Tag: climate

November 5, 2013 0

While Eli Freely Giggles

By News Desk

Tweet While Eli freely admits to being left of center in US terms, but somewhat in the center or even a bit to the right as far as civilized countries, the Bunny’s reaction to many things varies between puzzlement and amusement.  No better venue for both to play than today’s Virginia gubernatorial election where indeed, the players deck has been shuffled with a vengence.

October 27, 2013 0

Nearby (and especially distant) mountains don’t prevent sea level rise/saltwater intrusion problems

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Tweet Per Eli’s post below , Judith Curry’s put up a silly guest post by Rud Istvan saying that climate change poses no water supply problems to Caribbean islands. There are too many fish to shoot as Istvan gishgallops them in the barrel, so let’s talk first about where he’s right:  if nobody lived on these islands, then there’d be no water supply problems on those islands for those people who don’t live there.

October 24, 2013 0

Sympathy for those lost in the shuffle

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Tweet Interesting editorial in the Mercury News over the "resource reshuffling" issue and California’s effort to control climate change. And attention, carbon tax fans, you’re not safe from this issue either

October 18, 2013 0

Drop That Paper And Back Slowly Away

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What, bunnies ask, do zombies wanting to eat your brains have to do with the Stadium Wave? Well consider, the Weasel’s take on Wyatt and Curry’s Role for Eurasian Arctic shelf sea ice in a secularly varying hemispheric climate signal during the 20 th century .  Eli’s friend actually reads the paper and notices several things.  First, the waves, that W&C claim to be displaced from one another in several different climate indicators (see the figure below for a quick look, read the link to Stoat for more details) are the result of massive filtering of the AMO, PDO, etc.  To get an idea of how much smoothing, compare the two figures below).  Second, all of the signals were normalized in the figure displayed by W&C, even though most of them had little power in the frequency pass band.  Stoat goes on to show that ————————————————— Removing this, along with the other three that have essentially no in-band variance, leaves me with this crudely retouched version of their figure 2 a. Its now much less obviously a wave; its just three (four really, but two essentially overlay) different lines filtered to within an inch of their lives into a 60-year-ish band.