A couple of weeks ago, I added the WP-ShortStat plugin (props – it’s cool) to my Word Press installation for grins, and I now have a much clearer picture of where y’all are coming from. Google is, as one would expect, the king of the refer. Aside from that, it seems to be the climate-politics …
Down near the end of a long and ultimately tedious* comment thread over on Prometheus, Gavin Schmidt offered an incredibly useful little gem today. As I’ve written before, “paleoclimate and future projections on a regional scale are critical.” This is one of the reasons I’ve been so interested in the argument Roger Pielke Sr. makes …
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In a convergence of two topics near and dear to my journalistic heart, the Independent reports “Blair to give his blessing to new nuclear reactors as only way to cut emissions” Tony Blair is ready to give a new generation of nuclear power stations the go-ahead, Downing Street hinted last night. His expert on the …
Apparently I shouldn’t have been so quick to believe the tin foil hat study. Zapatopi suggests things may not be as they appear: There are serious flaws in this study, not the least of which is a complete mischaracterization of the process of psychotronic mind control. I theorize that the study is, in fact, NWO …
An amusing comment today from Roger Pielke Jr. about his experience as ringmaster of an on line debate over the relevance of the hockey stick climate reconstruction, placing himself squarely between warring tribes as he tried (with some success, I thought) to spark a useful discussion. I found it amusing to find myself being attacked …
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A new paper by Jian Lu and Thomas Delworth argues tentatively for a link between greenhouse warming and drought in the Sahel.(Lu and Delworth, 2005) This matters, of course, far more than my usual hobbyhorse of drought in the southwestern U.S. Here when our water supplies run low because of drought, we suffer economic dislocation. …
Via Luis, Matt Asay discusses the King James Bible and free/open software. Until William Tyndale created his English translation, the Bible was Latin, the province of the priests (and even many of them only had access intermediated by the church): By making “public” the Bible, Tyndale enabled lay readers to discover Christianity for themselves, unmitigated …
Irony upon ironies. Ed Felten reports on the evidence that Sony’s profoundly troubling digital rights management software includes code from a number of GPL and LGPL programs. (It goes without saying that the programs do not comply with the GPL/LGPL.) In other words, the industry giant self-righteously arguing against the theft of intellectual property has …
I’m in the midst of Chris Mooney’s book, and I must admit that while I think he has assembled a masterful catalog of science misuse, the discomfort I’ve felt about his thesis remains – that the Right is not alone in its misuse of science and any useful discussion of the issue needs to recognize …
It’s difficult to tell the difference between Sadie’s “cat in the front yard” bark and her “Jehovah’s Witness in the front yard” bark. They are both quite vehement.