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Rachel Squirrel- Clarkson’s Farm: a review
- Lucy Letby: did she get a fair trial?
- When every child gets a trophy except for one
- What happened to the Green party?
- Elizabeth dancing the Highland Laddie
- Lost Loch Distillery and standing stones
- Getting out of bed for berry compote
- Pigeon rescue, St Andrews, Rufflets, and antique lecture notes
- Meet Howard the highland cow, crochet animal head
- Elizabeth, litterers, chocolate, Easter
- Rabett Run
- Alex Tabarrock and Argumentum ad Flubberum
- Brian's new gig
- Something left unsaid about Koutsoyiannis et al.
- "A Left That Refuses to Condemn Mass Murder Is Doomed"
- Well, crud
- Don't trifle with judges, Montana edition
- Which Came First or Beyond Correlation
- Gasoline consumption, California and USA
- Sea level rise came first for the Vikings, now it's coming for you
- What do physicists want?
- 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- The 10th anniversary of the still unpublished Watts et al.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
- Unforced Variations: May 2024
- Much ado about acceleration
- Unforced variations: Apr 2024
- More solar shenanigans*
- Unforced variations: March 2024
- New study suggests the Atlantic overturning circulation AMOC “is on tipping course”
- Unforced variations: Feb 2024
- Spencer’s Shenanigans
- Not just another dot on the graph? Part II
- Not just another dot on the graph?
- Open Mind
- Climate denial crock of the week
- NBC: Sugar Caine Concrete Could be Sweet Climate Solution
- Wind Tech is the Nation’s Hottest Job
- Houston Recovery Will Take Weeks
- Houston Aftermath Stunning
- DW: This Year’s Extremes Linked to Climate Change
- Farmers Under Increased Stress. Renewables are the Answer
- Can Clean Energy Stave Off Pollinator Population Crash?
- Climate Catastrophe Animal Vid of the Week: Houston Storms Displace Wildlife
- Houston Cleans Up: WSJ Footage Shows Aftermath
- Houston’s Mayor: 4 Dead. Stay Home. It’s Going to be a Long Night.
- robertscribbler
- OBX Wave Report July 6 — 1-2 Foot, Waves Likely to Build a Bit Friday and Saturday
- The OBX Wave Report July 5 — 1-2 Foot With Some Shark Bumps Reported
- OBX Wave Report July 4th — Celebrating Freedom in the 2 Foot Surf
- OBX Wave Report July 3 — 2 Foot, Clean, Hot Weather
- OBX Wave Report July 2 — 2-3 Foot With Little Barrels + Talking Climate Crisis
- OBX Wave Report June 30 — 2-4 Foot Friday For Future + Record Global Heat
- OBX Wave Report June 29 — Gorgeous Green 2-3 Footers With Light Northeast Winds
- OBX Wave Report June 28 — 2-3 Foot and Semi-Clean
- OBX Wave Report June 27 — 1-3 Foot and Cleaning Up Through Afternoon
- OBX Wave Report June 26 — 1-3 Foot and Choppy With Strong Southerly Winds
- Moyhu
- GISS April global temperature down by 0.07°C from March.
- April global surface TempLS down 0.004°C from March, but still warmest April in record.
- GISS March global temperature down by 0.05°C from February.
- March global surface TempLS down 0.11°C from February, but still warmest March in record.
- GISS February global temperature up by 0.22°C from January.
- February global surface TempLS up 0.163°C from January; warmest February in record.
- GISS January global temperature down by 0.14°C from December.
- January global surface TempLS down 0.165°C from December, but still warmest January in record.
- GISS December global temperature down by 0.06°C from November.
- Graphics to show magnitude of 2023 warming.
- 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
- Vallance vs Vallance vs SAGE: Edmunds’ view
- Vallance vs Vallance vs SAGE: Letter to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry
- Vallance vs Vallance vs SAGE: Why does doubling time matter?
- Vallance vs Vallance vs SAGE: Introduction
- UK Covid-19 Inquiry: Module 2
- UK Covid-19 Inquiry
- Retired
- No comment necessary
- Chess
- BlueSkiesResearch.org.uk: EGU 2022 – how cold was the LGM (again)?
- 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
- Open Letter: We reject the absurd QS/THE World University Rankings
- University World Rankings: How Low Can We Go?
- How offensive is the UCU?
- Clarification from UKRI on salary deductions
- Stretched Beyond The Limits
- 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
Monthly Archives: November 2019
Tipping points/elements
There has been quite lot of discussion recently about climate tipping points, or tipping elements. It’s mostly motivated by a recent Nature comment suggesting that Climate tipping points [are] too risky to bet against. The suggestion is that some the … Continue reading
Methane
I’ve always been a little confused as to why so much attention is paid to methane emissions. It’s short-lived, so isn’t it maybe somewhat less important that CO2 emissions, which are long-lived? One reason it is quite prominent is because … Continue reading
Science and Technology Studies Podcast
I’ve been trying to listen to more podcasts, and came across a new one that might be of interest to my readers. It’s called The Received Wisdom with Shobita Parthasarathy and Jack Stilgoe. Both are researchers in Science and Technology … Continue reading
Climategate
Climategate is a topic I’ve rarely discussed on this blog. Mostly because it’s clear that it’s not possible to have a constructive discussion with those who have different views about its significance. However, since I watched the BBC show about … Continue reading
Science is a messy process
I was invited to speak at a Contemporary Climate meeting in Edinburgh’s School of Geosciences. It was really nice to talk face-to-face with people about some of the topics I find interesting. We covered aspects of blogging and social media, … Continue reading
Contrarian Models
We need better ClimateBall contrarians. Perhaps they need better contrarian role models. Let’s find them, if only for our own sake. Here are five of mine. Fred Rogers was a TV show producer, a comedian, an author, a puppeteer, a … Continue reading
Posted in ClimateBall, Contrarian Matrix, Freedom Fighters
Tagged Agnes Callard, Alice Dreger, birdpunks, Contrarian Prize, Fred Rogers, Tomas Crowther
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Depolarising the debate?
I’ve always been a little puzzled by the (mostly) social scientists who seem to argue that to develop effective climate policy we should stop using labels, be depolarizing the debate, and should prioritise civil disagreements. It’s not that I object … Continue reading
Journalistic norms for bloggers
I thought I would quickly advertise a recent paper called ““The truth is not in the middle”: Journalistic norms of climate change bloggers. It’s by Christel van Eck, Bob Mulder, and Art DeWulf, who are also involved in the survey … Continue reading
...and Then There's Physics 