Tag: -9658-160

September 9, 2015 0

Well it’s one solution: go marry a climate denialist

By News Desk

Tweet Interesting article from a man married to an anti-vaxxer . It reminds me a little about studies showing that a prejudiced people need intense contact with the members of the group they’re biased against before eliminating their prejudice; casual contact can be counterproductive. In the case of the article, overcoming bias was a two-way street, with the author having to abandon his (lazy) belief that anti-vaxxers were just uninformed and stupid.

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

Three Minute El Nino for Mom

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

September 6, 2015 0

Richard Betts Puts the Frighteners on Eli

By News Desk

— 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

September 3, 2015 0

If the Foo Shits

By News Desk

Tweet Stefan Rahmstorf has been having fun analyzing Bjorn Lomborg’s scientific publication record.  Stefan has not been impressed, 20 publications, 54 total citations and an h index of 3 using the Thompson Reuters Web of Science

August 27, 2015 0

Brother Tap

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.

August 11, 2015 0

Irrelevance

By News Desk

Tweet RWE (Rheinisch-Westfälischen Elektrizitätswerk) is one of the largest electrical power companies in biggest soft coal (aka dirt or lignite) mining operations in the world.  It is also home base for Fritz Varenholt , one of Germany’s most active solar fans (nonono, not wind energy, he don’t like that or solar power either, but the sun, the sun, not greenhouse gases are the thing for Fritz).  Anyhow RWE is in big trouble because of the Energiewende, folks are not paying as much for what they make because they are using less of it and RWE is deep into coal and gas power generators. Germany and operators of one of the largest lignite (brown coal, aka dirt) mines in the world The Sueddeutsche brings news of a major reorganization typical of a failing concern that had overexpanded in the fat times.  Many of the 100 formerly more or less independently operating subsidiaries, with their own boards, are being hovered up into 32 and what is left will be directly controlled by the mothership. The command module will, of course, expand.  The large pink elephant of a headquarters building has been sold off, from which bunnies gather that they are turning stuff into cash as fast as they can.