September 8, 2015 0

Go Read

By News Desk

Tweet John Chait in New York Magazine, has a thumb sucker balancing between glory and despair about the upcoming Paris conference For human to wean ourselves off carbon-emitting fossil fuel, we will have to use some combination of edict and invention — there is no other plausible way around it. The task before the world is best envisioned not as a singular event but as two distinct but interrelated revolutions, one in political willpower and the other in technological innovation. It has taken a long time for each to materialize, in part because the absence of one has compounded the difficulty of the other.

September 7, 2015 0

Engineered Refugee Crisis to Justify "Safe Havens" in Syria

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Brookings would elaborate upon this criminal conspiracy in their more recent report titled, " Deconstructing Syria: Towards a regionalized strategy for a confederal country ." It states (emphasis added): The  idea would be to help moderate elements establish reliable safe zones within Syria once they were able.  American, as well as Saudi and Turkish and British and Jordanian and other Arab forces would act in support, not only from the air but eventually on the ground via the  presence  of  special  forces  as  well.  The  approach would  benefit  from  Syria’s open desert  terrain  which  could  allow  creation  of  buffer  zones  that could  be  monitored  for possible  signs  of  enemy  attack  through  a  combination  of  technologies, patrols,  and other methods that outside special forces could help Syrian local fighters set up.

September 7, 2015 0

Should We Change the Name "Labor Day" to "Robot Day"?

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Should We Change the Name "Labor Day" to "Robot Day"? Happy Labor Day! Here’s the question of the day, on this Labor Day weekend: Will a robotic economy do away with human work? That’s what Barron’s suggests in its pay-walled editorial commentary: The End of Labor?

September 7, 2015 0

Three Minute El Nino for Mom

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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

September 6, 2015 0

Richard Betts Puts the Frighteners on Eli

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— Gavin Schmidt (@ClimateOfGavin) September 4, 2015 and Eli had a few things to say along that line.  Eli and Gavin were not pleased by Richard Betts’ tweeting, and perhaps in response, he posted some remarks on Facebook September 4: If global greenhouse gas emissions do not begin to decline in the next few years, the chances are that global warming will exceed the 2°C “guardrail†that the EU and UN aim to stay below. HELIX is researching the impacts of higher warming levels, specifically 4°C and 6°C