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Does the World Need a Category Six For Cyclones
November 11, 2013 0

Does the World Need a Category Six For Cyclones

By News Desk

Tweet With the disaster in the Philippines wrought by super typhoon Haiyan , once again the unseemly arguments appear about exactly how fast the winds were blowing at landfall and aw gee there were worse storms , the damage to global GDP was minor .  Eli however, and some others have another question.  Would it be useful to reformulate the Saffir-Simpson scale?  Actually two.  Would it also be useful to coordinate the new Saffir-Simpson scale with the Enhanced Fujita scale for tornadoes? The argument, at least the one the Bunny is making, has nothing to do with climate change, and everything to do with policy, construction codes, public safety and history.  Both the Saffir-Simpson and the Fujita scales were designed for public officials to use in determining how to react to cyclones and tornadoes.  The ranks are set not so much by wind speed and other parameters such as precipitation, as to the expected damage that a storm would do

Three words missing from the Caldeira/Emanuel/Hansen/Wigley letter supporting safer nuclear power
November 11, 2013 0

Three words missing from the Caldeira/Emanuel/Hansen/Wigley letter supporting safer nuclear power

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Tweet The letter’s here , with the operative sentence "As climate and energy scientists concerned with global climate change, we are writing to urge you to advocate the development and deployment of safer nuclear energy systems." I would change the ending of that sentence to safer nuclear energy systems if fiscally prudent . I personally couldn’t support the letter as written just as I couldn’t support the reverse, a letter urging unqualified opposition to nuclear energy.

Your friendly water district lobbyist, reporting out
November 10, 2013 0

Your friendly water district lobbyist, reporting out

By News Desk

Tweet Our water district goes to Washington DC twice annually to either look for help or avoid regulatory problems with our environmental restoration, flood control, and water supply projects, and my turn was this last week. The team had 21 meetings in 2.5 business days, occasionally splitting up.

The case for climate divestment in one sentence
November 9, 2013 0

The case for climate divestment in one sentence

By News Desk

Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional.

Credit Boom in China Could Trigger Bigger Crisis Than 2008; Three Things China Wants, Eight Things China Needs
November 9, 2013 0

Credit Boom in China Could Trigger Bigger Crisis Than 2008; Three Things China Wants, Eight Things China Needs

By News Desk

Marc Faber believes China could spark a bigger crisis than in 2008 . An alarming credit boom in China could trigger a global financial crisis that would make the one in 2008 look mild by comparison, says old gloomy eyes, Marc Faber.“If I am telling you that we had a credit crisis in 2008 because we had too much credit in the economy, then there is that much more credit as a percentage of the economy now,†the author of The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report told CNBC late Thursday. “So we are in a worse position than we were back then.†China, in particular, has seen credit as a percentage of the economy jump 50% in the last four and a half years, said Faber, the “fastest credit growth you can image in the whole of Asia.†Meanwhile, Deutsche Bank strategist John-Paul Smith told clients on Wednesday that China’s growth model continues to be based on “ever-expanding debt, which leaves the country and financial markets very vulnerable to any potential loss of from investors and lenders.†It Can’t Be Done I have been preaching a similar message as Faber for years, most recently on November 6, in It Can’t Be Done