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While reading an NSF "Dear Colleague" letter on data citation in the geosciences, I came across this quote from the American Geophysical Union , > ..the scientific community should recogn...

http://climatespin.blogspot.com/2012/05/getting-credit-for-scientific-software.html

(A raging climate-blogosphere story is a great excuse to start posting again!) As I read many of the stories on Peter Gleick's pranking of the Heartland Institute (see this Guardian story for ...

http://climatespin.blogspot.com/2012/02/peter-gleick-is-still-good-scientist.html

I'm glad the traffic for this page hasn't died down completely. Many things to post about, just no time. My twitter account is more active. Besides the ClimateSpin daily, I will sometimes livetwe...

http://climatespin.blogspot.com/2011/11/another-year.html

One year and a few days since my last post. My how things have changed. A decent climate-energy bill passed the house but never got a vote in the Senate. I believe a new Congress means all un-a...

http://climatespin.blogspot.com/2010/11/one-year-later.html

A nice article from Seth Borenstein, one of the better climate science reporters, tries to explain how, statistically, there is no such thing as recent global cooling. > The case that the ...

http://climatespin.blogspot.com/2009/10/recent-global-cooling-isnt-in.html

I'm joining the twitterati. Hopefully micro-blogging will be easier then actual blogging. http://twitter.com/climatespin

http://climatespin.blogspot.com/2009/09/now-on-twitter.html

On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the first men landing on the moon, there's more talk about establishing an Apollo-scale project for solving the energy/climate crisis. Lloyd Alter at Tr...

http://climatespin.blogspot.com/2009/07/apollo-or-manhattan-project-for-energy.html

I have mixed feelings about the Waxman-Markey bill. On the one hand, its a solid cap-and-trade program with a good target: emissions should be 83% below 2005 levels by 2050. That's basically a ca...

http://climatespin.blogspot.com/2009/07/waxman-markey-ok-bill.html

(I'm going to stop making grand claims about restarting this blog. Posting will continue to be irregular. That's life.) I saw an interesting story on Huffington Post about an EPA report skeptic...

http://climatespin.blogspot.com/2009/06/suppressed-epa-report-suppressed-for.html

(Happy New Year everyone! Let me clear out the cobwebs on this blog once again.) I'm pretty happy with the appointments Obama has made to the the various science agencies. It will be very intere...

http://climatespin.blogspot.com/2009/01/obamas-science-team.html

I was at the election night rally for Obama in Grant Park. As I listened to his speech, which was more somber then celebratory, I thought "Great, the adults are in charge again!". As evidence of...

http://climatespin.blogspot.com/2008/11/president-elect-obama-to-speak-on.html

Check your local listings for this Frontline documentary airing this week on PBS. More info here .

http://climatespin.blogspot.com/2008/10/must-see-tv-frontline-on-fossil-fuel.html

I'm a fan of Paul Krugman and don't want to rain on his parade but I can't wait another year to post this rant. There is no such thing as a "Nobel Prize in Economics". What Krugman and the ones...

http://climatespin.blogspot.com/2008/10/theres-no-such-thing-as-nobel-prize-in.html

(picture taken from DailyKos) Does anyone have a pointer to Sarah Palin's views on climate disruption? She's a creationist so they are probably the least coherent of the 4 people at the top of ...

http://climatespin.blogspot.com/2008/09/putin-is-watching.html

It's only fair to note that McCain's campaign has answered the science debate questions. You can view Obama's and McCain's answers side-by-side here . I'll just echo what Bob Parks said: > Una...

http://climatespin.blogspot.com/2008/09/mccain-answers-science-debate-questions.html

Late last year, an online movement called Science Debate 2008 was started to try and get all the presidential candidates to have a debate focused on science. I threw my tiny support behind it . ...

http://climatespin.blogspot.com/2008/09/obama-answers-science-debate-questions.html

This time last week I was at Los Alamos National Laboratory for a meeting that discussed building a Community Ice Sheet Model, inspired by the success of the Community Climate System Model . (Eve...

http://climatespin.blogspot.com/2008/08/known-unknowns-on-ice.html

(mt started the John P. Holdren bandwagon before I could write this post but I'm going to pile on..) I first saw John P. Holdren speak at the Chicago Humanities Festival last year. I was very i...

http://climatespin.blogspot.com/2008/08/words-matter-call-it-climate-disruption.html

I don't mean to turn this in to a Paul Krugman fanboy site but in today's column he both writes about energy and uses stupid as a noun! > ...the debate on energy policy has helped me f...

http://climatespin.blogspot.com/2008/08/krugman-gop-is-party-of-stupid.html

I don't know who started this trend of using "stupid" as a noun but it cracks me up almost every time. Consider this recent Tom Toles cartoon (above). My absolute favorite joke is from Atrios ...

http://climatespin.blogspot.com/2008/08/tank-full-of-stupid.html

Obama came out with his energy plan yesterday. I agree with Joe over at Climate Progress that its pretty darn good from a major-party candidate (I don't recall if its better then Gore's 2000 pl...

http://climatespin.blogspot.com/2008/08/obamas-energy-plan-really-good.html

First in his blog and then a few days later in a column , NYT columnist Paul Krugman uses his influtential position to point out the interesting work being done by Harvard economist Martin Weitz...

http://climatespin.blogspot.com/2008/08/krugman-points-out-fat-tails.html

I said I wasn't necessarily going to do the media thing but this is to good. According to the AP's H. Josef Hebert in this story : > Vice President Dick Cheney's office pushed for major...

http://climatespin.blogspot.com/2008/07/chenys-office-wanted-cuts-in-climate.html

I stopped posting on this blog for typical blogging reasons: I was in a rut. I was determined to focus on traditional media coverage of global warming. But that meant I had homework: read traditi...

http://climatespin.blogspot.com/2008/06/not-dead-yet.html

I was supporting John Edwards for the Democratic nomination for President. One big reason was he was the candidate who most frequently talked about global warming, often without any prompting fro...

http://climatespin.blogspot.com/2008/02/with-edwards-withdrawal-more-important.html