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2021-12-31
Happy New Stoat
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It's that time again; the calendar rolls around and I look back over the year and feel old. My major life-event for the year was switchi...
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2021-12-23
Coronavirus days: Omicron
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Did you know that Omicron means little-o, just as Omega means big-o? Obvious really. Anyway, with Covid surging and Christmas nearly upon u...
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2021-12-11
Two quotes from Leviathan
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From chapter 30 : And because, if the essentiall Rights of Soveraignty (specified before in the eighteenth Chapter) be taken away, the Comm...
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2021-12-10
An International Institute Will Help Us Manage Climate Change?
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Or so assert Sabine Hossenfelder and Tim Palmer . TP at least has some form in this stuff; SH rather less so; perhaps she is going for Publ...
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2021-12-08
A Research Strategy for Ocean-based Carbon Dioxide Removal and Sequestration
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A Research Strategy for Ocean-based Carbon Dioxide Removal and Sequestration is a report from the USAnian National Academies of Sciences, ...
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2021-12-01
McTaggart on Time
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AKA " Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them " 1 . Although in this case I mean philosophers, not intellec...
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2021-11-17
Lust for suing
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That nice SR is lusting after a bit more suing . Because the existing suing has gone so well , presumbably. The source of this optimism is ...
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2021-11-10
Who knew what when - 1992 edition
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When I wrote Who knew what when? I lightly skipped over the 1992 supplement . Because, it didn't really say much. I can prove that, c...
Make extreme wealth extinct: it’s the only way to avoid climate breakdown?
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This is Monbiot, in the Graun via Timmy . M is riffing off the Oxfam report which I don't really believe, since I think they essentai...
2021-11-03
Equilibrium climate sensitivity is...
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Something I missed from the AR6 - because, of course, I didn't read it - was The equilibrium climate sensitivity... Based on multiple ...
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2021-10-31
There should be a law to the People besides its own will
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A quote from Lord Acton. It is a good quote, found via CH , but what does it mean? If you rewrite it for individuals, "there should be...
2021-10-28
Fueling the Climate Crisis: Exposing Big Oil’s Disinformation Campaign to Prevent Climate Action?
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Some kind of hearings off in the colonies . Mostly I think grandstanding by pols, but did anything come out of it? 1 There's the usual...
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2021-10-27
Study shows shocking impact of 'photo-hoarding' on carbon footprint?
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Found via an IET press release . They're trying to convince you that the CO2 costs of storing pix online are substantial, and larger th...
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2021-10-21
COP26: Document leak reveals nations lobbying to change key climate report?
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Well, no. If you already know what this is about, you can just about unpick the Beeb's shit reporting to understand the rather mundane...
2021-10-20
Fossil fuel production set to soar over next decade?
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Says Auntie ; parrotting the UNEP production gap report . They are worried that some of the biggest oil, gas and coal producers have not se...
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2021-10-13
Please Don't Give Up On Having Kids Because Of Climate Change?
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As A notes, a recent post at ACX was " Please Don't Give Up On Having Kids Because Of Climate Change ". It rather touches on ...
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2021-10-05
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021?
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Bit of a weird one this. First of all, if you'd rather read something other than my bitter and twisted ramblings, you can read DA or S...
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2021-10-01
Yet more Exxonknew drivel
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Only this time it is #humbleknew, not such a popular tag. But, addd to the Wiki Exxon page , because people like their drivel to be in visi...
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2021-09-25
Book review: Climate Shlock
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By that nice Gernot Wagner 2 . And some bloke called Weitzman . I now notice that I've discussed GW's work before , and that work r...
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