June 11, 2014
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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
Tweet While fairly distrustful and always on the lookout for inside knife work, Eli has come to recognize that sometime you have to wait to the end to understand what has happened. This was the case, with the Monnett issue . There, even after it was explained to him, Michael Tobis was simply too full of good will to accept Eli’s explanation.
See the article here: Random impressions following the Obama’s move on climate
Tweet In the spirit of Deep Climate , Anonymous, as he wrote to Eli , has penned an analysis of how Richard Tol cooked and indeed, it is McIntyre class, although from the nature of the mistake, it may very well have been hubris and not malice. Dickie’s misbegotten analysis starts from Cook et al’s description of their procedure, and just to show that Eli is an honest card shark, why not start with Tol’s description first of what he did, and then of what Cook et al did. At the end of this it should become clear that, well, Eli will leave that to the bunnies. From Tol’s blog According to Cook et al. , each abstract was assessed by at least 2 and at most 3 raters
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 22, 2014 at 5:10 am Bob Ward ( http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/archives/41855 ) wrote: “Despite numerous requests, Professor Tol has so far failed to make available the details of these aggregations so that I might check them for further errors.†Please note that the 2009 paper (Tol, Richard S J. 2009. “The Economic Effects of Climate Change.†Journal of Economic Perspectives, 23(2): 29-51) lists Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands as one of the affiliated institutes
View article: The Third Referee Waits In The Wings
Tweet For the bunnies pleasure: The Christian Science Monitor on Farmer’s Insurance suing a number of midwestern towns for not preparing for climate change leading to insurance losses from flooding. Paul Krugman Friday on the Point of No Return , which, with respect to the West Antarctic Ice Sheet many have already been passed. The comments at the Times and elsewhere, have already moved to the fifth stage of denial, there is nothing we can do, so why bother doing anything. Big error, there may be little or nothing that can be done about that particular ice sheet collapsing, but there is more out there, and continuing on today’s course will lead to us passing more and more nasty points of no return.Â