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June 15, 2015 0

The Four Pests Campaign

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Tweet Nononono, not Roger Pielke Jr, Bjorn Lomborg, Willard Anthony Watts, or Matt King Coal Ridley. Recently as steam has run out on "Coal for Africa" with the falling prices of renewables making them the power source of choice in the third world, especially the rural third world, we have, courtesy of the Breakthrough Institute, Ecomodernism , which, according to the manifestoso In this, we affirm one long-standing environmental ideal, that humanity must shrink its impacts on the environment to make more room for nature, while we reject another, that human societies must harmonize with nature to avoid economic and ecological collapse

June 9, 2015 0

Maxim Lott must be a great uphill runner

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Tweet Maxim Lott sees the slope of the line for the last 17 years as being virtually flat. I imagine that if he went for a run and came to a hill, he wouldn’t even notice it. The NASA data he cites is here  (which doesn’t include any of the scorching 2015 data), and his article here

June 5, 2015 0

Where Did That Come From

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Tweet In the discussion about Fred Seitz that John threw the burning tree onto Willard pointed to an answer that Eli had not known.  Maybe John Mashey had figured it out but not Eli. So everybunny today older than about 12 years knows about the OISM petition, a mail campaign started in 2003 based on a Monckton class deceptive paper by Soon, Baliunas and Robinson, Robinson being Art Robinson, a chemist who used to work with Linus Pauling and went off to form a home schooling operation housed in a barn in Oregon called the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine

May 27, 2015 0

Weird paper claims climate change helps biodiversity

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Tweet ScienceDaily says a paper found that climate change has less impacts on biodiversity than land use has. My first thoughts were that it’s plausible, that the negative effects are combined, and that the priority might depend on the assumptions. I tried to RTFA , but it was paywalled other than a long abstract