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Eli, of course, slums. Among other places he likes to discover the Curry worst, but occasionally gold appears amidst the dross which needs to be washed in the cool waters of Rabett Run (simile abuse for fun and little prophet). A defining characteristic of the Pielkesphere (TM ER) is a complete lack of self awareness or awareness of anything beyond the third grade level, which lead Judy to ask “So, how do you think Machiavelli would advise the Prince on dealing with climate change?” Robert, teaches It is a sad reality that those that devote a considerable part of their lives to textual analysis are sometimes not very good at it, and that seems to be the case here. Machiavelli did not recommend submission to the whims of Fortune.
The space alien’s answer to the greenhouse gas/heatwave question If you asked a scientifically advanced space alien whether current heat waves are worsened by our greenhouse gas emissions, it might take the complicated probabilistic approach humans have used to explain that our emissions have made the heat waves far more likely.
9/7/12 6:52 AM Anonymous said… How dare you imply that creationism is mere bible thumping?
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and now, let the ownage begin.these statistics come from "A Chronological Listing of Early Weather Events"these are the temperature highs in the United States for 1894Tucson, Arizona (106° F, 41.1° C)Yuma, Arizona (113° F, 45.0° C)Little Rock, Arkansas (103° F, 39.4° C)Fort Smith, Arkansas (105° F, 40.6° C)New Haven, Connecticut ( 94° F, 34.4° C)New London, Connecticut ( 90° F, 32.2° C)Wilmington, Delaware (101° F, 38.3° C)Washington, D.C. ( 97° F, 36.1° C)Pensacola, Florida ( 93° F, 33.9° C)Key West, Florida ( 90° F, 32.2° C)Augusta, Georgia ( 92° F, 33.3° C)Savannah, Georgia ( 94° F, 34.4° C)Payette, Idaho (107° F, 41.7° C)Lewiston, Idaho (105° F, 40.6° C)Chicago, Illinois ( 96° F, 35.6° C)Cairo, Illinois ( 95° F, 35.0° C)Indianapolis, Indiana ( 97° F, 36.1° C)Lafayette, Indiana (100° F, 37.8° C)Dubuque, Iowa (102° F, 38.9° C)Keokuk, Iowa (102° F, 38.9° C)Logan, Iowa (110° F, 43.3° C)Topeka, Kansas (101° F, 38.3° C)Elk City, Kansas (115° F, 46.1° C)Dodge City, Kansas (106° F, 41.1° C)Louisville, Kentucky ( 96° F, 35.6° C)Lexington, Kentucky ( 93° F, 33.9° C)New Orleans, Louisiana ( 99° F, 37.2° C)Shreveport, Louisiana (101° F, 38.3° C)Eastport, Maine ( 91° F, 32.8° C)Portland, Maine ( 97° F, 36.1° C)Baltimore, Maryland ( 97° F, 36.1° C)Boston, Massachusetts ( 97° F, 36.1° C)Nantucket, Massachusetts ( 85° F, 29.4° C)Marquette, Michigan (100° F, 37.8° C)Detroit, Michigan ( 96° F, 35.6° C)Saint Vincent, Minnesota (100° F, 37.8° C)Saint Paul, Minnesota (100° F, 37.8° C)Vicksburg, Mississippi (100° F, 37.8° C)Saint Louis, Missouri ( 98° F, 36.7° C)Billings, Montana (103° F, 39.4° C)Helena, Montana ( 94° F, 34.4° C)North Platte, Nebraska (103° F, 39.4° C)Omaha, Nebraska (106° F, 41.1° C)Winnemucca, Nevada ( 94° F, 34.4° C)Carson City, Nevada ( 90° F, 32.2° C)West Milan, New Hampshire ( 90° F, 32.2° C)New Brunswick, New Jersey (100° F, 37.8° C)Cape May, New Jersey ( 90° F, 32.2° C)Santa Fe, New Mexico ( 84° F, 28.9° C)Albany, New York ( 97° F, 36.1° C)New York City, New York ( 96° F, 35.6° C)Charlotte, North Carolina ( 93° F, 33.9° C)Kitty Hawk, North Carolina ( 90° F, 32.2° C)Bismarck, North Dakota (101° F, 38.3° C)Williston, North Dakota (100° F, 37.8° C)Cincinnati, Ohio ( 95° F, 35.0° C)Columbus, Ohio ( 97° F, 36.1° C)Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (104° F, 40.0° C)Fort Sill, Oklahoma (108° F, 42.2° C)
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
I’m planning to write a post on how a revenue neutral carbon tax might, just might, have a shot in the US in the medium term. First though I have to disagree with William’s argument that a revenue-neutral carbon tax is the only way to go – or to be more fair, is the best political approach