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Archive for December, 2011
Clark: Energy resources and the future
Posted: December 31, 2011 by tallbloke in Carbon cycle, climate, Energy, Philosophy, PoliticsThis guest post is from Clark. My thanks to him for the time he has taken to draw together the material which has guided his argumentation regarding the issues around energy resources. Clark debates strongly, fairly and politely, so let’s return the compliment. Try not to swamp him, and be patient for replies – I [...]
Brace! Brace! : NYT article by Leslie Kaufman incoming!
Posted: December 30, 2011 by tallbloke in solar system dynamicsHi Leslie, Thanks for running this past me before publication. There are a few incorrect details plus a couple of omissions which I’ll address below. I have also added a short personal statement. – Thanks. 1) Your full name is Roger Tattersalll – Two ll’s at the end, not three. 2) you are trained as [...]
I got an email from Norfolk Police yesterday saying they have finished examining our laptop computers and asking if they could return them today. I ‘phoned back as requested and had a genial chat with the Detective Constable handling the handover. He is on the road now and says he should arrive around mid day [...]
Christopher Booker: Climate Consensus Confusion
Posted: December 29, 2011 by tallbloke in atmosphere, climate, Incompetence, media, PoliticsH/T Adolfo Giurfa for alerting me to this broadside from Booker in the Mail on Sunday online from earlier this year, which seems apropos at the moment. Global warming? A new ice age? The only certainty is that YOU’RE paying for the hysteria of our politicians By Christopher Booker Who would possibly have thought it? [...]
It has been an exciting and eventful year at The Talkshop. This is reflected in the site stats, which show strong increases in traffic, especially around the Lisbon conference back in January, the scientific work done mid year and obviously Climategate 2 and the aftermath. I want to emphasise though that it is the solid [...]
Unified Theory of Climate, Nikolov and Zeller
Posted: December 28, 2011 by tchannon in Astrophysics, atmosphere, climate, Geomagnetism, Ice ages, Solar physics, solar system dynamicsUnified Theory of Climate Expanding the Concept of Atmospheric Greenhouse Effect Using Thermodynamic Principles: Implications for Predicting Future Climate Change Ned Nikolov, Ph.D. & Karl Zeller, Ph.D. USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fort Collins CO, USA Abstract We present results from a new critical review of the atmospheric Greenhouse (GH) concept. Three main problems are [...]
Climate realism: Tallbloke style
Posted: December 28, 2011 by tallbloke in climate, solar system dynamics, Philosophy, Politics, flames, Ocean dynamics, atmosphere, Geomagnetism, Incompetence, Ice ages, Carbon cycle, media, KindnessMost of the heavy lifting regarding the maintenance of the atmospheric balance is done by the tiny aerobic organisms and flora which collectively outweigh the human population and the fossil fuel it digs up by many orders of magnitude. They have been around several billions of years and are not going away anytime soon. Various [...]
Image of solar FE XIV spectral line emission courtesty of the work of Richard C Altrock, at AFRL.
Thanks to the marvelous generosity and support received following the seizure of my computers by the Norfolk Police acting in collaboration with the NDET and the MET I have been able to make some progress on the legal front, with high quality and friendly-priced qualified legal assistance from my fellow climateer Stephen Wilde of Wilde [...]
