Plus a bonus extra below the fold, “Bulldust, Oz Blogger Hero” (he should be beet red by now). The Australian Lectures by David Archibald David Archibald, July 8, 2010 Anthony…
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Seen in Sydney
A little over a week after the ousting of Kevin Rudd and the ascension of Julia Gillard to Prime Minister, I spotted this odd juxtaposition of new releases in a…
Badges? The "We don't need no stinking badges" contest
In case you don’t know the line above, lookup “Treasure of the Sierra Madre”. Here’s a YouTube clip of one of the most famous lines ever borrowed for parody use…
An Aggie Joke
By Steven Goddard [Update: See message from Professor North Below] Some well known Aggie Jokes: Did you hear about the Aggie who won a gold medal at the Olympics? He…
Scientists study shifting attitude to climate change
by Moshpit The hubris apparent in the notion that the climate is something we can control has found its match in the thought that climate scientists can now understand how…
Perfect place for a thermometer in Oz
I’m in Townsville, Queensland, Australia (a rather tropical place) on a speaking tour, and as I walked up to my hotel room I felt a wave of heat, and some…
Well, at least they didn't launch it at Roswell
When you think of NASA and crashes, you think of things like this: But, you usually don’t think about government balloon crashes being “dramatic”, unless of course it’s a balloon…
I may as well retire
Gosh, people send me stuff. Today I discovered a huge windfall. My friend and volunteer moderator DB Stealey sent me 100 TRILLION dollars in the mail today. Here’s a scan…
Cartoons by Josh
Bishop Hill has a cohort, Josh, that has turned Climategate and the blogospheric response into a running series of cartoons. During his blogging sabbatical while he turned his attention to…
Mister Mean Green
On this green St. Paddy’s day, finally, something that explains some of the operators of, and commenters on, some other blogs. Now, if I can just find some fair trade…
Wrong way econometricians
People send me stuff. This one reminds me of a famous wrong way: Hi Anthony Today we had some rumour in the Dutch media due to a paper by a…
Ultimate WMD: laser mosquito zapper
Who doesn’t hate mosquitoes? For centuries humans have had to endure this pest, and we started to win the war when DDT came out. Of course DDT isn’t allowed any…
Want to see Solar Cycle 24 develop in realtime? There's an app for that…
Thanks to John A for this noteworthy news item. Ok, this is for iPhone fanboys (and girls) in the main but NASA has just announced a new app for the…
Still better than the Met Office
Six more weeks of winter, Phil says Tuesday, February 02, 2010 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Gene J. Puskar/Associated Press Punxsutawney Phil is held by Ben Hughes after emerging this morning from his…
Polar bear forecast
From Ontario, evidence that above freezing weather may affect polar bear populations.
EU MPs get the message (an earful)
One thing about British politicians, they tend to deliver fiery speeches. Here’s one just like that. He must have had some experience with an MP bench position in London. This…
Choose a winner for the caption contest
This post, showing a photograph from Doug Mills of The New York Times generated over 1000 comments. To pick the best caption for this, I have a voting poll below.…
Anti-climactic irony – Copenhagen Climate Conference finale hit with snow and cold
From the “weather is not climate” department, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas… Hey, where is everybody? In related news, global warming protesters are gathering in large numbers…
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