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September 7, 2015 0

Should We Change the Name "Labor Day" to "Robot Day"?

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Should We Change the Name "Labor Day" to "Robot Day"? Happy Labor Day! Here’s the question of the day, on this Labor Day weekend: Will a robotic economy do away with human work? That’s what Barron’s suggests in its pay-walled editorial commentary: The End of Labor?

September 7, 2015 0

Three Minute El Nino for Mom

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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

September 6, 2015 0

Richard Betts Puts the Frighteners on Eli

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— Gavin Schmidt (@ClimateOfGavin) September 4, 2015 and Eli had a few things to say along that line.  Eli and Gavin were not pleased by Richard Betts’ tweeting, and perhaps in response, he posted some remarks on Facebook September 4: If global greenhouse gas emissions do not begin to decline in the next few years, the chances are that global warming will exceed the 2°C “guardrail†that the EU and UN aim to stay below. HELIX is researching the impacts of higher warming levels, specifically 4°C and 6°C

September 3, 2015 0

If the Foo Shits

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Tweet Stefan Rahmstorf has been having fun analyzing Bjorn Lomborg’s scientific publication record.  Stefan has not been impressed, 20 publications, 54 total citations and an h index of 3 using the Thompson Reuters Web of Science