December 2009
26 posts
Sun sets on sceptics' solar case against #climate... →
“As the service started, dozens choristers from around the world carried three...”
– Bill McKibben at Copenhagen: I went to church and cried. Then I got back to work.
“Researchers and aquarium attendants tell tales of octopuses that have tormented...”
– Eric Scigliano, “Through the Eye of an Octopus”
“Back in the last century, the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair took “technological...”
– Marcy Darnovsky, “Biopolitics for the 21st Century”
Myth vs. Reality on the #Copenhagen Climate Summit →
Climate Data, and Lots of It
At this catalogue of publicly available climate data sets, models and modeling programs. In response to the “Where’s the data? Why’s it secret?” meme.
“Finally, we discuss evidence that current climate models systematically...”
– On the stability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation — PNAS
What A #Copenhagen Climate Treaty Might Look Like →
Anti-science groups funded by ExxonMobil hype... →
#Copenhagen analysis: Reaction of G77 to... →
Climate science: Sceptical about bias →
Copenhagen climate summit in disarray after text... →
Earth system analysis for sustainability →
Hacked E-mails and “Journalistic Tribalism” →
“There was no detectable difference in the total value of coins ingested, or...”
– Ingested foreign bodies and societal wealth: three year observational study of swallowed coins — Firth et al. 339: b5066 — BMJ
A Climate Scientist's Take on Climategate,...
In the immediate aftermath of the “Climategate” emails, many mainstream journalists — including some science writers who ought to have known better — blew the story. They didn’t understand what the messages referred to, or the culture of science. They treated as a “scandal” something that was mostly irrelevant. (The exception to this is Phil Jones’...
Spice flow: the new street drug pharmacology →
