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The "Hansen gagging" story has been around a bit... now I find (via Roger on sci.env) this : I am writing in response to several r...

Umm... whats happened? (I wondered to myself, lying fuzzy in bed at 8 a.m. listening to this stuff on the R4). Did they publish the AR4 a ye...

Before the post, a quick joke, brought on by the word "Gazillion": Bush in the White House; an Aide says "Mr Prez, I'm af...

From the Grauniad , an interesting article about torture, but its about the Inquisition. The assertion that Torture and execution were alway...

We went to see the Narnia film yesterday. E (4) got scared in places; D (8) liked it and couldn't wait to see what he hopes will be the...

Yes indeed. See this take on science publishing (via Island of Doubt ). " My policy with regard to conclusions is to make the maximum ...

Over at http://www.eas.gatech.edu/research/candr.htm there is some fun, with Webster/Holland/Curry/Chang disagreeing rather strongly with ...

The graph shows recent CO2 changes. Top are the CO2 themselves (monthly, plus 13-month running mean); bottom are change-on-12-months earlie...

Polar amplification, again. RC recently had a post on this; though now I look again its a teensy bit vague about the actual *causes*. Which...

James Annan has another classic post up, displaying his characteristic incisive wit and complete lack of sentimentality. According to the 1...

There is an interesting exchange today over at sci.env, which touches on some things I've been thinking about recently. See here for th...

James " added 1.5 inches to the crotch length " Annan recently blogged about Sexism in Science (and ref'd some interesting CV...

On the plance back from NZ, I got to watch a weird Japanese TV show called "Masquerade". It was very funny, and I've never se...

Well, if I must be called alarmist I may as well justify it :-)). The source (thanks CH ) is James Lovelock in the Independent , who doesn...

A few snippets from wikipedia... I'm now an admin, and hence have ultimate power to CRUSH ALL MY ENEMIES HA HA HA HA!!! <evil laugh ...

A boring post pointing out that I've mildly updated my blogroll (its those cryptic letters at the top...). Now the second line is non-cl...

There is an interesting paper out in Nature today (don't send me it, I've just discovered we have Nature online from work, how nice...

I'm a bit of a fan of Hobbes (I love the language in [[ Leviathan ]]; its like the King James bible. The book itself is a great read, an...

Not, not the content, the format. IJ points out that viewed with Internet Exploiter the sidebar on the right drops down to the bottom. Indee...

I read this in the paper Grauniad; but Chris Mooney provides an on-line link. CM doesn't commit himself to an opinion on it, but I wil...