Only In It For The Gold

• Hansen Book

  Press release:
  STORMS OF MY GRANDCHILDREN

  The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity

  by James Hansen

  At the Copenhagen Climate Conference (December 7-18, 2009), one expected guest will be noticeably absent. Dr. James Hansen’s groundbreaking research on climate over [...]

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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 12:10pm EST
  

• Primate Change Denialism

  
  MONKEYS IN DENIAL
  
  H/T the infamous P Z Myers
  
  [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 11:00pm EST
  

• An Interesting Gripe

  Never one to shy away from sticking his neck out, Ray Pierrehumbert (aka Raypierre) has actually submitted a top level article to Dot Earth. Ray's follow-up comment is especially interesting.
  There is so much uninformed comment here I don't know where to begin. So many people are complaining [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 8:46am EST
  

• Fighting Bad Science

  One of the issues with how the UEA emails are perceived is whether the reader understands the context of the dubious pseudoscience and constant harassment the field faces. If you understand that, the emails are understandable and mostly excusable. If you don't, if you think that normal science is being' [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 10:25am EST
  

• On another front

  We'll return to climategate and its lessons shortly.
  
  Meanwhile, I know this is King of the Road bait, almost as much as if I'd mentioned Bill Maher, but James Kunstler starts the day making sense:
  I'm not one of the economists that Mr. Krugman talks to (nor am I' [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 10:09am EST
  

• For Science, Against Opposing Anti-Science

  Too long for the quote of the week, the following is quoted verbatim from "The Religious Case Against Belief" by James Carse. I think it reflects very clearly on the difficulties we are having. It is crucial that science not be cast as a "belief system", because that simply [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 12:46pm EST
  

• Viaduct? Vy not?

  Talk about playing "gotcha".
  Regular readers are likely to be aware of the release of a huge mass of illegally obtained emails among leading climate scientists of the observational stripe. RealClimate, I think, handled it nicely.
  
  A lot of attention is being placed on Phil Jones'
  Once Tim’s' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:20pm EST
  

• Mayhem-Bot

  
  
  [abstrusegoose.com] [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:04am EST
  

• Best Enviro Toon Ever!

  
  Easter Bunny Island is now available in livid color.
  
  Jobs, Not Tree! [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:28pm EST
  

• Melting Ohio Daily

  
  So this droll item, apparently unveiled by Jay Leno, is making the rounds, which makes it a perfect opportunity for an exercise with large numbers.
  
  Let's start with what we can glean about Enco's production in 1962. We can then compare it with [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 8:21pm EST
  

• Oy

  Snake eyes.
  
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 10:27pm EST
  

• Make the Invisible Visible

  We must make the invisible visible. We must make the vastness perceptible. We must make the alien familiar. We must make the implausible plausible. We have no other choice. [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 7:16pm EST
  

• Arctic Sea Ice

  
  
  
  SCARY GRAPH
  
  
  
  SOMEWHAT SCARY GRAPH
  
  
  
  MOSTLY NONSCARY GRAPH
  
  Scary plot from treehugger
  
  Less scary plot from NSIDC
  
  Non-scary plot from Meteorology News
  
  [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 7:03pm EST
  

• Deficit of Record Cold, Surfeit of Inexpertise

  
  Dot Earth reports
  Scientists sifting for trends in record high and low temperatures across the United States have found more evidence of long-term warming of the climate, with the biggest shift coming through a reduction in record low nighttime temperatures. That is a [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 4:19pm EST
  

• Nice Throbgoblin's Pieces

  
  Easter Bunny Island ("Jobs Not Tree!") remains my all time favorite of Throbgoblin's, but this one is certainly apropos:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  I'd prefer if Cantankerous Frank's expression of exasperation that appears at the end of each story could' [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 9:43am EST
  

• Very Slow News

  I've been casting about, recently, for how to express what I mean about the three kinds of non-delusional climate blogs, and what the difference between them might be, in such a way as not to make unnecessary enemies, but also to promote this kind of' [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 5:06pm EST
  

• Austin Streetscape

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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 4:17pm EST
  

• Cybernetics of Climate - Slides

  Here are the slides from the second time I've given a talk by this name.
  Update: This has generated enough interest that I will polish the slides and make them more legible and better able to stand alone. Meanwhile, I apologize in particular for the twice-digitized hand-drawn graphic,' [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 2:00pm EST
  

• Against Waxman-Markey

  A few months ago when some scientists, notably Jim Hansen, and less notably myself, were expressing doubts about cap-and-trade, the more politically active of our acquaintance were urging us to STFU, since we are presumed totally unrealistic about how Washington works. Notably it was David Roberts (in combination with the [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 2:43pm EST
  

• Troubled Transition

  Alex Steffen has made a very cogent complaint about the Transition movement. Although I remain a member of the Transition Austin group, I also remain frustrated at its stubborn attachment to small scales and romantic thinking.
  
  A particularly striking example of the problem (and of obtuseness regarding Steffen's' [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 10:52am EST
  

• Odd Concordance

  When Peggy Noonan [is.gd] and James H Kunstler [is.g] share an iconoclastic point of view it's worthy of note. It's not surprising that neither is happy with Obama, but it's surprising how similarly they express it.
  The most sophisticated Americans, experienced in how the country works on the' [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 7:39pm EST
  

• 'Tis not Mete. Or is it?

  Well, my dog food calculations went awry, as Richard Reiss pointed out in the comments. I slipped a digit.
  
  To recall, there have been recent allegations that having a dog does as much damage as driving a large SUV, on account of the carnivorous habits of the dog. [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 10:37pm EST