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Charmingly uncharitable

2005-01-29

Did you know there are three IPCC working groups?

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I realise (because of a comment my wife just made on reading my blog) that I've been a bit free with my "WGI"'s in the las...

Betting on climate

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Theoretically, those who believe the IPCC predictions should be able to make piles of money off those who are skeptical, because they wrongl...
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Science and Policy

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Well, here is the long-anticipated :-) post about science and policy/politics. But first a disclaimer: since I'm writing about policy no...
2005-01-28

Then it burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp

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Well, what can I say? The infamous "Mann" hockey stick has been finally laid to rest by Tim Lambert .
2005-01-24

The Dark Side of wikipedia

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I've been quite keen on wikipedia - here and in sci.env and in a number of places. However, it has a downside, which is laid out on the ...
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Maybe they prefer uncertainty

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Science has an article "NOAA Loses Funding to Gather Long-Term Climate Data" (available from Science if you have the subscriptio...
2005-01-21

Perfecting Imperfect Models

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I was at the Royal Met Soc wednesday meeting today. The abstracts are here: page 1 and page 2 . So... just for once I'm reviewing p...
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2005-01-20

Peer Review: A Necessary But Not Sufficient Condition

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You want to read Peer Review: A Necessary But Not Sufficient Condition on RealClimate.

Risk assessment: nuclear vs coal

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Experiment #3. So far, WV is winning & will be done tonight.

Science/Policy interface

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This is an experiment. I'm going to put up a few headings (this is the first) as reminders to me of things I intend to write about. But ...

Water vapour is not the dominant greenhouse gas

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OK, so it may not surprise you that I'm going to have to qualify the headline a bit lower down, but the point itself remains. Why doe...
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Following David King

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This is interesting... "Sir David King said he was being followed around the world by people in the pay of vested-interest groups that...
2005-01-18

Landsea contrasts

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Don't you just hate gratuitous puns in titles, especially when they don't work very well? Anyway, I said I would post on sci/pol,...
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2005-01-17

A funny thing happened on the way to the forum :-)

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Most days I can think of only one thing to say at best, today I have two things (not counting the polar bears, which is just for fun), but t...
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Polar bears in Antarctica?

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OK, leaving aside the seriousness for a moment, here's a fun question prompted by Eric Swanson from sci.env: the ">" is him...
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2005-01-16

Science and Politics; opposing the extremes

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Roger Pielke has a nice blog called Prometheus which is about science policy. Not just climate science, but others too. I only ever read th...
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2005-01-14

Global dimming

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There was a Horizon prog last night about global dimming. I didn't see it but I've read the transcript . I've seen a number o...
2005-01-13

Hobbes

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From a life of Hobbes, by John Aubrey [ 1 ]: One time, I remember, going into the Strand, a poor and infirm old man craved his alms. He be...
2005-01-12

Attacking the Consensus

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The paper by Naomi Oreskes in Science (see also RealClimate commentary ) has stirred up a bit of a backlash by people who would like to di...
2005-01-09

Jerry Springer: the Opera

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No, not science in disguise: this really is about JStO. I was at my mothers so I got to watch it. The website is http://www.jerryspringerthe...
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