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Friday: bright sun again in contrast to my somewhat jaded feeling: I think I can concentrate for another half day though. Up early to check ...

This is a piccy from the Kunstmuseum egyptian section, one the side of one of two huge basalt sarcophogi they have. Amazing workmanship for...

Day dawns sunny and bright. I linger a bit over breakfast and photographing Stephansdom and therefore miss the first talk of the session (H...

Beginning with rain. Because, when I was packing, it was a nice day, I didn't bring a rain hat or umbrella. Remember, folks, the past a...

Yesterday I arrived (train from Salzburg, nice mountains there), registered (vast Q, 1:30 hours because I forgot to pre-register; why the Q...

A google search on ' "Osip Mandelstam" "gene wolfe" dwindle ' produces no hits, and this post is intended to rec...

A guide to facts and fictions about climate change from the Royal Society is good (though not nearly as much fun as Global Warming Sceptic ...

Non Scientist magazine's current issue prints two letters of breathtaking stupidity (thank PH for pointing this out, though he didn'...

Next week I'm at EGU . If you are too, don't forget to look me up. Err... not sure how you'd do that though. Email me, probably,...

Tim Lambert has another nice post Global Warming Sceptic Bingo , with a pleasing number of the refutations from RC or here... its working, f...

Those of you who remember the late lamented Larsen B ice shelf that collapsed in 1994/5 (was it really 10 years ago...?) may be interested ...

It being election time, its a good time to examine the UK Labour govts record on climate change, and how its actions have matched up to the ...

This post is complex. You need to carefully read and refer to the context: RPs posts (and comments thereon) 5th April and 8th April if you...

I have a new blog: Blog the Builder . Its about our building work, not science.

James Annan is up to something in his betting-on-climate type ideas: http://www.ideosphere.com/fx-bin/Claim?claim=GW2030 . I haven't rea...

We're having building work done, starting tomorrow: the conversion of some shed-type things at the back of the house into a childrens li...

This is yet another myth I forgot, that GW might be due not to GHG's but to waste heat. This is not a totally stupid idea: back in the 1...

For those of you interested in solar-climate connections, I strongly recommend reading DamonLaut2004.pdf from which one may quote gems such...

Or at least, he is good for my visitor-count, which more than trebled to an all-time record of 300+ on friday after he mentioned my most exc...

I thought 11 myths was fair going (#10 wasn't exactly carefully reasoned, though true) but still I forgot a few. Thanks to those who r...