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Rachel Squirrel- Rabett Run
- Gasoline consumption, California and USA
- Sea level rise came first for the Vikings, now it's coming for you
- What do physicists want?
- Look Who's Fighting Ocean Acidification
- The My Pillowfication of Twitter
- Posturing
- More Hydrogen Less Methane about the Same HO
- Empathy and denialism
- Give a Man a Solar Lamp
- Eli Rabett's Simple Plan to Relieve the Burdens of Student Loans
- HotWhopper
- The last 10 years are the hottest ever, yet deniers are still in denial
- Victor Venema, climate scientist, valued friend to many
- Email went down, now it's back
- We've got to get serious about climate, we've wasted too much time
- Alert for HotWhopper email subscribers to resubscribe
- Beware of internal conflicts, rivalries and toxic behaviour polluting climate action
- Where to from here?
- Everything climate disinformation from the climate conspiracy-theorists at WattsUpWithThat
- Rating climate science deniers to decide how/if to engage
- Greetings of the season, happy hols, stay safe
- Variable Variability
- One more reason I dislike linking climate change and extinction
- The 10th anniversary of the still unpublished Watts et al. (2012) manuscript
- New German Sovereign Tech Fund will fund open source digital infrastructure to avert the next log4j
- We launched a new group to promote the translation of the scientific literature
- The confusing politics behind John Stossel asking Are We Doomed?
- Antigen rapid tests much less effective for screening than previously thought according to top German virologist Drosten
- New paper: Spanish and German climatologists on how to remove errors from observed climate trends
- Yes, it makes sense not to have diner parties while the schools are still open. Think of it as a Corona contact budget.
- Science Feedback on Steroids
- The deleted chapter of the WMO Guidance on the homogenisation of climate station data
- RealClimate
- Turning a new page[s]
- Unforced Variations: Jun 2023
- Evaluation of GCM simulations with a regional focus.
- CMIP6: Not-so-sudden stratospheric cooling
- Unforced variations: May 2023
- A NOAA-STAR dataset is born…
- The summary for policymakers of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change sixth assessment reports synthesis
- Unforced Variations: Apr 2023
- Some new CMIP6 MSU comparisons
- How not to science
- Open Mind
- Climate denial crock of the week
- “Apocalyptic” Skies as Wildfires Smoke Spreads
- Raise Your Hand if You Knew the Gray Skies, Red Sun, and Asthma Attacks were All Part of Climate Change
- Ethanol Running Out of Gas
- Smokey the Unbearable: Tree Plantations Fueling Wildfires
- Mask Up Again: Wildfire Smoke Casts Pall over Eastern North America
- Complete Series: Farmers Under Attack for Supporting Clean Energy
- Transmission is the Biggest Barrier to Clean Energy
- Not Just the West – Wildfire Smoke Impacting Midwest, East Coast. What are Health Impacts?
- Alps Glaciers Retreat in Shocking Time Lapse
- Climate Walloping Wallets World Wide
- robertscribbler
- OBX Wave Report June 6 — 2-3 Foot on Another Gorgeous Day
- OBX Wave Report June 5 — 2-4 Foot on a Beautiful Day
- OBX Wave Report June 4 — 4-8 Foot With Better Conditions on the Way
- OBX Wave Report June 3 — 1-4 Foot With Another Storm on the Way
- OBX Wave Report June 2 — 2-4 Foot and a Tropical Fizzle
- Leveling Up With Surfing Pumps
- OBX Wave Report June 1 — 2-4 Foot + A Gulf Tropical Depression
- OBX Wave Report May 31 — Stormy With a Slight Chance of Cyclone
- OBX Wave Report May 30 — Fun and Frothy
- OBX Wave Report May 29 — Memorial Day Surfing at Shell Island
- Moyhu
- May global surface TempLS down 0.028°C from April.
- GISS April global temperature down by 0.2°C from March.
- April global surface TempLS down 0.158°C from March.
- Hourly modelling of conversion of USA48 to wind/solar, with costing and optimisation - Updated.
- GISS March global temperature up by 0.23°C from February.
- March global surface TempLS up 0.229°C from February.
- CFACT says Net Zero is impossible? Debunked.
- GISS February global temperature up by 0.11°C from January.
- February global surface TempLS up 0.093°C from January.
- GISS January global temperature up by 0.06°C from December.
- Real Sceptic
- Choosing Alternative Medicine To Treat Cancer Is Deadly
- Why We Became Scientists: Dunderhead
- AGU Fall Meeting Day 1 – Education And Science Outreach
- San Francisco Meet Up & AGU Fall Meeting
- The Big Pharma Cancer Conspiracy
- Activity Trackers Aren’t A Weight Loss Miracle Cure
- Brexit: Emotions Trumped Facts During UK’s Referendum
- Devastating Reply To Richard Tol’s Nonsensus In Peer-Reviewed Journal
- How to hide most of China’s coal consumption
- Willie Soon’s Deliverables
- Musings on Quantitative Palaeoecology
- Resampling Assemblage Counts
- A demo targets plan for reproducible pipelines for Neotoma data
- Reproducibility of high resolution reconstruction – one year on
- Simplistic and Dangerous Models
- COVID-19, climate and the plague of preprints
- Erroneous information … was given
- Making a pollen diagram from Neotoma
- Count sums – the preprint
- Count-less chironomids?
- Tools for a reproducible manuscript
- James’s Empty Blog
- More than just data
- EGU 2022: Back in person
- vEGU2021: A “zoom” into science
- Digital conferences – how might they work?
- EGU 2020: A “chatty” conference
- Post-processing paper background: Do we need new approaches in verification?
- Post-processing paper background: EMD and IQD? What is it about?
- Post-processing paper background: Why do we need verification with uncertain observations?
- Post-processing paper background: Why does sub-sampling work?
- Post-processing paper background: What is sub-sampling?
- Background to “Seasonal statistical-dynamical prediction of the North Atlantic Oscillation by probabilistic post-processing and its evaluation”
- Mallemaroking
- A comment piece on the SROCC
- Hudson Bay is breaking up early
- A trillion tonnes of ice on the move: Iceberg A68A
- Venta Maersk and the Northern Sea Route
- North Water Polynya in Nares Strait is opening
- Iceberg A38 at South Georgia in 2004
- Iceberg A68: You can’t always get what you want
- The Weddell Polynya to 23 November 2017
- Antarctic sea ice November 2017
- Rydberg Peninsula polynya October 2017
- Symptons of the Universe
- Quantum Mechanix
- Quantum Mechanics and Mystics: Who Wooed Whom?
- PhD opening in Nottingham Nanoscience Group: AI & Atoms
- AI vs A-level
- Music by Ch@ – the artist formerly known as Chat GPT
- ChatGPT: Transforming Physics Education?
- Shut Up And Calculate
- When is a bird not a bird? When it’s a brand
- Postdoctoral research position available in Nottingham Nanoscience Group
- Sixty six and six months on, Maiden still a revelation
Monthly Archives: October 2018
A defense of science?
Susan highlighted a New York Times article about Bruno Latour, that I had actually seen and had been considering writing about. I have written about Bruno Latour before and I’m still not sure what to make of this article. One … Continue reading
Why do we do research?
I thought I would briefly comment a little more about the claims made in John McLean’s thesis. Something to bear in mind is why we do research. Essentially, research is very simply about trying to understand something; to answer some … Continue reading
John McLean, PhD?
A recent PhD thesis from James Cook University has been receiving a reasonable amount of attention on sites that either dispute anthropogenic global warming (AGW), or its significance (I won’t link to them, but you can probably find them if … Continue reading
Focusing too heavily on public mobilization and exposing denial?
I found an article by Matt Nisbet called The IPCC Report is a Wake Up Call for Scholars, Advocates, and Philanthropists. The underlying message in the article is We have focused too heavily on public mobilization and exposing denial, ignoring … Continue reading
THE GWPF’s annual lecture
Since I had nothing better to do with my afternoon, I watched the Global Warming Policy Foundation’s (GWPF) Annual Lecture, given this year by Richard Lindzen. If you really want to watch it, you can find the link here, but … Continue reading
The IPCC Special Report
I guess the big news at the moment, which is almost old news now, is the IPCC’s Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5oC. I’m not even all that sure what to say about it. It’s not presenting anything wildly … Continue reading
Ceci n’est pas un Sokal
Yet another hit piece by Freedom Fighters against “ideologically-motivated scholarship, radical skepticism and cultural constructivism.” Yascha Mounk called it Sokal Squared. On closer inspection, there’s no Sokal there. Inspired by Michael Lukas I contend it’s more of a Veritas scam. The Sokal epithet refers to perhaps the … Continue reading
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Climate impacts
Carbon brief has a very nice interactive report that show the impacts of climate change at 1.5C, 2C and beyond. It presents the various projected climatic, ecological, and economic changes on both global and regional scales. It is an impressive … Continue reading
Galactic electric currents vs nuclear fusion
In a Twitter discussion with Ned Nikolov, I discovered that some people believe that the Sun is powered by Galactic electric currents. I don’t even understand how this is meant to work, but that doesn’t really matter since it’s clearly … Continue reading
...and Then There's Physics 