October 4, 2013
The Old Man is Back
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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
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Tweet Eli is a full service bunny, and over at Watt’s inquired if the good Lord Moncktonwas interested in some action offered by John Abraham Twice , maybe even three times, who remembers.  Eli thought that the most likely reaction would be some volume of self righteous spew from the gook Lord and, you know, the Bunny was right on
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View the original here: Tamino uses math to describe how denialists handle data, but I prefer visuals
Tweet Eli has been amongst those concerned with links between Arctic heating, jet stream perturbations and weird weather. Eli, of course, is neither a meteorologist nor a climate scientist, he is but a bunny, but a literate one (unusual, we know) and has been following work in this area, led by Jennifer Francis at Rutgers . Just yesterday the Rabett ran into three things that tied all this together. First Paul Douglas shows Eli a weather forecast map from NOAA, where nature has turned it up to bake in the north central US. Unusual for this time of year, but especially so because it was freezing cold for the summer just weeks ago  Next a map of the jet stream from Intellicast And finally an editorial in Nature Climate Change which ties the package together The day-to-day weather and longer-term climate are different phenomena, although there are strong links between them.
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.
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Tweet Ugo Bardi from the Frog That Jumped Out draws Eli’s attention (very short span) to an astounding editorial comment in Climate by the publishers. Climate is a new MDPI open access journal whose Editor in Chief, Nicole Moelders is a professor at University of Alaska Fairbanks. Of perhaps more relevance she is closely associated with Syun-Ichi Akasofu, perhaps the best known faculty member there for his work on the upper atmosphere, the Aurora and the Magnetosphere. Moelders, of perhaps equal relevance to this post is married to Gerhard Kramm, a close friend of both Eli and the cyanobacteria’s press agent . Anyhoo, Moelders is the chief editor, big into the u ncertainty and natural variation club, and right out of the box, she published a rant by SI Akasofu, On the Present Halting of Global Warming The rise in global average temperature over the last century has halted since roughly the year 2000, despite the fact that the release of CO 2 into the atmosphere is still increasing. It is suggested here that this interruption has been caused by the suspension of the near linear (+0.5 °C/100 years or 0.05 °C/10 years) temperature increase over the last two centuries, due to recovery from the Little Ice Age, by a superposed multi-decadal oscillation of a 0.2 °C amplitude and a 50~60 year period, which reached its positive peak in about the year 2000—a halting similar to those that occurred around 1880 and 1940.