2010-11-30

UN not putting mirrors in space

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An article in the Telegraph by Louise Gray carries the headline, "Cancun climate change summit: UN considers putting mirrors in space...
2010-11-24

Invitations to contribute chapters

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Yesterday I opened my email and found an invitation to contribute a chapter to a book on climate change. Huh? Yeah, reading through, it wasn...
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2010-11-11

Mass Extinction #6

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One of these days I should go back and take a look at the details of the first 5 mass extinctions. The last one was 65 million years ago, an...
2010-11-01

Coherence

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Just saw a post from a month ago on Skeptical Science [ LINK ] that makes an important point about so-called climate skeptics (aka climate c...
2010-10-25

The Whale Pump

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It's this kind of shit that makes oceanography so hard... whale shit, literally. A new study suggests (and does not prove) [ LINK ][ PLo...
2010-10-20

Coffee forests threatened by climate change impacts

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This is serious. At least superficially similar to the pine beetles infecting forests in the Rockies, there's a pest called the coffee b...
2010-10-19

Blame Cheney

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Well, at least a recent NYTimes editorial does: LINK , worth a read. It says that Cheney-style denialism of anthropogenic climate change is ...
2010-10-15

fancy words

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Okay, no peeking, is this a real or fake title for a paper (answer below): Enhanced ocean temperature forecast skills through 3-D super-en...
2010-10-14

Republicans, 2010 edition

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Wow... another article/study that I missed somehow: Republican hopefuls deny global warming This is from the Guardian, reporting results fr...
2010-10-13

Mann's op-ed in WaPo

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Somehow I missed Michael Mann's op-ed in the Washington Post last Friday [ LINK ]. It's short and to the point. He's worried abo...
2010-10-12

Can someone explain why West Virginia is still a state?

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See John Rudolf's NYTimes Blog post for a little additional backstory on this, though it is hardly even necessary.
2010-10-11

The Simpson's & Banksy collaborate

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In the absence of actual content, I submit entertainment: Banksy storyboarded the sequence. Via Laughing Squid via Daring Fireball .
2010-09-13

What if we just stopped doing things for the next couple decades?

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That's essentially the though experiment discussed by Davis et al. in last week's Science [ LINK ]. They tried to estimate what clim...
2010-09-07

Climategate hurt the reputation of climate science among TV meteorologists

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There's a forthcoming paper to appear in BAMS that reviews the results of a survey of credentialed TV meteorologists. The survey asks ab...
2010-08-26

What is the Higgs boson of climate research?

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That is essentially the question we ended the lunchtime meeting with today. What is a big question that needs to be answered definitively ...
2010-07-09

Muir Russell report is in, findings no surprise

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The independent report on "climategate" lead by Sir Muir Russell is in, and they find no major problems. The UEA official response...
2010-06-22

The Stanford Study

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DeSmogBlog covers a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: [ LINK ]. The study finds that "climate skeptics...
2010-06-16

Why make a point when you can just sound like you are?

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Just read an article on Reuters with the headline: Whale poo helps offset carbon footprint . Sometimes articles get stupid headlines because...
2010-06-15

Mike Wallace Symposium

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For those of you with interests in climate dynamics: http://www.atmos.washington.edu/wallacesymposium/
2010-06-14

Someday BibTeX's stranglehold will be broken

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But probably not by CrossTeX . I'd like to believe. Maybe if Donald Knuth starts using it... UPDATE: Also see biblatex and biber , ...