levels, Satellites Impacts,Tropical Rainforests, Wacky Weather, Floods & Droughts, Biofuel & Food Mitigation,Transportation

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-82123026022545717712007-04-21T03:13:00.000-07:002007-04-21T03:22:41.853-07:00

The Daily Show investigates a recent event where a Seattle school decided not to show Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth because of a parental objection - "Condoms don't belong in school, and neither does Al Gore." Jason Jones does his thing with the parent in question...As is often the case with these interviews, the reality portions are funnier than the farcical ones.

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-31486053663474879722007-04-16T16:50:00.000-07:002007-04-16T17:35:26.881-07:00

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup(skip to bottom) Top Stories, WGII commentary, WGIII leaks, Forests, GHG Stats Hurricanes, Sea Levels, NEO, Impacts, Tropical Rainforests, Blatant Thievery, Floods & Droughts, Biofuel & Food Mitigation, Building Codes, Sequestration, Geoengineering, Adaptation Journals, Misc. Science Kyoto-2, Conferences, Carbon Tax, Carbon Trade,

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-26909509897567691322007-04-15T03:36:00.000-07:002007-04-15T03:43:13.400-07:00

A commentor, bmcworldcitizen offers us this amusing, simplifying and positive YouTube video about, well, what else?(About 5 minutes)I notice an entertaining image I used here in the past.

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-88413545103933852342007-04-08T21:40:00.000-07:002007-04-09T20:28:41.563-07:00

Michael Tobis has been busy with 10 posts in the last 4 days. Don't get too far behind!

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-88380683119921724582007-04-08T20:58:00.000-07:002007-04-08T21:17:15.476-07:00

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup(skip to bottom) Top Stories, Black humour, WGII, WGII Wrangling, Massachussets Vs. EPA, The Pitch, Melting Arctic, Mars Hurricanes, el Niño, Satellites Impacts, Tropical Rainforests, Floods & Droughts, Biofuel & Food Sequestration, Geoengineering Journals, Misc. Science Kyoto, Kyoto-2, UNSC, Carbon Tax, Carbon Trade, Optimal

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-86162224719173511332007-04-05T21:45:00.000-07:002007-04-05T22:09:07.253-07:00

There is an interesting and entertaining column by Oliver Morton on Nature's news website about the continuing use by climate science contrarians of climate change on other bodies in the solar system. I have a couple of "Talk to a Sceptic" guide entries on that (see here for the newest version of the Mars and Pluto canard) as well as some artwork that takes its inspiration from on of the more

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-82696700202664833112007-04-04T01:38:00.000-07:002007-04-04T01:44:16.851-07:00

Micheal Tobis has a blog now (well, an active one now!) and he has a thoughtful article on truth and the perception of truth here.Like almost everything he writes, it is well worth reading and I am glad to see him placing his considered essays somewhere more prominent than comment #83 on a marginally related RealClimate post!I will add In It For the Gold to the sidebar shortly...

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-27609470345478402412007-04-03T23:44:00.000-07:002007-04-03T23:55:55.942-07:00

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup(skip to bottom) Top Stories, Chuckles, WGII Previews, Melting Antarctic & Arctic, Stern, UNEP report, EA&M Hurricanes, GHG Stats, Temperatures, Glaciers, ENSO, Satellites Impacts, Tropical Rainforests, Tornadoes, Floods & Droughts, Biofuel & Food Mitigation, Sequestration, Geoengineering, Adaptation Journals, Misc. Science,

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-70275739291255260312007-04-01T18:34:00.000-07:002007-04-01T19:53:45.510-07:00

Just a quick note to let people know that I am overseas on business and have been for about a week so things will be quiet here for another month. That was planned of course, but not planned was getting my appendix taken out last Wednesday night.I think that should excuse me from being so late addressing some of the recent comments...!Will get HET's news roundup posted ASAP and hopefully can

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-48580274712654963372007-03-26T22:38:00.000-07:002007-03-26T22:42:48.466-07:00

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup(skip to bottom) Top Stories, A Chuckle, Congressional hearings, WWF on rivers, Antartica Hurricanes, GHG Stats, el Niño, Satellites Impacts, Tropical Rainforests, Floods & Droughts, Biofuel & Food Mitigation, Sequestration, Geoengineering Journals, Misc. Science Carbon Market, Carbon Tax or Carbon Trade or... , American, British,

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-14572179242034867542007-03-22T08:33:00.001-07:002007-03-22T08:59:29.975-07:00

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup(skip to bottom) Top Stories, UK legislation, Antarctic glaciers, Melting Arctic, Aerosols, Global undimming, WGII draft leak Hurricanes, GHG Stats, The Temperature Record, Glaciers, Sea Levels, el Niño, Satellites Impacts, Tropical Rainforests, Floods & Droughts, Biofuel & Food Mitigation, Sequestration, Geoengineering, Adaptation

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-82879145590473321632007-03-14T12:43:00.000-07:002007-03-14T12:47:58.707-07:00

Poll Finds Worldwide Agreement That Climate Change is a ThreatAn international poll finds widespread agreement that climate change is a pressing problem. This majority, however, divides over whether the problem of global warming is urgent enough to require immediate, costly measures or whether more modest efforts are sufficient.That is the headline and first paragraph of a recent PIPA poll.

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-11160185774758355662007-03-12T14:35:00.000-07:002007-03-12T14:46:08.844-07:00

(The title seems like a good description of what it is to argue too long with your typical climate denialist, but it has a more specific connection to this short post.)Unfortunately Blogger, (as far as I can tell) has no way to display recent comments, so a few interesting exchanges go on behind the scenes. I don't have any good ideas for rectifying that, but I did want to share a laugh with

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-4899971710516772252007-03-11T20:42:00.000-07:002007-03-11T20:51:48.395-07:00

RealClimate explains why UK TV Channel Four's recent "documentary" "The Great Global Warming Swindle" is actually self describing in its title, rather like the Junk Science website. For a revolting glimpse into how they get scientific voices to support their falsehoods read a letter to the station from one of their scientist interviewees. Money quote here:Never before, however, have I had an

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-24634514898243131752007-03-11T17:28:00.000-07:002007-03-11T17:29:06.087-07:00

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup(skip to bottom) Top Stories, EU agreements, WGII draft leak, Particulates, Cosmic ray hypothesis Hurricanes, GHG Stats, The Temperature Record, Glaciers, Sea Levels, el Niño, Satellites Impacts, Tropical Rainforests, Floods & Droughts, Biofuel & Food Mitigation, Sequestration, Geoengineering, Adaptation Journals, Misc. Science,

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-64389591183939062272007-03-07T19:50:00.000-08:002007-03-07T20:11:36.365-08:00

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup(skip to bottom) Top Stories, Hurricane Wars, GHG Stats, The Temperature Record, Glaciers, Sea Levels, el Niño, Satellites Impacts, Tropical Rainforests, Floods & Droughts, Biofuel & Food Mitigation, Sequestration, Geoengineering, Adaptation Journals, Misc. Science Kyoto, Kyoto-2, Carbon Tax, Carbon Trade, Politics, American,

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-31603068085750780392007-02-26T15:38:00.000-08:002007-02-26T15:58:32.513-08:00

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup(skip to bottom) Top Stories, Hurricane Wars, GHG Stats, The Temperature Record, Glaciers, Sea Levels, el Niño, Satellites Impacts, Tropical Rainforests, Floods & Droughts, Biofuel & Food Mitigation, Sequestration, Geoengineering, Adaptation Journals, Misc. Science Kyoto, Kyoto-2, Carbon Tax, Carbon Trade, Politics, American,

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-29690357001063506812007-02-19T11:40:00.000-08:002007-02-19T12:01:42.822-08:00

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup(skip to bottom)An AAAS conference in San Francisco gave rise to many articles: 2007/02/17: CSW: AAAS President John Holdren urges action on climate change, energy system, and sustainability 2007/02/13: TerraDaily: Scientists To Focus On Climate Change And Energy At AAAS MeetingOne AAAS report featured melting Peruvian glaciers:Click here

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-11859387334508025412007-02-14T12:44:00.000-08:002007-02-14T12:52:48.159-08:00

RealClimate has an excellent post today on the differences between studying today's climate versus paleoclimate research. They make a very nice use of some pop-culture, specifically CSI and Cold Case, two crime scene investigation dramas. It relates to a couple of articles in the Guide here:If we can't figure out the past, how can we know about the presentThe climate is always changingIt has

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-66892055459610074482007-02-12T10:02:00.000-08:002007-02-12T10:44:50.988-08:00

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup(skip to bottom)Let's start with a chuckle: 2007/02/09: ERabett: C. (for climate) Jive Rumorton is unhappy...Some late IPCC commentary:Click here to read more 2007/02/10: GristMill: [Dessler] Op-ed on the IPCC and climate change 2007/02/10: DeSmogBlog: Presenting the IPCC For (Not Quite) Dummies! 2007/02/07: Nature: Special Report: From

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-57211160397330645592007-02-08T13:40:00.000-08:002007-02-08T13:44:20.172-08:00

Ok, this is about as OT for this blog you can get, but it is too hilarious not to share!Tek Jansen (Stephen Colbert as a super hero) puts sci-fi time travel to its ultimate uses:I hope you laughed at least half as much as I did!

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-31758527163251487282007-02-08T10:12:00.000-08:002007-02-07T18:44:47.231-08:00

Senator James Inhofe debates Senator Barbara Boxer about global warming on Larry King. Larry King is still seeking that impartial balance between reality and idiocy.Inhofe trotts out all his favorites:mitigation = economic disasterthere is no consensus17,000 scientists disagreethe Summary for Policymakers is written by politicians (para 5)these same people said we would all die in an ice age a

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-47678021879409564832007-02-04T18:09:00.001-08:002007-02-05T16:39:51.692-08:00

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup(skip to bottom) Most of the IPCC material is in a separate posting:2007/02/02: IPCC: (pdf 2.3 megs) 2007 Summary for Policymakers 2007/02/02: UCAR:IPCC: (pdf 2.3 megs) 2007 Summary for Policymakers 2007/02/02: IPCC: IPCC adopts major assessment of climate change science Laugh damnit:Click here to read more 2007/02/02: MSNBC: (cartoon -

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-63872112856585955252007-02-04T18:09:00.000-08:002007-02-05T16:07:47.619-08:00

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup, installment 1 (IPCC related stories only)(skip to bottom) The IPCC released its 2007 Summary for Policymakers on Friday:2007/02/02: IPCC: (pdf 2.3 megs) 2007 Summary for Policymakers 2007/02/02: UCAR:IPCC: (pdf 2.3 megs) 2007 Summary for Policymakers 2007/02/02: IPCC: IPCC adopts major assessment of climate change science 2007/02/02:

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-6527599192485231272007-02-02T22:48:00.000-08:002007-02-02T22:58:21.291-08:00

"Methane fireballs tear across the sky"Believe it or not, that is a quote from the Independent, not about the sequel to The Day After Tomorrow but about the latest IPCC Summary for Policymakers. Rabett Run has more. That is even more ridiculous than "global warming is a socialist hoax".Why do they have to say things like that? It makes James Inhofe sound reasonable. And that's no small feat!

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-42420320824833469852007-02-01T12:29:00.000-08:002007-02-02T12:22:31.528-08:00

Readers of the Globalchange news group (see sidebar) will have seen this already, but people like me who have not been paying attention can read about it on Jame Annan's blog.The Whitehouse.gov search engine filters out results for "global warming" (see post title). That is to say, search their site for this phrase using their search engine and you get virtually nothing (1 at this moment). Search

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-58052934925925393302007-01-28T12:23:00.000-08:002007-01-28T12:44:55.085-08:00

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup(skip to bottom) It's always nice to start with a larf:2007/01/28: uComics: (cartoon - Toles) That legacy thing 2007/01/22: Slate: (cartoon - Sack) I'm open... 2007/01/25: SeattlePI: (cartoon - Horsey) Finally it begins to dawn on him... 2007/01/24: Guardian(UK): (cartoon - Bell) State of the Jolly Green Dwarf Speculation and leaks are

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-48851956450957309432007-01-25T11:30:00.000-08:002007-01-25T11:46:05.580-08:00

Roger Pielke Jr has another posting complaing about how the IPCC is not policy neutral despite its stated objectives, and therefore not an "honest broker" of the science of climate change. He offers this quote as support:I hope this [forthcoming IPCC] report will shock people, governments into taking more serious action as you really can't get a more authentic and a more credible piece of

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-64814299205937851302007-01-22T11:20:00.000-08:002007-01-22T11:42:56.400-08:00

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup(skip to bottom) Speculation and leaks are the order of the day with the upcoming [Feb 2nd] release of the 2007 IPCC report looming large:IPCC: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2007/01/21: IHT: In new global warming study, researchers to take a bolder stand 2007/01/20: ClimateArk: New Warnings on Climate Change 2007/01/21:

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-801385216184082172007-01-21T23:26:00.000-08:002007-01-21T23:32:59.732-08:00

Words of wisdom from Faux News. Never mind the basic illogic, due to an El Nino and continued greenhouse gas forcing of the global climate, 2007 is likely to be the warmest year yet on record.

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-55075909089338095872007-01-20T12:46:00.000-08:002007-01-20T13:17:25.624-08:00

"TV weathermen are truly the last of the independent scientists"If you know whose pearl of wisdom that is, then I don't need to tell you about the current firestorm in the climate blog world. Eli Rabbet has a detailed timeline with all the links. I first heard of it here at Prometheus but some details seem a little different from the story Andrew Dessler tells. In short, a blogger at the Weather

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-4696456352892211192007-01-17T11:19:00.000-08:002007-01-17T11:31:52.132-08:00

David Roberts has an insightful and entertaining narrative on Gristmill of the recent climate change in the climate change debate. He is right on the money about how the insiders manipulate public policy debates. No wonder those geeks in lab coats get eaten alive!I would like to highlight this sentiment:Once more for the cheap seats: there is no equivalence between denialists and global-warming

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-54058213020245993412007-01-16T09:13:00.000-08:002007-01-16T09:34:12.797-08:00

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup(skip to bottom) Black humour is better than no humour?:2007/01/14: uComics: (cartoon - Trudeau) Dr. Nathan Null 2007/01/08: uComics: (cartoon - Toles) Arctic Press Conference... 2007/01/08: C&L: (link to video) The Simpsons Tackle Global Warming A moment of silence, please:Click here to read more 2007/01/12: HuffPo: Scientists To Move

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-59990082029899874172007-01-14T14:08:00.000-08:002007-01-14T14:33:48.351-08:00

William Connelly has a self confessed "grumpy" review of An Inconvenient Truth. Not much new about the movie, but he did trot out the old "yeah but how much CO2 did Gore emit running around the world for this film?" bit.It is common fodder for the anti-Gore attack dogs, but why is William bringing it up? I don't know, but here is what's wrong with such a criticism:it is an ad homenim, having

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-29419816199328430982007-01-14T14:05:00.000-08:002007-01-14T14:08:40.125-08:00

Eli Rabbet has a post with excerpts from and comments about a short reply by Sir Nicolas Stern to all the recent criticisms of his report. Worth the read!

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-35653464436058824682007-01-07T12:05:00.000-08:002007-01-07T12:24:13.786-08:00

(Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup)skip to bottom Let's start with a chuckle, if not a laugh:2007/01/04: TreeHugger: Non-Scientific Proof of Global Warming! People are beginning to think something funny is going on:Click here to read more 2007/01/06: GristMill: Global warming: Too much to Bear 2007/01/07: CNN: Balmy weather breaks records, jolts Northeast 2007/01/07:

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-25846867519731447682007-01-04T15:08:00.000-08:002007-01-12T10:11:22.659-08:00

As anyone who circulates anywhere in the climate blogosphere is undoubtedly aware, Andy Revkin wrote a piece in the NYT (non-subscription link!) very recently about a "new middle ground" in the climate debate. The main point being this is a refreshing and new voice of reason between two irrational extremes ("we will all die", versus "warming? what warming?"). Since I am so slow off the mark to

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-34270339610475150362007-01-04T14:17:00.000-08:002007-01-04T14:37:15.982-08:00

Over at Jennifer Marohasy's blog, a frequent commentor, "Luke", has an interesting guest post. Jennifer is one of those self proclaimed "climate agnostics" who nevertheless posts on how Al Gore is all wrong, polar bears are going to be fine, there's no consensus, warming stopped in 1998, the temperature rise is UHI effect etc, etc. A recent spate of posts about the drought in Australia have been

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-85693399827449883852007-01-01T11:29:00.000-08:002007-01-01T11:35:52.613-08:00

(Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundupskip to bottom Two stories from the Arctic captured the headlines this week -- polar bears & the Ayles ice shelf:2006/12/31: Wunderground: Huge Arctic ice shelf breaks away 2006/12/30: TP: A chunk of ice bigger than the area of Manhattan 2006/12/30: Independent(UK): Vast ice shelf collapses in the ArcticA vast ice shelf in the Canadian

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com49tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-43146566406601103862006-12-27T13:32:00.000-08:002006-12-27T13:59:11.306-08:00

(Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundupskip to bottomThe big story of the week is political -- the EU carbon taxing airlines:2006/12/21: TruthOut: Europe Acts to Penalize Jet Pollution 2006/12/21: GristMill: Fly swatter [EU airlines & CO2] 2006/12/20: TerraDaily: EU Proposes CO2 Emission Quotas For Airlines 2006/12/20: TerraDaily: IATA Gives Cautious Welcome To EU Emissions

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-17528007873692431252006-12-25T10:19:00.000-08:002006-12-25T10:27:26.327-08:00

Merry Christmas to all!Happy Hanukkah!Feliz Navidad!Happy Holidays!Joyeux Noel!Merry Festivus!However you prefer it said, all the best wishes of the season to the denizens of this corner of the blogosphere...

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-31024560886649831142006-12-18T23:16:00.000-08:002006-12-18T23:37:41.560-08:00

(Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundupskip to bottom Beginning with some almost seasonal fun:2006/12/13: ERabett: Oregon Petition: The Musical -- Anonymuse comes through again... 2006/12/13: Deltoid: Oregon Petition: the musical 2006/12/10: ERabett: Sing along with anonymous anonymuse...[more pomes for denial] The big story of the week has to be the projection of an ice free

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-90653633180000923912006-12-18T11:43:00.000-08:002008-07-27T13:41:23.322-07:00

(Part of the How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic guide)This article has moved to ScienceBlogsIt has also been updated and this page is still here only to preserve the original comment thread. Please visit A Few Things Ill Considered there. You may also like to view Painting With Water, Coby Beck's original fine art photography.

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-57803974725673772752006-12-15T17:20:00.000-08:002006-12-15T17:22:33.403-08:00

A quick note to subscribers: I just switched to Blogger beta and it may be that old articles show up in your RSS client as new. At least, a handful did in my Goggle Reader view.Don't be fooled!

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-1165785820325885222006-12-10T13:02:00.000-08:002006-12-10T13:30:08.926-08:00

(Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup skip to bottom NASA reports phytoplankton are diminishing due to GW:2006/12/07: SciDaily: Global Warming Is Reducing Ocean Life, Increasing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Say Scientists 2006/12/07: CDreams: Independent(UK): Climate Change is Killing the Oceans' Microscopic 'Lungs' 2006/12/07: BostonGlobe: Warming threatens sea life - Drop

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-1165528799885930432006-12-07T13:53:00.000-08:002006-12-07T14:08:46.113-08:00

No scientific content, but some good humour. Check it out on Gristmill or Treehugger.(I tried to upload it to Youtube, but it may be more than 10 minutes because it did not stay.)

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-1165280338612296792006-12-04T16:22:00.000-08:002006-12-04T17:00:36.763-08:00

(Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup skip to bottom The big story of the week is in the US Supreme Court, Massachussetts vs EPA:2006/11/29: SCOTUS: (pdf) (transcript) Oral arguments in Mass. v. EPA Wiki: Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency 2006/11/30: NSU: US Supreme Court hears climate case - States and the Environmental Protection Agency argue over

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-1164955408655654502006-11-30T22:38:00.000-08:002006-12-10T13:31:16.510-08:00

Gentle Readers,I apologize for not keeping up with blogging, both posts and responding to comments, as well as participation elsewhere.My partner of the last 17 years died at 4:00AM, November 26, 2006. It was a long time coming but the end was thankfully pain free and at home.I don't think I will be doing anything here for a few more days.[update: thanks to all for the comments]

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-1163978324253653492006-11-19T15:05:00.000-08:002006-11-19T15:18:44.353-08:00

(Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is the Nairobi GW news roundupskip to bottomThe Nairobi conference is the big story of the week:2006/11/17: PlanetArk: Agreements at UN Climate Talks [list of resolved and unresolved issues] 2006/11/19: AEN: Progress Made at Nairobi Climate Talks, Despite Bush Administration Opposition 2006/11/18: GristMill: Ought of Africa: A report from the U.N. climate conference

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(Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup skip to bottom The Nairobi conference is covered in a seperate posting. See "Another week of GW news - Nairobi" The Stern Review is still causing ripples:2006/11/19: JQuiggin: The Stern Review and the long tail 2006/11/15: SF Gate: The cost of climate change 2006/11/15: JQuiggin: Stern on the cost of climate stabilisation 2006/11/16:

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(Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundupskip to bottom Two big stories headline this week: Nairobi and the Greenland/Antarctic linkage:2006/11/09: Nature: [Letter] One-to-one coupling of glacial climate variability in Greenland and Antarctica 2006/11/08: NSU: Climate warming 'seesaws' between the poles - Antarctic ice-drilling reveals linked cycle of warming and cooling. 2006/

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I have a more lengthy article over on Gristmill about the GrrlScientist piece featured in my previous AFTIC post. It meanders a bit but was essentially trying to make the point that model projections are not the only source of information about possible future climate trajectories, we can use past climate behaviours too. I do not consider it likely that current human activities will lead to an

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-1162786051686758312006-11-05T20:05:00.000-08:002006-11-10T15:38:29.756-08:00

(Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup)skip to bottomAs expected the Stern Review has been a major story.click here to read the rest of the postThe Sunday Herald lede catches the gist: 2006/11/05: SundayHerald: Can we really save the planet?Something shifted last week. One of the world's leading economists put a cost on the climate chaos being caused by pollution, and

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There is a lengthy and interesting post on ScienceBlogs by GrrlScientist today about The Great Dying:The Great Dying was the largest mass extinction event on earth. It occurred approximately 251 million years ago and marks the boundary between the Permian and Triassic geologic periods, commonly known as the PT boundary.Apparently some new evidence is pointing to a massive buildup of CO2 and a

cobyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042136876169040477noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18681209.post-1162587112193642962006-11-03T12:51:00.000-08:002006-11-08T13:25:33.083-08:00

Lisa Taylor reminds us over on The Gristmill that the The Great Warming is premiering this weekend. I don't see when it is coming to Vancouver, but other venues throughout the United States are listed here.It still looks quite good to me, if any AFTIC readers or visitors see it, let me know how it is. A guest post review would be welcome too.

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While I firmly hold to my conviction that economic concerns are neither the only, nor even necesarily the paramount ones we need to keep in mind when charting a course through a changing climate, nevertheless economics can't be ignored.Thus it is very good news that an apparently very reputable and mainstream economist, Sir Nicolas Stern, has presented a very detailed cost-benefit analysis of

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(Courtesy of H.E.Taylor - jump to the bottom) I suspect we are going to hear a lot about the Stern Report in the near future:Click here to read the rest of the news for the week2006/10/29: BBC: Report's stark warning on climateThe Stern Review says that climate change represents the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen. And on the basis of this intellectually rigorous and

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[Update]Welcome to Crooks and Liars readers! I fear this is a poor introductory page for my humble blog. What I am mostly about is providing succint, scientifically supported rebuttals to the numerous and generally spurious objections to the well founded scientific case for human caused climate change, aka anthropogenic global warming. The side bar link "How to Talk to a Sceptic" is where it

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Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundupA study out of UCAR projects the extreme weather to come:2006/10/20: UCAR: (2.7meg pdf) Going to the Extremes 2006/10/20: MSNBC: Models predict 'wild ride' of extreme weather - Greenhouse gases fueling the trend, federally funded study says2006/10/20: Yahoo: Global warming study predicts wild ride2006/10/20: NYT: Global Warming Study

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Eli Rabett has done a very good summary of the recent blogosphere kafuffle surrounding the phrase "climate change denial" and whether it is an allusion to Holocaust denial. I have decided I reject that notion much more strongly than I did in the comments at Prometheus. But this post is only tangential to that debate. What I really want to post about is that Michael Tobis wrote an excellent piece

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Summary of the week's Global Warming headlines compiled by H. E. Taylor The significant report of the week has to be the estimate of the cost of climate change inaction2006/10/15: Guardian(UK): Climate change is expensive. Does that help?An influential report out this month concludes that it will be cheaper to act on global warming now than to wait, but campaigners doubt whether the government

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