Tag: august

August 30, 2014 0

What Part of Hot Air Rises Do You Not Understand

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

August 10, 2014 0

Sorely Missed Already – het

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Tweet Coby Beck reports that Harold Elmer Taylor has died at the age of 68.  het compiled a graceful and humorous weekly summary of climate news and blog posts at A Few Things Ill Considered.   It was, however, not short of concern for what we are doing to the Earth. "Harvey E. Taylor, aka het, died  Monday, July 14, 2014 at his home in Portage la Prairie, a small town in Manitoba, Canada

December 2, 2013 0

Whitehouse Monday – The Deniers Playbook

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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.

November 17, 2013 0

Pics and video from last week

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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.

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.