Tag: america

July 22, 2012 0

The pros are using sports to explain climate science

By News Desk

I’m very glad to see this: I’ve been arguing for this type of analogy for years .  There are alot of people out there, especially high school age students but not just them, who haven’t thought much about statistics and how they apply to weather and climate

July 18, 2012 0

Whem

By News Desk

Neven said… He INSISTS on straight odds, and got rather testy with me when i suggested that meant he thought there was an even chance of breaking the record. Oh my, that’s very funny! :-D—This is very difficult

July 5, 2012 0

Ice Ages and Delayed Feedbacks – Shakun et al.

By News Desk

Ice Ages and Delayed Feedbacks – Shakun et al. Eli is posting a translation of an article by  Jörg Zimmermann (one of the G&T six ), about the implications of Shakun et al, and how by clarifying much about the feedbacks that bring the world out of the ice age it shakes a core tenant of climate change denial.  The implications, although Jörg backs away a bit at the end in an overly scientific display of humility, are world shattering.

July 2, 2012 0

Particle Zombie News

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. His colleagues are smart, but they have a curious inability to see the holes that they dig for themselves

July 2, 2012 0

America != Europe. How’s that for insight?

By News Desk

I’m planning to write a post on how a revenue neutral carbon tax might, just might, have a shot in the US in the medium term.  First though I have to disagree with William’s argument that a revenue-neutral carbon tax is the only way to go – or to be more fair, is the best political approach