False Claims Proven False « Open Mind
Statistical analysis of global temperature data, proving that two of the most prominent claims of global warming denialists (that the dramatic reduction in the number of reporting stations around 1990 introduced a false warming trend, and that the adjustments applied to station data also introduce a false warming trend) are utterly false.
climate 
february 2010
Scientific opinion on climate change - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of major scientific organisations and their stances on anthropogenic global warming. Notably, there is now not a single major scientific organisation that maintains a denial position.
climate 
february 2010
Logicalscience.com - The Consensus On Global Warming/Climate Change: From Science to Industry & Religion
Summary of the effective consensus on anthropogenic global warming and mainstream climate science: a list of the major organisations that have stated support.
climate 
february 2010
Rabett Run: Another Try
Excellent bare-bones, basic summary of the physics of the greenhouse effect.
climate 
february 2010
Detecting HTML5 Features - Dive Into HTML5
A very useful section of Mark Pilgrim's "Dive into HTML5" - how to detect html5 features like canvas, video, etc and serve alternatives to browsers that don't support these features.
css  html 
february 2010
A List Of Fallacious Arguments
Handy reference list of fallacies in logical argument.
language  reference 
february 2010
The Skeptics vs. the Ozone Hole : Weather Underground
Brief summary of the CFC/ozone battles, specifically looking at the tactics used by industry to delay action (very much reminiscent of the current tactics used by Big Coal and so-called "climate skeptics", i.e. denialists...)
climate 
february 2010
Observations of anthropogenic global warming « AGW Observer
Handy one-page summary of the evidence that demonstrates anthropogenic global warming.
climate 
february 2010
Font Squirrel | Create Your Own @font-face Kits
Excellent tool for generating packs of @font-face fonts (EOT, SVG and OTF).
fonts 
february 2010
The Easiest Way to Build your First iPhone App | Nettuts+
Mobile websites have come a long way, but if you want to take full advantage of a smartphone's hardware, or get listed in the iTunes App Store, you need to compile your code. This tutorial shows how to create a mobile web app with an iPhone look and feel using jQTouch, then turn it into a native iPhone app using Phonegap. No Objective-C necessary.
iphone  mobile 
february 2010
Rabett Run: Tom's trick and experimental design
Shows just how pointless - and extraordinarily poorly designed - Anthony Watts and Roger J. Pielke Senior's surfacestations.org project was. Eli Rabett discusses the Climate Reference Network of US surface temperature stations, and how the record of temperature anomalies shows that the underlying warming trend is very accurately captured by the existing network of measuring stations.
climate 
february 2010
Highcharts - Interactive JavaScript charts for your webpage
Highcharts is a charting library written in pure JavaScript, offering an easy way of adding interactive charts to your web site or web application. Highcharts currently supports line, spline, area, areaspline, column, bar, pie and scatter chart types.
javascript 
january 2010
Font Squirrel | Download Hundreds of Free @font-face Fonts
Large list of freely web-embeddable fonts for use with @font-face or Cufon.
fonts 
january 2010
exljbris Font Foundry
Web embeddable free fonts (need attribution in CSS and/or visible link on page).
fonts 
january 2010
Major Antarctic glacier is 'past its tipping point' - environment - 13 January 2010 - New Scientist
Evidence that Pine Island Glacier and Thwaite's Glacier have passed a tipping point and may melt (and calve) much faster than expected.
climate 
january 2010
Anti-AGW papers debunked « AGW Observer
List of published papers which attempt to deny/minimise AGW, and list of debunking papers/articles for each.
climate 
january 2010
UCLA Researcher Finds CO2 at Highest Levels in 15 Million Years,  UCLA Sustainability
You would have to go back at least 15 million years to find carbon dioxide levels on Earth as high as they are today, a UCLA scientist and colleagues report Oct. 8 in the online edition of the journal Science.
climate 
january 2010
Annual Australian Climate Statement 2009
Bureau of Meteorology summary of Australian climate for 2009.
climate 
january 2010
Let the earth help us to save the earth
How to accelerate natural weathering of olivine to draw down / reduce CO2 in the atmosphere. Looks like one of the most promising forms of geoengineering. PDF (2 MB)
climate 
december 2009
gg » Lots of smoke, hardly any gun. Do climatologists falsify data?
Statistical analysis of corrections made to temperature data by meteorological organisations. Shows that there is no pro-warming bias in the corrections.
climate 
december 2009
What happened to the evidence for man-made global warming?
Summary of the lines of evidence supporting AGW, and how SwiftHack/ClimateGate/the CRU email hack has done nothing to negate them.
climate 
december 2009
How Long? « Open Mind
Tamino demonstrates with graphs how short term uncertainty in global temperature (due to the amount of natural variation) means we need at least 15 years of data to establish a clear trend.
climate 
december 2009
Mind the gap : article : Nature Reports Climate Change
Projecting a 4-degree warming. Includes a map which shows the distance that temperature zones would shift.
climate 
december 2009
Carbon and Climate - Applet
With this applet, you can develop your own scenarios for future human emissions and future carbon sinks in the oceans and on the land. Run the applet to see the impact on atmospheric CO2 and global mean temperature.
climate 
december 2009
New discoveries could improve climate projections
New discoveries about the deep ocean's temperature variability and circulation system could help improve projections of future climate conditions. The deep ocean is affected more by surface warming than previously thought, and this understanding allows for more accurate predictions of factors such as sea level rise and ice volume changes.

High ocean surface temperatures have also been found to result in a more vigorous deep ocean circulation system. This increase results in a faster transport of large quantities of warm water, with possible impacts including reduction of sea ice extent and overall warming of the Arctic.
climate 
december 2009
The emerging scientific consensus on the SwiftHack emails: get real, denialists « The Way Things Break
List of statements on the CRU stolen emails affair from various reputable sources, including IPCC, Met Office, Royal Society, Nature, American Meteorological Society, New Scientist, Scientific American, etc etc.
climate 
december 2009
Leprechauns and climate | Not Spaghetti
Nice overview of climate denial: the tactics and the best response.
climate 
december 2009
Climate Change Deniers vs The Consensus | Information Is Beautiful
Data visualisation / text summary of pro-AGW and anti-AGW arguments (incorrect in several places, but not a bad overview)
climate 
december 2009
Riddle me this … « Open Mind
Excellent summary of the global temperature warming trend. The perfect antidote to those who say "there's been a cooling trend for the last decade".
climate 
december 2009
Next year may be hottest yet, Met Office says - Climate Change, Environment - The Independent
There is a good chance that next year will be the hottest year recorded for the world, according to new forecasts from the Met Office's climate prediction and research branch, the Hadley Centre.

A new forecast for the decade from 2009 onwards suggests that "at least half" of the years up to 2019 will be hotter than the hottest year so far, which was 1998. And it indicates that the first of the years to break the current record will actually be 2010.
climate 
november 2009
Global warming may be unstoppable, says scientist
According to Tim Garrett, an associate professor of atmospheric sciences, University of Utah, rising carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions - the major cause of global warming - cannot be stabilised unless the world's economy collapses or society builds the equivalent of one new nuclear power plant each day. The study, which is based on the concept that physics can be used to characterize the evolution of civilization, indicates that energy conservation or efficiency doesn't really save energy, but instead spurs economic growth and accelerated energy consumption.
climate 
november 2009
Smoking guns in the CRU stolen e-mails: A real tale of real ethics in science « Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub
Backfire: the stolen emails from CRU reveal what looks like fraud - but not by real climate scientists. The apparent fraud is in a paper by the infamous contrarians David H. Douglass, John R. Christy, Benjamin D. Pearsona and S. Fred Singer.
climate 
november 2009
Climate change could boost incidence of civil war in Africa
Climate change could increase the likelihood of civil war in sub-Saharan Africa by over 50 percent within the next two decades, according to a new study led by a team of researchers at University of California, Berkeley, and published in the Nov. 23 online issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
climate 
november 2009
The Ultimate Toolbox for iPhone Development | Webdesigner Depot
70 tools, tutorials, and resources to help you get started developing your own iPhone apps.
mobile  iphone 
november 2009
W3C mobileOK Checker
This checker performs various tests on a Web Page to determine its level of mobile-friendliness
mobile  tools 
november 2009
When can I use...
Compatibility tables for features in HTML5, CSS3, SVG and other upcoming web technologies
html  css  browsers  reference  webdev 
november 2009
Tomorrow's weather: Cloudy, with a chance of fractals - environment - 04 November 2009 - New Scientist
Intriguing research that reveals that weather (and thus climate) may be extricable using fractal mathematics.
climate 
november 2009
Acid in the Arctic
Arctic waters are rapidly turning acidic, even faster than originally thought. New research from oceanographer Dr. James Orr of the Laboratory for the Sciences of Climate and Environment in Paris predicts that the Arctic Ocean will be corrosive enough to dissolve shells of clams, mussels and others within the next decade.
climate 
november 2009
Mini ice age took hold of Europe in months - environment - 11 November 2009 - New Scientist
JUST months - that's how long it took for Europe to be engulfed by an ice age. The scenario, which comes straight out of Hollywood blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow, was revealed by the most precise record of the climate from palaeohistory ever generated.
climate 
november 2009
EESC V2100 - Syllabus
Full online syllabus covering climate science, from Columbia University (EESC).
climate 
october 2009
The Climate Book
Ray Pierrehumbert on the physics of climate: "This is the resource site for my book on physics of climate, which is under contract to be published by Cambridge University Press. Here, you will find the latest version of the working draft of the book, together with an extensive set of exercises in the form of a workbook."
climate 
october 2009
Examining the validity of the published RCS Yamal tree-ring chronology
Keith Briffa refutes the allegations made by Steve McIntyre about the Yamal tree ring series.
climate 
october 2009
Correcting Ocean Cooling : Feature Articles
5-page feature piece on ocean "cooling" initially seen in Argo results, and the subsequent analysis that found the measurement problems involved.
climate 
october 2009
RealClimate: Ocean Cooling. Not.
Overview of ocean heat content studies.
climate 
october 2009
Met Office: Effects on our world
UK Met Office: global impacts of climate change
climate 
october 2009
Map of impacts of 4 degrees warming (UK govt) (Flash)
The British government has stepped up its pre-Copenhagen campaign for a global emissions deal, yesterday releasing this interactive map of what a 4ºC temperature increase would mean for the world. Click on the map to explore the impacts listed across the bottom.
climate 
october 2009
RealClimate: Why Levitt and Dubner like geo-engineering and why they are wrong
RealClimate with another analysis of Superfreakonomics on climate.
climate 
october 2009
FAIL: Superfreakonomics « Left as an Exercise
List of articles analysing the failure of "Superfreakonomics" on climate.
climate 
october 2009
RealClimate: Climate change methadone?
Analysis of the problems with geoengineering via adding sulphur dioxide aerosols to the upper atmosphere - reduction in precipitation, ocean acidification not addressed, ozone impact, acid rain in polar regions, etc.
climate 
october 2009
Yet more T/CO2 lags : Stoat
Eric Wolff on temperature - CO2 lag: it's a mutual feedback. Key point: there is no period when CO2 is rising and temperature is not.
climate 
october 2009
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling (and some other stuff)? : Stoat
William M. Connolley finds 10 major errors in the "SuperFreakonomics" chapter on global warming.
climate 
october 2009
New Book "SuperFreakonomics" Mischaracterizes Climate Science | Union of Concerned Scientists
A follow-up to the bestselling book "Freakonomics" features a chapter that grossly mischaracterizes climate science, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists.

The new book, "SuperFreakonomics" by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, is slated to be officially released on October 20, 2009. Experts at UCS found that the fifth chapter of the book, "Global Cooling," repeats a large number of easily discredited arguments regarding climate science, energy production, and geoengineering.

The authors appear to have taken a purposefully contrarian position on climate change science and economics. While such a position may help draw attention to their book, their reliance on faulty arguments and distorted statistics does a disservice to their readers.
climate 
october 2009
Timing of carbon dioxide and temperature in Vostok ice core « AGW Observer
Analysis of Vostok ice core data showing that the common meme that "CO2 lags temperature" appears to be mostly (but not always) valid for valleys (low temp & CO2) but mostly (but not always) invalid for peaks (high temp and CO2).
climate 
october 2009
Empirical evidence that humans are causing global warming
It still surprises me when I hear skeptics claim there is no evidence that we're causing global warming. The evidence is there in the peer reviewed literature. What they're really saying is they haven't bothered to look. So to make things easier for everyone, here is the evidence that humans are causing global warming. It's not based on theory, climate models, faith or political ideology but on direct, empirical observations.
climate 
october 2009
RGraph: A canvas graph library based on the HTML5 canvas tag
RGraph is a HTML5 canvas graph library. It uses features that became available in HTML5 (specifically, the CANVAS tag) to produce a wide variety of graph types: bar chart, bi-polar chart (also known as an age frequency chart), donut chart, funnel chart, gantt chart, horizontal bar chart, LED display, line graph, odometer, pie chart, progress bar, pseudo radar chart, scatter graph and traditional radar chart.
webdev  javascript 
october 2009
RealClimate: Uncertainty, noise and the art of model-data comparison
Discussion of short term noise vs long term trends in temperature records. Cooling can appear over short periods within an overall warming trend.
october 2009
Chevron - willyoujoinus - Energyville
Chevron's simulation / planner game where you're given a little city, and you have to supply the energy needs of your citizens. Only problem is, you can't progress past level one unless one of your major energy sources is petrol.
october 2009
RealClimate: The lag between temperature and CO2. (Gore’s got it right.)
Examination of the lag, in paleoclimate records, between the initial rise in temperatures and the initial rise in CO2 levels. CO2 is a product of the initial warming; most of the warming thereafter is the result of increased CO2, and carbon cycle (and other) feedbacks.
october 2009
An 'error' is not the same thing as an error : Deltoid
Tim Lambert examines the UK court case against Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" and reveals that the judge did not, in fact, determine that the movie contained errors.
october 2009
RealClimate: Convenient Untruths
RealClimate discusses the UK court case against Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth", examines the 9 issues which were identified as contestable (not actually "errors"), and concludes that in all cases (except perhaps one), the movie was justified in its presentation.
october 2009
Re-visiting climate forcing/feedback concepts… « Climate Change
Chris Colose: this post outlines some of the basic radiative forcing and feedback physics which climatologists use to assess climate change. This is fairly standard material which should be understood by anyone with a deep interest in climate.
climate 
october 2009
Let the backpedalling begin « Deep Climate
Overview of the Yamal "scandal" raised by Steve Macintyre of Climate Audit, and debunking of the allegations made by Macintyre against Keith Briffa - and the "hockey stick".
climate 
october 2009
JQuery Cycle Plugin
The jQuery Cycle Plugin is a lightweight slideshow plugin. Its implementation is based on the InnerFade Plugin by Torsten Baldes, the Slideshow Plugin by Matt Oakes, and the jqShuffle Plugin by Benjamin Sterling. It supports pause-on-hover, auto-stop, auto-fit, before/after callbacks, click triggers and many transition effects. It also supports, but does not require, the Metadata Plugin and the Easing Plugin.
javascript 
october 2009
Monitor home energy with AMEE
Electricity is invisible. To understand how people use it, you need to make it visible. This tutorial will show you how easy it is to build a Web-based energy monitoring system yourself, using a Current Cost real-time energy monitor and AMEE, a neutral Web-based API for energy data, combined with some XML, Ruby, Rails, and Ajax.
climate  green  energy 
october 2009
NVDA
NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA) is a free and open source screen reader for the Microsoft Windows operating system. Providing feedback via synthetic speech and Braille, it enables blind or vision impaired people to access computers running Windows for no more cost than a sighted person. Major features include support for over 20 languages and the ability to run entirely from a USB drive with no installation.
accessibility  webdev 
october 2009
WebAIM: Screen Reader Survey Results
In December 2008 through January 2009, WebAIM conducted a survey of preferences of screen reader users. We received 1121 valid responses to the screen reader survey.
accessibility  webdev 
october 2009
iPhone Application Programming
Online course with lectures freely available via iTunesU.
mobile  iphone 
september 2009
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