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One good and one evil? Maybe. But neither of them is Exxon. If you've been reading the Economist recently, you'll find a 2-page adve...

Getting a bit desperate with the titles. My last post said the vn5.2 had gone again. For those who want to download the vn5.2 MSU, it seems...

What the f*ck are Spencer and Christy up to? First they put up vn5.2 MSU data, then they take it down again (the May and Jun maps have the ...

Yes at last some science again. The title is a forlorn attempt to draw in hordes of eager new readers... :-) So... we all know that the pole...

Two examples of stupidity, by me, follow. I just found them interesting... probably they are mostly failures of lateral thinking. Before tha...

A brief foray into politics... around the recent London bombings... which are becoming confusing... "Shoot to kill" was a policy p...

I've recently been reading GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 32, L10703, doi:10.1029/2004GL022266, 2005 Satellite-derived vertical depe...

I've finally decided that the best way to keep track of my beekeeping is to have a blog for it, and it is... http://williams-bees.blogsp...

Sorry, that was the best mock-title I could think of. And despite it, I liked the book (despite a notable lack of fart jokes). Anyway, I tho...

[This post updated, due to a couple of cock-ups... see the []'s and strikeout . First of all, there was an error in the 1851-1930 trend ...

Take a look at: http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2005/0714letter.pdf . Good stuff! A lot better than von S. [Update: oh great. I see Chris ...

No science today, I've been a bit busy recently; also to Reading for a HiGEM meeting (where I gossiped about JA with MR...). So why not...

Ha... knew that would draw you in. Sadly the post is mistitled, because the P I'm talking about is Rowan Pelling, and she is more os a p...

Bombs in London, about 50 dead, which is sad. And we don't yet know who did it. The main reaction seems to be "we are bloody but un...

Yet more bl**dy runes. And I haven't even done von S over at P yet. They're piling up. A word about this runes nonsense: if you want...

The House of Lords Select Committee on Economic Affairs has produced a report on The Economics of Climate Change ( pdf ). Initial impressio...

Over at Promehteus, there is a forthright post on the latest Hockey Stick stuff. As usual, there is stuff in there whose tone I'd disag...

mt points out over in sci.env that the NYT says (registration required) Mr. Bush made a nod to the compromise effort at the news conference...

From an article in the NYT : Newly released data show that Portland, America's environmental laboratory, has achieved stunning reduction...

David Appell ( here ; and his prev) and Chris Mooney have more on the "Barton affair". Waxman says: These letters do not appear t...