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Mordor Of Our Own Making
March 22, 2014 0

Mordor Of Our Own Making

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Tweet Now some, not Eli may consider Eli to be a bit, shall we say sardonic and prone to look through a glass darkly.  Eli knows this is not the case, because he has a friend Dano who makes Eli look like the Easter Bunny spreading cheer.  Dano writesBunnies may have sensed a disturbance in the force (no, not the gravitational waves from inflation after the Big Bang) surrounding a foofaraw over some negative comments about the meaning of several recent papers on future resource trends, and especially a paper discussed at The Guardian and elsewhere .  That paper ** is, of course, Motesharrei et al. A Minimal Model for Human and Nature Interaction .

The Royal Society Answers Questions
March 14, 2014 0

The Royal Society Answers Questions

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Monckton of Brenchley , Edinburgh   A:  In the early days of weather observations, there was rather poor coverage of the world, and most thermometers were in Europe and North America, and they were not necessarily well-sited using standardised enclosures. Interpreting the early data is therefore not straightforward, as there are various possible biases in the observations that should properly be allowed for, and there are also problems in dealing with the non-uniform spatial coverage.  Several groups routinely produce and maintain long-term estimates of global and regional temperature, and they all try to manage these difficulties in different ways

March 13, 2014 0

Early Footnoteology

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What struck me was Roger Pielke Jr’s attack of RealClimate’s sarcastic reaction to this sorry story , and his defense of Steve McIntyre, quoting him as follows: It is not my belief that Briffa crudely cherry picked. Fair enough, one might think.

Missing in Action: Where are the Jobs and the Job Seekers?
March 11, 2014 0

Missing in Action: Where are the Jobs and the Job Seekers?

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The EPI had an interesting chart and comments in its report The Vast Majority of the 5.8 Million Missing Workers Are Under Age 55 . Since the start of the Great Recession over six years ago, labor force participation has dropped significantly. Most of the drop—roughly three-quarters—was due to the lack of job opportunities in the Great Recession and its aftermath.