Tim Ball Still Wrong
More evidence that David’s back: Quark Soup’s monthly global temperature report. Tim Ball still wrong.
Archive of entries posted on October 2007
Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine
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Quark Soup Back
Via Michael Tobis, I see that Quark Soup, the first sciency blog I ever read and always one of my favorites, is back.
On Consensus
Andrew Dessler has a great post today on the implications of the recent ozone chemistry discovery for the standard argument that science as an institution is uncomfortable with those who attack consensus: Overall, the idea that any scientific community is not interested in new ideas is ridiculous. Good new ideas are the fuel that science …
In Praise of the Urban Heat Island
Freeze warning for parts of the Albuquerque area tonight, but it looks like we’ll be OK: ALBUQUERQUE VALLEY LOCATIONS ARE EXPECTED TO SEE FROST CONDITIONS DEVELOP WITH TEMPERATURES RIGHT AROUND THE FREEZING MARK FOR 1 TO 2 HOURS. OTHER AREAS ACROSS THE CITY WILL SEE TEMPERATURES IN THE 30S BUT ABOVE THE 32 DEGREE MARK …
Daybook
water politics: Looks like Sophie and the guy with the steely set in his jaw are going to stop Caesar’s evil plot to steal groundwater to build subdivisions. water politics II: Looks like Sophie and the guy with the steely set in his jaw may need to head over to Arizona next. water politics III: …
I Guess This is One Way to Respond to Drought
From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: As northern Georgia suffers through a monumental drought and the toughest water restrictions ever imposed, Stone Mountain is using up to 38 gallons of water a minute — for 12 to 18 hours a day for the next month — to make snow. On the day Gov. Sonny Perdue took the …
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Daybook
reading: Tired of printing out PDF’s, I’m placing my order today for the IPCC Working Group I report paper of the day: “A Method of Approximating Rainfall over Long Periods and Some Results of its Application,” A.E. Douglass, Science, Jan. 3, 1913. Sorry, nothing to link here, you’ll just have to take my word for …