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I'd delighted to announce that I am joining such august company as Chris Mooney, Tim Lambert, and many more in being assimilated by the ...

One of the many absurd arguments against global warming is that scientists are only in it for the money. From the comments of a recent post ...

The BBC seems to be promoting the Climateprediction.net stuff: go to http://bbc.cpdn.org/ . Good for cpdn I guess.

Coby Beck now has a blog, A Few Things Ill Considered . Coby has for quite a while now been doing an excellent job on sci.env answering the ...

"Melting Greenland fuels sea level rise says" Greenpeace . "A new report sheds light on Greenland's quickening meltdown —...

RP Sr has a weird post about "consensus". He has written a paper with four colleagues, and oddly enough they agree. Which is what...

I've discovered a new wiki toy to show you your edits graphically. This is me . Fun, no? I seem to peak at 10pm; the BBC R4 news usually...

[Stop Press! Chris Rapley says "in the long term, cities such as London may have to be relocated" - heard on R4 10pm news. There w...

Do you ever find it annoying when people attempt to win arguments using invalid analogies? Dilbert has the answer...

Don't worry Roger, not you this time :-) Over at www.jennifermarohasy.com/blog/archives/001176.html there is some debate, with a pile o...

The stuff about some US politico's editing their wiki bio's was on the news recently. Wiki's view of that is here ; and amusingl...

Fairly often, I get requests for people to use my pictures, usually one of the bee ones. I have a christmas card from someone in the US who ...

Warning! Don't read on if you've already seen enough septic tripe demolished. But if not... JF points me to The End Is Not Nigh? Jo...

I'm reading Kuhn, "The structure of scientific revolutions". I'm only up to chapter 7 so far, and not desperately impresse...

Sounds like a US TV show, no? In more detail Stern Review on the economics of climate change . Sponsored by the treasury, but nominally an i...

I seem to be a bit too busy for science blogging at the moment. Firstly there is stuff at work, secondly I seem to be busy being an admin on...

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...