Tag: climate

September 9, 2012 0

Eli Was Once Young

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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. His colleagues are smart, but they have a curious inability to see the holes that they dig for themselves

September 8, 2012 0

Denialists denied by judge in New Zealand lawsuit

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Denialists denied by judge in New Zealand lawsuit Via John Mashey, there’s a blog post by Gareth on yet another attempt by climate denialists to muddy the record on climate change, this time by suing New Zealand’s National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research for publishing a temperature record that shows New Zealand warming up over the last century.

August 31, 2012 0

Descent Into the Sambaworld

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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. His colleagues are smart, but they have a curious inability to see the holes that they dig for themselves

August 31, 2012 0

Raymond on Ryan and Romney

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david lewis said… Is Eli headed for the slammer? Read the RNC thinly veiled attack on the integrity and motivation of climate scientists , as stated in the recently adopted RNC national platform: "We must restore scientific integrity to our public research institutions and remove political incentives from publicly funded research"These words appear on the America’s Natural Resources page which those interested in the potential fate of our chief, the Rabett, reach by clicking on a link on the 2012 Republican Platform homepage .The full 62 page " We Believe in America " pdf does not contain these words

August 29, 2012 0

Anthony Watts Is Sad

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Nick Kermode says: August 27, 2012 at 10:41 pm Anthony, Ian reported earlier in the thread that the thermometers housed near camps were used for local weather only, as information for pilots and how many layers of thermal underwear to don. The temperatures measurements used for climate information are automated and “use the ARGOS data relay system, carried by the NOAA series of near-polar orbiting satellites.†negating the need for what you suggest