I stumbled today on Kim Hannula’s delightful blog, in particular her post about hiking with her four-year-old son: He pointed to something that looked like white hairs on an over-excited yeti. Fibrous ice crystals, holding up pebbles and leaves and bits of frozen dirt. Every shadowed spot was covered with them, when we stopped and …
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So how do “they” know that the climate change we’re seeing is caused by people? There is no big “aha” smoking gun here, which is why the Nobel for the IPCC’s scientists is so appropriate. Our understanding is based on a long and laborious accumulation of little bits of science. Let me cite a single …
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Watercrunch details the imminent drying of Atlanta. It’s worth remembering here that, as opposed to sub-Saharan Africa, likely no one will starve to death in Georgia. But it’s still a quite extraordinary situation: The thought of a huge city the size of Atlanta running out of water sounds apocalyptic in our age of progress.
Trying to download a section of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s report this morning, I’m getting a “server busy” message. One might argue that, from the perspective of getting one’s message out to the world, winning a Nobel Peace Prize is a good thing. Of course, it might just be a coincidence.
New Mexican Wins Nobel Peace Prize
There seems little point in commenting here about the Al Gore-Mr. Justice Burton kerfuffle, given that a) everyone who comes here and cares about climate issues already knows all about it, and b) everyone who comes here and cares about climate issues has already made up their mind about its significance. But since I’ll lose …
More evidence that David’s back: Quark Soup’s monthly global temperature report. Tim Ball still wrong.
People looking for information on the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine should go here.
Via Michael Tobis, I see that Quark Soup, the first sciency blog I ever read and always one of my favorites, is back.
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 …