Petermann Ice Island (2010) - The Mörner Version
The world of climate science according to wishful thinkers.
I was raised at the seaside. I lived through the 1953 floods which resulted from the North Sea storm surge.
Nils-Axel Mörner seems to have visited the seaside once or twice.
To Anthony Watts,
Letter before action in accordance with the rules of common law jurisdictions in general and of the English Civil Courts1 in particular.
In the general context of this letter, my use of the term 'you' shall be taken to mean, include and imply any or all of the persons Anthony Watts, Steve Goddard, Christopher Monckton and any other person who may have, at the relevant time, been responsible for the provision of main content or the administrative oversight of articles and / or comments unless the context hereunder clearly indicates otherwise.
Propaganda - An Application Of The Forgetting CurveLearning curves, forgetting curves, adjacency and the scientific roots of the black art of propaganda.
Zombies - A Public Policy Study
Found last night during a Google search for latest news about something entirely unrelated to this search result:
Night of the Living Wonks
Toward an international relations theory of zombies.
There are many sources of fear in world politics -- terrorist attacks, natural disasters, climate change, financial panic, nuclear proliferation, ethnic conflict, and so forth. Surveying the cultural zeitgeist, however, it is striking how an unnatural problem has become one of the fastest-growing concerns in international relations. I speak, of course, of zombies.
Arctic Ice August 2010 - Update #2Since I last posted an update, many things have happened in the Arctic and sub-Arctic.
In my last update -
Arctic Ice August 2010 - Update #1 - I noted that there were no floes in the main pack bigger than 35km2. I invited my readers to find a floe bigger than that anywhere in the main ice pack. Nobody did. Yes, there were a few bigger floes - even big enough to be called ice islands - but they were not in the main pack.