Tag: education

December 28, 2013 0

An Appeal from Ralph Keeling

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Tweet Ralph Keeling has written a letter to the world, appealing for help in keeping the Scripps  CO 2 and O 2 programs going.  Those bunnies who have not contributed yet, might do so now.  Others could spread the word.  The big button on the left takes you directly to the donation page.  ———————————————————————————————————————— Friends,I am writing as the director of the Scripps CO 2 and O 2 programs, which keep track of how these vital gases are changing in the atmosphere over time.  The CO 2 measurements include the iconic Mauna Loa record, now commonly known as the “Keeling Curveâ€, which was started by my father in the late 1950s.

December 23, 2013 0

A carbon-reduction tax credit is a carbon tax, and that’s a good thing

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Tweet Stoats of the world can take pleasure in this proposal by outgoing senator Max Baucus to simplify the approximately one billion Amercian clean energy tax incentives and to provide instead a tax credit based on how much carbon reduction (above a threshold) is produced per unit of electricity or unit of transportation fuel. There’s no economic difference between providing a tax credit that reduces from a higher baseline, versus imposing a tax that increases from a lower baseline, so long as they’re equally comprehensive

December 22, 2013 0

Yosemite

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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