Tag: california

August 9, 2012 0

Getting Romney’s culture quote just right

By News Desk

There may have been some confusion about what Romney actually said about culture and economic success, so I thought I would document it: I recognize the power of at least culture and a few other things….As you come here and you see the G.D.P.

August 9, 2012 0

Song of the Pielkesphere: Toujours Meh

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.

August 3, 2012 0

Tomato, Tomahto

By News Desk

But is UAH measuring the heat content (in joules) with their MSU measurements?Because Christy says that joules is where it’s at in his Senate testamony afterall.Paging RP, Sr.Even though we may never have those types of measurements ever, given the depths of the oceans, the need to measure conductivity, temperature, depth, sampling rates, complete temporal and spatial coverage AND 3D velocities (to determine mixing rates and up/downwelling) throughout said depths, to accuracies such that the integrated OHC is known with error bars an order of magnitude or two, less than the magnitude of the rate of change in said OHC measurements?And that it will take an additional several decades to see potential significance in said OHC rate estimates. Or on a time span similar to our current best efforts using the century long (plus some) surface air temperature records.Or do we just look to the Wicked Witch of the East, who does say she is melting, and by all other accounts she does indeed seem to be melting?Something about a baby and its bath water comes to mind. Just sayin’

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