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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 Bit of an experiment. I’m interested in internal climate policy debates in other countries where someone prominent takes the same position the Republican leadership is taking today, that we should do nothing because foreign bogeyman is worse, except that the bogeyman is the US. It’s Indians and Chinese that the Republicans usually identify as the bogeymen, so they’d be the ideal examples
Link: Paul Krugman Adopts Eli Rabett’s Simple Plan to Save the World
See the article here: Random impressions following the Obama’s move on climate
See the original post: China Composite PMI Shows First Expansion in Four Months But Employment Declines at Fastest Rate Since…
Dano has a question for the late Lee Atwater ———————————— Recent breathless articles about the consensus being false (remember back in the day when they spelled it ‘concencus’?), arrogant certainty about models being unable to tell us the climate in 2035, endless parroting the received wisdom of “no warming for 17 years (or 15, or 18…)…sigh…bunnies have heard these recycled talking points a billlll-yunnnnnn times, right? Well, we’re going to hear them a lot more often in the run-up to the American mid-term elections
May 27, 2014 (Tony Cartalucci – NEO) – As Russia and China signed a historic 30 year, 400 billion dollar natural gas contract , a deadly terror attack carried out in China’s northwest province of Xinjiang killed over 30 people and wounded many more. The Wall Street Journal in their report, " Attack at Market Kills Dozens in China’s Xinjiang ," stated:Â Violence again rocked the capital of China’s restive Xinjiang region, as explosives thrown from vehicles ripped through a street market, killing 31 people and injuring more than 90, Chinese state media reported. China’s public-security ministry described the attack as a "violent terrorism case." The official Xinhua news agency, citing witnesses, said two vehicles rammed into people at the open-air market shortly before 8 a.m., and then explosives were thrown from them.
Tweet Eli has pointed out that something like the WAIS collapse, once it enters the final stage, which only takes decades, cannot be adapted to, and, given that the long slide towards an inevitable collapse has begun, mitigation is a train that has long left the station. A word from Dano, more of a world view about what to do ——————————– By now, bunnies surely have shared carrots at the bar discussing the two new papers about the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) passing a ‘tipping point’ to an inevitable collapse .
Output and new orders contract at slower rates Staff numbers are cut for the sixth month in a row Solid reduction in both input and output prices Chinese manufacturers signalled a further deterioration in overall operating conditions during April.