Posts by Russell Brown
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Oh hell, I feel compelled to join in. I need to propose this for Word of the Decade:
Data
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Hard News: Environmental league tables…, in reply to Nathaniel Wilson,
This isn’t to say it isn’t worth striving to improve things. Just that we should be focused on what we’re doing on a local level, and not how we compare to Burundi or whereever.
Which is pretty much the conclusion of the post.
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Hard News: Environmental league tables…, in reply to Nathaniel Wilson,
There’s no shift – the indices are different (our number 2012 is based on a 2010 number and hasn’t changed between 2000 and 2010 apparently).
In short these indices are a mess, which isn’t that surprising
Thanks. I did try and reconcile that but I couldn’t see it. I've annotated the original post with your comment.
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Nice column by Dave Armstrong on the whole affair.
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Just FYI, I've revisited the original topic with links to Saturday's Media3 show and a look at Mike Dickison's critique of Mike Joy's use of the PLoS One study.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Summer Live, in reply to Mike O'Connell,
The old Smith’s second hand bookshop from Manchester St (a place I imagine Russell spent many hours trawling through on his visits south!)
Not enough hours, really. I'm stoked to hear it has a new home.
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to richard,
I suspect this comes under the heading of feeding the trolls.
Yes.
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Farmer Green,
The globally averaged surface temperature peaked in 1998, and has been on a slight downward trend since then.
Anyone who makes that argument basically disqualifies themselves. It only works if you start your series in 1998. Start it in, say, 1970, and see how your graph looks.
And this ...
However , the science of climate is far from being exhaustive, and the reliable observations too few to make definitive statements about trends.
Is just complete nonsense.
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Farmer Green,
I’d be happy to do that , but it is quite a big effort , which you could easily make yourself . It would involve discovering the present state of climate science, considering all sides of the arguments , and arriving at the only justifiable conclusion. All the science is available ; open minds are hard to find.
I am not a scientist, let alone an active climate researcher. But I have a reasonable idea as to who is, and where I can discover reliable information on the state of the science. I'm in no doubt whatsoever as to the fact of anthropogenic global warming.
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Rod Snowdon,
Way back then I remember arguing that the perceived or real threat of GMOs to New Zealand’s clean green image was nothing compared to the very real and present threat posed by New Zealanders’ personal and collective lack of environmental conservation sense.
True. And there has been both some progress and some major movement in the other direction since.