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- Anti-urban pro-suburban sprawl policy from Obama's FHA ??? about 6 hours ago from web
- Thoughts on developing better collective immunity to bullshit [blogged]: about 10 hours ago from web
- RT @ The video of the great Montreal bagel giveaway... about 12 hours ago from web
- No one should die because they cannot afford health care; no one should go broke because they get sick. RT if you agree. 2:26 PM Sep 4th from web
- RT @ via @ Seed Q&A w/ Stewart Brand on why traditional environmentalism won't fix Earth: Don't miss!10:59 PM Sep 3rd from web
- Fancy Fast Food. They aren't kidding, either. 5:13 PM Sep 3rd from web
- RT @ @ BP’s find, peak oil, and you [cold water on BP's new oil find] Good piece Lou!10:38 AM Sep 3rd from web
- @ Sorry to have a disagreement. I would like to know what you mean by accommodationism. See blog comments 11:32 PM Sep 1st from web
- Woohoo! 140 characters on the first try!6:31 PM Aug 28th from web
- There are advocates aplenty on both sides. What we need is a revitalization of communication between science and society. 6:31 PM Aug 28th from web
- @ thanks for DM; can't reciprocate unless you follow me. Watch your email for invite to mailing list. I blog here: 12:27 PM Aug 28th from web
- RT @ RT @: Twitter accounts every Austinite should know 11:46 AM Aug 28th from web
- @ no idea; report is not informative. Here is a good place to start on the carbon cycle perturbation issue: 8:58 AM Aug 27th from web
- Search SciAm for michael tobis, get offered "michael tobias". Search for "michael tobis" w quotes, get offered "michael biscuit".12:46 PM Aug 26th from web
- @ trying to find your article on "consensus" from SciAm site and failing. Search SciAm site for "george musser": interesting result.12:42 PM Aug 26th from web
- Searched for "george musser" on Scientificamerican.com & got: Your search ... resulted in 0 documents. Did you mean "category mosquito"?12:40 PM Aug 26th from web
- @'s twitter book may be the funniest single book ever published. Thanks for including me!11:09 AM Aug 25th from web
- RT @ It was so hot in Austin today I saw a dog chasin' a rabbit and they were both walkin'8:33 PM Aug 24th from web
- Ed Maibach talks in DC tomorrow re outreach. (via @) Wish somebody would blog it. 8:24 PM Aug 24th from web
- NYTimes editorial supporting national security arguments for restraining CO2 emissions h/t Joe Romm1:27 PM Aug 22nd from web
- @ nice comment re reporters & liberals; what about conservatives in your opinion?12:09 PM Aug 22nd from web
- RT @ Reporters and liberals are both advocates for their own epistemology.12:06 PM Aug 22nd from web
- No need to love Greenpeace (I don't) to be bothered by the echo chamber lie about them, started by a BBC interviewer 12:04 PM Aug 22nd from web
- Toxic discourse: Making mountains of molehills that don't even exist. Greenpeace Greenland kerfuffle blogged: 5:19 PM Aug 21st from web
- RT @ Geoff Styles defends tar sands pipeline 2:31 PM Aug 21st from web
- Evidence the science journal system is broken: "How to Publish a Scientific Comment in 1 2 3 Easy Steps" 3:51 PM Aug 20th from web
- Boycott of Whole Foods because you (and I) don't agree with Mackey's opinions is an ugly, polarizing idea. Blogged: 3:37 PM Aug 19th from web
- 13 national science academies joint stmt: essential world leaders agree on emission reductions h/t @ via email11:10 AM Aug 19th from web
- Brilliant, clear explanation by Tamino of the evidence in observational record supporting human-caused global warming 6:55 PM Aug 17th from web
- Big story @ Large Plumes of Methane Discovered Off Spitsbergen in Arctic Big, big badaboom story.11:14 AM Aug 17th from web
- RT @ healthcare system is individually moral and rational while systemically immoral and irrational-similar to many fucked systems1:30 AM Aug 17th from web
- thanks to @ for pointing to "James Fallows explains how the media enables liars" journalists take note PLEASE!2:18 AM Aug 16th from web
- I saw TX official tell a public meeting 8/7: TX natl gas prod'n has NEVER impacted groundwater, no need for feds. But !12:22 AM Aug 16th from web
- @ usually I agree but that was a ROFL moment for me2:27 PM Aug 15th from web in reply to PA32R
- Maher: Obama's B-ball said I'm urban & athletic & hip & a team player; golf says I like Lipitor and white collar crime. 2:04 PM Aug 15th from web
- @ I've never understood how y'all propose to run CO2 history in fast reverse. Is there a quantitative plan for getting from 400 to 350?2:44 PM Aug 14th from web
- Wonder why economically viable oil and gas fields are called "plays". e.g. People who get $ think it's all fun & games?1:15 PM Aug 14th from web
- @ : several errors of substance in your last linked article. Do you care whether what you link to is true?12:56 PM Aug 14th from web
- Web 2.0 for Planet 3.0? Requesting commentary on initiative to improve connections between science and society. 12:36 PM Aug 14th from web
- Saw perfect 4 ft wingspan hawk by my house! Cool huh? Small-house urban nbhd 3 mi from TX Capitol. Drought refugee I guess. 9:00 AM Aug 14th from web
- NYTimes tracks a false rumor to original lie. See, @ , it can be done, this is what we need on climate nonsense.12:33 AM Aug 14th from web
- Finally some spine from the media. CNN tells it like it is on ridiculous euthanasia story. Via TPM: 10:22 PM Aug 13th from web
- Healthcare & decline of discourse: Instead of arguments unrelated to reality, arguments that are the opposite of reality. 5:39 PM Aug 13th from web
- @ Lou! Thanks for the support! Conversation on the article has been vigorous & I'd welcome more input from you.5:33 PM Aug 13th from web
- @ second best would be if it backfired badly3:48 PM Aug 13th from web in reply to cmcavoy
- @ Obviously need tighter control of the meetings in case teabaggers show up, but my real preference is for them 2b civilized3:47 PM Aug 13th from web
- via @ good anti-MSM rant: "Serve the community. Don't publish crap. Tell folks stuff they might not want to hear."3:38 PM Aug 13th from web
- If disruptive tactics work as claimed in then public discourse on serious issues is only going to continue to decline.3:22 PM Aug 13th from web
- Very dangerous. USAToday: by 3-2 margin townhall protests make independents more sympathetic to bill opponents. 3:21 PM Aug 13th from web
- +1 RT @ Do academic journals pose a threat to the advancement of science? (also, fire the headline writer)10:52 AM Aug 13th from web
- RT @ reprints my "End-Times and the Anti-Morano" 10:48 AM Aug 13th from web
- Don't miss Lou Grinzo's response on my article at "Coordination is needed." Good thought.10:04 AM Aug 13th from web
- @ @ suggests I point you at Relevant to your panel. Wish I were there.9:52 AM Aug 13th from web
- re web2.0 vs propaganda Please see my blog at . Looking for a modestly funded way to contribute.9:48 AM Aug 13th from web
- @ They did claim they can recover and distill most water they use. Also claimed it is about 1% of TX water use, will stay under 5%9:43 AM Aug 13th from web
- @ Funny they didn't mention the benzene at the conference last week. Shale nat'l gas a big trend; needs attention.9:42 AM Aug 13th from web
- RT @ Water use for drilling & "fracing" active wells in the Barnett Shale equates to annual average water use for ~185,000 households9:41 AM Aug 13th from web
- To @ happy you found your laptop. Wish I could be at climate panel, as I ask relevant q's in my blog today. 9:40 AM Aug 13th from web
- Why are efforts to promote climate science over misinfo ineffective? What can be done? Can web 2.0 help? blogged: 12:22 AM Aug 13th from web
- The pythonista's complaint: RT @ I miss programming -- I was really hoping that would take longer5:58 PM Aug 12th from web
- @ is hosed . They are "aware and working on a fix right now".3:37 PM Aug 12th from web
- So who should print it? RT @ When citizens print money it's “counterfeiting”. When government prints money it’s “stimulating”.3:15 PM Aug 12th from web
- Glad Kloor thinks me thoughtful, but I don't welcome hordes of denialists on my blog; makes discussion redundant, dull. 2:34 PM Aug 12th from web
- Far as I know, the closest @ has ever come to acknowledging my existence (grumble): Interesting q at issue though.10:16 AM Aug 12th from web
- RT @ via @ TX Gov. Perry claims residency in two cities, may pay tax refund for homestead exemption in College Station.7:42 PM Aug 11th from web
- Mackey in WSJ: plausible alternative to D health bill. Why don't opposition go w that instead of lying and fearmongering? 7:40 PM Aug 11th from web
- RT @: @ on @: "To treat the market as nature...is to deny ourselves access to its ongoing redesign." 7:23 PM Aug 11th from web
- @ Um, why me on that MBA question?3:24 PM Aug 11th from web in reply to thingsbreak
- RT @ (& others): Loudest boos of @ when she says "I believe global warming is real." -> There's an alternate news universe.3:21 PM Aug 11th from web
- Cool. Picked up @ as follower! See several other worthies on their follow list. Nice place to look for serious earth science twitfolk.10:59 AM Aug 11th from web
- Hrynyshyn: Canadians recognize attacks on their health insurance system as fictitious. Can this help them understand climate denialism?3:06 PM Aug 10th from web
- James Hrynyshyn ("The Island of Doubt" blog) also notes similarity betw town-hall disrupters' & climate deniers' tactics 3:04 PM Aug 10th from web
- RT @ Doggett Bests the “Teabaggers” 2:40 PM Aug 10th from web
- Clim Depot spins a massive mirage of scientific contention re climate change. I gripe here: 2:12 PM Aug 10th from web
- @ I'll read whatever you submit & if I don't like it for blog I'll let you know. I only purge rude or stupid or insane or spam usually3:47 PM Aug 9th from web in reply to PA32R
- @ Wonder if you are paying for improved health care or for financial shenanigans in the home office in Connecticut?9:00 PM Aug 8th from web in reply to PA32R
- @ Ordinarily I'd advise show up at your congressman's town hall meeting to advance interests of small close-held employers. But...8:52 PM Aug 8th from web in reply to PA32R
- @ I read every comment w/ "Canad" in it. #3 is answered in #44 and #90. There are strong confounding factors in culture & econo8:33 PM Aug 8th from web in reply to PA32R
- @ "but is the point correct or incorrect": which point? ID comment no please.8:24 PM Aug 8th from web in reply to PA32R
- @ Looked. I guessed wrong. All the comments about Canada seem non-fake up to & including #96, which is the last one so far. Agree #90.8:22 PM Aug 8th from web
- @ 5 will get you 10 this writer is every bit as Canadian as "Leonard Euler" is a PhD and bill's "end of life consulting" is euthanasia.8:17 PM Aug 8th from web in reply to PA32R
- Always struck me odd how the US w/"benefits", supposed to be the most entrepreneurial society, penalizes risk, vs countries w/"health plan".8:12 PM Aug 8th from web
- Job related "benefits" a key cause of American decline. Ask GM, too.8:05 PM Aug 8th from web
- @ U don't know lots of smart, creative people holding onto disliked jobs better suited for younger people only to hang onto "benefits"?8:02 PM Aug 8th from web
- +1 Arthur Benjamin's formula for changing math education: short TED talk. h/t @7:06 PM Aug 8th from web
- RT @ Another reason to fix US health system -- current system blocks entrepreneurship among over-40 crowd 6:47 PM Aug 8th from web
- Some zen heroes rediscovered on Twitter @ @ @ @ @ @ @11:42 PM Aug 7th from web
- @ and @ yes, I mentioned Yudkowsky's singularity hangup in my blog homage , but he is wicked smart anyway.11:30 PM Aug 7th from web
- "Surrender to the truth as quickly as you can". RT @ "The Twelve Virtues of Rationality" by Eliezer Yudkowsky 11:01 PM Aug 7th from web
- I lost a complaining follower for burst of a dozen tweets this morning, but check what @ has come up with in the last hour!8:36 PM Aug 7th from web
- Swag bag has "clean coal technology for Texas" logo. Will have to keep it at worksite. Still. CCS had better work! Koonin says CCS or nukes.12:52 PM Aug 7th from Tweetie
- Geologist asks why CCS unrepresented in future net C emissions scenarios. Speakers ducked Q.12:49 PM Aug 7th from Tweetie
- Young S Asian woman says environmental imperialism charge is getting traction in developing countries. Koonin replies think global.12:48 PM Aug 7th from Tweetie
- Gleick like Koonin ends up at equity vs growth12:46 PM Aug 7th from Tweetie
- Human water needs not a scarcity problem but industrial and big ag demand reaching limits12:45 PM Aug 7th from Tweetie
- Water works largest energy consumer in California12:43 PM Aug 7th from Tweetie
- Saving the very poorest not a huge technical or financial problem just politics and will12:40 PM Aug 7th from Tweetie
- Peter Gleick tells similar water story. Globally 2 bn lack safe drinking ware and or sanitation. Meanwhile profligate use in west esp'ly USA12:39 PM Aug 7th from Tweetie
- Busines needs price predictability12:32 PM Aug 7th from Tweetie
- For CO2 go after stationary sources12:32 PM Aug 7th from Tweetie
- Battery tech crucial for transport12:31 PM Aug 7th from Tweetie
- Per capita oil imports $1k per cap per yr12:30 PM Aug 7th from Tweetie
- Greenhouse problem dominates non transport energy supply dominates transport. Koonin says think about these separately.12:29 PM Aug 7th from Tweetie
- Koonin doesn't think oil production will crash soon but most reserves in problematic countries. Oil issue is transportation.12:27 PM Aug 7th from Tweetie
- 2 bn people enrgy poor can't cook or light not expensive to fix12:25 PM Aug 7th from Tweetie
- If world consumes at present US level total consumption is 6x present without any further growth in US12:23 PM Aug 7th from Tweetie
- DOE undersec Koonin says 2 kinds of sustainability. 2nd kind is sustainability of US consuming more than others12:21 PM Aug 7th from Tweetie
- Waxman wants federal regs for this tech but TX commisioner (pleasant fellow speaking) opposed claims zero historical groundwater impact12:18 PM Aug 7th from Tweetie
- Energy water mtg: TX natural gas production new tech very promising except waste water disposal. Redistillation feasible12:15 PM Aug 7th from Tweetie
- Swiss town committed to pray for glacier retreat but program too successful. Petition Pope for polarity change on prayer4:52 PM Aug 6th from web
- RT @ stuff scientists tell me off the record suggest science is a much more human (fraught) enterprise than it appears from the outside.4:35 PM Aug 6th from web
- Quoth @ "Now it seems that a fact isn’t worth reporting unless someone is prepared to deny it." h/t @3:39 PM Aug 6th from web
- RT @ Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. - John Nichols7:02 PM Aug 5th from web
- Injecting noise into the political process as a tactic: 2:01 PM Aug 5th from web
- Ethan L.: "How long a project will take: 1.5 x (What it should take) ; if people with PhD's are involved, change the factor of 1.5 to 27."1:56 PM Aug 5th from web
- RT @ A libertarian socialist engineer solves the financial crisis 12:38 AM Aug 5th from web
- Free air olivine carbon sequestration shot down: requires ~ ton fine dust per per capita/year spread on beaches. :-(4:11 PM Aug 4th from web
- RT @ Warmest seas on record. 3:15 PM Aug 4th from web
- via @ Yglesias links to nice Guardian book review on "More Equal Societies do Better"10:07 PM Aug 3rd from web
- RT @ The CO2 Countdown Clock excellent idea from Lou Grinzo6:38 PM Aug 3rd from web
- RT @ RT @ : Canadian doc diagnoses U.S. (single payer advocated)11:31 AM Aug 3rd from web
- Are fish a nonnegligible factor in physical oceanography? Maybe! h/t @10:31 AM Aug 3rd from web
- @ I haven't the sightest idea what you are talking about11:36 PM Aug 1st from web
- Hottest calendar month in recorded history of Austin TX. Hey @ , equal time for warm anomalies? blogged: 6:25 PM Aug 1st from web
- The U.S. currently has enough surplus housing to put the entire population of the UK, with room left over for Israel according to @2:01 PM Aug 1st from web
- via @ : "The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century's frontier." 1:58 PM Aug 1st from web
- Why are anti-IPCC folk suddenly obsessed with satellite vs surface data? A completely bogus graph maybe reason. Blogged: 1:07 PM Aug 1st from web
- Rudy Baum, who told the truth about climate change, is no lefty. Thinks open access science is suspiciously socialistic. 12:16 PM Jul 30th from web
- @ says: If you believe climate mainstream, it is incoherent & immoral to act as if merely a clash of interests. 12:06 PM Jul 30th from web
- Editor of Chem + Eng News is in trouble for telling the truth about the climate debate. Blogged: 10:04 AM Jul 30th from web
- @ where do you get your non-facts? realclimate.org is a website, nothing more, and can't possibly predate the web.4:29 PM Jul 29th from web
- RT @ carries my End Times Thinking and the Locavore Fallacy (Thanks if u visit there & hit retweet link)11:23 AM Jul 29th from web
- Do energy price increases imply food supply localizes? No. Water becomes more local, so arid places import food. Blogged: 11:54 PM Jul 28th from web
- Obama: I got a letter the other day from a woman; she said, "I don’t want socialized medicine, and don’t touch my Medicare." (rt @ )10:36 PM Jul 28th from web
- @ 108 F in Eugene OR? Officially? Isn't that a bit unusual?10:06 PM Jul 28th from web
- @ Check SQLonRails 9:39 PM Jul 28th from web
- Open thread for @ and Muttleyphiles 4:33 PM Jul 28th from web
- @ Risking boring my subscribers, signing off. Take this up on my blog if you want.4:18 PM Jul 28th from web
- @ Sure, off the top of my head IPCC TAR WGI report cites Lindzen to my knowledge. 4:17 PM Jul 28th from web
- @ Spencer has challenged Hansen to a debate? Anyone who thinks a public debate is the place to resolve this is no scientist.4:00 PM Jul 28th from web
- @ Scientists have listened to them for 20 yrs. Mostly a waste of time. Most likely reason for consistent failure: they are wrong.3:54 PM Jul 28th from web
- @ I don't feel competent to advise Gore or compelled to defend him. I'm willing to discuss science w you, not politics.3:47 PM Jul 28th from web
- @ Hansen should not debate science with pseudoscientists. Scientists should not share stage w/ advocacy.3:44 PM Jul 28th from web
- @ people who put more faith in economics than in climatology should compare respective model fidelity to the real world.3:36 PM Jul 28th from web
- @ that's why all the groups supporting IPCC important; goes far beyond climatology. NAS, AAAS, Royal Soc have no horse in race.3:31 PM Jul 28th from web
- @ Stipulated. I concur: herd mentality is a risk w/ consensus. I apply it to economics. More mature sciences are less at risk.3:28 PM Jul 28th from web
- @ on the other hand 3:22 PM Jul 28th from web
- @ Thing 4: Success of climate models in reproducing existing climate is much too strong to be coincidental. 3:21 PM Jul 28th from web
- @ Thing 3: Climatology has some good near-complete datasets for last 50 years, extensive evidence on longer time scales.3:20 PM Jul 28th from web
- @ Thing 2: Many sciences not experimental: geology, ecology, astrophysics. Coherence tests remain possible, hypotheses may fail.3:17 PM Jul 28th from web
- @ Thing 1: Unlike climo, economics has no basis in physical science. Climo fundamentals are tested physics.3:15 PM Jul 28th from web
- Interesting memes show up in debates like this. Confusion of climatology w/ other disciplines a very common feature. Demand for "proof".3:04 PM Jul 28th from web
- like the other link @ rejects, contains links to huge majority of professional science orgs which back IPCC3:00 PM Jul 28th from web
- @ , but tweets, like blogs, are just one person's opinion, too. So why discuss at all? Let's let the AAAS decide the question.2:54 PM Jul 28th from web
- @ wants me to discuss as if that had something to do with climate science. It's some NYU geopolitics essay.2:48 PM Jul 28th from web
- @ DFID is an agency of the UK, not the UN. Blogs can have detailed reasoning, twitter not. I do not understand your restriction.2:25 PM Jul 28th from web
- @ "blogs don't help" but want to discuss on twitter? I'm confused. Thanks 4 white paper link, but diff betw white paper and blog?2:15 PM Jul 28th from web
- The fact that opposition to climate consensus is mostly "conservative" shows that the whole discussion is unhinged from evidence.8:40 AM Jul 28th from web
- Public wonders which are the real scientists, who is lying, who stands to benefit, where is the middle ground. Doesn't understand science.8:38 AM Jul 28th from web
- Questions among geophysicists at meetings, lunches: Anthropogenic climate change - how fast, how much, what are implications, how to avoid.8:36 AM Jul 28th from web
- Disbelief in climate consensus: explicit strategy decision by republican politicians documented at @8:35 AM Jul 28th from web
- Evidence of consensus on anthropogenic climate change for people who think there isn't one: attn @8:31 AM Jul 28th from web
- RT @ Dear future people: sorry 'bout our U.S. Congress + that whole "melting the ice caps" thing. Hope you like your new beaches!11:09 PM Jul 27th from web
- Irene read book, suggests a 3:1 ratio of happy:sad speech for mental health. I replied "Kittens, snowflakes, rainbows and we're all doomed!"10:34 PM Jul 27th from web
- Need an HVAC person in Austin. Any recommendations?3:02 PM Jul 26th from web
- RT @: More Americans are killed by cars when walking or biking than die b/c of drugs and violence. Where's the war on cars?12:31 AM Jul 26th from web
- @ If you thought I were misleading then that would be a reasonable conclusion. But I am not. The paper is not remotely coherent.10:48 PM Jul 24th from web
- @ Since the paper just came out yesterday,how could there be any contrary publications in the lit? No, just logic is all. Sorry.3:41 PM Jul 24th from web
- @ that is CNS News, not CBS News; something of a difference there.2:59 PM Jul 24th from web
- Is the anti-IPCC crowd making a revealing mistake embracing El Nino as cause of global warming paper? Yes. Blogged: 2:26 PM Jul 24th from web
- How will "it's the sun stupid" people respond to "it's El Nino" argument re warming. If scientific, they'll oppose; if political, embrace.1:12 PM Jul 24th from web
- RT @ "New peer-reviewed study links 80% of global temperature changes El Nino forces" (Yes but it's nonsense )1:10 PM Jul 24th from web
- My celebrity list: @ (Data on TNG. Or not?) A Twitter artiste. And @ brightens any feed. Ginger snap?12:12 PM Jul 24th from web
- @ Authenticating may prevent a faker from pretending to be you, but they'd better be really interesting or nobody will care.11:23 AM Jul 24th from web
- @ Shakespeare's plays weren't written by Shakespeare but by someone else with the same name.11:20 AM Jul 24th from web
- RT @ A little confusion is a good thing. 11:17 AM Jul 24th from web
- RT @ "Surprising Conclusions from Unsurprising Results" or "Why do Witches Burn?" 7:02 PM Jul 23rd from web
- @ OK, found it. But it isn't in the index of Departments.2:13 PM Jul 23rd from web
- RT @ "apologies, only in some parts of North Pacific @: RT Plastic outweighs plankton in ocean six-to-one." Still...12:20 PM Jul 23rd from web
- @ What happened to the Department of Energy? 12:19 PM Jul 23rd from web
- Let's play "spot the climate sciences"! 12:11 PM Jul 23rd from web
- Yikes! RT @ RT @ Plastic outweighs plankton in the ocean six-to-one. 11:56 AM Jul 23rd from web
- RT @ Lomborg, 1863: Mr. Lincoln's so-called "Emancipation" will improve global freedom by 0.3% while costing $ billions.11:05 PM Jul 22nd from web
- Climate science and monopsony: the conspiracy theory. Blogged: Think tanks? I need a drink, thanks.10:48 PM Jul 22nd from web
- A literate model in ? blogged: 1:31 PM Jul 22nd from web
- Water shortage reporting site "Circle of Blue": not sure about business model, but presentation model impresses me. 9:04 AM Jul 22nd from web
- Politics by fake flow chart: Any hope anybody will notice these charts represent exactly nothing?5:24 PM Jul 21st from web
- Gas $6.77/gal in Germany but daily life not so far beyond the pale of American experience as to frighten small children.4:56 PM Jul 21st from web
- RT @ "Schools foster climate illiteracy. " If this is the best we can do in OR, what will TX books say?9:57 AM Jul 20th from web
- People who are not from Quebec find this funny for some strange reason: 12:41 AM Jul 20th from web
- @ Boss humor. Heh. How many people would you assign that to? Seriously? Weird example. Corregio very cool though: 12:21 AM Jul 20th from web
- @ Document "Johnson said let's pay people not to work"? Doubt it. I have started to appreciate LBJ. But arguments are not for Twitter.12:11 AM Jul 20th from web
- @ Time we had an argument. I am good old fashioned big government tax & spend liberal. Many disagreements w/ your public transit link.12:05 AM Jul 20th from web
- It's such a shame the Great Society got forgotten. If it weren't for Viet Nam, maybe Texas would have led the world into a new prosperity.11:26 PM Jul 19th from web
- In a collapse Texas will look like Afghanistan so fast it'll spin your head. Overpopulated, armed, thirsty, mean religious fanatics.11:25 PM Jul 19th from web
- Liked e360:"The Limits of Climate Models" despite inevitable misrepresentation as showing no cause for concern about CO2. 9:43 PM Jul 19th from web
- @ you are two for two this weekend, thanks!9:31 PM Jul 18th from web
- RT @ Reversible transactions. A great idea for solving the financial crisis, inspired by recent Kindle news. 6:43 PM Jul 18th from web
- unix: is there a maximum directory nest depth? does this sequence of legal filenames terminate? ~/1 ~/1/2 ... ~/1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10/11 ...6:13 PM Jul 18th from web
- "Welcome to Canada!" says GOP snarkily, holding up a complicated chart. But what does that chart say? 1:46 PM Jul 18th from web
- RIP Walter Cronkite "Is patriotism simply agreeing unquestioningly with every action of one's government?" 12:17 AM Jul 18th from web
- RT @: High-ranking insurance PR flack defects, explains dirty tricks used to fight universal healthcare 12:02 AM Jul 18th from web
- @ (info technology) @ (urban planning) @ & @ (energy) @ (caffeine)11:50 PM Jul 17th from web
- Why scientists should tweet more, my version: 5:39 PM Jul 17th from web
- Anyone, what's the relaxation time constant for ocean acidification due to a CO2 perturbation? biogeochemistry ocean acidification4:08 PM Jul 17th from web
- RT @ "Which worries you most – controlling emissions or controlling government?" -> Which to avoid: bullets or bayonets? Both?11:58 AM Jul 17th from web
- @ I really don't get the cornflake thing. 10:16 AM Jul 17th from web
- +1 RT @ Weather is affected (more) by fluid mechanics, Climate by (radiation) heat transfer. A career in Climate seems easier :)10:08 AM Jul 17th from web
- RT @ Why scientists might want to Twitter. Send to a skeptical friend. via @ (Or wait for my take on it.)10:06 AM Jul 17th from web
- @ There is one big silly straw man at the core of the Armstrong piece . Examined on blog: 5:15 PM Jul 16th from web
- @ missed the opening act. It began "we the people..."4:51 PM Jul 16th from web
- e.g. RT @ What should Americans be concerned about – “their use of coal” or “their government’s use of them”?4:51 PM Jul 16th from web
- @ a Big Coal CEO, thinks climate change is green extremism writ large. Says weird stuff; would be funny but for consequences.4:49 PM Jul 16th from web
- Big is beautiful! 11:20 AM Jul 16th from web
- Mr. "forecasting principles" (S Armstrong) demolishes a global warming strawman in Financial Post. Spot the trick! 10:22 AM Jul 16th from web
- RT @: Huge. Check out newest from @ --we're creating a Natl Data Catalog ( via @ )10:04 PM Jul 15th from web
- Greenfyre's has an excellent summary of the so-called "suppressed EPA report" debacle 3:08 PM Jul 15th from web
- Andrew Sullivan ( @ ) who knocks my socks off w Iraq, Palin, new journo stuff: ++insightful climate chg item 11:26 PM Jul 14th from web
- Did Brand also say "Information wants to be free"? Too clever. Anyway, as my wife says, "information wants to be wrong".5:54 PM Jul 14th from web
- "We are as gods, and have to get good at it." Stewart Brand's revised whole earth motto. 5:50 PM Jul 14th from web
- Morano and Inhofe cheer for Hansen: . No surprise. Proves they only care about delaying policy, not about actual facts.2:39 PM Jul 14th from web
- @ Thought I'd lost you! re yr nukes point agree. We don't need whole energy portfolio but we lack collective skill to decide.11:23 AM Jul 14th from web
- Precautionary principle, libertarianism, as symmetrical errors. Blogged: 9:49 PM Jul 13th from web
- @ He debunks the greenhouse effect by assuming it does not exist and concluding the assumption 4:24 PM Jul 13th from web
- Everybody grind your own axe and pay no attention to the big picture, OK? That will be fun! e.g.: 4:07 PM Jul 13th from web
- RT @ “How did survival on Planet Earth become a liberal cause?” -Bill Maher 2:31 PM Jul 13th from web
- What ever became of actual conservatism? Read this comment at 538: 10:06 PM Jul 11th from web
- US Rep Luetkemeyer (R-MO) seeks to withhold US funding from IPCC & its "international junk science" 9:44 PM Jul 11th from web
- RT @ 2 major 21st c problems: how do we get along with each other, and how do we get along with our planet? -Lonnie Thompson3:28 PM Jul 11th from web
- You cain't get the Hell out of Texas. No matter how hard you try.1:06 AM Jul 11th from web
- It's where I want to be. The only place for me. Where my spirit can be free. Texas.1:01 AM Jul 11th from web
- Newark again this time leaving Mars (Quebec) for Venus (Texas). Cultural whiplash.6:56 PM Jul 10th from Tweetie
- @ If enough grownups on both sides automatic opposition would not happen every single time it mattered; been a long time tho1:49 PM Jul 8th from web
- RT @ Design: Invent financial incentives so that rational whole system behavior becomes the new "default" individual actor behavior.1:44 PM Jul 8th from web
- Texas is like Venus. Montreal is like Mars. I am a sort of space traveler.5:06 PM Jul 7th from Tweetie
- Changing planes in Newark. Everything smooth so far. Puddle jumper to Montreal boarding soon.10:20 AM Jul 6th from Tweetie
- NYTimes covers the Carlin / EPA story uncritically. Where's he said she said when you need it?9:37 PM Jul 5th from web
- More pigheaded climate denial from the WSJ. Except for valiant efforts by Troy Garibaldi, sad echo chamber in comments. 2:47 PM Jul 4th from web
- Palin cheers me up. “So, like our brave American soldiers, who never quit, I am quitting!” (channeled by Lionel Hutz in Wonkette comments)5:55 PM Jul 3rd from web
- Senators trying to figure out how to make future health care most closely resemble our current situation, so as to “control costs” -Wonkette4:06 PM Jul 3rd from web
- Kids use "awesome" to mean '"adequate", but my peeve is "downfall" for "drawback". They're so dramatic. Imagine if some drama happened!3:50 PM Jul 3rd from web
- Gloom Gloom Gloom. . I swear some days life is just like dental surgery.10:35 AM Jul 3rd from web
- RT @ RT @: Two amazing charts. Home values vs. stock prices. Inflation adjusted. - 10:32 AM Jul 3rd from web
- Scary-creepy Austin/Singer/Lindzen/etc. climate change open letter rebutted (on my blog): 7:51 PM Jul 2nd from web
- @ You confuse "awesome" with "ossim", meaning "correct" or "to specification" expressed w/ enthusiasm: "You have your spoon? Ossim!"2:08 PM Jul 2nd from web
- @ How to 1) extract clathrates w/o environmental CH4 release? 2) enforce such practice on commercial operations? Clues please.1:21 PM Jul 2nd from web
- If a mountain is reflected in a lake, and we're all too busy too notice, is it still beautiful? 12:11 PM Jul 2nd from web
- Bogglingly bad idea: RT @ @ TAP can't get a congressional press pass because we're a non-profit and might lobby.9:37 AM Jul 2nd from web
- Inhofe's "Dead in the water" is a poor choice of phrasing to oppose a climate bill, isn't it? (From @ )1:12 PM Jul 1st from web
- Romm: EPA ignoring internal non-expert comments filled w falsehoods cut-and-paste from web isn’t “suppressing a report”! 11:47 AM Jul 1st from web
- Public talk by me on climate models and climate policy tomorrow July 1 6:30 PM Y'all come 6:13 PM Jun 30th from web
- @ re Manzi: see ("Tidal") comment: For 19 C increase DICE model forecasts 50% GDP loss. Economic basis dubious.3:23 PM Jun 30th from web
- RT @ Blogging about coal exec tweets, 1:28 PM Jun 30th from web
- remember the venn diagram of success? Dave Pollard seems to have fixed it! @10:11 AM Jun 30th from web
- @ very different; Hansen is leading scientist. EPA guy had no science job, offers tired incoherent denial nonsense: 9:54 AM Jun 30th from web
- RT @ Did 17,000 scientists really call clim. change a hoax: (We did this last fall) 9:48 AM Jun 30th from web
- Sen Inhofe and Fox News on the "suppressed" EPA "study"; Inhofe feels "redeemed", is "rejoicing". Investigation underway.9:10 PM Jun 29th from web
- RT @ Added picture of cat playing piano to my (long) post... Now you'll read it! -(It's worth reading.)6:07 PM Jun 29th from web
- 104° F in Austin, making today the 16th 100-degree day this month, setting a new record for number of June days over 100° F .5:03 PM Jun 29th from web
- Join me and my tweeps on the Austin TownMe Directory at 11:56 AM Jun 29th from TownMe
- RT @ "Krugman: Vote against was "treason against planet,"-He did not say that! The treason is mocking the problem's existence.11:15 AM Jun 29th from web
- RT @ Madoff gets 150 years, AIG got over $150 million in bonuses. Fair?11:11 AM Jun 29th from web
- RT @ "We must give government permission to fail." Jeff Jarvis on government as rolling beta. 11:10 AM Jun 29th from web
- @ I prefer your version to @'s on the grounds that you mention me! But yes, a sorry situation indeed.12:15 AM Jun 29th from web
- RT @: Here's transcript of a sitdown Obama, Chu, Browner did today on climate, energy etc h/t DHRoberts10:21 PM Jun 28th from web
- Ah, I had to send Apple thirty bucks for the privilege7:48 PM Jun 28th from web
- For those who underestimate climatology: Also, tech help: how do I embed this QuickTime into a Keynote? Thanks!6:03 PM Jun 28th from web
- @ re your q re intemperate AGW posts on geek sites; have thought about it; material for a blog posting. I'll tweet when it's done.1:51 PM Jun 28th from web
- disappointed usually excel't @ linking malicious WSJ article claiming burgeoning greenhouse 'skepticism'10:43 PM Jun 27th from web
- RT @ A Funny Thing Happened on the Way To Cap and Trade (via @)8:03 PM Jun 27th from web
- our Rep Doggett (D-TX): Doing nothing actually results in more renewable energy than approving ACES...cannot support 1:23 PM Jun 27th from web
- Most economists don't get it: on a crowded world, less production & less consumption maximizes capital -K Boulding 1966 1:01 PM Jun 27th from web
- RT @ Shorter Jim Manzi (via @)12:09 PM Jun 27th from web
- Like it or not, leaving aside past history, I have to highly recommend @'s latest: as exemplary.9:26 PM Jun 26th from web
- While the usual suspects focus on Waxman drama, the Wall Street Journal offers an especially malicious op-ed on climate 5:33 PM Jun 26th from web
- Something for everybody on the internet...4:09 PM Jun 26th from web
- !!! Sign me up, I guess! RT @ out-of shape jewish and no longer in canada? rejoice! 4:09 PM Jun 26th from web
- RT @ Is everyone talking about the same bill? It will either kill the economy, or save us from doom. No in-betweens! 2:53 PM Jun 26th from web
- @ My MD asks re WSJ today too (sigh) but flatline bogus & consensus real 2:13 PM Jun 26th from web
- environment Texas @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ; others?1:12 PM Jun 26th from web
- RT @ Did you know we're in a water war? 12:54 PM Jun 26th from web
- @ asks how people fed selves pre 1950 w/o petro-based fertilizers. Ans: fewer people eating fewer calories & less meat; more starved.12:50 PM Jun 26th from web
- RT @ From @: "I prefer the genuine to the ironic, which makes me hipster fail. I, like, care about shit."11:36 PM Jun 25th from web
- @ very different for Iran, but the same for present purposes: both captured the foreground of the imagination here in North America.11:26 PM Jun 25th from web
- @ your q's are reminiscent of William Cronon's thoughts on "Nature" , e.g., 11:25 PM Jun 25th from web
- Record temps across Texas. Power usage expected to hit all-time high today. Plea for restraint & it's not even July yet! 4:13 PM Jun 25th from web
- no acceptable way for a mainstream reporter to...tell readers that the info. [from] a powerful office-holder may be false 2:34 PM Jun 25th from web
- In Texas you can't buy a pack of gum without chatting the cashier up for a half hour.11:55 AM Jun 25th from web
- "bonjour-hi" Speaking Montrealais: Only in Mtl: "You can save a syllable by saying 'allo'". Situation rewards terseness!11:55 AM Jun 25th from web
- @ : "style of educated journalists" cohort costs trust. I say obsession w controversy & power, also cynicism. Memes not style.11:26 PM Jun 24th from web
- @ I disagree. : press mentality doesn't map onto contemporary public issues in substance, focus, emphasis.11:19 PM Jun 24th from web
- Unfollow is broken for me.7:54 PM Jun 24th from web
- @ Did you read my blog entry today? Relates to Anastas' point. 7:31 PM Jun 24th from web
- RT @ "Houston has apparently just had its warmest day in June. Ever. 104°. Fun."#ATX Austin record today 104; shy of June max=1086:44 PM Jun 24th from web
- Joe Romm claims Obama understands the ponzi problem with "growth". (via @)2:09 PM Jun 24th from web
- A new meme is not enough. We need new patterns of thought. ( )10:55 AM Jun 24th from web
- I claim: @ 's q is journalism trying to address a problem journalism created w/o addressing role of journalism. ( )10:53 AM Jun 24th from web
- Longish article responding to Revkin/Seed query re right language to galvanize public action on climate. On my blog at: 10:50 AM Jun 24th from web
- The $100 laptop story moves toward exactly the outcome I was hoping for: a pure software solution h/t @12:39 AM Jun 24th from web
- RT @ 40 Useful and Creative Infographics +111:04 PM Jun 23rd from web
- RT @ via @: if a public option will have rationing, long waits & poor service, then why are private insurers afraid of it?9:38 PM Jun 23rd from web
- RT @: Cameroon rainforest given 30 days to be conserved or sold off for logging Ideas? 9:30 PM Jun 23rd from web
- RT @ Anyone want to have lunch in Boston tomorrow and talk sustainable seafood?9:17 PM Jun 23rd from web
- FTC to regulate blogs? "bloggers that don’t disclose freebies could become the target of an FTC investigation"2:27 PM Jun 23rd from web
- best reply B. Leonard: Approach issues from perspective of reporting "facts" rather than "sides in a debate". What happened to reporting?8:46 PM Jun 22nd from web
- The peculiar journalistic ethic can be abused; Suppose MDs say "tuberculosis", chamber of commerce says "allergies". The press says...?8:38 PM Jun 22nd from web
- RT @ NPR ombud "explains" its cowardice in not calling torture "torture" -- pathetic 8:32 PM Jun 22nd from web
- RT @ I've been in MSM, print, radio. In J School it's "absurd" to train anyone in science and its standard to train them in PR.8:29 PM Jun 22nd from web
- My talk Austin 7/1 "Cybernetics of Climate" climate models & policy: how should these computations be understood? 2:19 PM Jun 22nd from web
- "I should have given them only the seven words I wanted them to use" - scientist re NYTimes article 9:57 AM Jun 22nd from web
- Sullivan re Iran: One feels connected to the people w blogs, tweets &c Suspicion and fear betw Iran & America slips away. 3:46 PM Jun 21st from web
- RT @ (Andrew Sullivan) Poem 4 the Day: A day of ominous decision has now dawned on this free nation. fixed link 3:32 PM Jun 21st from web
- had trouble finding @ vs @ on xark. Google cache: also I saved it here v interesting2:51 PM Jun 21st from web
- Yet another glossy climate report! National Science Foundation Releases Report on state of climate science 1:58 PM Jun 21st from web
- @ re Ron Bailey's My much less impressed than your me: silly circular arg1:49 AM Jun 21st from web
- RT @ +1: Obama and nerd cred: At last, we have a president who can give a Vulcan salutation. 10:42 PM Jun 20th from web
- +1 RT @ Why are modern scientists so dull? 11:37 AM Jun 20th from web
- rt @: average person in US today will put out 119.3lbs CO2, Tanzanian 0.6 lbs, Climate change will affect all equally11:25 AM Jun 20th from web
- RT via @ @: our financial system is not biomimetic - there is no concept of gravity ... tis not healthy for our species12:32 AM Jun 20th from web
- @ picks up Rosen's "serious people" sarcasmo-meme in noting fiasco 12:31 AM Jun 20th from web
- RT @ "Thinking about legally changing my name to @". Will we have to RT you as @@ then? Could get messy.12:07 PM Jun 19th from web
- (followup to previous tweet) In case you missed the comparable US climate change report it's at 12:03 AM Jun 19th from web
- The Age: Euros also just released glossy climate report for public. Seems more abstract, still scary.12:01 AM Jun 19th from web
- RT @ : Ken Caldeira responds to @ 's geo-engineering and ocean acidification post: 10:18 PM Jun 18th from web
- This Venn diagram is very useful, but surely there is a fourth bubble somewhere called "what needs to be done". 11:22 AM Jun 18th from web
- is working on a longish article, ~3K words, about psychology, the press and sustainability responding to @ 's query 10:08 AM Jun 18th from web
- Do you agree "submission of fake manuscripts is a totally unethical activity"? It seems a useful test. h/t @9:30 AM Jun 18th from web
- +1 Rob Watson: "Sacking the Temple of Ego-Nomics" 9:24 AM Jun 18th from web
- +1 "No, PDFs really do suck!" ht @9:18 AM Jun 18th from web
- "Asked if we have enough time to prevent catastrophe, [Meadows would answer] exactly enough time-starting now" -A Lovins 8:44 AM Jun 18th from web
- RT @ Future of Science Journalism reliability check on web-writing remains an issue 12:39 AM Jun 18th from web
- The pale blue dot image: 11:54 PM Jun 17th from web
- via @ Open Ideas: Alex Payne's blog of Concepts in the public domain, awaiting collaboration and appropriation 11:19 AM Jun 17th from web
- RT @: IBM is afraid of Microsoft who is afraid of Google who is afraid of Facebook who is afraid of Twitter who is afraid of whales.11:10 AM Jun 17th from web
- like RT @ The better you program, the worse you communicate. 10:40 AM Jun 17th from web
- "Whether you work inside or outside the beltway determines whether you think there was climate news (in a given) week" 11:39 PM Jun 16th from web
- Any publications arguably without a point of view are mathematical, arcane, narrow. Thus US "editorial"/"reporting" split is not well named.8:42 PM Jun 16th from web
- RT @ via dhr:yes, Iran, N. Korea etc But not a SINGLE question about climate in today's WH briefing? MSM FAIL 5:26 PM Jun 16th from web
- Finding the actual report requires too much digging! Anyway, here you go: (large PDF; 190 hi-design pages)1:31 PM Jun 16th from web
- climate science funding prognosis good according to holdren1:21 PM Jun 16th from web
- USA Today reporter asks beginner questions about temperature trend like he started learning about this stuff last week.1:16 PM Jun 16th from web
- Tom Karl now speaking on threshholds vs tipping points; good idea1:07 PM Jun 16th from web
- RT @ Climate change impacts report conference will be webcast starting at 1:30 Oops that is now.12:28 PM Jun 16th from web
- No surprise here: RT @ Obtained copy of climate report. In short, we're screwed, but less screwed if we do something now.12:26 PM Jun 16th from web
- To the tune "Liberty Bell": Oh CA-nada, yes oh CA_nada, you're glo-rious and free, Oh CA-nada, yes oh CA-nada, we stand, on guard, for thee!12:10 PM Jun 16th from web
- My phone plays Monty Python theme. My supervisee from India asks "WOTT is that? CANADIAN national anthem?" Good idea. 12:08 PM Jun 16th from web
- mind boggles but RT @ Neocon intellectual dishonesty @ new low w/ quiet support 4 Ahmedi bc he is a better poster child for war w/Iran11:42 AM Jun 16th from web
- RT @ Save the earth? Live in a city: 11:29 AM Jun 16th from web
- Feingold making sense on health care says to write your federal reps and make a case for universal healthcare in the USA.9:49 AM Jun 16th from web
- my big @ McElroy retweet picked up by The Energy Collective . I never know what they will like! 7:29 AM Jun 16th from web
- RT @ cyberwar guide for beginners 7:26 AM Jun 16th from web
- big blog-retweet of @ channeling Mark McElroy: 11:08 PM Jun 15th from web
- Twitter reschedules downtime for midnight in Iran, midday in America. Both excellent and interesting! 7:02 PM Jun 15th from web
- RT @ Oyster Die-Off in Pacific May Be Linked to Ocean Acidification 11:44 AM Jun 15th from web
- I've been talking about this for 15 years but not mentioned. Nice though. RT @ A Climate (Communication) Crisis? 11:38 AM Jun 15th from web
- @ re WSJ ad: which companies signed it? 11:09 AM Jun 15th from web
- Bucky Fuller took a position as a lecturer at S. Ill. U. at the age of 61. I feel a little better now. 10:13 PM Jun 14th from web
- Good summary by G Sick. Example of how to summarize; can build on this in later pieces w a link. 8:43 AM Jun 14th from web
- RT @ No new tweets from @ in 7 hrs. I hope he/she's OK. @ has confirmed to me the account source is inside iran.(!)8:32 AM Jun 14th from web
- This is interesting @12:20 AM Jun 14th from web
- Why do I find out about these things after they have started? attempt to reboot Bucky Fuller's 'World Game'.4:30 PM Jun 12th from web
- TX gov Perry: "as concerning are the EPA's efforts to have CO2 identified as a toxic substance" Straw man? 4:16 PM Jun 12th from web
- @ Verb Swifty: "This weight loss diet has really worked!" she expounded. "It didn't work for me," he announced.3:32 PM Jun 12th from web
- @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ & of course @11:17 AM Jun 12th from web
- RT @ Humans prefer cockiness to expertise 10:26 AM Jun 12th from web
- RT @ From now on, my response to questions abt Freeman Dyson or Dick Lindzen & climate models 9:09 AM Jun 12th from web
- Future climate: expect more severe storms and more drought. Is that a contradiction? Nope. e.g. See tonight's radar. 10:22 PM Jun 11th from web
- RT @ if universities had major in "saving the world" & were honest about net impact, you'd probably end up in the engineering department11:31 PM Jun 10th from web
- wherein @ argues separating journalism vs advocacy & I disagree. Also, Joe Romm accused of insufficient greenness.7:54 PM Jun 10th from web
- @ points to NYTimes deficit taxonomy Not even a whisper there about resource or environmental constraints.6:58 PM Jun 10th from web
- creepy virus has my number. Don't click on the out-of-character link purporting to be your friend. Especially if it's me. :-(5:39 PM Jun 10th from web
- A policy grad student recently shook head in bewilderment listening to me, said "but, but I thought neoMalthusianism had been discredited!"1:20 PM Jun 10th from web
- I raised limits to growth with an econ prof recently. She said "why don't you want growth to continue?" As though a matter of preference!1:19 PM Jun 10th from web
- economists who think economy is a subset of environment, not vice versa, are effectively considered fringe in the profession.1:17 PM Jun 10th from web
- like me @ wants a liberal mainstream economist to take on resource constraints in earnest, suggests we pester @1:15 PM Jun 10th from web
- @ calls @ shrill sez pro jrnlsts win on rumors/facts rough/complete raw/vetted but no evidence! 1:06 PM Jun 10th from web
- RT @ WSJ: Texas Blasts Federal Efforts to Fight Global Warming: 11:34 PM Jun 9th from web
- RT @ : Have q's about the Waxman-Markey bill on tmrw's national conference call? mail billquestions@1sky.org 3:13 PM Jun 9th from web
- Chinese press says China wants to cooperate w/ US on climate change. via @5:30 PM Jun 8th from web
- RT @ Excellent DOE infographic summarizing US energy sources and destinations 10:41 AM Jun 8th from web
- Are limits to growth kicking in? Ugo Bardi says yes at 4:11 PM Jun 7th from web
- This is close. RT @ @ New site promotes journalists as individual brands: 2:50 PM Jun 7th from web
- RT @ Herman Daly: From a Failed Growth Economy to a Steady-State Economy 11:12 AM Jun 6th from web
- NY Times architecture critic celebrates yet another eyesore. The Times continues to add insult to injury. Mind boggles.12:53 AM Jun 6th from web
- RT @ My Water and Energy blog entry is being carried by The Energy Collective 5:20 PM Jun 5th from web
- Sorry I can't include @ in . We are slightly acquainted + he is slightly famous. Follow him or I'll have to RT everything he says.12:46 PM Jun 5th from web
- non (yet) famous non acquaintances I recommend: @ @ @ @ @ @ @12:42 PM Jun 5th from web
- via @ vi @ On the phase change in journalism and 12:25 PM Jun 5th from web
- One way to solve energy problems with technology: break the 746 watts per horsepower barrier! 11:31 AM Jun 5th from web
- RT @ journalists would be right more often if they occasionally allowed themselves to be wrong 12:24 PM Jun 4th from web
- Asked if interviewee Dyson was right about science, journalist Dawidoff says he doesn't care, it doesn't matter. 9:34 AM Jun 4th from web
- email: "Hi Sir. You have a wonderfull offer to getting Shairs of World's leading Companies. If you interested please reply me. -Tony" hmm...11:24 PM Jun 3rd from web
- Texans by an undeserved twist of fate, led the world into the carbon-burning age, and may well be the ones to lead us out. 8:45 PM Jun 3rd from web
- @ Thanks for your attention and your kind words! Stick around. Busy week for me on other fronts but I'll be back.11:23 AM Jun 3rd from web
- But there is no magic right way to interpret terms like “free speech” or “due process” or "potato chip". - NY Times. 10:47 AM Jun 1st from web
- Paul Baer's corrollary: Any job not worth doing well is not worth doing.9:30 AM Jun 1st from web
- Not sure how I found this history of programing languages. "Lisp still influential in recursion and condescension." 7:21 PM May 31st from web
- Disagree w @ about smthg besides religion. . I thought the media article first rate. Schema don't need to be data.10:02 AM May 28th from web
- really good green urbanism stuff despite the name: 10:58 PM May 27th from web
- fine goals indeed, @ , but your Texas traffic light camera story stopped me in my tracks...3:05 PM May 27th from web
- @ compliment was meant sincerely; your excellent photographs and creative recipes are a delight11:04 AM May 27th from web
- @ check the link; I love the eyesore of the month pix11:02 AM May 27th from web
- @ Grooks! Another shared interest! @ everybody else: look for the short poems of nerd poet Piet Hein.11:01 AM May 27th from web
- @ Very interesting graph re electricity: thanks. Please provide either details or a complete reference.9:55 AM May 27th from web
- Krugman: We averted utter catastrophe, but we can't all export our way to recovery. There's no other planet to trade with. 10:43 PM May 26th from web
- RT @ corn ethanol is not about reducing CO2. It's about ag subsidies. Please stop using it to slander entire climate effort.4:35 PM May 26th from web
- "Our knowledge and skill in building has been reduced to near zero in this culture". Kunstler is right about that much. 2:35 PM May 26th from web
- Some thoughts prompted by the Bayer vs the bees accusation on my blog: 9:04 AM May 26th from web
- @ annoying phrase "Still working on that?" from waitperson. No. *You* are working. I am relaxing over dinner. Or was until just now.12:06 AM May 24th from web
- in a nutshell 8:49 PM May 23rd from web
- RT @: In press section, energy bill hearing. One reporter playing solitaire. Another browsing wine tours in Va. Thanks, MSM!2:38 PM May 20th from web
- repeat,URL fix @ offers map of imidacloprid use Map of bee colony disorder: No match!7:20 PM May 18th from web
- @ , @ offers map of imidacloprid use Map of bee colony disorder: No match!6:39 PM May 18th from web
- Krugman surprises me by preferring a carbon cap to a tax; tepid on Waxman-Markey but will settle. Good enough for me. 6:23 PM May 18th from web
- @ Thanks. I agree Wikipedia isn't decisive, can be gamed. But in my experience accusations like this can sometimes be unfounded.6:08 PM May 18th from web
- RT @ Bayer found imidacloprid in pollen of flowering trees at concentr's high enough to kill a honeybee in mins 6:04 PM May 18th from web
- RT @ It is very hard to stomach a copyright notice like on a government web site.5:37 PM May 18th from web
- The question every amateur creator asks every day isn't "Why publish this?" but "Why not?" RT @ via @ 11:39 AM May 18th from web
- Claims @ bee deaths due to Bayer pesticide. Wikipedia says no evidence Evidence should matter.11:28 AM May 18th from web
- @ is right: we shouldn't quibble too much re Waxman Markey. Timing is politically important so let's cope. 6:48 PM May 17th from web
- A real economist (DeLong) uses the phrase "limits to growth" in jest, but it appears he actually has heard of the idea. 3:54 PM May 14th from web
- Roberts again Everybody doing their job resulting in reduction in public understanding => the system is broken. ht J Rosen1:08 AM May 14th from web
- RT @ Economists call ubiquitous features of everyday life, behavior "market failures." The market is very disappointed in us.8:02 PM May 13th from web
- Twitter damages Twitter: hides @ replies to ppl you don't follow. Why it's bad ht @8:42 AM May 13th from web
- I make a point of complaining to airline every time. Do you? RT @ SAVE ME. Stuck in the airport with the CNN "news" channel blaring.1:38 PM May 12th from web
- RT @ Am increasingly convinced that we sorely need the societal equivalent of a car's crumple zone.11:38 AM May 12th from web
- RT @ New blog post about managing never-ending projects, personal and professional 11:13 AM May 12th from web
- @ has a first rate story about Waxman-Markey energy bill; apparently the fight is about money. Who knew? 11:03 AM May 12th from web
- @ Beyond turnips? Austin Texas as a town Org. meeting 6:30 May 12! see Please pass it on.11:21 AM May 11th from web
- Austin Texas as a town! Organizational meeting 6:30 May 12! see 11:16 AM May 11th from web
- RT @ Friends of the Earth Cautionary Report: Subprime Carbon? Re-thinking the World's Largest New Derivatives Market 10:46 AM May 11th from web
- RT @ Hey, Internet. @ is serializing his new book at BoingBoing. I just read it and it's awesome. 9:04 PM May 10th from web
- Counsel for energy legislators (via Ed Reid): "Don't begin vast programs with half-vast ideas." 9:39 AM May 10th from web
- @ All done with slides? Wow. And here I thought it was all done with mirrors...12:43 AM May 10th from web
- energy climate Q : Is seabed and/or tundra clathrate recovery for combustion feasible without very large releases of methane? How?1:50 PM May 8th from web
- The Two Cultures (science vs arts) and Obama's request for advice about science. blogged: 10:31 AM May 8th from web
- A given economic growth rate can be sustainable only if the average impact per unit wealth declines at an equal or greater rate. 11:33 AM May 7th from web
- Interesting, blistering attack on academia from untenured instructor: 11:00 AM May 7th from web
- Liked YaleEnvironment360 on cap-trade vs carbon tax: Blogged pro-tax: Cappers still make no sense to me.10:53 AM May 7th from web
- Haha! ampersand trade is an html character!10:53 AM May 7th from web
- Liked YaleEnvironment360 on cap™ vs carbon tax: Blogged pro-tax: Cappers still make no sense to me.10:52 AM May 7th from web
- @ I think you may be right; people don't understand the shape but I wonder if the magnitudes are right12:20 PM May 6th from web
- Huge argument between @ and @ vs @ Interesting? Who knows? Twitter interface makes it unparsable. Suggestions?12:21 AM May 6th from web
- Housing glut: houses with negative value! 9:21 PM May 5th from web
- RT @ not dealing with global warming screws over humanity, not Al Gore9:18 PM May 5th from web
- RT @ Liked "Sandeep The Mouse Trap : Science 2.0 : what is and what needs to be" 9:14 PM May 5th from web
- via @ Today from the CBO: US climate change impacts. I say people's failure to grasp Fig 1 is the main problem.9:07 PM May 5th from web
- @ Elephant joke is an old one; not sure where I heard it. Google has 4560 hits on "elephino" including a Twitter ID.8:57 PM May 5th from web
- RT @ So if HuffPo ... supports pseudoscience wack jobs, why trust it elsewhere? me: 1/2 elephant 1/2 rhinoceros = elephino .8:00 PM May 5th from web
- Austin Texas as a town! Come to the organizational meeting on May 12! pls RT7:57 PM May 5th from web
- OK Sen Inhofe takes reasonable position on black carbon forcing. Is this progress in the absence of Morano or a blunder? 12:28 PM May 5th from web
- BBC reports an interesting article in J Clim, researchers unspecified at institute unspecified. Why do I have to guess? 11:42 AM May 4th from web
- How much do highway interchanges cost? Clue: How much would an elevated bike path cost per mile?10:01 AM May 4th from web
- Promoting science: "If only we had the money" . If medical science can't do it, little wonder climate science fails.9:32 AM May 4th from web
- RT @ @: krugman making sense on climate change policy & economics 10:15 AM May 1st from web
- "Information wants to be wrong." - Irene Tobis2:37 PM Apr 30th from web
- RT @ NYT asks Obama what "enchants" him as prez ....no 9th grader was available to ask that?7:44 PM Apr 29th from web
- I know 3 people who think swine flu is a deliberate distraction by government. Public vs science community gap yet again. Very unfortunate.5:43 PM Apr 29th from web
- Lowest bandwidth infographic of all time? h/t @ via @1:50 PM Apr 29th from web
- @ I will pursue this on my blog. I work at a nexus of CCS research. There are huge advantages to making it work. Will ping you.9:46 PM Apr 28th from web
- @ says "CO2 sequestration not practical large scale". Why not?9:00 PM Apr 28th from web
- RT @ Debugging Fortran code. I hate when devs write clever optimizations that make it impossible to make the code do what you want.8:29 PM Apr 28th from web
- Montreal bagels: I have no choice but to try recipe and report. Cursed internet. via 8:27 PM Apr 28th from web
- RT @ Obama has relaunched a Bush climate initiative by convening 17 biggest economies for a meeting 8:14 PM Apr 28th from web
- RT @ Some blogs are very good, some MSM are very bad, but I see the whole debate as distracting from developing a news ecosystem.7:59 PM Apr 28th from web
- RT @ "Climate deniers spin geoengineering as answer" article . Fine article at WorldChanging.com .7:55 PM Apr 28th from web
- comment: "I'm sorry but if you rely on a bunch of aging rockers to produce a comprehensive pandemic strategy then you deserve all you get."11:54 AM Apr 28th from web
- Brits sink £11M into in situ ocean acidification impact research ( h/t @ via @ )11:45 AM Apr 28th from web
- prev tweet h/t @ via @ see 2/211:42 AM Apr 28th from web
- Debate between Bayesians and frequentists is unusual among philosophical arguments in actually having important practical consequences. 1/211:40 AM Apr 28th from web
- @ twitterist attending conference in Cambridge MA ; which, where, what? Somebody please go and tweet.9:07 AM Apr 28th from web
- @ You seem interesting but I won't read your blog until you pick a less eye-gougingly awful template. It's easy: Layout->New Template10:42 PM Apr 27th from web
- An economic growth rate is sustainable *only* if the impact per unit wealth declines at an equal or greater rate. blogged: 8:31 PM Apr 27th from web
- if upstream waste is 70x municipal waste, then all the attention to muni. waste stream is misplaced; where are the other 70 landfills?6:34 PM Apr 27th from web
- @ thanks for response but your link just went to a search engine. "wasteberg" a good clue but so far no authoritative source6:32 PM Apr 27th from web
- @ re 70-to-1 commercial-to-consumer trash ratio: thanks for the data. I'd appreciate a reference. Where did you get that info? Thanks!5:16 PM Apr 27th from web
- Major rain event today upstream from Austin great news in short run, but is Texas drying out? but 12:24 PM Apr 27th from web
- Slashdot reports: "Time Warner Shutting Off Austin Accounts For Heavy Usage". Insightful comment: 3:45 PM Apr 25th from web
- Monckton:Dems "refused to allow" him to testify vs Gore. "Democrats have a lot to learn about the right of free speech." 12:26 PM Apr 24th from web
- RT: @ Gore: I wish I could find the words 2 unlock this partisan lock. The next gen. is calling us to work together... h/t @12:15 PM Apr 24th from web
- "lurkoid": argumentum ad googlum: 12:12 PM Apr 24th from web
- : report climate effects "cannot be denied" even as group did so. thingsbreak wants discussion, so: 9:48 AM Apr 24th from web
- While millionaires tremble, the rabble masses at the gates, bellowing their demands: "We are here to cut your taxes!" 9:39 PM Apr 23rd from web
- @ Did you ever hear * me * say science isn't corrupted by funding? Why would that mean greenhouse gases are harmless, though?2:43 PM Apr 23rd from web
- Canadian CO2 emissions skyrocketing. ☹ Reading a UN report to that effect supposedly requires traditional journalism??? 1:00 PM Apr 21st from web
- @ You sure? Many things are attributed to Einstein that he never said. This one seems very dubious from any physicist after Newton.8:44 PM Apr 20th from web
- @ Thanks. Debate welcome on blog; I say green jobs are necessary but shouldn't be motivate or distract. 8:41 PM Apr 20th from web
- Delicious J Wolcott article on the DC mind "the fetish...for a centrism that converts everything to mush" h/t @ 4:34 PM Apr 20th from web
- RT @ has 1553 followers. You can't visit her in prison, but you can follow her. Free Roxana!9:56 PM Apr 19th from web
- Just joined a twibe. Visit to join4:02 PM Apr 18th from web
- Just joined a twibe. Visit to join4:01 PM Apr 18th from web
- RT @ i think franken and coleman should be cosenators just to make broder weep with joy3:58 PM Apr 18th from web
- RT @ city where every arrest is Twittered (city wants feed shut down) @ will be unsurprised2:59 PM Apr 18th from web
- Just joined a twibe. Visit to join2:45 PM Apr 18th from web
- Rasmussen: Just one-out-of-three voters (34%) now believe global warming is caused by human activity. 12:58 PM Apr 18th from web
- "Cohen strolled out onstage, still hip, still the epitome of a certain kind of sexy Euro-Canadian-Buddhist intellectual style" - G. Kamiya ☺3:11 PM Apr 17th from web
- RT @ :'OMG, the Reuters text- "CO2, one of several... gases that spur global warming"- no waffling! No might maybe could! Yay!'2:13 PM Apr 17th from web
- RT @ Drudge headlines Rasmussen poll finding that 75% of Texans against seceding--rather than that, amazingly, 18% or more favor.2:10 PM Apr 17th from web
- EPA will regulate greenhouse gases. EPA: WSJ: Reuters: 1Sky: 11:51 AM Apr 17th from web
- Does focus on "green jobs" distract from the severity of the underlying problems? I and others argue yes: 10:33 AM Apr 17th from web
- Calling information in Israel to find restaurant no.; operator replies “You don’t want to eat there”, lists alternatives. 9:55 AM Apr 17th from web
- RT @ Kyoto 2.0 Set To Fall At The First Hurdle ((Re-arranging deck chairs?))9:40 AM Apr 17th from web
- @ 's on.9:37 AM Apr 17th from web
- RT @ Miniature Earth video If there were 100 people on earth ...8:46 PM Apr 16th from web
- Morano: Allegre to be French environment minister!?! Doubt this disaster but A is buttering Sarkozy up. 6:54 PM Apr 16th from web
- RT @ Liked: A cure for colony collapse 12:19 PM Apr 16th from web
- via @ RT @ BOP Source - The first social network for the base of the pyramid 12:17 PM Apr 16th from web
- Beautiful pix of von Karman vortices in lab and atmosphere at NASA site h/t @12:14 PM Apr 16th from web
- RT @ vi @: If it weren’t for physics and law enforcement, I’d be unstoppable!4:01 PM Apr 15th from web
- I missed originally (WSJ 4/7 via @ today) Chu endorses carbon capture/sequestration (CCS) from coal plants 3:58 PM Apr 15th from web
- For...the western world,prosperity without growth is no longer a utopian dream.It is a financial and ecological necessity. 1:28 AM Apr 15th from web
- NYTimes headline "Disney Expert Uses Science to Draw Boy Viewers" doesn't imply boys like science. They are the lab rats. 4:41 PM Apr 14th from web
- RT @ Kinky Friedman "might" run for governor again, this time as a Democrat (scare quotes added). Amusing.3:34 PM Apr 14th from web
- problem: If I have 1%, 25%, median, 75% and 99% CDF from interview, how to interpolate; how to convolve PDFs? 11:52 AM Apr 14th from web
- @ points to David Deutsch's talk . It is fascinating but fundamentally flawed. I rebut at .1:28 AM Apr 14th from web
- Adrian H makes the NYTimes: story, replacenik story at the same time! Sweet!5:45 PM Apr 13th from web
- a great TED talk, but why are physicists so clueless about climate? The thrust is brilliant but the details are so wrong!5:26 PM Apr 13th from web
- If you pass the string "nan" to float(raw_input()) it does not raise an exception; nonlocal failures ensue. Beware!3:30 PM Apr 13th from web
- Climate change denialist Mark Morano bravely takes on 16 y.o. Miley Cyrus aka Hannah Montana; blog: 10:54 AM Apr 13th from web
- @ Rosen on false balance. Maybe I don't get journalism, or maybe I just don't say it as well. Thanks again @ !12:01 PM Apr 12th from web
- Psychohistory (mathematics of collective behavior) as predicted by Asimov , claimed at TED: 1:38 PM Apr 11th from web
- I don't know pressures and compromises of news biz but I'm sure the product doesn't inform public well. Public shares blame but so do media.11:40 AM Apr 11th from web
- @ AWIT saved my life in 4th grade, but I think it is aimed at kids stuck in unhappy families. Effects of that still resonating.11:06 AM Apr 9th from web
- Nice to see the delete function back on Twitter: levity about pirates was ill-timed!10:10 AM Apr 9th from web
- RT @ How cold was it this morning? How about coldest temperature in Austin history for April. 9:23 AM Apr 7th from web
- RT @ "Facelessbook"5:54 PM Apr 6th from web
- re Texas Bd of Ed evolution fiasco: P Murray, VP TX Citizens for Science, attended meetings, has insightful blog 2:54 PM Apr 6th from web
- @ nice ideas but site violates many usability criteria! Tiny black on grey print; no context hints. Ironic bad design1:27 AM Apr 5th from web
- An example of the impedance mismatch between science and the press. (via BoraZ via NerdyChristie) 3:45 PM Apr 4th from web
- URL shortening article is useful but has one of the worst website usability bugs I've ever seen. ; note horizontal scroll.1:36 PM Apr 4th from web
- on the broken peer review system h/t @5:41 PM Apr 3rd from web
- my 1st climate folk @ @ @ @ @ @ & of course @ Who did I miss?1:03 PM Apr 3rd from web
- Toxic liberal/conservative index: @ please grow up. Politics is not a football league. Things matter.12:21 PM Apr 3rd from web
- @ re Also Hall gets it backwards! Paper is "rock solid", the web is transitory? So very wrong.9:38 AM Apr 3rd from web
- Appears I was saying these things before I had heard of @ : 9:27 AM Apr 3rd from web
- RT @ A reverse image search engine - upload a pic, find matches . My experiment was impressive: 12:37 AM Apr 3rd from web
- Security Wizard: "Step 1: Back up your system." Why? Will the patch make things worse? Do I want to be able to restore the virus later?6:05 PM Apr 2nd from web
- Science cannot compromise with nonsense. It takes very little dogshit to spoil an otherwise lovely creme caramelle.2:49 PM Apr 2nd from web
- RT @ Texas Officially Makes The Universe Ageless: 2:48 PM Apr 2nd from web
- Somebody set me straight. What is "cap-and-trade"? Why is it better than a carbon tax? Discussion appreciated. 10:49 AM Apr 2nd from web
- The press may not be successful...telling people what to think, but [succeeds] in telling its readers what to think about.10:15 AM Apr 2nd from web
- @ Thanks! I was going to dig a bit myself. Q stands. Why don't pros name PI, provide a proper reference? Not the 1st time!8:48 AM Apr 2nd from web
- RT @ Peeps you can believe in: Obama rally recreated with marshmallow rabbits. 8:46 AM Apr 2nd from web
- What journalists don't get: I want the name of the P.I. and pub data of the paper. Is that so hard? Aargh! eg: 3:45 PM Apr 1st from web
- Denialist site claims only 11% of Czech citizens "believe in" anthropogenic global warming among other depressing items. 3:30 PM Apr 1st from web
- RT @ DesmogBlog FOIA query on the mysterious Deep Space Climate Observatory, or rather lack of one: 11:49 PM Mar 31st from web
- RT @ Enormous, far-reaching, potentially economy-reshaping energy/climate bill unveiled today in the House ... media yawns.10:15 PM Mar 31st from web
- "The permafrost is melting fast all over the Arctic, lakes are forming everywhere and methane is bubbling up out of them." 4:09 PM Mar 31st from web
- @, please face up to the fact that whether science can influence policy or not depends to a significant extent on @1:32 PM Mar 31st from web
- @ : The magic wand for biofuels is giving up beef, but substantial biofuel now possible on marginal land where h2o plentiful.11:08 AM Mar 31st from web
- @ notes NYTimes 1999 celebrated "new era on Wall Street" Reminds me of recent crustacean news 9:51 PM Mar 30th from web
- Attributed to one of the SBOE creationsists by an eyewitness "If I don't understand it, it's not science". Hope that's on the audio record.5:26 PM Mar 30th from web
- Texas SBOE evolution fiasco reporting by Tony Whitson, including links to audio of McLeroy's testimony: 5:15 PM Mar 30th from web
- BoraZ has a big summary post; I don't plan to read before composing my own. But probably it's very good. 4:33 PM Mar 30th from web
- Oil imports by country: Striking graph. Many other interesting statistics linked at indexmundi.com . h/t James Annan2:37 PM Mar 30th from web
- RT @ NAS summit "America's Climate Choices" webcast: ; Things is tweeting as it goes along. Thanks!12:52 PM Mar 30th from web
- @ # climatetoons and my all time favorite 7:35 PM Mar 29th from web
- RT @ Sharon Bigley quoting Nate Lewis in Newsweek -- we need massive energy R&D to become carbon neutral -- 6:38 PM Mar 29th from web
- OK just one more: 4:54 PM Mar 29th from web
- I ask the internet to kindly stop being so interesting for a week or two. An interesting take on civil disobedience: 4:29 PM Mar 29th from web
- Very interesting and exemplary RT @ Wow! How science (education) works: 11:48 AM Mar 29th from web
- A treasure trove of climate denialism: I feel like the walrus and carpenter contemplating sweeping sand off the beach.11:37 AM Mar 29th from web
- @ thanks for this: . As recompense, you may enjoy the picture.6:45 PM Mar 28th from web
- RT @ Texas creationism wrapup. Condition: doomed. Me: Unhappy. Very, very unhappy. 3:06 PM Mar 28th from web
- RT @ on candles: ; Zeke, did you account for extraction and refining costs? "Show us the code".3:05 PM Mar 28th from web
- RT @ Fargo rejected govt flood control. "We don't need government screwing things up." Parable for climate change? 2:52 PM Mar 28th from web
- Earth Hour irony (h/t Aaron Lav):most candles are paraffin, made from coal. Small amounts, but emblem of green casual relationship to facts?2:47 PM Mar 28th from web
- biofuels tweets aggregated at ; Scary story about corn ethanol fuel and antibiotic resistance here: 1:51 PM Mar 28th from web
- Professor Andrew Weaver: Will Environmentalists Stand With Science? 9:22 PM Mar 27th from web
- Andrew Sun on scientists standing up for ourselves instead of talking through journalists. "Otherwise shits happen." 4:28 PM Mar 27th from web
- "No one is interested in science except scientists. Improvement [shouldn't] present...frontier research. no media [do it right] 4:24 PM Mar 27th from web
- @ , also, could somebody please capture the shark that Kelso jumped and sic it on him, please?3:09 PM Mar 27th from web
- learned in exercise: I'd subscribe RSS feed of articles by @ staff or visit a portal. Present homepage useless.2:56 PM Mar 27th from web
- Courtesy @ here's an odd piece, the FT from 11 years hence echoing @ (see )2:24 PM Mar 27th from web
- RT @ LMAO at youtube video "Hey Paul Krugman" 9:12 AM Mar 27th from web
- Final vote on whole package is tomorrow if I understand right. 6:05 PM Mar 26th from web
- Amendment: students asked to evaluate differing views on the *existence* of global warming. Passed if I understand right. 6:03 PM Mar 26th from web
- Cancel huge victory party. "members turned around and threw open all the windows to pseudoscientific nonsense" 5:47 PM Mar 26th from web
- RT @ "This is a huge victory for sound science education in Texas." Creationist motion defeated. Hook 'em!12:02 PM Mar 26th from web
- RT @ Every geoscientist should also learn to roll their own code, 9:38 AM Mar 26th from web
- We got some needed rain in central Austin; storm was severe in northern burbs. Baseball sized hail. Dry south of Lake Lady Bird. No twister.8:35 PM Mar 25th from web
- Texas textbook vote is tomorrow, not today. Final testimony was today. Sorry for the error. ( sboe Texas creationism ) 8:29 PM Mar 25th from web
- While creationism in Texas textbooks is debated in a close vote, Austin under tornado watch. Interesting tornado scenarios can be imagined.4:54 PM Mar 25th from web
- Texas Freedom Network live-blogs TX state board of ed textbook standards hearing today: creationism sboe4:50 PM Mar 25th from web
- Texas State Board of Education fight over creationism in curriculum: . Last round, back story, chez moi: 1:15 AM Mar 25th from web
- It's like Google didn't know any coders. No this is NOT the information I wanted. I wanted to find the 'off' switch. 5:45 PM Mar 24th from web
- Is the total mass imported onto Manhattan island tectonically significant?9:23 AM Mar 23rd from web
- Just added myself to the twitter directory under: 7:48 PM Mar 22nd from web
- Is money itself a Ponzi scheme? Is there a way to fix it? 11:24 AM Mar 22nd from web
- Google turns up much pro- @ stuff not much anti. R argues all bank money ponzi. Brash, scaring conservatives away? Where's rebuttal?2:57 PM Mar 21st from web
- Is money itself a Ponzi scheme? Seeking counterarguments to Rushkoff's view at 1:44 PM Mar 21st from web
- Being followed by fake Tim @ not as good as being followed by real Tim, but cool anyway.12:53 PM Mar 21st from web
- eternal [pdf]11:21 PM Mar 20th from web
- @ Like the layout, fonts, clean look. Don't think those are the right colors for you. What are you, a bank? Lose those blues.6:33 PM Mar 20th from web
- @ Web CAN'T replace print function? Web CAN destroy print business? 2 camps each believed one of these, but both are true. (hth ☺)4:00 PM Mar 20th from web
- Ideas about the future of journalism: 11:42 AM Mar 20th from web
- What if there had never been a Montreal Protocol on CFCs? h/t @10:56 AM Mar 20th from web
- @ points to an excellent item of his from a few months back 12:27 AM Mar 20th from web
- RT @ An infographic retelling of Little Red Ridinghood. 2:00 PM Mar 19th from web
- science blogs provide a third way, neither conventional journalism of political hockey game nor blind advocacy: 11:22 AM Mar 19th from web
- Nice to see burst of interest in science journalism . Propose tag 11:19 AM Mar 19th from web
- Science is not economically important to software vendors or developers. Consequence is bad scientific software. 10:16 AM Mar 19th from web
- RT @ More journalists are blogging. But skeptics ask: can a few corporate newsies *replace* what hundreds of indy bloggers do?9:41 AM Mar 19th from web
- Using journalism to argue dishonestly: 7:37 PM Mar 18th from web
- 12 reasons climate change denial is still thriving: 7:07 PM Mar 18th from web
- "if your firm ... bankrupt and costs taxpayers tens ... of billions of dollars, you don't get any bonuses" unclear to Wash Post 3:33 PM Mar 18th from web
- "It's always important to know how much "f**k-up" slack you have in any system in which you have a role." via @ at 12:24 PM Mar 18th from web
- RT @ Climate scientists are still very worried that we don't see the urgency 8:35 AM Mar 18th from web
- @ asks for feedback on ; I think it's very nice, especially the last part about science journalism. Useful too. +111:52 PM Mar 17th from web
- @ Happy trails! Stay in touch.4:46 PM Mar 17th from web
- NYTimes headline at like saying "Dentist urges immediate oral surgery, plasma TV salesman says no hurry on dental work."12:15 AM Mar 17th from web
- great analog geek art 11:39 PM Mar 16th from web
- +1 Emily Gertz editor of globalwarming.change.org Straight talk : where are the lolcats of global warming. We need humor too.4:12 PM Mar 16th from Tweetie
- ayn rand ??? Give us a break. Without collective and global action we cant possibly hit the right scale3:55 PM Mar 16th from Tweetie
- Playing hooky from day job for 3:31 PM Mar 16th from Tweetie
- @ you miss this. Friends versus Followers: Twitter’s elegant design for grouping contacts h/t @1:45 PM Mar 16th from web
- Kunstler: skyscrapers unsustainable but Glaeser: skyscrapers green . No answer without arithmetic.12:34 PM Mar 16th from web
- "reverse panel" oddness on my blog: Does Twitter alter events in real time like this regularly?1:03 AM Mar 16th from web
- @ That wouldn't really account for them talking about themselves for over a half hour, would it?10:44 PM Mar 15th from web
- RT @ problem: differing expectations. Audience expected normal SXSW panel. Panel expected free consulting from audience. 10:43 PM Mar 15th from web
- Book writing like driving an ammo truck; can't pull over. Shirky defends long form writing. 5:17 PM Mar 15th from Tweetie
- Curate curate curate. Does that mean edit? What's the difference?5:11 PM Mar 15th from Tweetie
- metajournalism firehose h/t @ : 1:28 PM Mar 15th from web
- The thing is, I like journalists. I am just jealous.8:55 PM Mar 14th from web
- RT @“We have an economy where we steal the future, sell it in the present, and call it GDP" - Paul Hawken7:39 PM Mar 14th from web
- RT @ Frame:Ax-grinding, blinder-wearing, cause-supporting,...partisan silencers vs. neutral fact-finding pro reporters.Toughie.6:58 PM Mar 14th from web
- RT @ "It's like the 1920s -- if you can write, produce, act, direct, you're faster, cheaper, more effective."6:29 PM Mar 14th from web
- otoh lessig kicks butt12:42 PM Mar 14th from Tweetie
- She read post about being bored by a foot fetishist. Meta-boring. Intro said her "1-track mind" 24th most influential blog in world. {sigh}11:30 AM Mar 14th from Tweetie
- day stage schedule turns out fictitious.went 4 "impress donors w video".got "diary of a sex fiend" blog lady.11:23 AM Mar 14th from Tweetie
- Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism...journalism will be made up of overlapping special cases. 12:55 AM Mar 14th from web
- Why do the animations make this story easier to follow? 12:39 AM Mar 14th from web
- ?11:39 PM Mar 13th from web
- @ This article of mine reminded someone of you. Relevant Danish clim mtg reporting & Revkin on Gore/Will10:29 PM Mar 12th from web
- How the climate debate works: 8:00 PM Mar 12th from web
- RT @ Where is the US coverage of Climate Congress: ? Not @ Dot Earth which has 2 pieces on Heartland fake IPCC11:54 AM Mar 12th from web
- Remember this? How media bias the climate change discourse: 11:04 AM Mar 12th from web
- Eliz.Kolbert: media has contributed to the [climate] problem because it’s not the lead story of the paper every day. excellent: 11:01 AM Mar 12th from web
- RT @ People WANT to get it. (Get it?) They devour This American Life when it explains the banking crisis. 10:54 AM Mar 12th from web
- Who decides what is influential? Why should it be a service of the NYTimes? eg "Some sites excluded for technical reasons"6:59 PM Mar 11th from web
- @ thanks. A multidimensional money idea again. (Did you ever play "Careers"?) Alas. Money wants to be one-dimensional.5:40 PM Mar 10th from web
- Dang, this thing sounds good. Wish I could be there. Looking forward to sxswi though.5:37 PM Mar 10th from web
- How I became the target of the day for Fox News' Glenn Beck: 2:19 PM Mar 10th from web
- RT @ : @: "The poor's job is to get rich. Our job is to reinvent what rich means." Nice.11:19 AM Mar 10th from web
- Now I'm the lead story on RealClimate, and they made me young again, too! 6:33 PM Mar 9th from web
- RT @ Please join me at 12 PST on twitter for Rally for the Public Domain. Short speech plus interactive h/t @12:43 PM Mar 9th from web
- Whoa, Wolfram sticks his neck out! ( h/t @ )1:18 PM Mar 8th from web
- @ My preference: the "Great Unwinding" already in common use. I also like Eliza Gilkyson's "Great Correction", see 11:56 AM Mar 8th from web
- RT @- my take on the Tobis - Pielke, Revkin, Morano, Beck story: 11:26 PM Mar 7th from web
- RT @ Daily routines: How writers, artists, and other interesting people organize their days h/t howtoons' nick11:07 PM Mar 6th from web
- @ tweetstream +1 . Keep it going please and thanks!1:31 PM Mar 6th from web
- Seven great quotes from Carl Sagan: 9:39 AM Mar 6th from web
- RT @ Asking at MasterResource why "skeptic" scientists think it is "conservative" to down-peddle climate risks 9:30 AM Mar 6th from web
- imbroglio, contretemps, the Europeans have such nice names for it2:15 PM Mar 5th from web
- Irene: "a toast to you and to things that are not obviously false". See 9:07 AM Mar 5th from web
- @ thanks for the RT from Stoat; could you point out where you found it? ... People have been very kind to me today. Thanks all!8:39 AM Mar 5th from web
- @ it's serious enough but that doesn't mean it isn't funny.11:46 PM Mar 4th from web
- I am so hosed. . Totally out of context of course.1:23 PM Mar 4th from web
- @ re:blogstorm. I'm pretty sure I didn't start it. I hope it isn't the end of me... 12:19 AM Mar 4th from web
- Newsday paywall idea reminds me of philosophers going on strike in HHGTG: "And whom, exactly, will that inconvenience?"6:30 PM Mar 2nd from web
- Excellent pop science video from Peter Sinclair, ; a good example is 10:04 PM Mar 1st from web
- Arctic sea ice will probably not recover. Are we having fun yet? 10:44 PM Feb 28th from web
- Retweet (wow) @ @ Austin hits 90, sets record 12:50 AM Feb 28th from web
- No-brainer AFAIC. RT @ Ask Congress to post bills so we can read 'em: 12:03 PM Feb 26th from web
- Whatever happened to pistachio ice cream?7:53 PM Feb 25th from web
- @ on George Will's WaPo climate rant worse than Will's comment in the first place. Revkin knows better. My take: 2:59 PM Feb 25th from web
- Discussion in fancy hoboken bistro w Paul Baer re what integrated assessment model should be once it's agreed mainstream economics is wrong11:08 PM Feb 23rd from Tweetie
- twitter.com/noinclude/oscar doesn't seem to work right11:28 PM Feb 22nd from web
- TSA confiscates > 3oz gel but smallest toothpaste at the store 4oz. Coincidence? And who gets all that extra toothpaste anyway?2:58 PM Feb 21st from web
- Aargh. Missed Leonard Cohen when in Montreal and again in NYC! Still, I saw Will Taylor do maybe the best Cohen show ever in Marble Falls TX9:20 PM Feb 20th from web
- I'm going to get a business card for my blogging identity; it opens far more doors than my scientist identity does. 12:42 AM Feb 20th from web
- @ rocks! Great presentation at Columbia re open science.4:17 PM Feb 19th from Tweetie
- Waiting an extra 3 hrs at austin airport due to weather in nj; seems like a week8:08 PM Feb 18th from Tweetie
- RT @ Oppose the killing of the NIH open access provisions? Contact Congresscritters: Now is the time!1:59 PM Feb 18th from web
- RT @ (!) Check out Daily Climate 1:15 PM Feb 17th from web
- RT @ The economic consensus on climate change? 11:37 AM Feb 16th from web
- Don't define yourself. The more labels you have for yourself, the dumber they make you. Paul Graham explains: 9:54 AM Feb 16th from web
- That certain je-ne-sais-quoi: 6:45 PM Feb 15th from web
- (Yet another @ retweet; maybe I should have a bot just echo him.) Anyway .3:24 PM Feb 14th from web
- FDA approves new depressant (Flash video): 9:24 AM Feb 14th from web
- auspicious weekend; darwin & lincoln's 200th; 1234567890 day ; moon in 7th house, jupiter aligned w mars 8:56 PM Feb 13th from web
- RT @ : Japanese official: I thought America had studied Japan’s failures. Why is it making the same mistakes? ...2:54 PM Feb 13th from web
- RT @ : Help stop the reversal of the NIH public access mandate. 2:14 PM Feb 11th from web
- dorkbot 19 tonight in 10:27 AM Feb 11th from web
- There may be a bunch of 5H1TP1LE5, but there's only one FAN.9:09 PM Feb 9th from web
- @ : wood is a biofuel; harvested sustainably would be C neutral. 300 Kg wood vs US per cap*yr 6 tons fossil C = no big deal6:48 PM Feb 9th from web
- if you prefer, Python: Elegance taming complexity.5:49 PM Feb 9th from web
- "Elegance tames complexity"5:48 PM Feb 9th from web
- @: your tinyurl fails. Fourier transform an audio signal and get back an amplitude for each pure tone; no information is lost.7:02 PM Feb 8th from web
- @ what are you proposing to do?6:59 PM Feb 8th from web
- "The ethic of the link" (Jay Rosen) h/t @ .3:44 PM Feb 8th from web
- Douglas Rushkoff's brilliant mass-media-centric analysis of society's growth addiction & why its crumbling now: 6:02 PM Feb 7th from web
- This "nearbytweets" thing has turned out useful on the first try: 11:31 AM Feb 7th from web
- ++ The ironic backwardness of science: 12:53 AM Feb 6th from web
- @ on another topic do you have a link to that RFK speech, or at least some keywords? Interested.7:40 PM Feb 5th from web
- Irene: "Information wants to be wrong."10:40 AM Feb 5th from web
- RT @ Activist (or know one)? Fill out this survey please; maybe (he will) get to work on what you describe: 2:10 PM Feb 4th from web
- RT @ and @ Is reuse good for the economy? vote & discuss: - please RT & spread the ooffoo love3:15 PM Feb 2nd from web
- This is not a "recession". Further evidence: an argument in favor of "red Toryism": (h/t Bruno)9:10 AM Feb 2nd from web
- @ an elephant story for you here: 1:23 AM Jan 31st from web
- @ I don't think contributes to GDP compared to waste: ; more evidence GDP counts the wrong thing2:23 PM Jan 30th from web
- I know people are looking for inspiration or chuckles, but I wish you knew about this bad news w/o my help: 1:36 PM Jan 30th from web
- Struggling with Canadian passport regulations. Never was very comfortable with authorities asking for "papers" for some reason.8:24 AM Jan 29th from web
- @ What I mean by "linear programming" = what economists do: . No relationship with Civ games or Python afaik.9:49 PM Jan 26th from web
- Better late than never, learning to use SIGALRM and SIGINT from C & Python. And how long have I not known about the "commands" module?2:08 PM Jan 26th from web
- oops s/\//\/\// if you know what I mean.2:08 PM Jan 24th from web
- Sharing vs growth macroeconomics blogged on "In It" : . H/T @ and http:/lendaround.com2:06 PM Jan 24th from web
- @ Welcome to twitter, where character counts but characters count.2:06 PM Jan 23rd from web
- @ 1:56 PM Jan 23rd from web in reply to M_Bloom
- @ don't miss the nytimes story. It's national news like I said10:06 PM Jan 22nd from Tweetie in reply to M_Bloom
- preparing to meet supervisee; a CS grad student from India1:23 PM Jan 22nd from web
- finally found a Statesman story no thanks to the search box. H/T TFN. Schafersman misquoted? Else no great ally.1:13 PM Jan 21st from web
- @ Texas Freedom Network says Sen. Ellis filed bill stripping the SBOE of authority re: curriculum. Status? 12:58 PM Jan 21st from web in reply to M_Bloom
- @ My blogs on the subject: 12:53 PM Jan 21st from web in reply to M_Bloom
- @ Absolutely, front page stuff. If creationists win this will be a national story. Look into the similar Kansas story.12:44 PM Jan 21st from web in reply to M_Bloom
- @ various circles I move in are quite worked up about this story. It needs to be front page stuff.12:24 PM Jan 21st from web in reply to M_Bloom
- @ thanks! Do you want followers? I have been blogging about the SBOE thing and can mention you.12:23 PM Jan 21st from web in reply to M_Bloom
- quote from last night's party: "now, kids, gather up some sticks and we'll make an effigy of Dick Cheney that we can throw on the fire, OK?"11:06 AM Jan 21st from web
- @ if extraterrestrials are your rebuttal to religion, you're not done. life may be very rare in the universe: 1:40 AM Jan 21st from web in reply to davewiner
- Is there a reasonably clear and complete guide to handling multiple instances (major versions) on one machine? Anyone?12:57 PM Jan 20th from web
- Answers for problems we don't have: 12:27 AM Jan 19th from web
- @ in re elephant problem; micropayments. If there us no "paper" in Seattle people will pay a dime for news. 10:27 PM Jan 17th from web in reply to jfleck
- Having a burst of creativity, thanks to Microsoft (TM) brand software: 2:32 PM Jan 17th from web
- -3F in Chicago now, expected high -1F. As good a time as any to make an Al Gore joke if you've got one. So: 3:27 PM Jan 15th from web
- To the law, its hard to tell science from centuries-old fairy tales intended to keep kids safe indoors at night. 2:31 PM Jan 13th from web
- finding words and music to "Texas, Our Texas"2:20 PM Jan 13th from web
- Science isn't cool anymore. We need to rethink our PR. 1:03 AM Jan 13th from web
- See that tiny "warning" there? Don't sign in to fake Twitter.com from a "DM" = direct message. Slashdot has more: 1:14 PM Jan 5th from web
- the Hourieh book says "maxlength", django says "max_length", let's call the whole thing off...3:49 PM Jan 3rd from web
- : How many books should a person keep? I have cut back but there are still about 150 shelf-feet not counting comix.4:40 PM Dec 20th, 2008 from web
- bureaucratic overhead2:52 PM Dec 19th, 2008 from web
- @ count me in: 5:08 PM Dec 18th, 2008 from web in reply to BoraZ
- more comparative computer languages: 4:40 PM Dec 18th, 2008 from web
- @ peer reviewed papers add no value; they simply certify that people see value in the work. Real communication of results is personal.4:09 PM Dec 18th, 2008 from web in reply to jfleck
- Wondering how many other people actually got a match twixt code language and religion: 8:42 PM Dec 17th, 2008 from web
- @ I welcome raves or counter-rants11:14 AM Dec 17th, 2008 from web in reply to PA32R
- Trying to get sphinx + matplotlib math notation working. 10:18 AM Dec 17th, 2008 from web
- See then google "global warming consensus" = Scary. Discussion? 9:31 AM Dec 13th, 2008 from web
- $1.39; Shell station on S. Lamar.11:17 AM Dec 10th, 2008 from web
- Bushies still hiring GOP hacks to manage real scientists: 1:58 PM Dec 2nd, 2008 from web
- selling my pittance of a position. cash is king.1:55 PM Dec 1st, 2008 from web
- graham cracker crust9:45 PM Nov 26th, 2008 from web
- paying flood insurance... FEMA reviews its flood plains; suddenly puts my house in 100 yr zone house across street not in 500 yr zone ouch.10:53 AM Nov 24th, 2008 from web
- Slide show on home page at is very moving. See it while you can.3:10 PM Nov 5th, 2008 from web
- losing my mind... must have put it around here someplace...5:23 PM Nov 4th, 2008 from web
- My wishing real hard has moved Texas out of the hopeless category. My work is done...12:02 PM Oct 2nd, 2008 from web
- Not about to waste too much time today; I feel that all my pointless fretting about the election over the last 2 weeks hasn't been in vain.12:01 PM Oct 2nd, 2008 from web
- hey John12:00 PM Oct 2nd, 2008 from web
- Texas is pink! 11:34 AM Oct 2nd, 2008 from web
- being too old for this sort of thing12:45 PM Oct 2nd, 2007 from web
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