James' Empty Blog

At last, the IPCC AR4 is out - at least, most of it is (there is still supplementary material to come). Since I was unhappy with some of wh...

This film has been fairly popular in Japan, it seems - at least, our local video rental has been pushing it - so we succumbed to their temp...

We were honoured by a visit from this curious chap shortly before I went off to the EGU. Some might recognise him as one of the "stars...

Heard this on 5live this morning: THOUSANDS of rich women were conned by a firm into believing LAMBS were valuable miniature POODLES Entire ...

In the comments to a recent post, someone pointed me to this delightful letter, as featured on Tamino's blog : There follows much discus...

Check it out here . He's not got such a good deal as I did , that's for sure. But a set of high-low bets at evens centred on 0.15C/d...

I've been saying it for years , and the Japanese Keidanren (business lobby) has finally come out in support of me. I'm not convince...

This will certainly make big headlines in the UK and the English-speaking Japanese press. It's a truly remarkable verdict given the evi...

I've just spent a week in Vienna at the EGU. I enjoyed Vienna more than on my previous visit two years ago, partly due to jules finding ...

Here's an interesting article about betting on global warming. Based on the bets offered, I think the question mark I have added to t...