2005-10-28

Pollution of a different kind

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I just read this little Andy Rooney-esque rant on wired: [ LINK ]. It ends with a good line: "The world is noisy enough without adding ...
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2005-10-18

"Where's the beef?" ( or "Why vegetarians are just better people")

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This is again off topic, but interesting in a tangential sort of way. It does seem like I've gone away from climate-related posts more a...
2005-10-07

Tropical cyclone Stan

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It was easy to miss the category 1 hurricane that made landfall in Central America a few days ago, mostly because the media in the USA doesn...
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2005-10-06

Look out, even the cowboys are starting to believe

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This post doesn't really have much content, since the story was already covered here, but a little website called YubaNet.com has a stor...
2005-09-30

Germans are on board!

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A lot of news stories are starting to come out referencing studies going into the next IPCC assessment of climate. This is the same report t...

Browsers browsers everywhere

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I never know what browser to use. I don't use MSIE. Not just because I don't use any MS products (really, not even Office... can you...
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2005-09-21

The King Mum speaks...

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So you've probably seen this already, but you just have to read the quotes by Barbara Bush: [ LINK ]. I won't make comments, as it i...
2005-09-20

NCPA full of poop

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Just a heads up to everyone: The "National Center for Policy Analysis" is a right-wing, pro-big-business propoganda machine. It i...

Time for Plan B.... Jesus does abortions

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Ouch, that is a rough headline. Chris Mooney [ LINK ] has an op-ed in the LATimes today [ LINK ] about the FDA railroading science to instea...
2005-09-19

Again with the cyclones

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The current issue of Science has an article about tropical cyclones in a warming world. It can be found on the Science site [ LINK ], or on ...
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thinking ahead

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I hope the developers of this resort [ LINK ] have taken sea-level rise into account. Otherwise, the whole thing will be under water in 50-1...

word verification activated

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Because of the increasing number of spam comments on this blog, I've activated the word verification system provided by blogger. This wi...

Moon stuff

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A story in The Register [ LINK ] (and a lot of other new sources today) reports NASA is about to "lay out its plans" to send astro...
2005-09-14

Paradise lost.... and gone forever?

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Today we can take a break from worrying about humans causing climate change. Instead, let's take a look at humans poisoning themselves a...
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2005-09-08

why google is still going strong

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Because they hire "the father of the internet" to a made up position called Chief Internetevangelist [ LINK ].
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2005-09-05

FEMA article

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A story in the LATimes [ LINK ] by Peter G. Gosselin and Alan C. Miller tries to blame changes in Washington, D.C. beauracracy for deemphasi...

Taking responsibility for the safety of the populace

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On Weather Underground (wunderground.com), Dr. Jeff Masters writes a short piece on the politics of natural disaster preparedness [ LINK ]. ...
2005-09-01

Gerard Baker rips us a new one

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Gerard Baker writes in TimeOnline.co.uk, "the intellectual looters have busied themselves with plundering half-truths and false analyse...
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Too much to cover.... a long post today

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I know, I know, the western front has been quiet all too long. In fact, I've had two failed posts recently, and never corrected the prob...
2005-08-11

the troposphere, captain, she's WARMING

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Honestly, I didn't know there was any real controversy about whether the tropospheric temperature was rising or not. I'm sure I'...