Archive for November 1st, 2009

More on Peak Oil

The recent Houston Chronicle op-ed, ostensibly written to respond to my New York Times op-ed, is worthy of reading for a variety of reasons, but primarily entertainment. The reference to me as

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Iron Controls Patterns Of Nitrogen Fixation In The Atlantic

Scientists have discovered that interactions between iron supply, transported through the atmosphere from deserts, and large-scale oceanic circulation control the availability of a crucial

Tom Fuller

I recently left a comment on Tom Fuller’s blog objecting to Fuller’s claim to be on the middle ground. If Fuller is in the middle ground, then so is Inhofe — they both think that

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Consolidated Links About Piers Corbyn’s Solar Weather Technique Conference

Nothing yet on www.weatheraction.com, but Piers Corbyn has sent via e-mail the following list of links about the Solar Weather Technique conference of Oct 28: ClimateRealists Andrew Orlowski, The

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Money is the key to the success of Copenhagen

You think it’s about greenhouse gases. You think it’s about carbon emissions. And it is. But the Copenhagen agreement on climate change that the world community will attempt to sign

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The unwanted equation: poverty vs climate change

The proposed Copenhagen climate treaty has plenty of jargon – “mitigation” and “adaptation” are two examples already given. But the key word may yet turn out to be

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In Their Own Words: The IPCC on Climate Feedbacks

Despite the fact that the magnitude of anthropogenic global warming depends mostly upon the strengths of feedbacks in the climate system, there is no known way to actually measure those feedbacks

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Rabett Run 2009-11-01 08:50:00

Keith Briffa REALLY RespondsKeith Briffa and Thomas Melvin have put up a comment on the use of the Yamal proxy records, and a response to McIntyre’s Yamal Follies, the conclusion of which

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Speaking of CO2

Let’s check out the latest trend in atmospheric carbon dioxide (C02) courtesy of NOAA. The chart shows the globally averaged atmospheric CO2 concentration averaged over marine surface sites.

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