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Category Archives: Climate
Surveying Some Scientific Publications
So, some guys did a study on who are the top names in climate sciences, by how many publications and how many cites they have etc.. They also looked at what published petitions people had signed so they could have … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, idiocracy
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Betting on 400 PPM CO2
Well, not real money. But Atmoz is discussing about when it will be reached with commenters. My bet is march 2018, though if you use woodfortrees to visualize, straight extrapolation seems to predict before 2015 already, for the northern hemisphere … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Demotivation, Humor, Motivation, Science Links, Thorium, Uncategorized
Tagged 400 PPM, co2, woodfortrees
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Local is not Global
Some people in the blue islets say and have been saying it’s been cold. It has been, locally, in the US, Europe and Siberia. But globally averaged, January 2010 was warm. At least according to this data. They’ll be checking it … Continue reading
Hollandgate, potentially
BEGIN EDIT: I think I misread the Britannica part. Netherlands has half of it’s area highly developed and half of that highly developed area is low lying, so a quarter of the total. END EDIT The Netherlands is an example … Continue reading
Climategategate
A big setback for the Michael Mann smear campaign. Here‘s the science relevance context, the subject area Mann has worked on, temps in the 1000 year timescale. While some others work on instrumental records, say last 100 or 200 years, some … Continue reading
Why Bullshit Often Sounds Better Than The Real Thing
From all places, a libertarian, who is arguing for laymen to trust experts. Come to think of it, there’s a certain class of rhetoric I’m going to call the “one way hash” argument. and The talking point on one side … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, idiocracy, Motivation, Science Links
Tagged Julian Sanchez, Libertarian, one way hash
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Gate N
This time seems a sloppy reference to Amazon droughts in IPCC AR4 WG2 that turns out to be correct in the end. Scruffy Dan: Sounds, like the same type of issue as the Himalayan glacier error, citing the grey-literature, rather than … Continue reading
Basics of Many Climate Concepts
Robert Grumbine examines them in many of his recent posts. This might be good for engineers and physicists from other fields trying to get the basics.
Glaciologists on Himalaya
However, the oft quoted the Himalayan glacier may be gone by 2035 is still not a realistic conclusion based on the recent ongoing significant retreat of the many still large Himalayan glaciers. Glaciologist Mauri Pelto commenting in November 2009. What’s … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Demotivation, Journalism, Motivation, Nature, Science Links
Tagged 2035, Glacier, Himalaya, Mauri Pelto, Pelto
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